Private Security Industry In India – Has It Come Of Age?
Editor’s Note With national security assuming greater criticality, the Private Security Sector with its huge manpower can actually prove to be a force multiplier. It can relieve our police f... Read more
How Fiction Becomes Fact On Social Media
Hours after the Las Vegas massacre, Travis McKinney’s Facebook feed was hit with a scattershot of conspiracy theories. The police were lying. There were multiple shooters in the hotel, not j... Read more
Inimical Forces Will Attempt To Jeopardise Military Modernisation
Editor’s Note Defence procurement remains a difficult arena fraught with risks of deals being cancelled after much of the processing has already been undertaken. The deals are often large an... Read more
China’s 19th Party Congress: New Leaders To Steer China To The China Dream
CHINA’S 19th PARTY CONGRESS: NEW LEADERS TO STEER CHINA TO THE CHINA DREAM The week long (October 18-24, 2017) 19th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which was held in Beijing,... Read more
The Troops May Have Stepped Back, But The China-India Dispute In The Himalayas Is Far From Over
This summer, Indian and Chinese troops were mired in a long-standing face off at Doklam – a once obscure patch of disputed territory between China and Bhutan. In late August, both New Delhi... Read more
Some two dozen shops sit quietly on both sides of a security barrier that marks the border between Kashmir and the Pakistani province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. There is nothing to suggest that... Read more
Indian Armed Forces & Non Contact Warfare
Editor’s Note The prospects of conventional warfare in our sub-continent have definitely not receded, however the requirement of preparing ourselves to face cyber threats, information operat... Read more
The Rohingya Crisis Needs A Solution Within Myanmar
Editor’s Note Every time there’s a problem in Rakhine, Myanmar the cascading effects are felt in Bangladesh and India. A stream of refugees flow into the camps in Bangladesh and join the str... Read more
Trump To Stay In Iran Nuclear Deal, Asks Congress To Revise Enforcement
President Donald Trump will not withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal, but he will decertify that Iran is meeting the terms of a separate U.S. law directing the country to forgo its nuclear we... Read more
Russia Promises ‘Countermeasures’ If Finland Joins NATO
Russia has issued a fresh warning to Finland against joining NATO. Moscow has already issued a similar caution to Sweden, while Denmark has been told that it can expect “retaliatory counterm... Read more