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The world is shifting towards multipolarity
By: KN Pandita |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 March 2023
Multipolarity is the new buzzword among political leaders. In the totality of geopolitical transitions during recent years, Indo-Pacific has emerged as the global strategic centre of...

Iran and Saudi Arabia’s negotiations with China as a peace broker in light...
By: Abhyuday Saraswat |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 March 2023
The Middle East has long been a region fraught with conflicts and rivalries, with the Iran-Saudi Arabia rivalry being one of the most significant. Since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, Saudi Arabia...

Mother of All Swarms
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 March 2023
In the hunt to kill Osama bin-Laden, the US had fired its GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB) bomb (thermobaric/aerosol bomb) in Afghanistan on April 13, 2017; unaware that Osama was merrily...

The Making of an Officer and a Gentleman: Customs and Traditions
By: Brig Pradeep Sharma |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 March 2023
The armed forces have through evolution been led by leaders either born or thrown up by situations. The erstwhile British Indian Army borrowed the custom of officers being from rich and many a...

Finally, is Pakistan paying the price for its sins?
By: Neeraj Mahajan |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 March 2023
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The...

Why Khalistani Separatists Cannot Be Separated from Totality of Friendly...
By: Kanwal Sibal |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 March 2023
The latest incident of pro-Khalistan activists demonstrating in front of our mission in London, climbing to the balcony on the frontage of the building and removing the national flag, and...

Chipping the Chip Industry
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 March 2023
US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo’s four-day trip to India beginning March 7, 2023 was to participate in the US-India Commercial Dialogue and the US-India CEO Forum. She called on Prime...

Are Servicemen, soft targets for all and sundry?
By: Sudip Talukdar |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 March 2023
There must be something radically wrong with a society that prides itself on being one of the most robust and resilient democracies of the world, but virtually tramples on the rights of Indian...

Pakistan Army’s Undeclared War in Balochistan
By: Nilesh Kunwar |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 March 2023
Being mandated to ensure territorial integrity of their country, the armed forces of every nation are both physically trained as well as mentally attuned to fight and destroy enemies...

Will F-16s follow President Biden to Ukraine?
By: Prakash Nanda |Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 16 March 2023
While US President Joe Biden’s historic surprise visit to Ukraine on the eve of the first anniversary of the Russian invasion of that country and his fresh offer of $460 million of military to...

Fake Peaceniks
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 March 2023
Joseph Goebbels, Adolf Hitler’s Minister of Propaganda from 1933 to 1945 is known to have said, “Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth.” The war in Ukraine is witnessing two...

India-Egyptian relations are now Strategic: Indian Envoy
By: Manish Rai |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 March 2023
Ambassador Ajit Gupte a senior diplomat from Indian Foreign Service (IFS) is currently serving as the Indian Ambassador to Egypt. We are presently witnessing a deepening of Indo-Egyptian ties as...

Westphalia in the Modern Context
By: Kazi Anwarul Masud |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 March 2023
Significance of the Treaty of Westphalia For many years Germany became the principal theatre of European diplomacy and war, and consequently,the development of German national unity was delayed....

Indian Vision-2047 for Cyber Defence Security: Needs and Importance
By: Col (Dr) AK Singh and Dr Rajeev Kumar |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 March 2023
In order to make the military into the “Aatmanirbhar” force that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had envisioned, the Ministry of Defence undertook ground-breaking reforms in 2022, led by Raksha...

Kashmiris Protest Defiling of Mosques by Terrorists
By: Nilesh Kunwar |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 March 2023
The saying that terrorists have no religion was once again proven right last Tuesday when two terrorists violated the sanctity of Jamia Masjid in Padgampora village of South Kashmir’s Pulwama...

Kazakhstan: Early Elections as a Guarantor of Stability
By: Slavisha Batko Milacic |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 March 2023
Sitting at the very heart of Eurasia, Kazakhstan is one of the most prosperous post-Soviet republicsand, of course, the most affluent in Central Asia. A unique geographical location and...

Russo-Ukraine War: Military Overview
By: Lt Gen Rameshwar Yadav |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 March 2023
“For Putin, who dreams of regional hegemony over former Soviet space, Washington’s insistence on unencumbered global hegemony is the unacceptable threat that his war in Ukraine was designed...

The Big Takeaways from India’s Post-Independence Wars
By: Gp Capt PK Mulay |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 March 2023
A wise soldier learns from the past, both the successes and failures. Background Wars shape the destinies of nations and are characterised by tales of courage, resilience, and bravery. Military...

The Fallacy of Handling China with Kid Gloves
By: Brig Deepak Sinha |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 March 2023
It is apparent that the Modi Government has shown great reluctance to enhance defence expenditure, and instead has been looking for ways and means to curtail spending, as any government should....

Decoding Targeted Killings in Kashmir
By: Nilesh Kunwar |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 March 2023
The cold-blooded murder of 45-year-old Sanjay Sharma in Achan village of South Kashmir’s Pulwama district on Sunday serves as a grim warning that there’s no let-up in the despicable trend of...