Opinion

India’s Afghan Conundrum

  It is coming back to where it all started two decades ago. The Taliban this time is in the driver’s seat, it is on a relentless northward march taking town after town, district after...

Afghanistan – The Turmoil Ahead and Ramifications for the Indian Subcontinent

  The planned withdrawal of the US forces from Afghanistan commenced last month and resulted in an unprecedented crisis in this land-locked country. No sooner as this happened, the Taliban went on an all-out offensive...

US – India Defence Ties Set to Grow

  Prime Minister Narendra Modi stating that the Indo-US “growing security and defence cooperation is very important,” is indeed significant since defence relationship has emerged as a major pillar of India-US strategic partnership with the...

Afghanistan Turmoil and India

  ‘You can change friends, but you can’t change your neighbours.’ What does one do when some rogue people come and occupy your neighbourhood? They pay a damn to the rules of civilized society, harbour...

The Future is Digital

Houston, we have a problem! It was not a problem, it was a catastrophe in the waiting. Major systems had malfunctioned and there was a real danger of losing the astronauts and the vehicle....

Humour in Uniform: When Blue Force Became a White Man’s Burden!

  Long before the CDS and Department of Military Affairs poured the jointmanship glue into inter-service cracks, every service had a distinct way of going about their business. Sometimes contrasting cultures, ethos and traditions intersected...

Afghanistan Crisis: Taliban Towards Power Sharing!

  Taliban’s initial euphoria of all round victory in Afghanistan is now turning into a nightmare. A stark reality of a stalemate awaits it, because capture of Kabul & Kandahar, power centres of Afghanistan, seem...

India Needs Strategic Edge in Naval Contest with China

  The India-China quest for Asia’s maritime strategic space has become a bone of contention between the two countries. The Chinese Maritime Silk Route initiative and its active presence in the Indo-Pacific region are perceived...

Inter-Services Military Integration: How Well Can India Do It?

  Transformational Change in the Offing Going by recent media reports and publications, it appears fairly certain that the Indian Government has already made up its mind to introduce ‘Integrated Theatre Commands’ for the military –...

Dragon Trap: How India Can Shape an Alliance Against China

Can the expansionist communist regime in China be brought down in our lifetime? Can anyone stop the salami slicing policies of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA)? Is there hope for the 1.4 billion Chinese...

Unrestricted Warfare: An Open War Raging Within India, And We Don’t Even Realise it!

When you read the real stories behind the headlines in newspapers and news websites; when you read the narratives behind TV news campaigns, slickly produced Youtube videos, viral memes, Instagram posts, Whatsapp forwards and...

Need for Realism on the Indigenisation lists

  On May 31, the Department of Military Affairs (DMA) released a list of 108 items whose import is to be progressively banned by December 2025. Christened ‘Second Positive Indigenisation List’, it supplements the first...

‘Lease Loopholes’ in DAP 2020: Need for a Relook

  The new Defence Acquisition Procedure (DAP) released in September 2020, while continuing with the focus on indigenisation, added piquancy to the tale by including “Leasing” as a mode of induction of military equipment. Indian...
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