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

Cdr Retd KP Sanjeev Kumar - July 22, 2021

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!

Col Rajinder Singh - July 21, 2021

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

Pratap Singh Rathore - July 20, 2021

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?

Maj Gen Amardeep Bhardwaj - July 18, 2021

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

Rakesh Krishnan Simha - July 16, 2021

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!

Ramesh Sharma - July 16, 2021

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

Amit Cowshish - July 15, 2021

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

Cdr Raghvendra Chaturvedi - July 15, 2021

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...

The 360 Degrees of National Security

Lt Gen Prakash Katoch - July 14, 2021

National security implies not only safeguarding territorial boundaries but also shaping the environment so that the nation is able to build a cohesive, egalitarian, technologically efficient and progressive society with a good quality of...

Capability Building Remains A Big Challenge For India’s Defence Modernisation

G. Mohan Kumar - July 14, 2021

China’s belligerence, its hegemonistic behaviour in the Asian neighbourhood and its strategy to establish a ring of military bases in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR) call for a well-coordinated and determined response from India’s...

India at the Crossroads in Modernizing its Defence Forces

Natalia Freyton - July 14, 2021

From a European standpoint, India is currently sitting where certain Western defence apparatuses were, just a few decades ago. How to increase military potential, while maintaining control over military affairs? The global standard, just...

Rekindling of the Indo-Iranian Ties

Md. Muddassir Quamar - July 13, 2021

On July 7, 2021, External Affairs Minister Dr. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar made a surprise stopover in Tehran on his way to Moscow for an official three-day visit. During the detour in Tehran, the EAM met...

Relevance of IAF in a Future War!

Col Rajinder Singh - July 12, 2021

“The greatest deception men suffer from is their own opinions” -Leonardo da Vinci There are emotional outbursts, by veterans, mostly of IAF, on one loose statement of Chief of Defence Staff ( CDS) General Bipin Rawat....

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