Opinion

India-South Korea strategic relationship: Brief introduction: Paradigm shift in the geopolitics of the Asia Pacific has resulted in strategic policy making by many regional powers. Since May 2015, India – South Korea, officially known...

  According to a recent report by Stockholm-based Sipri, India’s import of arms decreased by 33% between 2011-15 and 2016-20. The reason for the decline has been a combination of a convoluted procurement process and...

Global politics is a never ceasing saga and formation of new equations, alignments and axis continues with the passing time that provides and creates both opportunities and challenges afresh before the nations. Evolution of...

  The Indian Air Force has a total strength of 1,276 aircraft, including 434 combat/air superiority jets and 102 ground attack planes. Although the IAF remains the fourth largest air force in the world, its...

  Government's 'Make in India' initiative, as far as the aerospace and defence sectors are concerned, has certainly gathered momentum over the last year. The opening up of the defence sector to privatisation through the...

Self-reliance or ‘Atmanirbharta’ is both a human as well as a national aspiration, which most associate with self-esteem and respect, but which has much larger connotations when it comes to the defence of a...

India’s defense and security relations with the Gulf countries, especially Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), have flourished in recent years. Bilateral cooperation in maritime securityand counter-terrorism, and military-to-military ties have strengthened...

Last week, the US Navy conducted a Freedom of Navigation Operation (FONOP) in India’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). As per the US 7th Fleet’s press release, USS John Paul Jones “asserted navigational rights and...

  Indigenisation of the defense sector is of crucial importance for any sovereign nation and it becomes even more crucial for a country like India with an expanding economy, a wide variety of security challenges,...

The research and development (R&D) organisation in any country plays an important role in the development of the nation as well as its society. All nations, therefore, invest a sizeable portion of their budget...

In Land military equipment, there are no solutions, only trade-offs: countries outside the military top-tier find themselves with strategic equations they need to figure out, when shaping their forces. A very small handful of countries...

  Achieving self-reliance in the country’s defence needs is of critical importance. It has been noticed earlier that during a crisis when the needs of arms, ammunition, spares and equipment is urgent and critical, the...

  With the increasing lethality of China’s military, cyber operations and advanced Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs), never has the urgency of investing in India’s domestic technological capabilities been more acute. China very early on...