Nuclear Attack Submarines: The Elixir for a True Blue-Water Navy India’s tryst with its destiny for the twenty-first century will greatly depend upon how it prioritises its strategic necessities in the face of current Covid-19-induced economic crisis. While still on course to be the third largest world economy by 2050, India will need to ensure it has the essential tools—economic, military and diplomatic—by then to provide the necessary leverage as a great world power. Great thinkers have stressed and history has shown that maritime power is one such leverage. Roby Thomas | October-December 2020 | Journal of Defence Studies
Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR): Assessment of the Pakistan Military’s Discreet Propaganda Factory Post-1990 The ISPR was founded in 1949 as the public relations wing of the Pakistan Armed Forces. However, its role, responsibilities and activities have expanded notably over the last three decades. This article evaluates the role of the ISPR in cyber propaganda via print and electronic media after 1990s. It also sheds light on the ISPR’s youth-internship scheme and its plausible role in digital espionage. The main arguments in this article are derived from information available on official websites of Pakistan military, their local newspapers, and relevant social media platforms. Divya Malhotra | October-December 2020 | Journal of Defence Studies
Time IAF Upgraded its Largest Combat Fleet While Rafale’s enhanced combat capabilities has added punch to India’s airpower, the developing threat scenario in India’s neighbourhood lends urgency to upgrading the IAF’s largest combat fleet, the Sukhoi fighters, to retain edge over the enemy. Anurag Sharma | September 30, 2020 | IDSA Comments
The Imperatives of Ordnance Factory Corporatisation Poor workmanship, deteriorating quality issues, and lack of professionalism have plagued the workings of the Ordnance Factories. There is an imperative need for modernising the workings of the OFs through corporatisation. Akhelesh Bhargava | September 30, 2020 | IDSA Comments
NPT@50: How India Framed its Decision to Reject the Treaty India’s decision to reject the NPT was a display of astute statecraft with idealist posturing used to masquerade pursuit of national interests. A. Vinod Kumar | September 25, 2020 | Issue Brief
The China-India-US Triangle: Changing Balance of Power and a New Cold War China is no longer interested in maintaining previous patterns of its relationships with India and US. It seeks to forge new types of relationships that are reflective of the extant balance of power. China expects India to demonstrate awed subservience and refrain from security cooperation with US. S. Kalyanaraman | September 21, 2020 | IDSA Comments
Need For a Proactive Policy Towards Bangladesh Given the assertive foreign policy followed by China and the desperation of Pakistan after the abolition of Article 370, India has to follow a proactive foreign policy. It is only India’s proactiveness that can keep both China and Pakistan in check in Bangladesh. Anand Kumar | September 18, 2020 | IDSA Comments
Increase in FDI Cap Alone Not Enough for Defence Sector Raising the FDI limit by itself may not enthuse the foreign investors as per the expectations. To make the defence sector more attractive for foreign investment, a whole lot of other related issues will have to be addressed by the government. Amit Cowshish | September 14, 2020 | IDSA Comments
Abe Shinzo: Japan’s Visionary Statesman Abe Shinzo made his mark as an astute statesman in international politics with intellectual bandwidth and a global vision to conceptualise grand strategic constructs such as the Free and Open Indo-Pacific anchored on universal values. Titli Basu | September 03, 2020 | IDSA Comments
In Defence of Non-alignment The era of non-alignment provides immense insights on how visionary leadership seeking to influence international politics could develop ideational frameworks to propel the grand strategy of their choosing. A. Vinod Kumar | September 02, 2020 | Issue Brief
