In the previous year, Air Marshal Vivek Ram Chaudhari stated that the lack of framework required for cooperation between civilian and military entities is restricting the country from innovating and producing the next generation...
As the ongoing Ukraine war reverberates across geographies with far tangible impact on economies, fuel and food situation in the world, Southeast Asia in the whole Indo-Pacific region has, in particular, become an area...
The recent wave of killings of Hindus, non-locals and security personnel particularly those not on duty and their relatives, though not the first time, has caused considerable concern and outrage in the country. It...
For bringing an end to decades old dependency of India on French and Russian-made air-to-air missiles (AAM), the Indian defence and security establishment has braced itself for testing the indigenously developed Astra Mk 2...
The British defence ministry is purchasing Chinese drones, which the United States already blacklists over human rights and national security concerns. As per a recently published contract notice, an order worth £132,337 for drones...
Kashmir is on the boil again. This time a spate of killings has rattled the security and state dispensation. Concerns have emerged over the new hybrid mode of terrorism in the valley which has...
India’s national security environments ought to be analysed in three dimensions, namely - International, regional and internal i.e. Russian - Ukraine conflicts in Europe, Sino - US rivalry in the Indo-Pacific region; Sino- Pak...
In the previous month, the Indian Navy along with the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) conducted a maiden flight-test of NASM-SR, an indigenously-developed Naval anti-ship missile that was launched from a helicopter from...
India’s firm stand that the Quad’s agenda shouldn’t be changed and the kind of backing it received from Australia which is highly concerned about China’s activities in the Pacific, the informal group during its...
US president’s remark that the US will intervene militarily in case Taiwan is attacked is encouraging but the million-dollar question is: Will the other Quad countries follow suit?
The Russo-Ukraine war, which enters its third...
As I ‘download’ my thoughts for this piece, the Indian PM, along with other leaders of the Quad, namely, the President of USA, and the Prime Ministers of Australia and Japan, would have met...
K𝐀𝐋𝐈, the acronym for Kilo Ampere Linear Injector, is a top-secret weapon that India has designed as a potential response to any incoming missiles whose objective would be to disrupt the country's peace. It is...
Quad is a strategic security dialogue to overtly realise the need for a “free, open and inclusive Indo Pacific” based on shared values and common interests. However its primary convergence irrespective of its concealed...