Articles in Courtesy: IDSA
Unmanned Ground Vehicles: Global Developments and Future Battlefield
By: Dr Sanur Sharma | Issue: Courtesy: IDSA | Date: 05 Jul , 2022
Summary: Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs) will undoubtedly play a crucial role in military land operations in future. The integration of combat vehicles and autonomy is important to prevent loss of...
Indigenisation – In Need of Policy Framework
By: Amit Cowshish | Issue: Courtesy: IDSA | Date: 14 Jul , 2021
India has been striving for indigenisation of defence production for close to three decades. To give impetus to the efforts, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) had constituted a committee in the early...
Yes, The QUAD Will Endure!
By: Amb Sujan R Chinoy | Issue: Courtesy: IDSA | Date: 10 Apr , 2021
The future of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (QUAD) will depend on the choices that China makes. The greater China’s belligerence, the faster will the QUAD’s military-security agenda...
Promoting Defence Exports
By: S Samuel C Rajiv | Issue: Courtesy: IDSA | Date: 02 Apr , 2021
India’s defence exports during 2015-20 grew at a cumulative annual growth rate (CAGR) of 35 per cent — from around Rs 2,000 crore to Rs 9,000 crore. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has set an...
Remembering Bangladesh’s Liberation War
By: Smruti S Pattanaik | Issue: Courtesy: IDSA | Date: 27 Dec , 2020
December 16, 2020 marks the 50th Vijay Diwas or Victory Day, when the Pakistan Army surrendered to the India-Bangladesh Joint Command, known as Mitra Bahini (Allied Forces). More than 90,000...
France Counters Islamist Radicalisation
By: Dr Adil Rasheed and Savini Mehta | Issue: Courtesy: IDSA | Date: 15 Dec , 2020
Terrorism often hides behind the cover of individual and religious freedoms to attack liberal democracies. It even provokes overreaction from military and security agencies in order to then...
Decoding Defence Acquisition Procedure 2020
By: Amit Cowshish | Issue: Courtesy: IDSA | Date: 24 Nov , 2020
It is a challenge to encapsulate the Defence Acquisition Procedure 2020 (DAP 2020), released by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) on September 30, 2020.1 It is spread over 12 chapters and runs into...
Can India be the Next Global Manufacturing Hub?
By: Dr Kogila Balakrishnan and Saurabh Kukreja | Issue: Courtesy: IDSA | Date: 21 Nov , 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic laid bare the vulnerability of existing global manufacturing supply chains. It is likely to lead to global suppliers rethinking the resilience of their supply chain...
The Forgotten Fact of “China-Occupied Kashmir”
By: Amb Sujan R Chinoy | Issue: Courtesy: IDSA | Date: 20 Nov , 2020
China’s role as an interested party and its status as a disputant in the territorial issue of Jammu & Kashmir has been obfuscated because the international narrative has been limited to the...
New Internet Protocol: Redesigning the Internet with Chinese Characteristics?
By: Munish Sharma | Issue: Courtesy: IDSA | Date: 12 Nov , 2020
The radical idea of a New Internet Protocol (IP), replacing the prevalent TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol and Internet Protocol), was put forward together by Huawei, the Chinese Ministry of...
The China-India-US Triangle: Changing Balance of Power and a New Cold War
By: Dr S Kalyanaraman | Issue: Courtesy: IDSA | Date: 23 Sep , 2020
China’s ascent to great power status during the last 30 years has altered the power equation that had existed in the 1990s between China and India and China and the United States (US). In 1990,...
The UAE-Israel Agreement: A Step Towards Peace?
By: Md. Muddassir Quamar | Issue: Courtesy: IDSA | Date: 26 Aug , 2020
The US-Israel-UAE joint statement of August 13 might have come as a surprise for many, but for those following the trajectory of the growing contacts between the Arab Gulf States and Israel, this...
Impact of Embargo on Defence Imports
By: Amit Cowshish | Issue: Courtesy: IDSA | Date: 21 Aug , 2020
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) announced an embargo on the import of 101 items through a press release issued on August 9, 2020.1 The annexure to this press release lists a wide range of embargoed...
Atma Nirbhar in Defence Technology
By: Laxman K Behera | Issue: Courtesy: IDSA | Date: 19 Aug , 2020
Following Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “Vocal for Local” call and launch of Atma Nirbhar Bharat Abhiyan (Self-Reliant India Campaign), the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has tweaked its capital...
Expediting Negotiation in Defence Contracts
By: Amit Cowshish | Issue: Courtesy: IDSA | Date: 26 Jun , 2020
Commercial negotiations are virtually the last stage in the long-drawn capital procurement process. Negotiations are conducted with the lowest bidder or L1 by a Contract Negotiation Committee...
The Next Step in Building India-China Military to Military (M2M) Relations
By: Maj Gen Mandip Singh | Issue: Courtesy: IDSA | Date: 01 Oct , 2019
The most convincing argument in support of a successful India-China military relationship is the fact that not a shot has been fired across the entire length of Line of Actual Control (LAC) in...
‘No First Use’ is Not Sacrosanct: Need a Theatre-Specific Posture for...
By: A Vinod Kumar | Issue: Courtesy: IDSA | Date: 05 Sep , 2019
What would be the response of India if it comes across credible intelligence that Pakistan is preparing to launch nuclear-armed missiles as a means to escalate military hostilities? Would India...
C2D2: An Agile Defence Acquisition Model
By: Gp Capt Atul Pant | Issue: Courtesy: IDSA | Date: 08 Aug , 2019
In the fall of 2017, Vice Admiral Mathias Winter, the Programme Executive Officer for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Programme, had proposed a new futuristic acquisition strategy for the United...
No Further Increase in Defence Outlay: Need to Move On
By: Amit Cowshish | Issue: Courtesy: IDSA | Date: 12 Jul , 2019
It is pointless bemoaning that there was no reference to defence in the Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s speech and that she did not further enhance the allocation in the union budget...
Implications of the ISIS ‘province’ in Kashmir
By: Dr Uddipan Mukherjee, PhD | Issue: Courtesy: IDSA | Date: 30 May , 2019
On the face of it, the proclamation by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) that it has established a ‘province’ in India appears to be a case of hollow propaganda and far removed from...