Rise of Eurasia And The New Great Game
Editor’s Note Eurasia’s importance to global geopolitics is rapidly swinging on an ascendant graph. It gathers pace as the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation gains greater traction amongst a... Read more
Vietnam, China Showdown in South China Sea: Implications for India
Editor’s Note The South China Sea has been boiling for some time now. As tensions flare-up in the South China Sea (SCS) the prime contestants seem to be Vietnam and China. Both countries hav... Read more
Countering Rogue Drones in Absence of Real System
Editor’s Note We seldom stop to consider the potential disruptive impact of the innovations we develop, seeing them as largely positive; such in case of with drones. While drones are proving... Read more
Science of Altered Realities Revolutionising Modern Military Warfare Training
Editor’s Note Progress in Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Immersive Mixed Reality and related fields are challenging the old dictum of the man behind the machine... Read more
Prioritising Threat-Based Defence Expenditure
Editor’s Note Each year, after the Finance Minister presents the budget there is a lot of hue and cry during debates on television and in print media on the shortfall in the allocation of th... Read more
Shipbuilding Contributes to Economic Growth and Nation Building
Naval shipbuilding can contribute immensely to the vision of making India a $5 trillion economy by 2024 said Admiral Karambir Singh, Chief of the Naval Staff, Indian Navy in New Delhi. Speak... Read more
Economics of Defence: Manpower Cost Costs Modernisation
Editor’s Note The author addresses the issue of manpower costs affecting defence modernisation in our over a million army with refreshingly new arguments. It’s a fact that our salary bills c... Read more
Where’s the Money for Defence: Need to Think Out of the Box
Editor’s Note The lack of mention of the defence allocation in the Finance Minister’s presentation of the Union Budget was certainly most unexpected either by the forces or the strategic com... Read more
G- 20: Summit: Implications for India
The G-20 Summit on the World Economy brings together the members of the G 7 comprising France, United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Japan, Italy, Canada and the European Union. It further... Read more
Union Budget 2019-20: Policy Roadmap for Defence would Matter More than the Numbers
The Union Budget is not just about numbers; it is also an important statement of how the government intends to fulfil its election-time promises and deal with other sector-specific issues. C... Read more