Opinion

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...

  T he body count of counter insurgency operations in India makes disturbing reading. In April 2010, 76 CRPF policemen were killed in an ambush by Maoist terrorists in Dantewada, Chhattisgarh. In February 2019, 40 Indian...

  “You can change friends, not neighbours”, former Prime Minister of India Atal Bihari Vajpayee had famously said in the context of India-Pakistan relations. While this relationship has been largely rocky during the first and...

  This month, the Indian Navy will participate for the first time in France’s La Pérouse naval exercise in the Bay of Bengal. Scheduled for 5–7 April, the exercise will also witness participation from India’s...

  New Delhi: The world is slowly healing back from the worst onslaught of nature’s fury in the last 100 years. Post Covid-19, the world will no longer be the same. A new world order will...

  With the growing list of weapons and military technologies, modern military policies are now moving ahead right at the top of the sky i.e. Space. It must be brought into limelight that most of...

  In the past 18 months, there has been a number of significant developments in the new world order which indicate a paradigm shift in the way major super powers like USA, China, Russia, France...

  The modern battlefield environment has become more and more complex. Future operations in the modern battlefield will be characterized by the indeterminate nature of the threats, their adaption abilities, and the dynamic change. The emerging...

  BRAHMOS has been described as the “Brahmastra for the Indian armed forces”. The supersonic cruise missile is not quite in the same league as the mighty weapon of Lord Brahma, but it is certainly...

  There is much in the news about US including India in the multilateral dialogue on Afghanistan while Russia kept India out of it. This rhetoric will heighten with the dialogue on peaceful settlement in...

News reports of December 2020 indicate that the Indian Navy is looking at leasing an unspecified number of mine counter measure vessels (MCMVs) in addition to other equipment to fill critical gaps. For example,...