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India’s Exponential Growth Will Make It a Resilient Global Power

  In the last seven decades, India as the second largest democracy is witness to a meteoric rise of the phoenix that the British brutally tried to tame for several hundred years. The stroke of...

Survival Of The Strongest: India Needs A New Military Mindset

  One of the earliest recorded attacks on India was by queen Semiramis, who ruled the Assyrian Empire during the years 811-806 BCE – or nearly 500 years before the invasion of Alexander of Macedon....

HENSOLDT’S Integrated Airborne Solution (IAS): Pioneering Approach to Enhance Operational Effectiveness and Survivability of Airborne Assets (“1+1=3”)

  HENSOLDT has been pursuing innovative ideas which translate into technologies for the protection of forces across the globe and into a successful business for over 125 years. The company is present in Germany, France,...

Taking Positions in the Indo-Pacific Power-Play

  Historically, colonial powers considered it their prerogative to not only re-draw borders and create nations, but also to allot arbitrary geographic nomenclature to suit their geo-political designs. Post WW-II, it was America that decided...

India and the Emerging World Order: Finding the Strategic Balance

India is modernizing (1) its defence, for a plethora of reasons, and rightly so. In the current and future contexts, India must focus on one word, to build its economic and defence powerhouse: balance....

Indian Military Strategy And Deterrence Paradox

  Global Security Canvas and Future Threats The geopolitical fragility weakened by the pandemic and the fundamental transformation in the global landscape has cast security challenges around the Asian landmass and the oceanic tides of the...

Is India At 75 Doing Enough In The Maritime Domain?

  Year 2021 marks an important milestone in India’s journey towards fulfilling its ‘tryst with destiny’ which began at the stroke of midnight on the night of 14/15 August 1947 when India awoke while the...

India, the Sino-US Rivalry, and the post-pandemic World Order

The global disruption caused by the Covid-19 pandemic that engulfed the world at the end of 2019 and continues to this day is the biggest economic, political, and technological disruption since the Second World...

Security Concerns Persist After 74 Years of India’s Independence

  India celebrates its 75th Independence Day on August 15 amidst rapidly growing security concerns emanating from the enduring border disputes with China and Pakistan, China’s forays into the Indian Ocean Region, the Afghanistan imbroglio,...

The Many Shades of the China-Russia Affair: Options for India and USA

  The complex geo-politics of the world have been reshaping nearly every two decades. Russia and China are two giant neighbours that occupy the largest landmass in Asia. Traditionally they have been two antagonist societies...

Learn From the Past with Eyes on the Future

At the age of 18, I came to this side of the erstwhile ‘Iron Curtain’ at the height of the Cold War and since then, I have been witness to the developments in the...

For India’s Rightful Place Under the Sun

  “This decade is a very important one, just like the decade after the Second World War, unlike earlier, we are not going to be a mute spectator. We will rise to the occasion based...

India in a Challenging World: Adroit Manoeuvering is the Key

  A new balance of power is shaping the world. Multilateralism, unilateralism and nationalism are all rising simultaneously, whileworld institutionsand the United Nations are losing influence and control. With the aggressive rise of China, a...
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