Articles in Vol. 36.2, Apr-Jun 2021
Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems: Existential Threat to Humanity?
By: Air Marshal Anil Chopra | Issue: Vol. 36.2, Apr-Jun 2021 | Date: 20 Oct , 2021
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the most important asset for autonomous systems. India needs to master AI technologies and applications; no one parts with them. India has to make a serious...
Challenges of Integrated Air Defence
By: Gp Capt AK Sachdev | Issue: Vol. 36.2, Apr-Jun 2021 | Date: 25 Jul , 2021
There is a need for taking it slow and not plunging into a hastily set up arrangement just because the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) wants it done within his tenure. Possibly, a national security...
Weaponisation of Emerging Technologies: Staring at an Armageddon
By: Col RN Ghosh Dastidar | Issue: Vol. 36.2, Apr-Jun 2021 | Date: 17 Jul , 2021
Whenever the leading nations come around to bilaterally or multi-laterally agree to legal bindings to control destabilising technologies, they can prioritise by agreeing not to attack the C3I...
Apache and Chinook: Enhancing the Effectiveness of the Helicopter Fleet
By: Gp Capt AK Sachdev | Issue: Vol. 36.2, Apr-Jun 2021 | Date: 15 Jul , 2021
Offensive rotary wing capability of the Indian Air Force (IAF) goes back to the 1960s when Chetak (Allouette III) helicopters were used with French AS 11 B1 Anti Tank Guided Missiles (ATGMs), but...
Revival of Maritime Outlook in Modern India: The Role of KM Panikkar
By: Vice Admiral MP Muralidharan | Issue: Vol. 36.2, Apr-Jun 2021 | Date: 09 Jul , 2021
It is apparent that 21st century India is once again looking towards oceans for her security and economic prosperity. Her interactions with nations across the entire Indo-Pacific and beyond are on...
Air Space Control: Challenges and the Way Ahead
By: Air Marshal Anil Chopra | Issue: Vol. 36.2, Apr-Jun 2021 | Date: 07 Jul , 2021
Myriads of sensors will help create a very realistic day and night, all-weather situational picture for the commanders and controllers to manage air space more efficiently. It will be possible to...
India must shed its Good Boy Image
By: Dr Rajasimman Sundaram | Issue: Vol. 36.2, Apr-Jun 2021 | Date: 05 Jul , 2021
In this game of power, a nation that is able to quickly arrest the spread of virus within its own territory as well as research, develop and manufacture the vaccines, wins. For this to happen, a...
Has China Pressed the United States against the Wall?
By: Ivaylo Valchev | Issue: Vol. 36.2, Apr-Jun 2021 | Date: 30 Jun , 2021
Post elections, the United States (US) seems to have lost illusions about its biggest trading partner and the new administration has adopted the hardline policy of the Trump administration. The...
Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Power
By: Rajiv Malhotra | Issue: Vol. 36.2, Apr-Jun 2021 | Date: 29 Jun , 2021
India is lagging behind China in Artificial Intelligence (AI) by at least a decade and also, unique data assets are routinely given away to foreign countries because of the ignorance of her...
Integrated Logistics Command: Need for a Capability – Centric Kernel
By: Lt Gen (Dr) NB Singh | Issue: Vol. 36.2, Apr-Jun 2021 | Date: 28 Jun , 2021
“In the Middle East War of 1973… it was only when the Israeli army enhanced its technical support… that 80 percent of the damaged tanks in the war could be recovered and sent back to the...
Manoeuver Warfare: Liberation of Bangladesh in 1971
By: Lt Gen JBS Yadava | Issue: Vol. 36.2, Apr-Jun 2021 | Date: 26 Jun , 2021
A number of battles were fought during the liberation of Bangladesh, but one that was most significant from the point of view of achieving a strategic objective within the required timeframe was...
Is India Paying the Price for Abandoning Tibet?
By: Col (Dr) Tej Kumar Tikoo (Retd.) | Issue: Vol. 36.2, Apr-Jun 2021 | Date: 26 Jun , 2021
In 2012, Chinese supremo, Xi Jinping, on taking over the party leadership, visited the Museum of Revolution, where he declared, “Glorious 5,000 years of the history of Chinese nation, 95 years...
Myanmar: Strategic Hiatus
By: Lt Gen Sanjiv Langer | Issue: Vol. 36.2, Apr-Jun 2021 | Date: 24 Jun , 2021
One of reasons the Myanmar military elites (about 50 families), gave ground to limited democracy was that the economy was a disaster in the early 2000s. The same state will prevail for some time....
What Obstructs India’s Quest for the Status as a ‘Power’?
By: Lt Gen (Dr) JS Bajwa | Issue: Vol. 36.2, Apr-Jun 2021 | Date: 21 Jun , 2021
“Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.” Our principle is that the Party commands the gun, and the gun must never be allowed to command the Party. …According to the Marxist theory...
US withdrawal from Afghanistan: Taliban, Pakistan and India
By: Danvir Singh | Issue: Vol. 36.2, Apr-Jun 2021 | Date: 19 Jun , 2021
India has been a victim of self-inflicted wounds caused by ignoring lessons from the history right from 1947 onwards. With no share in the emerging power matrix, Indians have no choice but to see...