Belt and Road Initiative: An opportunity or risk for Africa? China's Belt and Road Initiative helps African countries in reducing the infrastructure gap in the region. However, it also leaves them open to the risk of unsustainable debt. Ruchita Beri | April 15, 2019 | IDSA Comments
Internet of Things Centricity of Future Military Operations Since the last decade of the twentieth century, network centricity has profoundly transformed warfighting and the outlook of the military. The next level of the networking ladder is Internet of Things (IoT), which has already started to disruptively change the ways in the civil domain, bringing a considerable autonomy to various processes by linking of a plethora of smart devices that are talking to each other. Militaries, in the near future, are also likely to see similar proliferation of IoT, which will bring a material change to their functioning and conduct of operations. Atul Pant | April-June 2019 | Journal of Defence Studies
Mission Shakti: What Next? India needs a comprehensive space security architecture consisting of a dedicated Space Command for operational aspects as well as an exclusive Defence Space Research Agency to focus on scientific and technical aspects. Laxman Kumar Behera | April 09, 2019 | IDSA Comments
The Generation of Rage in Kashmir, by David Devadas Kashmir has been experiencing new dynamics of conflict. Though not entirely unknown to students of ethnic conflicts, the dynamics and complications that have developed over a period of time have made the Kashmir conflict extremely complicated given the number of actors involved in it. Additionally, it has been seen that the semblance of peace in the state of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) has often been mistaken as resolution of the conflict. Rajrajeshwari Singh | April-June 2019 | Journal of Defence Studies
Belarus’s Rapprochement with the West: What does it indicate? Belarus has successfully pursued a multi-vector foreign policy and is seeking to play a significant role to strengthen peace and stability in the region. Manabhanjan Meher | April 04, 2019 | Backgrounder
To Ban, or Not to Ban Huawei Given India’s dependence on imports for 90 per cent of its telecom equipment, the decision to allow Huawei to bid for 5G should be in line with the national interest, rather than taking sides and constraining options. Munish Sharma | April 03, 2019 | IDSA Comments
The Balakot Strategic Shift – Needed a ‘Counter Proxy War’ Doctrine There is an urgent need to formulate a ‘Counter Proxy War Doctrine’ that integrates diplomacy, defence, development and other tools of hard and soft power. G.G. Dwivedi | March 28, 2019 | IDSA Comments
India’s ASAT Test: Joining the Arms Race in Outer Space? An ASAT in itself is not a defensive system that could ‘safeguard’ any asset. Instead, it is an offensive system that could solely be used for retribution in response to an attack on India’s space assets. In that sense, the capability can only be used as a deterrent against a potential rival. A. Vinod Kumar | March 28, 2019 | IDSA Comments
India at the OIC: Recognition of a Rising Global Power The best option would be for India to continue to work with individual members of the OIC to establish friendly relations and deepen bilateral cooperation, and work to negate the machinations of Pakistan within the OIC. Amb. Sujan R. Chinoy , Md. Muddassir Quamar | March 25, 2019 | IDSA Comments
The Grandeur of GandCrab Every time a cyber security organisation comes out with a decrypter to counter the effect of GandCrab, a brand new version of the ransomware is generated by effecting a small fix in the code. Kritika Roy | March 22, 2019 | IDSA Comments
