India
SPEED RACE: HYPERSONIC WEAPONS
Hypersonic projectiles and platforms are emerging as a highly valued weapon system for militaries, the world over, due to their unique combination of attributes. The characteristics of hypersonic missiles include…
By Air Marshal Anil Khosla (Retd)
MILITARY IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN : HOW FAR SHOULD WE GO IN OUR TRANSPARENCY ?
Some good and professional sounding analyses on the Indian Army’s organization and capability have recently found their way into the public domain; one could also consider some of these a…
By Lt Gen Syed Ata Hasnain (Retd)
Terrorism in J&K: Shifting Across Pir Panjal
The formidable Pir Panjal range, the transient home of nomadic shepherds of Gujjars and Bakarwal tribes, slices Jammu and Kashmir into two distinct areas. In the first few decades of…
By Maj Gen Neeraj Bali, SM (Retd)
INDIA’S MILITARY DIPLOMACY TAKES WINGS
India is at centre stage of the world as it grows to become the fifth largest economy. In every country’s history there comes a time of reckoning when it gets…
By Maj Gen (Dr) Rajan Kochhar (Retd)
RUSSIA ENTICING INDIA WITH SU-75 CHECKMATE
The Sukhoi SU-75 Checkmate, also designated as the Light Tactical Aircraft is a single-engine, stealth fighter aircraft under development by Sukhoi. The Sukhoi Design Bureau has also designated the aircraft…
By Air Marshal Anil Khosla (Retd)
Jousting for Strategic Space: India & China in Maldives
The Maldives is an archipelago of 1192 islands spread over 90,000 square kms in the Indian Ocean. Located just above the equator, it is barely 70 miles from Minicoy Islands…
By Maj Gen Mandip Singh (Retd)
THE INCREASING TREND OF ‘NEAR WARS’ AND THEIR IMPACT ON INTERNATIONAL SECURITY
Even as full-blown wars such as the ones between Russia and Ukraine, and between Israel and Hamas, rage without decisive results, there are many situations around the world which remain…
By Lt Gen Syed Ata Hasnain (Retd)
The IAF’s Transformation into the Indian Air and Space Force
The recently initiated renaming of the Indian Air Force to Indian Air and Space Force has drawn attention from many quarters. It is exactly a decade ago that one of…
By Air Marshal (Dr) Diptendu Choudhury (Retd) PVSM, AVSM, VM, VSM
CHINESE GYRFALCON IN PAK SKIES
According to reports published in the media, General Zaheer Ahmed Babar, the Chief of Staff of the Pakistan Air Force, has disclosed the recent acquisition plans of the Pakistan Air…
By Air Marshal Anil Khosla (Retd)
Red Sea Crisis: How Has It Impacted India
Today it is household news that how on the eve of 5th January 2024, the Indian Navy’s Marine Commandos (MARCOs) rescued 21 crew members of the merchant ship MV Lila…
By Cdr Sandeep Dhawan (Retd)
International Community Wake Up: Balochistan Cries For Help
Martin Luther king once rightly said, “The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.” Balochistan, a…
By Mudasir Dar
IS IT TIME TO WEAPONISE THE QUAD ?
The May 2020 forward deployment along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) by the PLA in Eastern Ladakh is China’s ‘HIMALAYAN BLUNDER’ of immense Geopolitical and Geostrategic dimensions which will…
By Lt Gen Vinod Bhatia (Retd)
