Articles in Issues
De-Globalization and Road Ahead for India’s Defence Manufacturing
By: Prof (Dr) SN Misra | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 May , 2023
Trade is an engine of growth and has been a major factor in impacting GDP handsomely, in both developed and developing economies since the 1970s. From a measly share of 8% in global output in the...
Islamic Jihad Emerging as Most Eminent Threat from Gaza
By: Manish Rai | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 May , 2023
The ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) has taken effect in the Gaza Strip after days of cross-border fighting. The confrontation left at least 33 Palestinians dead...
India France Nuclear Ability and Liability: Jaitapur Nuclear Plant
By: Abhyuday Saraswat | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 May , 2023
India-France nuclear relations have been growing stronger over the years. The two countries have had a long-standing partnership in the field of nuclear energy, which has been strengthened by...
Taliban’s Failed Coup to Establish a Foothold in Afghan Embassy in India
By: Neelapu Shanti | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 May , 2023
The recent surreptitious coup by the Taliban to insert its member in the Afghan Mission in New Delhi on April 25, 2023, raised the fundamental issue of the so-called Taliban government’s latent...
Dollar and the Petrodollar
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 May , 2023
The POTUS Joe Biden’s visit to Papua New Guinea in a bid to counter growing Chinese influence in the Pacific has been cancelled. Biden also cancelled attending the QUAD meeting scheduled in...
Pakistan in Spirals: A Road to nowhere
By: Lt Gen Rameshwar Yadav | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 May , 2023
75 Years of sham of democracy seems to be heading towards course correction, albeit in a revolutionary format in Pakistan. Nothing surprising in a politically skewed environment with deep...
Army bears brunt of myopic political platitudes
By: Sudip Talukdar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 May , 2023
Despite four wars being fought with Pakistan and thousands of bomb blasts devastating the soil of India, New Delhi’s pursuit of a pacifist policy towards Islamabad, except for occasional...
Challenges in South Asia – Can India Ride the Tide?
By: Dr Manavik Raj | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 May , 2023
India’s role in diplomacy and strategic thinking has a rich legacy. From being a civilizational state to embracing non-alignment, the contours of statesmanship have taken a new dimension. The...
Tackling International Food Security
By: Col (Dr) PK Vasudeva | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 May , 2023
At meetings open to all World Trade Organisation (WTO) members on 3-4 May, the chair of the agriculture negotiations — Alparslan Acarsoy of Türkiye — urged participants to accelerate their...
Finland’s Accession to NATO: What it means for European Security
By: Shreya Sinha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 May , 2023
As the security environment across the Atlantic turns unpredictable and complex, the relationship between the European Union and the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation is becoming more essential...
Russia-Ukraine Conflict : China in ‘Avtar’ of a Peace Maker
By: Lt Gen Rameshwar Yadav | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 May , 2023
“China can have only one ally : China itself. China can only have one set of interests: pro China ones. Chinese foreign policy is utterly devoid of altruism.” You have started a war that...
Poonch Terror Attack Exposes Pakistan’s Duplicity
By: Nilesh Kunwar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 May , 2023
The recent attack on an Indian army vehicle by Pakistan backed terrorists in the Poonch area of J&K that claimed five lives is an extremely tragic incident that serves as a grim reminder of the...
First C295 for India completes its maiden flight
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 May , 2023
The first C295 for India has successfully completed its maiden flight, marking a significant milestone towards its delivery by the second half of 2023. The tactical aircraft took off from...
Warmonger Brains
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 May , 2023
The US-led West is crying hoarse about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine but the US history is blackest of the black having attacked, bombed and invaded hundreds of countries for economic and...
Kerala-Kashmir-Kabul and the Islamic State
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 May , 2023
Reports regarding emergence of a new terror group ‘Base Movement’ has been making rounds for some time. The ramifications, reach and consequences of this terror group, however has not been...
IAF’s Squadron Strength: Crystal Gazing at the Next Two Decades
By: Gp Capt AK Sachdev | Issue: Vol. 38.1, Jan-Mar 2023 | Date: 03 May , 2023
In May last year, a report titled Global Air Power Rankings (2022) published by World Directory of Modern Military Aircraft (WDMMA) placed the Indian Air Force (IAF) above China’s People’s...
/2022/09/21/image/jpeg/iRIE2Z7Kv83LDV12a1Rthsjrhh5PCPgBHrptXMvU.jpg "Countering Stealth Technology in Military Aviation")
Countering Stealth Technology in Military Aviation
By: Brig Arvind Dhananjayan | Issue: Vol. 38.1, Jan-Mar 2023 | Date: 02 May , 2023
The unveiling of the B-21 ‘Raider’ by the United States Air Force (USAF) and Northrop Grumman Corporation (NGC) on 02 December at the USAF’s classified Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale,...
The Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF) and the decline of US Leadership
By: Dr Rajasimman Sundaram | Issue: Vol. 38.1, Jan-Mar 2023 | Date: 01 May , 2023
The Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF) Having first been conceived in October 2021, and launched in May 2022, the United States (US) Trade Representative Katherine Tai and Secretary of...
Can China Broker Ukraine Ceasefire?
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 Apr , 2023
The first ever telephone conversation between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky on April 26, 2023, was weeks after Zelensky sought their meeting and even sent...
Rawalpindi Passes the Buck on TTP Resurgence and Spews Anti-India Propaganda
By: Nilesh Kunwar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Apr , 2023
Rather than providing answers, Director General [DG] of Pakistan army’s media wing Inter Services Public Relations [ISPR] Maj Gen Ahmed Sharif Chaudhary’s maiden press conference on Tuesday...