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Climate Change in The Himalayas : Its Impact on India’s National Security

Human-induced climate change has led to unprecedented changes in the Arctic and Antarctic regions. Similarly, the Himalayan and its surrounding mountain ranges, also known as the ‘Third Pole’ is experiencing drastic changes due to global warming...

July 9, 2020 Download

Tags: Atmospheric warming, Climate Change, Himalaya, Himalayan Glaciers, national security

Kashmir - Is the Time Ripe for a New Outreach Strategy?

Abhinav Pandya

C D Sahay, Distinguished Fellow, VIF

India’s historic move on August 5, 2019, heralded a new era in Jammu and Kashmir, a state which witnessed an uncertain political status and 30 years of Pak-sponsored Jihadist militancy. Before the abrogation of article 370, the normal life had...

June 26, 2020 Download

Tags: Article 370, Big Outreach, Kashmir, Pakistan

Power behind Arrogance: Assessment of China’s Air and Missile Arsenal

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

Going backwards from recent acts of Chinese belligerence and barbaric conduct in Galwan (sic) totally divorced from all ethos of soldiering, into events of the recent past, a pattern emerges. A pattern of Chinese aggressiveness, arrogance and...

June 23, 2020 Download

Tags: Air and missile threat from China, Chinese Air Power, Chinese Missile Power

A Guide to India-Australia Relations

Amruta Karambelkar, Research Associate, VIF

For the first time in India’s diplomatic history a summit was held on a virtual platform. On 4th June 2020 Prime Minister Narendra Modi discussed a range of issues with his Australian counterpart, Prime Minister Scott Morrison. This summit is...

June 22, 2020 Download

Tags: Australia, China, COVID-19, India, Indian Ocean, Indo-Pacific, International Relations, Maritime Security, QUAD, Terrorism

Locust Invasion in India

Maj Gen P K Mallick, VSM (Retd), Consultant, VIF

It has been a double whammy. As the nation is reeling under the effects of COVID-19 pandemic, India has to fight another menace: locust invasion. Massive swarms of desert locusts have devoured crops across seven states of western and central...

June 17, 2020 Download

Tags: Climate Change, COVID-19 pandemic, Locust

Swarm Drones: Attacker’s Delight, Defender’s Nightmare

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

Ever since the emergence of the unmanned phenomenon, the warfare has never been the same. Starting from their very humble beginnings of giving the war-fighter the marginally incremental capability to ‘look around the corner and over the hill’ the...

May 28, 2020 Download

Tags: Growing Lethality, SWARM, Swarm Drones, SWARM Task Sheet, UAS, Warfare

Pakistan: Nuclear Deterrence and Ideology

Amb D P Srivastava, Distinguished Fellow, VIF

The nuclear age coincided with the advent of the Cold War. The concept of deterrence evolved in the background of ideological divide. However, both sides kept nuclear deterrence insulated from ideological considerations. This pragmatism was born...

March 16, 2020 Download

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Turkey’s Islamist Agenda in India

Abhinav Pandya

Post revocation of Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir, India faced a month and a half long diplomatic ordeal at various multilateral diplomatic platforms. India successfully navigated the dire strategic straits with most of the countries either...

February 12, 2020 Download

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Post 370 Kashmir - Roadmap for the future and Emerging Security Challenges

Abhinav Pandya

C D Sahay, Distinguished Fellow, VIF

As Jammu and Kashmir enters the fifth month since the abrogation of Article 370, the national and international media, opposition leaders, and many public intellectuals have continued to repeatedly raise serious concerns about the security and...

January 6, 2020 Download

Tags: Article 370, Jammu and Kashmir, Post 370 Kashmir

Cyber Enabled Information Warfare: Are Cyber Borders the Solution We Seek?

Snehashree Mukherjee

… U.S election is one of the recent examples of the threat due to information warfare ... cyber borders similar to the treaty of Westphalia can result into a system where the progress of nations due to cyber connections is maintained and at the...

December 23, 2019 Download

Tags: Cyber Borders, Cyber Enabled, Information Warfare