Multinational Maritime Exercise Malabar: Growing Joint Task Force Operations
Editor’s Note The recently concluded Malabar exercise with American, Indian, Japanese and Australian navies participating was a milestone event in the cooperation between these countries to... Read more
Multilateralism : India’s Way Forward
Multilateralism: India’s Way Forward “Multilateralism, the process of organizing relations between groups of three or more states. Beyond that basic quantitative aspect, multilateralism is g... Read more
Evolving Indo-US Co-operative Engagement Scheme: BECA, COMCASA, LEMOA
Editor’s Note BECA, COMCASA and LEMOA, put together, have altered the parameters of inter-operability not just with the US forces but a host of others. Operational compatibility through data... Read more
President of USA: Trump or Biden? Who is Better for India
The world is battling with COVID-19 while an increasingly belligerent China is using all domains of its comprehensive national power to break out from its self-imposed shackles and dominate... Read more
Afghanistan at Crossroads
The Afghan National Government (ANG) and Taliban commenced peace talks at Doha, Qatar on 12 September 2020. The ANG, ruling Afghanistan since December 2004 on the framework of a Constitution... Read more
Major Expectations From 2020: Indo-US 2+2 Dialogue
The scheduled 2 plus 2 Ministerial dialogue between India and the USA on 27 October 2020 will take place at a rather decisive time, coinciding with the US Presidential elections and COVID-19... Read more
Five Point Framework To Attain Strategic Independence
Never let a good crisis go to waste ……Winston Churchill 2020 has been eventful – the Chinese virus, border clash with China, deteriorating neighbourhood environment and an economy in the... Read more
Cheetah/Chetak Helicopter Replacement Becomes Critical
The Indian Armed Forces continue to fly the outdated, vintage and accident-prone fleet of Cheetah/Chetak helicopters. These helicopters were inducted in the late sixties and seventies and ar... Read more
FDI Cap for Defence Raised with National Security Clause
Editor’s Note Indian governments, over the decades, have tried to attract foreign capital in the defence sector with half-hearted initiatives. As such, these attempts have been far from bein... Read more
Corporatisation of Ordnance Factory Board, Recipe for Self Reliance
Editor’s Note In Part I of the article, the author gave a historical perspective of the colonial legacy of Ordnance Factory Board (OFB) and the many challenges it faces leading to sub-opti... Read more