Articles By Navneet Bhushan
Is the Indian Soldier Overloaded?: Right Sizing the Armed Forces
By: Navneet Bhushan | Issue: Vol. Apr-Jun 2020, (35.2) & Jul-Sep 2020, (35.3) | Date: 01 Nov , 2020
It is of interest that we have consistently maintained armed forces that give one soldier to support a population of about 900 persons. This gives us a metric or at least some view of how to come...
Synthetic Reality - The Sixth Wave of Innovation threat to National Security
By: Navneet Bhushan | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Mar , 2020
“Everyone is a potential murderer. In everyone there arises from time to time the wish to kill – though not the will to kill”. – Hercule Poirot, in Agatha Christie’s, Curtain –...
Bio-warfare Attack Scenario on India – What should be our response?
By: Navneet Bhushan | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 Jan , 2020
Cyber and Biological warfare are potentially the most dangerous forms that have emerged as these have the important aspect of deniability built into their mechanisms. Ability to deny or obfuscate...
Defence for the 5 Trillion Indian Economy
By: Navneet Bhushan | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Nov , 2019
The “challenging but realizable” desire/target/goal/ambition of India becoming a USD 5 trillion economy by 2024-25 from the existing USD 2.69 trillion economy, as articulated by our finance...
Responding to War and Warfare in the Sixth Wave of Innovation (2020-2045)
By: Navneet Bhushan | Issue: Vol. 34.3 Jul-Sep 2019 | Date: 16 Oct , 2019
We are in a re-polarising world reflected in a strategic superpower competition between the US and China in an unfathomable cyberspace and digital-economy territory that will give rise to new type...
War as a Multi-Dimensional Whole: A Framework for India in a Repolarizing World
By: Navneet Bhushan | Issue: Vol. 33.3 Jul-Sep 2018 | Date: 10 Nov , 2018
As India celebrates the 19th anniversary of Vijay Diwas on 26th July – to mark our victory in Kargil war of 1999, there are much larger questions on Indian security, defence preparedness and...
DEADLY Targets of Multi-Dimensional Warfare
By: Navneet Bhushan | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Oct , 2018
Jamal Khashoggi death in a fight in Saudi consulate in Istanbul as claimed by Saudi public prosecutor surfaces a new set of criteria of “targeting” in the multi-dimensional warfare that each...
IAF Exercise Gagan Shakti 2018 –Simple Attrition Estimates
By: Navneet Bhushan | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Jun , 2018
The Indian Air Force Conducted its recent Exercise Gagan Shakti 2018 in April 2018. It was an exercise to learn meaningful lessons in a short and intense battle scenario. According to the press...
Triad vs Quad – Indian Geopolitical Options as a Twin vertex
By: Navneet Bhushan | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 Dec , 2017
In the year 2017, India suddenly found itself as a peculiar cog in the emerging superpower rivalry between rising and aggressive China’s deep designs as reflected in BRI (Belt and Road...
Brahmos on Su30MKI – Towards an Indian CPRS Capability
By: Navneet Bhushan | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Nov , 2017
With the unique demonstration by test-firing Brahmos from Su30MKI aircraft, India has started its unique baby steps towards indicating what I called Conventional Prompt Regional Strike (CPRS)...
Factors Affecting India’s National Security
By: Navneet Bhushan | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Nov , 2017
How to Evaluate National Security? The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) was developed by Thomas L. Saaty during the 70s in the US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency after getting repeatedly...
General’s Intelligence Vs Artificial Intelligence – Can Military...
By: Navneet Bhushan | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Oct , 2017
(Around late 1997 after Kasparovs loss, Dr. N.K.Jaiswal, ex- Director ISSA, DRDO, proposed that we should write an article on when war will be conducted by computers instead of Generals. We could...
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...