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Aerospace Power: Contemporary Geopolitics and National Security

In the 21st century, aerospace power has emerged as a critical determinant of national security and for shaping geopolitics. This paper examines the strategic relevance of aerospace capabilities in modern warfare, and their impact on security...

May 29 , 2025
Neighborhood News Digest – 8 August 2023

Afghanistan Taliban Prepare Suicide Bombers in Water Dispute With Iran - Bloomberg In mid-May, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi issued a warning to the Taliban: honor Afghanistan’s water-supply agreement or face the consequences. A well-known Taliban...

August 8 , 2023
A Perspective on Defence Budget 2023-24

At Rs 5,93,538, the overall defence budget for the financial year (FY) 2023-24 is one of the largest constituents of the union budget, trailing behind interest payments (Rs 10,79,971 crore) and capital expenditure (Rs 10,09,961 crore). This sounds...

February 13 , 2023
India’s Defence Budget 2023-24

Presenting the Union Budget 2023-24 before the Parliament on February 01, the Finance Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, allocated Rs 5.94 lakh crore—about US$72 billion—to the Ministry of Defence (MoD). While allocating the new budget for the MoD, the...

February 7 , 2023
Ukraine-Russia War: Lessons for Future of War

Debates about the future of war are as old as war itself. Currently, it is normal to reflect on future wars by highlighting the over-arching importance of artificial intelligence, space, quantum computing, block-chain technologies, robotics, and the...

October 11 , 2022
Russo-Ukraine War: Air Power Analysis

The inexplicably constrained role of the Vozdushno-kosmicheskiye sily (VKS) or the Russian Aerospace Force till now has left all followers of the conflict confused. Given the disparity in the inventorysize and quality of assets, between the small...

March 9 , 2022
The Absence of Air Power in India’s Security Narratives

India’s security narrative of the region has been largely driven by the coercive diplomacy which China has chosen to pursue as a part of its national security strategy. Border stand offs in Arunachal in the near recent past and Ladakh currently,...

June 16 , 2021
India’s Air Defence: What Needs to be Integrated?

The issue of creation of Air Defence Command is very much relevant in the current context with many subject matter experts (or otherwise) giving their special comments on what needs to be done and what must be avoided. While the author’s detailed...

August 24 , 2020
Nuclear Sabre-rattling: Pakistan must Discard its Tactical Nuclear Weapons

“Any nuclear weapon, of any quality, mode of delivery or yield, used against any type of target, will result in a strategic impact to which the logical response would be the use of nuclear weapons, more often than not, on an overwhelming scale.” –...

October 10 , 2017
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