China’s First Steps before Going to Battle
Before engaging in a battle that features carriers or fighter jets, China will try to gain an advantage in the information sphere and to reduce confidence in the military systems of its adve... Read more
US Navy Moves Toward Unleashing Killer Robot Ships on the World’s Oceans
The world’s largest navy has spent the last few years feeling like it was being put in check. China and Russia have heavily invested in anti-access technologies aimed at holding its main for... Read more
Is India Ready? China Steps Up Military Build-Up in Tibet as America Passes Law of Reciprocal Access
Despite the recent bonhomie exhibited at Wuhan meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Xi Jinping in April last year, China is quietly stepping up of military deployments... Read more
China is planning for the possibility of war with the United States over the disputed island of Taiwan, and a possible conflict with India, according to US-based expert. And the Center for t... Read more
GSAT-20 to Ensure Faster Internet This Year
Come 2019, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will launch GSAT-20 — its second five-tonne class satellite after GSAT-11 — completing its network of high throughput communication satel... Read more
Smash the Bases, Spare the Men — Israel’s Invisible War in Syria
Israel’s military chief has for the first time spoken in detail about the war being waged in the shadows between his country and Iran. Israel has been in direct conflict with Iran for the pa... Read more
Japan’s East China Sea Nightmare: Too Many Chinese Fighter Jets and Warships to Counter
The sheer number of Chinese warships and warplanes patrolling a disputed East China Sea island chain threatens to overwhelm Japan’s own ships and planes. The imbalance could get worse... Read more
Welcome to Fight Club: Wargaming the Future
Yes, I am going to violate the first rule of Fight Club and talk about it. The U.S. Marine Corps, in partnership with a network that includes the U.S. Army and multiple agencies in the Depar... Read more
Indigenous Push Needs More Punch
THE ‘Make in India’ story in the defence equipment sector underlines a dichotomy — the country has leapfrogged in some areas while struggling with some basics. On November 5, 2018, India ann... Read more
The Indian Army (IA) first came up with its declassified official doctrine in 1998, and then again with a revised version in 2004. Subsequently, the IA came up with a sub-conventional warfar... Read more