This year, there are some scheduled meetings like BRICS, ASEAN and EAS which India will attend and use to complement its G20 presidency.

This was a presentation made during the Annual Security Conference of C3S and NMF

Despite the release of Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman from Pakistani custody as a good will gesture, obviously under intense International pressure, the Government seems ambivalent about de-escalation continuing to insist that it remains focused on the issue of Pakistani sponsored terrorism.

It was the military disaster of 1971 that forced the Pakistani establishment, the military which runs the country for all practical purposes, to face up to the fact that it could never win a conventional war against India.

Mozambique and Uganda are clearly favoured countries in Africa so far as India is concerned

Hackers seem to have acquired a new heft and respect even from the State actors. Hackathons are conducted to crack the codes.

The world is re-nuclearising. Most countries are spending more on arms and security than they did in the past two decades

Lt Gen Prakash Menon and I had a fruitful discussion on the contours of theatrisation.