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Integrating unmanned platforms and enabling tech in India’s warfighting doctrine
- March 26, 2021
- Posted by: Maj Gen Birender Dhanoa (Retd)
- Category: India
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India has the capacity, intellect, and research facilities — within and outside of government — to develop and field systems faster than ever before.
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Chinese Communist Party has goals. India needs to have its own, not just respond to aggression
- March 24, 2021
- Posted by: Lt Gen (Dr) Prakash Menon (Retd)
- Categories: China, India, Strategic Affairs
China is yet to respond to the Quad’s joint statement. But one thing is clear, India’s national security strategy must change.
There are glaring dissimilarities in India’s foreign policy stances towards China post the military disengagement in Doklam 2017 and the ongoing one in Ladakh. -
House defence panel must ask 4 key questions — from lower expenditure to pension bill
- February 24, 2021
- Posted by: Lt Gen (Dr) Prakash Menon (Retd)
- Categories: ASEAN & ARF, China, Military, Strategic Affairs
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Defence can bring much needed clarity on India’s national security that Nirmala Sitharaman’s Budget didn’t answer.
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Defence allocation: Shrinking budget, rising threats
- February 24, 2021
- Posted by: Lt Gen (Dr) Prakash Menon (Retd)
- Categories: ASEAN & ARF, China, Military, Strategic Affairs
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Indian Army. Credit: PTI Photo
The realities of the defence budget seem to be blowing in the political wind and, despite claims to the contrary, the allotment for 2021-22 could at best be described as ‘more of the same’. -
LAC Row: Strategic options, post-Ladakh
- February 24, 2021
- Posted by: Lt Gen (Dr) Prakash Menon (Retd)
- Categories: ASEAN & ARF, China, Military, Strategic Affairs
The disengagement process in Ladakh is hopefully the concluding scene of another military episode in India-China relations.
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Guiding the strategic rudder
- February 24, 2021
- Posted by: Lt Gen (Dr) Prakash Menon (Retd)
- Categories: ASEAN & ARF, China, Military, Strategic Affairs
Political guidance for India’s strategic rudder is being tested by China’s Great Power ambitions. In Ladakh, disengagement and de-escalation remain on ice. An eyeball to eyeball confrontation continues, one that is pregnant with possibilities of sudden eruptions that could dwarf the Galwan incident in terms of force exchange and casualties.
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Voting Technology: Time for electoral reforms
- February 24, 2021
- Posted by: Lt Gen (Dr) Prakash Menon (Retd)
- Categories: ASEAN & ARF, China, Military, Strategic Affairs
The possibility of improving the quality of leadership is the redeeming feature of democracy. Declining standards in political probity, the unrepresentative character of the elected legislatures, corrupt practices like electoral bonds are major concerns and call for reform of the electoral system.
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Ladakh row: A cautionary lesson for India for the 2020s
- February 24, 2021
- Posted by: Lt Gen (Dr) Prakash Menon (Retd)
- Categories: ASEAN & ARF, China, Military, Strategic Affairs
The nosedive in India-China relations in 2020 throws up the natural question: Why did we not see it coming? Strategically, China’s geopolitical ambition has been acquiring wings and sharpening its claws for nearly two decades.
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EVOLUTION OF QUAD 3.0 : FOOD FOR THOUGHT BY LT GEN P R SHANKAR (R)
- February 11, 2021
- Posted by: Lt Gen PR Shankar (Retd)
- Categories: ASEAN & ARF, China, Military, Strategic Affairs
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THE CHINESE CAMEL IN THE QUADRILATERAL TENT BY LT GEN P R SHANKAR (R)
- February 10, 2021
- Posted by: Lt Gen PR Shankar (Retd)
- Categories: ASEAN & ARF, China, Military, Strategic Affairs
Chinese assertion and aggression is steered by Xi Jinping whose personal ambition is greater than the ambition of China and the CCP put together.
