Opinion

Defence Budget 2023: Sun Shines, Clouds Prevail And Storms Loom

  The exhilarated motto “India First, Citizen First” is indeed as inspirational as "Today's era must not be of war", yet devoid of the geo-political context and realities of threats to the nation. To keep both...

Mind Control and the Psychological Dimension of Wars in Future

  Wars - in the future - may not just be fought with weapons and physical strength. There was a time when armies could only kill or harm enemies they could see or touch. Not...

Amid Border Tension, Defence Allocation Touches 13.18 per cent of Total Outlay of Union Budget 2023-24

New Delhi: With tensions continuing along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) and the Line of Control (LOC) with China and Pakistan, the Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman gave the armed forces a much...

Expectation From India’s Defence Budget

Significant Expectations As the general budget will be presented in the parliament today, significant expectations are riding on the defence segment. The country has seen some steady growth as far as defence outlay is concerned....

Fissures in Defence Allocation

Ahead of the presentation of Union budget in Parliament on February 1, India's defence sector deserves to be in the spotlight due to increased volatility with belligerent neighbours. That apart, the political and military...

Peacebuilding and Reconciliation: Ushering in An Era of No War

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones,” said Albert Einstein. This grim observation was made in the aftermath of...

President Sisi’s Visit Rekindles India-Egypt Relations, Strategic Partnership Forged

New Delhi: The three-day visit to India by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi was indeed a boost to relations between nations which spawned the oldest civilizations and in contemporary international scenario, Egypt is a...

With Many Firsts, Colourful 74th Republic Day Parade Showcased Emergence of a ‘New India’

New Delhi: The 74th Republic Day parade amid much pomp and colour had many firsts to its credit with it being held for the first time at the ceremonial Central Vista avenue, renamed Kartavya...

Need for India to Pursue a Civil-Military Fusion

  Now a day, many nations have embarked on the path of creating a Civil-Military Fusion (CMF).  Basically, dual-use technologies and collaborations lies at the heart of any civil-military confluence. It ensures that civil and...

Democracy in Peril

Democracy can be messy, it can be cacophonic, decision-making can suffer from deadlocks, consensus may be a luxury, people’s will can sometimes appear to be tyrannical to quote De Tocqueville, but despite all these...

Assad, A Pariah No More

It seems as if the pariah of the Arab world, Bashar Al-Assad may soon get a reprieve, as the global and regional powers rally together to forgive him and try to bolster his regime....

India’s Taiwan Moment Has Arrived

Sun Tzu aptly said, “Your enemy’s enemy is your friend.” India and Taiwan have a common neighbour who believes in the expansion of its frontiers by force. India has ignored the existence of Taiwan...

India’s Foreign Policy in 2022 and the Challenges Ahead

The year 2022 has been quite an eventful year in the diplomatic journey of the world’s sixth-largest economy. To begin with, the year has been dominated by the egregious February 24 Russian invasion of...
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