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Op Sindoor: Is India Moving Towards Unified Theatre Command
May 28, 2025 Brig (Dr) Ashok Pathak (Retd.)
Paradigm Shift in India’s Approach to National Security The gruesome targeted killing of Hindus in Pahalgam on 22 April 25, outraged a nation habitual of hearing of terrorists’ brutality over three and a half decades. Targeted and lar...

Tags: National Security and Strategic Studies, Governance and Political Studies, Article, Air defence, Theatre command, Pahalgam, Akashteer, Sindoor
Indigenization of Indian Air Force: Strategic Shift in Political Economy
May 09, 2025 Brig (Dr) Ashok Pathak (Retd.)
Deja Vu in 2025: Return of the HF 24 Debate Three and a half decades after India ‘retired’ an indigenous fighter air craft -HF 24 Marut (after using it successfully in war), we are on the brink of a similar situation. These are the i...

Tags: National Security and Strategic Studies, Defence, Article, LCA, F 35, Su57, Stealth Aircraft, AMCA, HF 24
Peace in West Asia in the wake of Iran-Israel conflict
November 19, 2024 Brig (Dr) Ashok Pathak (Retd.)
West Asia: The Smoldering Cauldron Alfred Thayer Mahan- a US naval officer is credited to have named the region as West Asia in 1905- which was earlier known as part of Middle East (Middle East was a term coined by the British who divide...

Tags: International Relations and Diplomacy, West Asia, Article, West Asia, Hezbollah, Iran Israel conflict
Oppenheimer, Bhagwad Gita and the Bomb
August 03, 2023 Brig (Dr) Ashok Pathak (Retd.)
The Controversy On 21 July 23 a Hollywood film, ‘Oppenheimer’, was released in India[1], which as per its makers is a biopic on the life of Julius Robert Oppenhe...

Tags: National Security and Strategic Studies, Article, Oppenheimer controversy, Project Manhattan, atomic bomb on Japan. Truman to Oppenheimer, fire bombing, napalm on Japan
Bhimber Gali- Surankot Road Ambush 20 April 23: Psychology of Barrenness of Peace
May 04, 2023 Brig (Dr) Ashok Pathak (Retd.)
A Rude Shock On an overcast summer afternoon of 20 April 23 the Commanding Officer (CO) Rashtriya Rifles (RR) bore the brunt of initial shock when he lost five of his men in an ambush on a desolate road from Bimbar Gali to Surankot. The w...

Tags: Jammu & Kashmir, National Security and Strategic Studies, Article, Peace, LeT, Poonch, Bhimber Gali, Surankot Road
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Book Published / Book Reviews 
India's Strategies for Information War & Cyber Deterrence
February 16, 2020 Brig (Dr) Ashok Pathak (Retd.)
The concept of Information Warfare (IW) is as old as warfare itself but has gained in significance in recent times where we look at non-contact battles between two adversaries. This concept involves the use of information and communication technologi...

Tags: National Security and Strategic Studies, Cyber Security, strategy, Book Published, Cyber Security, Network Centric war, Cyber war, Economic War, Political war, Perception Management, Special Forces, Supply Chain Management. 5G impact on IW
VIF Briefs 
Optimising Defense Expenditure
December 12, 2018 Brig (Dr) Ashok Pathak (Retd.)
… there is no place for wasteful expenditure. Indigenization must be the preferred option so that defense expenditure generates employment, helps in earning foreign exchange and sharpens our technology as also learning curve ......

Tags: National Security and Strategic Studies, Defence, Defence budgeting, Defence industry, Defense Budgeting in India
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