Articles

The Outlook for 2023

The year 2022 will go down in history in which the great power rivalries returned with a vengeance. Even as the Covid pandemic lingered on, the world saw a major conflict erupting in Europe, bringing in its wake huge supplychain disruptions, an unpre....

December 28, 2022 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Economic Studies , National Security and Strategic Studies , Article , Pakistan , China , SCO , economy , hybrid war , Terrorism , 2022 , G20 , health , Gulf , Extreme weather , Russia Ukraine war , Global Agenda , multilateral fora , 2023 , Outlook , Trends

Changing Character of Hybrid Warfare: The Threat to India

Col Shubhankar Basu, SM, VSM

India’s security dilemmas are complex, with two hostile powers on its frontiers and a large number of internal fault lines which are vulnerable and have been exploited by the adversaries in the past. The Indian Army Doctrine of 2018 defines ‘the ....

August 29, 2020 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , hybrid war , Indian military , Hybrid Warfare , Book Published , India’s security

J & K- Less War, More Peace: An Assessment of the Year after the Decisions of 5 August 2019

Lt General S A Hasnain, PVSM, UYSM, AVSM, SM (Bar), VSM (Bar) (Retd.), Distinguished Fellow, VIF Article

On 5 Aug 2019 India stunned the world, and perhaps itself, with decisions regarding the constitutional exclusivity attached to the erstwhile state of Jammu & Kashmir (J&K). These were related to abrogation of Articles 370 and 35A of the Indian Consti....

August 03, 2020 Jammu & Kashmir , National Security and Strategic Studies , Article , Pakistan , Kashmir , hybrid war , separatism , Information Warfare , COVID-19 , Articles 370 & 35 A , Shimla Agreement , Over Ground Workers networks , ISPR

The Jammu & Kashmir Horizon: A Recipe for Stabilisation

Lt General S A Hasnain, PVSM, UYSM, AVSM, SM (Bar), VSM (Bar) (Retd.), Distinguished Fellow, VIF Article

One of the things about J&K's winter is that it dampens spirits and morale. Bone chilling cold reduces human efficiency and all analyses of the situation tend to be negative. Unlike what a lot of people imagine as a period of quiet in the Valley, it ....

December 26, 2019 Jammu & Kashmir , National Security and Strategic Studies , Article , hybrid war , Article 35A , Social Media , OGWs , Information war , Articles 370

Indian Airpower in Irregular Conflicts: A Conceptual Framework

Air Vice Marshal (Retd) Rajesh Isser, AVSM,VM (G)

… Indian airpower has almost continuously been involved in less-than-war and low-intensity or limited conflicts … military helicopter and transport aircraft fleets have put in yeomen service over decades towards this and continue to do so … the....

December 18, 2019 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , hybrid war , Indian Airpower , Anti-Maoist Operations

Key to Conflict Management in Kashmir is People, Politics and Perception

Brig Narender Kumar, SM, VSM (retd.)

Violence is a type of backwardness and it is enormously powerful tool to coerce the communally fractured population to revolt against the state. But sustaining the uprising would need psychological mentoring and shaping of the perception of the peopl....

November 06, 2017 Jammu & Kashmir , National Security and Strategic Studies , India , Pakistan , Kashmir , Jammu , Pakistan strategies , hybrid war , Kashmiri culture , 360