Articles By Navneet Bhushan

Cost of National Defence Index (CNDI): Towards an Affordable and...

Cost of National Defence Index (CNDI): Towards an Affordable and...

By: Navneet Bhushan | Issue: Vol. 37.4, Oct-Dec 2022 | Date: 12 Jan , 2023

We define a new metric – the Cost of National Defence Index (CNDI). The Armed Forces Sizing Index (AFSI), proposed earlier showed the minimum of one soldier supporting and supported by 1,000...

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India’s National Security Options in a Penta-Polar World – Scenario 2030

India’s National Security Options in a Penta-Polar World – Scenario 2030

By: Navneet Bhushan | Issue: Vol. 36.3, Jul-Sep 2021 | Date: 12 Oct , 2021

We claim that a penta-polar world is emerging. We also claim that, “To be there in 2030-2035, India needs to play out the penta-polar world dynamics through a multi-alignment strategy backed up...

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Announcing the Penta-Polar World

Announcing the Penta-Polar World

By: Navneet Bhushan | Issue: Vol. 36.1, Jan-Mar 2021 | Date: 01 Mar , 2021

India has been playing the power dynamics game without a long-term, consistent and constructed narrative or at least, there is not enough evidence of this being so. Secondly, India has perhaps...

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Is the Indian Soldier Overloaded?: Right Sizing the Armed Forces

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...

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Synthetic Reality - The Sixth Wave of Innovation threat to National Security

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 –...

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Bio-warfare Attack Scenario on India – What should be our response?

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...

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Defence for the 5 Trillion Indian Economy

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...

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Responding to War and Warfare in the Sixth Wave of Innovation (2020-2045)

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...

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War as a Multi-Dimensional Whole: A Framework for India in a Repolarizing World

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...

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DEADLY Targets of Multi-Dimensional Warfare

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...

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IAF Exercise Gagan Shakti 2018 –Simple Attrition Estimates

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...

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Triad vs Quad – Indian Geopolitical Options as a Twin vertex

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...

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Brahmos on Su30MKI – Towards an Indian CPRS Capability

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)...

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Factors Affecting India’s National Security

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...

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General’s Intelligence Vs Artificial Intelligence – Can Military...

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...

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A Nuclear Command and Control System for India

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...

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Pakistan’s Nuclear Arsenal – The Babur-Nasr are Quick First Use, Not...

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...

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Agni-5: A True Game Changer

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....

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Winning the Asymmetric Wars: Matrix of Instruments of War

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...

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Can India Create the Next Revolution in Military Affairs?

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...

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