Interviews/Spotlights
An Overview of UN Peacekeeping Operations
By: Michael K Touthang | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 May , 2023
29th May is observed every year as International Day of UN Peacekeepers. The United Nations was established in the aftermath of the World War II to save succeeding generations from the scourge of...
Russia will not allow hunger in the world
By: Slavisha Batko Milacic | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 May , 2023
A year after the war in Ukraine began, grain exports across the Black Sea will be extended for another two months. This is a very important deal, given the deepening of global hunger. And today,...
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...
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...
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...
Display of Ideology through the Architecture: The Case of the US Embassy in...
By: Dr Punsara Amarasinghe | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 Apr , 2023
The role of architecture and the built environment -more generally for political – is evidenced from the most ancient times throughout history. When British ruled India, their concern in...
Ideology and Civil Services in India
By: Prof (Dr) SN Misra | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Apr , 2023
Max Weber had argued that bureaucracy constitutes “the most efficient and rational way in which human activity can be organized and that systematic process and organized hierarchies are...
The Making of an Officer and a Gentleman-II
By: Brig Pradeep Sharma | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Apr , 2023
In my earlier write up, the aspect of training and molding a cadet through Academies was dwelt upon in brief. It built up further with Customs, Traditions and Culture. The shaping of an Officer...
BRICS and Dollar
By: Abhyuday Saraswat | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Apr , 2023
Since the beginning of Russia’s “Special MilitaryOperation” in Ukraine it has received a flood of sanctions such as SWIFT sanction and more from US and its allies. Russia’s oil was...
The Importance of Pangchen
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Courtesy: http://claudearpi.blogspot.in/ | Date: 10 Apr , 2023
China has recently renamed 11 places in Arunachal Pradesh. The first-named is Pangchen; it is an important location, mainly because the border in this sector partly depends on the traditional...
IAF Celebrates its 90th Air Force Day at Sukhna Lake, Chandigarh
By: Dr Arun Khanna | Issue: Vol. 38.1, Jan-Mar 2023 | Date: 07 Apr , 2023
All arms of the Indian defence forces, known and acknowledged to be the finest across the globe, are famous for executing missions with precision, style and panache, be it conflict, war or...
Future Outlook for Military Unmanned Aerial Vehicles & EO Systems
By: Sandeep Shah | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Apr , 2023
Electro Optics Systems (EOS) and Military Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (MUAVs) are two technologies that have significantly impacted modern warfare. The integration of these two technologies has...
The Making of an Officer and a Gentleman: Customs and Traditions
By: Brig Pradeep Sharma | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Mar , 2023
The armed forces have through evolution been led by leaders either born or thrown up by situations. The erstwhile British Indian Army borrowed the custom of officers being from rich and many a...
Pakistan Army’s Undeclared War in Balochistan
By: Nilesh Kunwar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Mar , 2023
Being mandated to ensure territorial integrity of their country, the armed forces of every nation are both physically trained as well as mentally attuned to fight and destroy enemies...
India-Egyptian relations are now Strategic: Indian Envoy
By: Manish Rai | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Mar , 2023
Ambassador Ajit Gupte a senior diplomat from Indian Foreign Service (IFS) is currently serving as the Indian Ambassador to Egypt. We are presently witnessing a deepening of Indo-Egyptian ties as...
Westphalia in the Modern Context
By: Kazi Anwarul Masud | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 Mar , 2023
Significance of the Treaty of Westphalia For many years Germany became the principal theatre of European diplomacy and war, and consequently,the development of German national unity was delayed....
Kashmiris Protest Defiling of Mosques by Terrorists
By: Nilesh Kunwar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Mar , 2023
The saying that terrorists have no religion was once again proven right last Tuesday when two terrorists violated the sanctity of Jamia Masjid in Padgampora village of South Kashmir’s Pulwama...