Security concerns on India-Nepal border post Taliban’s Kabul takeover

October 11, 2021

In today’s highly connected world, events occurring anywhere have a profound global impact, especially if they are terrorism related. However, there are major consequences on countries that are located within the affected region of major terror developments. Unprecedented and unforeseen events in Afghanistan since the last few months will have...

DRONE ATTACK AT JAMMU AIRPORT: NEED FOR TRANSFORMATIVE STEPS TO PROTECT VITAL AREAS AND INSTALLATIONS

July 1, 2021

Two blasts were heard at Satwari Airport on the intervening night of 26 and 27 June 2021 at around 1:40 am and 1:46 am. These blasts must have shaken the hearts and minds of the people of Jammu city living nearby as the people of Jammu have suffered a lot...

TIME TO UNITE IN FIGHT AGAINST COVID DELTA AND PERNICIOUS FORCES

June 7, 2021

“India will grow at 11 to 11.5%.” This was the prediction by most of the global rating agencies in February / March 2021 such as the IMF. From a negative growth to bounce back to a possibility of such a phenomenal level appears to have not gone well with the...

PAKISTAN PM’S SRI LANKA VISIT BEGINS ON AN EMBARRASSING NOTE

February 24, 2021

Pakistan’s leading newspaper Dawn, quoting the Foreign Office (FO), reported that “Mr (Imran) Khan would visit Sri Lanka from February 23 to 24 on the invitation of Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa. He would be accompanied on the trip by some federal ministers and senior officials. This will be...

UNION BUDGET 2021 DASHES DEFENCE EXPECTATIONS

February 18, 2021

The Union Budget has unfortunately fallen much short of the expectations of the Armed Forces’ capital needs. This will adversely impact the defence procurement of big ticket critical equipment. In fact, it has been a big miss as far as defence is concerned with the Finance Minister not even finding...

Disengagement in Ladakh: A welcome development

February 12, 2021

The Global Times has reported that the “Chinese and Indian border troops on the southern and northern shores of Pangong Lake began disengagement as planned on Wednesday according to the consensus reached during the ninth round of military commander-level talks, citing their Defense Ministry.” The news, if correct, will prove...

JOINT MILITARY EXERCISES: A NECESSARY TOOL IN DEFENCE DIPLOMACY

February 8, 2021

On the night of 27-28 January, 2021, three more Rafale fighters joined the Indian Rafale squadron, taking the total to 11 aircrafts. A total of 36 aircrafts have been contracted by India in a government-to-government deal. The contracting of 83 Tejas aircrafts, the demonstration of the will to go in...

RETHINKING MILITARY CAPABILITY AND FORCE STRUCTURING

January 20, 2021

India is probably the only country which faces multiple threats along our land borders which has been a consistent historical trend since ancient times. While threat from the western border has been in perpetuity, manifestation along the northern border has been a recent phenomenon. Further, if we consider the Chinese...

INDIA-US 2+2 CAN’T YIELD DESIRED SUCCESS MINUS STRONG QUAD

November 3, 2020

Japan prefers the mechanism of 2 plus 2 dialogue to engage a country diplomatically. It has perfected this art to a finesse. Taking a cue from Japan, India since 2010 adopted the same model. However, it restricted itself only to Japan. The outcome of 2 plus 2 talks with Japan...

Testing of defence systems: New tool of adversarial response

October 21, 2020

India has come a long way especially in space and missile technology it can be compared amongst the leaders. Our strategic capability despite the 1998 sanctions following the Pokhran tests speaks for themselves. DRDO does have major limitations in development of aircraft, tanks, and weapon systems especially for the infantry...