Ajey Lele

One of the biggest advantages of the navigational satellite, once the system gets fully operational, is to reduce the dependency on the GPS. This would make India largely self-sufficient in the navigational field.

• Ajey Lele |
• July 08, 2013 |
• IDSA Comments

Any cyber architecture can be viewed as a doubled edged sword – either ignore it and be exposed or use it to one’s advantage. Cyber espionage is here to stay.

• Ajey Lele |
• June 18, 2013 |
• IDSA Comments

The Group of Government Experts need to take into consideration complex and inter-related concerns of space activities before formulating the Transparency and Confidence Building Measures. The need is to have an effective mechanism and not an accommodative one.

• Ajey Lele |
• May 20, 2013 |
• IDSA Comments

A ‘pearl’ could be viewed as a sphere of influence seeded, secured and maintained through the use of economic, geopolitical, diplomatic or military means. The ‘string of pearls’ is about China’s unambiguous maritime strategy that investments in increasing its sea power. This is essentially a multi-pronged strategy that challenges dominant US interests in the Indian Ocean and sends a clear message to India that the Indian Ocean is not India’s ocean by increasing the dependence of the littoral states in the region on China.

• Ajey Lele |
• March 21, 2013 |
• IDSA Comments

For almost the last 50 years, space collaboration has significantly remained intact between France and India. They have worked together on a range of issues from satellite applications, developing small satellites to earth system science and weather satellites.

• Ajey Lele |
• March 07, 2013 |
• IDSA Comments

Iran’s investments in space should not be viewed only through the narrow prism of a nuclear threat but as a nascent attempt to challenge the West’s technological domination.

• Ajey Lele |
• January 31, 2013 |
• IDSA Comments

After becoming the first country to oppose the annual non-binding UN resolution ‘Preventing an Arms Race in Outer Space’ in 2005, the US made it clear to the United Nations that it ‘will continue to consider the possible role that [S]pace-related weapons may play in protecting [its] [S]pace assets.’ This was only a precursor to the 2006 National Space Policy of the US that has cleared the way for the deployment of Spacebased weapons by the US.

• Ajey Lele |
• January 2013 |
• Journal of Defence Studies

STI 2013 envisages the creation of a word-class infrastructure for R&D and skill development as well as encouraging the scientific community by providing adequate opportunities and better career options.

• Ajey Lele |
• January 09, 2013 |
• IDSA Comments

The most interesting aspect of India and Japan coming together is that they are also proposing to engage with other states where REEs are available for excavation.

• Ajey Lele |
• November 20, 2012 |
• IDSA Comments

India has much to learn from China with regard to using space as an ‘instrument of influence’ and also needs to expand the global footprint of its expertise.

• Ajey Lele |
• November 16, 2012 |
• IDSA Comments