Getting The Strategic Partnership Going
Soon after the enunciation of Chapter VII of the DPP 2016 on Revitalising Defence Industrial Ecosystem through Strategic Partnerships (SP) in June 2017, the Services have begun issue of RsFI... Read more
AI Cyberattacks Are Coming — But What Does That Mean?
The next major cyberattack could involve artificial intelligence systems. It could even happen soon: At a recent cybersecurity conference, 62 industry professionals, out of the 100 questione... Read more
The Idea That Nepal Must Maintain An Equal Relationship With India & China Is Foolish
On August 23, Nepalese Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba arrived in Delhi for a four-day-long official visit in the shadow of the Doklam standoff between India and China over a territorial d... Read more
Decorated Chinese War Veteran To Take Up Top Job At Heart Of Xi’s Military Reform Drive
A decorated veteran of the Sino-Vietnamese war has been named to head the military wing overseeing the People’s Liberation Army’s combat planning, strategy, logistics and training, the Chine... Read more
Myanmar Tips Into New Crisis After Rakhine State Attacks
In the early hours of 25 August, militants from Harakah al-Yaqin – a Rohingya insurgent group that now refers to itself in English as the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) – mounted coor... Read more
ISIS’ Reach Extends To Southeast Asia
Just days before Indonesia’s Independence Day celebration, Indonesian police foiled a chemical bomb attack on Tuesday that targeted the presidential palace in Jakarta. They arrested five sus... Read more
Commentary: The Rank Structure Is Holding Us Back. It’s Time For Drastic Change
The military rank structure that has served our nation well for centuries is not suited for our modern conflicts. Our forces could suffer heavy losses, both on the battlefield and in the cyb... Read more
Chandrayaan-2 Launch Likely Next March
The Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) is gearing up to launch the Chandrayaan-2 Mission in March next year, director of the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Shar, P. Kunhi Krishnan told m... Read more
In Naval War With China, India Would Be No Pushover
Right now China and India are glaring at each other across Doklam, the contested ground along the Sino-Indian frontier high in the Himalayas. It was the Himalayan border that prompted their... Read more
‘China Has Conquered Kenya’: Inside Beijing’s New Strategy To Win African Hearts & Minds
It took the StarTimes satellite TV salesman about 30 minutes to install a pipeline for Chinese propaganda into Francis Gitonga’s squat, cinder-block home here in southern Kenya, near Africa’... Read more