Articles By Navneet Bhushan
A Nuclear Command and Control System for India
By: Navneet Bhushan | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Jul , 2017
The recent missile tests have brought to the fore, once again the talks on south Asian nuclear arms race and scenarios. It is imperative to understand that mere capability in terms of Agni V or...
Pakistan’s Nuclear Arsenal – The Babur-Nasr are Quick First Use, Not...
By: Navneet Bhushan | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Jan , 2017
The report of a successful test of a submarine launched cruise missile, Babur III, by Pakistan claims achievement of second strike capability by Pakistan. It is unambiguously clear that...
Agni-5: A True Game Changer
By: Navneet Bhushan | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Dec , 2016
Agni-5 with its higher payload and MIRV capability – with high accuracies – does give India a counter force capability. This is definitely a higher order message to potential adversaries....
Winning the Asymmetric Wars: Matrix of Instruments of War
By: Navneet Bhushan | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Dec , 2016
Using Ivan Arreguin Toft’s hypothesis of strategic interaction proposed and studied on a sample of asymmetric conflicts since year 1800,in “How the weak win wars – a theory of asymmetric...
Can India Create the Next Revolution in Military Affairs?
By: Navneet Bhushan | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 Nov , 2016
We have a window of opportunity for next 25 years when the young population percentage world over will be maximum in India. Further, our ability to understand the language of software – its...
Winning the Asymmetric Wars – A need for Rapid Strategic Switching
By: Navneet Bhushan | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Sep , 2016
Of the 43 asymmetric wars in the period 1950-1999, 51.2% wars have been won by the weaker actor. That the powerful will lose sometimes is in the nature of warfare, in general. However, they will...
LCA Tejas role for IAF – View from a simple sortie rate model
By: Navneet Bhushan | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 Jul , 2016
Role of Indian Air Force (IAF) in so-called Cold Start Doctrine (CSD) One extremely important role for Indian Air Force (IAF) will be the Close Air Support (CAS) to Indian Army. This is especially...
Measuring Risk - Pakistani Nukes Escaping to “Funny Fellows”
By: Navneet Bhushan | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Jun , 2016
In 1998 after the Pakistani nuclear tests, the estimates were that Pakistan may possess and have the fissile material for about 20 Nuclear warheads with a potential yield of 20-30 Kilo Tons of...
China takes Pakistan: A Scenario by 2017-2022
By: Navneet Bhushan | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Feb , 2016
Since year 2011, I have been painting a scenario where in China will get deeper and deeper into Pakistan. For many decades China has been the “thick” friend of Pakistan – especially military and...
Needed: Ministry of Intelligence, Foresight and Design (MIFD)
By: Navneet Bhushan | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Jan , 2016
I have heard this saying, “one who can master time masters everything.” How do you master time? Obviously one cannot stop time. Or at least, as yet we do not know how to. However, there are...
Its War - And India has to fight it as such
By: Navneet Bhushan | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Jan , 2016
{The following article I wrote in December 2014 after the Gurdaspur attack} The house where Gunner Manpreet Singh was born near the border town of Gurdaspur in Punjab is called “fauzian da...
IAF in the age of Unmanned, Hyper-sonic, Intelligent, Stealthy, and CPGS world
By: Navneet Bhushan | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Oct , 2015
We would like to wish the Indian Air Force (IAF) a very happy birthday – the IAF was born in 1932 on 8th October – a good 15 years before India attained independence. Today, one of the finest...
The Chinese Twin Silk Roads – Can India shake off its lethargy?
By: Navneet Bhushan | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Nov , 2014
If you have to see the future, look at the map of the future. Or better why not draw the map yourself. If you are the most populous, recently turned the largest economy and the emerging new type...
