Articles By Col (Dr) P K Vasudeva
India-US Space Cooperation Envisaged on Trump visit
By: Col (Dr) P K Vasudeva | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 Mar , 2020
The United States and India, both major space powers, have long worked together on civil space efforts but have not done much with regards to security-space-cooperation. According to Victoria...
Chief of Defence Staff and Military Integration
By: Col (Dr) P K Vasudeva | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Mar , 2020
On New Year’s Day 2020, the Government appointment Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) as announced by the Prime Minister on the Independence Day of 2019 from the ramparts of Red Fort. As India’s...
Marginal Increase in Defence Budget Could Mar Modernisation
By: Col (Dr) P K Vasudeva | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Feb , 2020
The disappointing part is that there has been a very marginal increase in the capital outlay for defence for 2020-21 as compared to the budget estimates and revised estimates of 2019-20, which...
India reminds Pak and China not to interfere in the internal affairs of its...
By: Col (Dr) P K Vasudeva | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 Oct , 2019
The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) went off on expected lines on 27 September 2019. On the one hand the Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a speech that tick-boxed development, progress,...
Can the US afford to impose sanctions on India for its arms purchases from...
By: Col (Dr) P K Vasudeva | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Jul , 2019
“India was the world’s second largest importer of major arms in 2014–18 and accounted for 9.5 per cent of the global total,” according to the latest report published by the Stockholm...
Defence Budget 2019-20
By: Col (Dr) P K Vasudeva | Date: 08 Jul , 2019
Editors Comment: Increasing the Defence Budget in the prevailing circumstances of long drawn out procedures for weapons and equipment procurement is futile. It will be like in earlier times when...
Challenges before New Defence Minister
By: Col (Dr) P K Vasudeva | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Jun , 2019
The appointment of Rajnath Singh as Raksha Mantri brought cheers and applause to the Defence Services community including the veterans, who are highly critical of the political leadership because...
Denigrating the Armed Forces
By: Col (Dr) P K Vasudeva | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Apr , 2019
Surprisingly, the opposition political parties have started making disparaging remarks against the Armed Forces and casting aspersions on their cross border strikes for narrow selfish political...
Congress Manifesto on Reforms towards National Security (Un)Justified
By: Col (Dr) P K Vasudeva | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Apr , 2019
Besides emphasis on job creation, farmers’ distress, poverty elimination by giving Rs 72,000 per annum to the poorest families, single moderate GST rate and minorities’ welfare, the Congress...
India has entered an Elite Space Club with Mission Shakti
By: Col (Dr) P K Vasudeva | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 Apr , 2019
India has entered an elite space club with the accomplishment of ‘Mission Shakti’ when the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) blew up an Indian satellite in a Low Earth Orbit...
Success Story: Surgical Strike-2 Retaliation of the Pulwama Attack
By: Col (Dr) P K Vasudeva | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Mar , 2019
After the Pulwama massacre where more than 40 CRPF jawans were martyred in a convoy by Pakistani terrorists as claimed by Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) Chief Masood Azhar, Modi government gave a stunning...
Defence Budget 2019-20 Not Based on Threat Perception
By: Col (Dr) P K Vasudeva | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Feb , 2019
Surprisingly, not considering the threat perception the defence budget for the fiscal 2019-2020 has been merely increased by 6.87 per cent to Rs. 3,18,93 crore against last year’s allocation of...
Is Indian Defence Preparedness Adequate in 2019?
By: Col (Dr) P K Vasudeva | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 Jan , 2019
India is the world’s sixth-largest economy by nominal GDP and the third largest by purchasing power parity (PPP). Since 2014 India’s economy has been the world’s fastest growing, surpassing China....
Situation in J&K: Serious but not insurmountable
By: Col (Dr) P K Vasudeva | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Dec , 2018
The Kashmir conflict is a territorial conflict primarily between India and Pakistan, having started just after 1947 partition. India and Pakistan have fought three wars over Kashmir –...
Maldives gets pro-people and pro-India government under Ibrahim Solih
By: Col (Dr) P K Vasudeva | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 Nov , 2018
After five years of strong-armed domestically political dissent rule by a government under Abdulla Yameen, the Maldives has now put a pro-people and pro-Indian administration in power, under...
Revival of National Security Council (Un) Justified
By: Col (Dr) P K Vasudeva | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Oct , 2018
The decision to make National Security Adviser Ajit Kumar Doval as the chairman of the Strategic Policy Group (SPG) of the beleaguered and unwieldy National Security Council (NSC) has surprised...
Modi-Putin summit will be a game changer
By: Col (Dr) P K Vasudeva | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Oct , 2018
After wide-ranging talks between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Vladimir Putin, Indian and Russia on October 5, signed $5 billion five S-400 Triumf missile defence system deal in New...
Situation in J&K improving however, normalcy is still a distant dream
By: Col (Dr) P K Vasudeva | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Sep , 2018
Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) witnessed a hike of more than 166 per cent in civilian causalities in 2017 from a year ago, but security forces were successful in killing 42 per cent more terrorists...
Cadre Review: Lean and Mean Indian Army
By: Col (Dr) P K Vasudeva | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Sep , 2018
The Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) General Bipin Rawat on June 21 ordered a long awaited cadre review of the 1.2 million strong Indian Army to cover wide ranging issues including cutting of...
Can the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation bring India and Pakistan closer?
By: Col (Dr) P K Vasudeva | Issue: Vol. 33.3 Jul-Sep 2018 | Date: 18 Sep , 2018
With India and Pakistan as newly incorporated members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), China is likely to face an increasing amount of divisiveness within a regional economic and...