Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM, Distinguished Fellow, VIF

Contributions

Corporatisation of Ordnance Factory Board –An Analysis

August 13, 2021 Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM, Distinguished Fellow, VIF

A Bold Decision – Govt Walks the Talk Something big happened on 16 June 2021. In a run time of less than a year from first open announcement, the Govt of India has gone ahead to approve the Corporatisation of the Ordnance Factory Board ...

Tags: National Security and Strategic Studies, Defence, Article, Corporatisation of OFB, OFB makeover, OFB transformation, Govt announces corporatisation, OFB workers go on strike

Drone Threat – The Big Picture

July 14, 2021 Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM, Distinguished Fellow, VIF

The media was in frenzy post the drone attack on Jammu Air Force Station on the night of 26/27 Jun 2021. The volcano of breaking news and minute-to-minute reporting was trying to show us the face of danger that awaits us from the little monsters cal...

Tags: National Security and Strategic Studies, Defence, Article, Drone attack, Drone threat, Threat from UAS, Drone countermeasures, Drone threat and countermeasures, Jammu drone attack.

With Defence Production and Procurement Policies in Place – Are We Headed Correctly?

June 23, 2021 Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM, Distinguished Fellow, VIF

‘Year of Covid’ – an Important Year for Defence Sector The stigma, ‘year of Covid’ notwithstanding, 2020 has been a very important year when it comes to self-reliance in defence and aerospace sector. It was in this year when the...

Tags: National Security and Strategic Studies, Defence, Article, Defence Exports, MSMEs, DAP 2020, Key Words: DPEPP 2020, Procurement reforms, rollout of DPEPP and DAP, negative import list

PM’s call at Kevadia – What is the ‘Big Picture’?

May 21, 2021 Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM, Distinguished Fellow, VIF

Ever since the PM addressed the Combined Commanders Conference in Kevadia on 06 March 2021 the media has been picking up bits and pieces of his address and pitching it as ‘stand-alone agendas’ complete with all the semantics aimed to sensationali...

Tags: National Security and Strategic Studies, Defence, Article, R & D, Defence Exports, Combined Commanders' Conference, imports, military doctrine, OFB, PM's message, weapons & equipment

Air Defence Command – some salient points and imperatives

February 02, 2021 Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM, Distinguished Fellow, VIF

Air Defence Command (ADC) is going to be a reality sooner than later. This article looks at certain salient points related to the ADC and lays out certain imperatives that lie ahead for the decision-makers to make ADC a success. National Level...

Tags: National Security and Strategic Studies, Defence, Article, Air Defence Command, ADC, Integrated Air Defence Command, India’s Air Defence Command

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VIF Papers

DPP 2016: An enabler, not a show-stopper

August 18, 2016 Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM, Distinguished Fellow, VIF

DPP or no DPP the onus of success or failure lies in the hands of those who operate the DPP. Like they say, the law is only as good as the enforcer of the law. DPP 2016 or DPP 2056, it will be only as good as the persons who operate it, who interpret...

Tags: National Security and Strategic Studies, Defence, Indian military, DPP 2016, Defence industry. DRDO, Defence Acquisition Council

Anti Satellite Weapons: A Likely Future Trajectory

May 30, 2016 Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM, Distinguished Fellow, VIF

The concept of ASAT weapons has evolved over time as a logical progression from the mother concept of Anti Ballistic Missiles (ABM) or its more recent coinage,the Ballistic Missile defence (BMD)-- a Missile-based defence against the adversary's threa...

Tags: National Security and Strategic Studies, Defence, Ballistic Missile, ASAT, Anti Satellite Weapons

Growing Muscle of PLAAF

March 11, 2016 Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM, Distinguished Fellow, VIF

Steady Growth. Although some signs of a somewhat waning economy are now visible in China (economic growth rate sliding down from 10.5% in 2010 to 7.4% in 2014) she has experienced a steady growth cycle for the past two decades, catapulting the...

Tags: International Relations and Diplomacy, China, PLA, Chinese Military, PLAAF, People’s Liberation Army, PLAN

VIF Briefs

CAATSA and S-400: The American Dilemma - An Analysis

March 09, 2021 Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM, Distinguished Fellow, VIF

After flashing in fury about an year back and eventually loosing much of its sheen and venom thereafter, the threat of CAATSA is alive, dangling yet again like the proverbial ‘Sword of Damocles’ over the fate of India’s purchase of S-400 syste...

Tags: National Security and Strategic Studies, Defence, S-400, Air Threat, US Sanctions, CAATSA, Air Defence Matrix

Power behind Arrogance: Assessment of China’s Air and Missile Arsenal

June 23, 2020 Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM, Distinguished Fellow, VIF

Going backwards from recent acts of Chinese belligerence and barbaric conduct in Galwan (sic) totally divorced from all ethos of soldiering, into events of the recent past, a pattern emerges. A pattern of Chinese aggressiveness, arrogance and more; u...

Tags: International Relations and Diplomacy, China, South China Sea, Chinese Air Power, Chinese Missile Power, Air and missile threat from China, Line of Actual Control

Swarm Drones: Attacker’s Delight, Defender’s Nightmare

May 28, 2020 Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM, Distinguished Fellow, VIF

Ever since the emergence of the unmanned phenomenon, the warfare has never been the same. Starting from their very humble beginnings of giving the war-fighter the marginally incremental capability to ‘look around the corner and over the hill’ the...

Tags: National Security and Strategic Studies, Warfare, Swarm Drones, UAS, Growing Lethality, SWARM Task Sheet, SWARM