US State Secretary Mike Pompeo once again blasted at Beijing on Tuesday (local time) and urged nations to push back against the Asian giant, disgruntled on the fact that rather than helping... Read more
China’s Quest to Grab Land Undercut 3 Decades of Efforts to Build Mutual Trust: C Raja Mohan
China’s misadventure in eastern Ladakh has created conditions for a “fundamental reset” of India’s ties with that country as its “unacceptable assertion”... Read more
United States Needs to Learn to Work in Multipolar World: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Wednesday (July 22, 2020) suggested that the United States needs to learn to work with a more multipolar world with more plurilateral arrangements a... Read more
ATV: All Terrain Mobility Solution for Forces
Editor’s Note The concept of all-terrain vehicles for greater mobility of the forces has been in play for a considerable period, however, adding the autonomous mode to such a design is more... Read more
IAF Indicates It does not Want US Made NASAMS-II Missile System, Prefers Made In India BMD Set Up
The Indian Air Force has, according to LiveFist, indicated to the government that it would rather spend its budgets on the locally developed ballistic missile defense system (BMD) than buyin... Read more
How India can Act as a Global Bridge
Earlier this year, United States (US) President Donald Trump used his prerogative as G-7 host to suggest inviting the leaders of India, Australia, and South Korea to the annual conclave. “I... Read more
S Jaishankar Says Era of Non-Alignment Gone, as US, Indian Warships Conduct Joint Drills
The non-alignment was a term of a bygone era, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Monday, even as the warships of the Indian Navy and the United States Navy conducted a joint dril... Read more
Monitoring Situation Between India and China ‘Very Closely’: US Defence Secretary
Describing the Chinese military’s activities in the region as “destabilising”, US Secretary of Defence Mark Esper on Tuesday said America was “very closely” monitoring the situation between... Read more
Explained: What the Deployment of Jaguar Fighters in Andaman And Nicobar Islands Means
In the middle of its most serious standoff with China in decades, India has deployed Jaguar fighters in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the eastern Indian Ocean. The Indian Air Force (IAF... Read more
US Defence Planners Must Appreciate India’s Dependence on Russian Arms: American Think-Tank Scholar
US defence planners studying the recent Sino-Indian crisis must appreciate India’s decision to turn to traditional defence supplier Russia “revealing an enduring and critical dependence” arg... Read more