Finally a CDS for the Indian Armed Forces While the scope of responsibility of the CDS is being worked out, it would be instructive to see what changes could be implemented immediately within the current organisational structures through... Alok Deb | August 19, 2019 | IDSA Comments
Indian Navy’s Annual HADR Exercise: A Collaborative Humanitarian Response in IOR The Annual Joint HADR exercises, conducted by Indian Navy, help in proactively preparing participating nations with tools for developing standard operating procedures (SOPs), streamlining interoperability and practicing procedures for collaborative... Roby Thomas | August 09, 2019 | IDSA Comments
C2D2: An Agile Defence Acquisition Model The agile acquisition or C2D2 model currently under adoption by the US for its F-35 aircraft is likely to become a necessity for acquisitions in future, as disruptive defence technologies... Atul Pant | August 06, 2019 | IDSA Comments
Libra – A Millennial Global Currency from Facebook Facebook's recent proposal for a stable global cryptocurrency on social media platform has led many to anticipate its positive impact on the global economic system. However, privacy concerns and Libra's... Ronnie Ninan | July 29, 2019 | IDSA Comments
Kargil and its Impact on India’s National Security With the melting of snow and improvement in weather conditions, the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) that separates India and Pakistan has traditionally been a ‘hot’... Alok Deb | July-September 2019 | Journal of Defence Studies
China’s Biological Warfare Programme and the Curious Case of Dr. Xiangguo Qiu In July 2019, a rare event occurred in Canada, whereby a group of Chinese virologists were forcibly dispatched from the Canadian National Microbiology Laboratory (NML) in Winnipeg, a facility they…... Dany Shoham | July-December 2019 | CBW Magazine
Can Fifteenth Finance Commission Resolve Funding Problems of Defence? Even if the Fifteenth Finance Commission manages to make a specific recommendation about the funds to be allocated for defence and internal security and the government accepts the recommendation, there... Amit Cowshish | July 24, 2019 | IDSA Comments
Managing Bio-Disaster: Role of Dentist We live in an era in which billions of people strive to foster interaction, tolerance and understanding about the more destructive forces of war, violence and political chaos that marked…... Monis Raza | July-December 2019 | CBW Magazine
Impact of Plant Extracts in Neutralizing Threats from Bio-Organisms: Opening New Vistas in Bio Terror and Healthcare A bio-organism, in Collins dictionary, is defined as “a dangerous fast-proliferating organism that could be used as the basis of a biological weapon”1. These bio-organisms can be in the form…... Amul S Bahl | July-December 2019 | CBW Magazine
India’s Nuclear Journey Post Kargil Kargil was an early milestone in India’s journey towards becoming a nuclear weapons power. Two decades later, India has shed the image of a reluctant nuclear power and morphed into... Prakash Menon | July-September 2019 | Journal of Defence Studies
