Articles in Vol. 38.2, Apr-Jun 2023
To Transform or To Perish?
By: Lt Gen (Dr) VK Saxena (Retd.) | Issue: Vol. 38.2, Apr-Jun 2023 | Date: 10 Aug , 2023
Premise We are passing through changing times. The ‘pace of change’ driven by the fast grind of ‘enabling technologies’ is blistering. The bottom-line is ‘flow with the tide and time or...
Impact of UAVs on Strategic Air Warfare
By: Gp Capt AK Sachdev | Issue: Vol. 38.2, Apr-Jun 2023 | Date: 09 Aug , 2023
Emerging technologies, with splendid assistance from Artificial Intelligence (AI), are driving remarkable Research and Development (R&D) in the area of unmanned systems for use on land, over and...
Theatre Commands: Apprehensions, Challenges and Alternatives
By: Gp Capt PK Mulay | Issue: Vol. 38.2, Apr-Jun 2023 | Date: 23 Jul , 2023
Soldiers hate two things; change and the way things are — Anon The National Defence Academy (NDA) was established with the lofty ideal of inculcating a sense of camaraderie among the cadets....
Maritime Cyber Security Concerns
By: Vice Admiral MP Muralidharan | Issue: Vol. 38.2, Apr-Jun 2023 | Date: 21 Jul , 2023
The globalisation of trade and commerce as well as increasing liberalisation has resulted in interlinking of economies of nations towards the end of the last century. Development of newer...
Economic and Technological Overview of Indian National Power
By: Prashant Sharma | Issue: Vol. 38.2, Apr-Jun 2023 | Date: 15 Jul , 2023
Correlli Barnett, British military historian wrote in The Collapse of British Power, that national power “consists most of all in the nation itself, the people, their skills, energy, ambition,...
Internal Cohesion: Key to Military Prowess
By: Lt Gen Gautam Banerjee | Issue: Vol. 38.2, Apr-Jun 2023 | Date: 14 Jul , 2023
“What perturbs me greatly is the fact that not only India has once before lost her independence, but she lost it by the infidelity and treachery of some of her own people.” – Debate in...
Hypersonic Weapon Systems for India
By: Gp Capt AK Sachdev | Issue: Vol. 38.2, Apr-Jun 2023 | Date: 13 Jul , 2023
In the beginning of March this year, Russia launched its biggest aerial attack in its ongoing war with Ukraine. The attack comprised a variegated weapon mix, the most interesting one of which was...
Strategic Readiness: Revisiting Close and Deep Engineering Support
By: Lt Gen (Dr) NB Singh | Issue: Vol. 38.2, Apr-Jun 2023 | Date: 12 Jul , 2023
The Ukraine war has witnessed huge amounts of hardware attrition on both sides. Ukraine has suffered heavily in terms of destruction of infrastructure, power plants, industries and human lives....
Small Quick Launch Satellites: Future of Space Action Time India
By: Air Marshal Anil Chopra | Issue: Vol. 38.2, Apr-Jun 2023 | Date: 11 Jul , 2023
A new era of small satellites has emerged augmenting larger systems and in some cases, replacing them. Governments are taking a new look at small satellites, as commercial customers use them for...
How did New Delhi Crush Militancy in Kashmir?
By: Ramananda Sengupta | Issue: Vol. 38.2, Apr-Jun 2023 | Date: 08 Jul , 2023
I was in Srinagar a few days before the third meeting of the G20 working group on tourism began in that city from May 22-24, 2023. On my return to Delhi, I realised the brief trip had yielded...
Russian Electronic Warfare in Ukraine 2022-2023
By: Col Mandeep Singh | Issue: Vol. 38.2, Apr-Jun 2023 | Date: 07 Jul , 2023
In March 2022, just a month into Russia’s offensive, Ukrainian troops captured an abandoned Krasukha-4, one of Russia’s most sophisticated Electronic Warfare (EW) systems. It is designed...
Strategic Coercion: War by other Means
By: Lt Gen (Dr) JS Bajwa | Issue: Vol. 38.2, Apr-Jun 2023 | Date: 05 Jul , 2023
“Today the foundations of power have been moving away from the emphasis on military force and conquest. The absence of a warrior ethic in modern democracies means that the use of force requires...