Army Day Feature

  Artificial Intelligence (AI) is amongst the latest technology that is revolutionising both the commercial sector and daily household as well as military and homeland security arena. It provides limitless autonomous mission functionalities in time...

  "The safety, honour and welfare of the country comes first, always and every time. The honour, welfare and comfort of the men you command comes next and your own ease, comfort and safety come...

One of the things the current conflicts have taught us is that the military hardware we are used to, especially ground-based machines like tanks and troop carriers, are utterly useless when no anti-air support...

  India remains apathetic towards national security. More than 75 years after Independence, we are without a national security strategy though the National Security Advisor (NSA) was tasked in 2019 to define one. Notwithstanding the...

The Indian Army was the first of the three services to introduce Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) in India, with the induction of the Israeli Searcher Mk1 in the late 1990s.Over the years, the fleet...

The aftermath of the Armenian-Azerbaijan conflict and more recently the Russian invasion of Ukraine seems to write the epitaph of the main battle tank as a vulnerable mechanical behemoth straddled with huge logistic baggage...

Evolution: A fast unfolding war sequence at its violent extreme saw remotely controlled machines moving in, evidently dominating the battlezone while an army of men downed and dusted surrendering to save their last breath....

  It seems quite a paradox that even 75 years after independence, India does not possess an overarching National Security Strategy (NSS), which comprehensively tries to gauge the challenges to the country’s security and spells...

  The Indian Army with its geographical spread across 29 states of the country probably has the most outstretched logistics chain amongst all armies of the world. In order for a fleet-footed army to serve...

The size of the Army matters but it is the technology that wins the war     – Harry S. Truman Warfare is increasingly becoming very complex, multidimensional, and highly dynamic. The ability to strike first,...

“We fight to win and win with a knockout because there are no runners up in war”:    General JJ Singh   Leadership is an art and not a science because leaders convert defeat into victory. ...

  Deterrence to conflict whether at the sub-conventional level or conventional under the nuclear backdrop not only should be proactive, it must be suitably demonstrated to convey the effectiveness to the enemy. The stark truth today...

  The rapid transformation in society, culture, technology and globalisation has altered the geopolitics and geo-economics canvas that has impacted warfare. While the traditional linkages between conflict, victory and politics remain, the mechanisms driving these...