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Rise of Jaish-e-Mohammed in Kashmir Valley - an Internal Security Perspective

Introduction On January 2, 2016, a group of four to six well trained Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) terrorists launched an audacious attack on the Pathankot Air Base in Punjab. In an operation that continued over the next four days, all t....

January 25, 2018 Terrorism , National Security and Strategic Studies , Pakistan , Kashmir Valley , Pathankot Attack , United Jihad Council , Jaish-e-Mohammed

संयुक्त अभ्यासों के लाभ: अधिक अमूर्त और कुछ मूर्त

Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM

भारतीय सेना कई मित्र देशों की सेनाओं के साथ सैन्य अभ्यासों में हिस्सा लेती आई है. इनमें से कई वै�....

January 22, 2018 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence

जनता और वस्तुओं के सीमा पार आवागमन में जोखिम कम से कम करने पर विचार

Pravas Kumar Mishra

वैश्वीकरण ने लोगों की आकांक्षाओं में ही वृद्धि नहीं की है बल्कि वेस्टफेलियन सिद्धांत पर चलने व....

January 16, 2018 National Security and Strategic Studies , Border and Coastal Security , सैन्य अभ्यास , सैन्य संबंध , रणनैतिक सन्देश;

Commentary: Understanding the Recent Protests in Gilgit-Baltistan

Prateek Joshi Commentary

A wave of strong protests swept across Gilgit-Baltistan recently, after the Gilgit-Baltistan Council, Islamabad, announced the imposition of direct taxes under the Income Tax (Adaption) Act, 2012. The protests were jointly led by Anjuman-e-Tajiran (w....

January 15, 2018 Jammu & Kashmir , National Security and Strategic Studies , Commentary , India , Pakistan , China , Gilgit-Baltistan protests , Indian policy , Jammu & Kashmir , Shrinagar , Army , Protests

Commentary: Year End Missile Launch by DRDO - An Important Milestone

Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM Commentary

On 28 Dec 17, DRDO launched a supersonic interceptor missile (referred to as Advanced Air Defence or AAD Missile) which achieved a direct hit on its intended target at a low altitude of 15 km. The launch not only validated the realisation of the cap....

January 03, 2018 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Commentary , Advanced Air Defence , supersonic interceptor missile

राफेल डील निंदनीय नही, प्रशंसनीय है

Amb Satish Chandra, Vice Chairman, VIF

संसदीय लोकतंत्र में विपक्ष का महत्वपूर्ण कार्य मौजूदा सरकार की आलोचना करना होता है. मगर ये आलो�....

January 02, 2018 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Rafael Deal , राफेल लड़ाकू विमान , फायदेमंद डील

Displaced Brus from Mizoram in Tripura: Time for Resolution

Brig Sushil Kumar Sharma

Abstract History has been witness to the conflict-induced internal displacement of people in different states of Northeast India from time to time. While the issues of such displacement have been resolved in most of the North-ea....

December 19, 2017 North-East Insurgency , National Security and Strategic Studies , Mizoram , Human Rights , Mizoram Bru , Northeast of India

Commentary: Rafael Deal - To Be Lauded Not Pilloried

Amb Satish Chandra, Vice Chairman, VIF Commentary

In a Parliamentary Democracy the Opposition's role is clearly to criticise the Government. Such criticism must, however, be directed at the Government's failures not its successes. Should the Opposition engage in criticism for the sake of criticism, ....

December 18, 2017 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Commentary , Rafael Deal , defence procurement , technology transfer

Is India Likely to be the Next Major Target of ISIS? - An Analysis of Post-Manhattan Terror Attack

From the reports of the intelligence and security establishment, it is clear that activities of IS sympathisers in India are under control. Indeed, there have been no recent reports of radicalised youth trying to migrate to centers of IS activiti....

December 12, 2017 Terrorism , National Security and Strategic Studies , Jammu & Kashmir , Islamic State , ISIS , Post-Manhattan Terror Attack

Balochistan - Forgotten War, Forsaken People

Sushant Sareen

If there was one genuinely ‘unfinished agenda of Partition’ it must be the case of freedom of Balochistan from the brazen colonisation of Pakistan. All through the post-partition decades, the Baloch have protested, confronted and rebelled against....

December 07, 2017 National Security and Strategic Studies , Balochistan , Monograph , Rebellion , State of Balochistan