Maj Gen G Shankarnarayanan

  In a big push to defence manufacturing in India, the Union Minister of Finance Nirmala Sitharaman announced in her budget speech on 01 February this year that 25 per cent of the research and...

  China’s recent enactment and adoption of the Land border Law is an endeavor to strengthen its border control and protection mechanism albeit with a tacit undertone of digging its heels on its perception of...

The role of the Infantry Combat Vehicle (ICV) has gone beyond the traditional axiom of operating in conjunction with tanks, a concept that has been evolutionary in the realms of mechanised warfare. Today the...

  Warfare today is characterised by heavy reliance on spectrum usage and high-speed computing capability that is governing the entire spectrum of military activity on and off the battle field. As the industry is gearing...

  In the last seven decades, India as the second largest democracy is witness to a meteoric rise of the phoenix that the British brutally tried to tame for several hundred years. The stroke of...

    The paradox of warfare seems to be juxtaposed between the use of physical force vis-a-vis an orchestrated virtual combat executed by a string of robots in many shapes and forms whose DNA is Artificial...

The growing dominance of China and its intimidating stance in the Asian subcontinent has fuelled its expansionist tendencies across its land borders and costal frontiers. Over the years China’s visible coercive and threatening activities...

As the two nations India and China dig their heels on restoration of status quo, the clarion call by President Xi Jinping to China’s military to be ready for war ‘at any second’ is...

Much has been spoken about and written on the emerging markets for Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) based on its potentials for commercial as well as non commercial exploitation in India. In fact the veracity...

    The clarion call for self reliance has always been the cynosure of successive governments but the seriousness of the issue to address long-standing strategic and national security concerns to offset India’s external dependence for...