Opinion

India-Japan Towards a Strenghening Relationship

  Japan is known as the ‘land of the rising sun’. The country has truly risen to its name. We are commemorating 70 years of our diplomatic relations with Japan, with 2022 being a landmark...

The Collateral Benefits of Deploying Su-57 Aircraft to Ukraine: Russia’s Potential Plan

  First came the reports of Russia's Su-57 next-generation fighter operating in support of the country's war effort in Ukraine. Then came news of sightings of the stealth fighter over the city of Zhytomyr starting...

Agniveer or Tour of Duty: Not to Reject but seek Improvement!

  In its bid to reduce the sky-rocketing defence pension bill and also to keep the armed forces young, the Government of India has announced a policy of Agnipath recruitment. The policy envisages that recruits...

Xi Gang in Shock, Premier Li Takes Shine off President’s Halo

  In fact, for the first time Premier Li’s assertive move on the economic front, has left President Xi, hailed as the tallest leader of the Middle Kingdom after paramount leader Mao Zedong, to fend...

Two Years after Galwan: China Must Realise Its Behaviour is Counter-productive

  In May 2020, amid the thick of the coronavirus-induced pandemic, when the world was still trying to understand the intricacies of the pandemic and plan a strategy to tackle it, the Indian Army (IA)...

Agnipath: Playing with Fire?Those who feel ‘Security of the Nation’ is costly, can buy Defeat

  ‘Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.’ Defence Forces are a ‘force of deterrence’ and a price that the nation-state pays for unhindered peaceful growth and prosperity of its...

Agnipath Scheme Receives Mixed Reactions, Witnesses Violent Protests

  The government on June 14 unveiled an ambitious scheme which aimed at giving a youthful look to the armed forces under which about  46,000 youth — boys and girls aged between 17.5 years and...

Agnipath: Dousing the Fire

  Just two days after the announcement of the new recruitment policy for the three Services, Agnipath, protests have begun, without even trying to understand the nuances of the scheme, or the first recruitment being...

Military Reforms Require Soul Searching

  The rapid transformation in society, geopolitics and the character of war will require a deeper understanding of the larger construct of warfare. Legacy structures, processes and doctrines are increasingly at odds with emerging realities....

100 Days of Russia’s ‘Special Operations’ and Beyond – An Analysis

  It is more than 100 days into the special operations launched by Russia and the narrative changes as per the narrator! And, it is more than 50 days since the Russian forces withdrew from...

Flaws in the Military-Civil Cooperation Framework Hindering Innovation in Space Domain

  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...

Quad and AUKUS Factor: Is China Shifting Its Focus Back to ASEAN? 

  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...

Kashmir Killings: We Must ‘Act First, Brag Later’

  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...
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