Articles in Courtesy: CLAWS
China Wages Total War: Can The World Afford To Play Dumb
By: Lt Gen C Bansi Ponnappa, AVSM, VSM | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 28 Nov , 2021
“Total war is no longer waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total … because it may well involve the whole world” – Jean-Paul Sartre Beijing...
Public-Private Partnership in Maintenance Repair & Overhaul: A Viewpoint
By: Ajay Verma | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 17 Nov , 2021
Introduction The robustness of the existing infrastructure and the pace of the ongoing projects contribute greatly to the development of a nation. However, the financial constraints of the...
An Important Milestone Achieved Quietly
By: Lt Gen (Dr) VK Saxena (Retd.) | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 13 Nov , 2021
The Event On 21 Sep 2021, a small drone was destroyed using the L-70 gun, duly integrated with an Anti-Drone System (ADS). This integration was demonstrated by Zen Technologies limited; a Hyderabad...
India-China Border Dispute: The McMahon Line and Tawang
By: Anushka Vora | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 28 Oct , 2021
Introduction India and China have a long shared history of what could be arguably defined as one of the world’s most intense, vulnerable and complex border disputes with the origins of the same...
Crystal Gazing: India-China Boundary Dispute
By: Lt Gen (Dr) Vijay Kumar Ahluwalia PVSM, AVSM**, YSM, VSM (Retd.) | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 13 Jun , 2021
History is replete with examples where despite best efforts to predict or crystal gaze the conflicts of the future, most countries and the armed forces have gone wrong. One of the primary reasons...
Army Officers and Professional Military Education (PME): Need for Focussed,...
By: Lt Gen (Dr) Rakesh Sharma, PVSM,UYSM,AVSM,VSM (Retd.) | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 30 Apr , 2021
Profession of arms is unique because of lethality of weapons and breadth of operations. Warfare, including virtual ones like cyber and electromagnetic spectrum, and military strategy has become...
Myanmar Coup: Threat to India’s Internal Security and Challenge to...
By: Vaibhav Kullashri | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 23 Apr , 2021
On 01 February, Myanmar’s democratically elected members of the National League of Democracy (NLD) have been disposed of by the military junta, also known as ‘Tatmadaw.’ President Win...
China’s Defence Budget – An Unchecked Primer to China’s Defence...
By: Dr Amrita Jash | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 20 Apr , 2021
In 2021, China issued a draft defence budget of 1.35 trillion yuan (US$ 209 billion), with a hike of 6.8 percent from 2020. To note, this single-digit growth rate is consecutively sixth in a row...
Army Officers Cadre: Need for Positive Restructuring
By: Lt Gen (Dr) Rakesh Sharma, PVSM,UYSM,AVSM,VSM (Retd.) | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 16 Apr , 2021
Indian Army Officers are a class apart. That is why lakhs of young boys barely in their teens aspire and compete to join the profession of arms, which has traditionally been looked upon...
India–Pakistan: New Peace Overtures
By: Maj Gen Yashpal Singh Mor, SM (Retd) | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 12 Apr , 2021
On the second anniversary of the famous Balakot strike by India, another surprise awaited the region and world at large. In an uncharacteristic move the two arch rivals declared cessation of...
Re-calibrating Strategies to Combat Maoists’ Violence
By: Lt Gen (Dr) Vijay Kumar Ahluwalia PVSM, AVSM**, YSM, VSM (Retd.) | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 07 Apr , 2021
The recent dreadful attack by the Communist Party of India (Maoist), Maoists in short, on the joint team of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) including elite elements of Commando Battalion for...
Looking for Chimera: Favourable End State
By: Col Harsh Vardhan Singh | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 04 Apr , 2021
In military circles, Clausewitz aphorism; “war is merely the continuation of policy by other means”[1] is generally accepted as a truism. However, the situation is more contentious amongst...
Aksai Chin: From Napoleon to Nehru
By: Mehul Singh Gill | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 20 Mar , 2021
The Sino-Indian border conflict is a lesser-known border conflict than the well-known Indo-Pak border conflict, having remained mostly in obscurity ever since the 1962 Sino-Indian war, with public...
Drone and Counter-Drone Warfare at Tactical Level
By: Col Akshaya Handa (Retd) | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 12 Feb , 2021
Introduction The 2010s are often called the golden age of drones. In the military domain, they caught popular imagination due to their extensive use in Afghanistan post 9/11. Two decades later,...
Modern Warfare and Contemplation of Strategic Victory
By: Lt Gen (Dr) Rakesh Sharma, PVSM,UYSM,AVSM,VSM (Retd.) | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 08 Feb , 2021
That is an old saying – victory has a thousand fathers, defeat is an orphan! On the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln on 01 May 2003, US President George W. Bush announced Mission...
Theatre Commands – A Conceptual Approach
By: Col Samir Srivastava | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 24 Jan , 2021
What should Theatre Commands essentially be? There is little information on the on-going deliberations regarding theaterisation emanating from the Department of Military Affairs (DMA). In the...
India and China Swap Roles amid Nepal Political Crisis
By: Mohak Gambhir | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 19 Jan , 2021
As Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli dissolved Nepal’s parliament on Dec 20 last year[1], the country quickly descended into political turmoil again after a short stint of the Nepal Communist...
Storm of the Swarms: Lessons for India
By: Ajinkya Jadhav | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 14 Jan , 2021
“I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans, and I’m rooting for the machines.” — Claude Shannon The fourth industrial revolution has brought forth the evolution...
Security State of Affairs in J&K Post Abrogation of Article 370
By: Col Sumita Pattanayak | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 11 Jan , 2021
On August 5, 2019, in a significant move, the Government of India (GoI) abrogated Article 370, ending the semi-autonomous status of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K). With that, a pronouncement was also...
China as a ‘Rising Power’: Changing Rules to the Old Game of Power
By: Dr Amrita Jash | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 26 Dec , 2020
While COVID-19 Pandemic takes precedence, but ‘Rise of China’ undeniably has been one of the important characteristic features that define the 21st Century. However, China’s economic rise...