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Why S-400 Will Make Sense Despite (Un)Likelihood of US Sanctions
May 08, 2018 Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM Commentary

The open source is abuzz with the news that India and Russia are close to finalising the deal for the purchase of S-400 System despite the threat of US sanctions1. Making it a central issue during the visit of Defence Minister, Mrs ....

Keywords : National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Commentary , Air defence , S-400
Significance of Exercise ‘Gagan Shakti-2018’
May 07, 2018 Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF Commentary

The Indian Air Force (IAF) carried out a massive pan-India Exercise ‘Gagan Shakti 2018’ from 08-22 Apr 2018 involving practically the entire operational and logistic component of the IAF. What is the significance of the exercise? India faces f....

Keywords : National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Commentary , Exercise Gagan Shakti , Indian Air Force
Commentary: Modi-Xi Informal Summit: Striving to Achieve Equilibrium
May 04, 2018 Brig Vinod Anand, Senior Fellow, VIF Commentary

The informal summit between Modi and Xi has taken place at an appropriate time when one looks at both the global and regional situation as also at the domestic situations in both the countries. While the statements made by the Indian and Chinese side....

Keywords : International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Commentary
Commentary: Exploring India-Russia cultural linkages at 70
May 03, 2018 Dr Arpita Mitra Commentary

The historic city of Saint Petersburg was recently the venue for the Third Conference of Indologists organized by the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR). Since 2015, the ICCR has been organizing a series of annual conferences of Indologists....

Keywords : Historical and Civilisational Studies , Commentary , India-Russia cultural linkages , ICCR , Conference of Indologists , Indo-Russian ties
Commentary: The Fifth India-China Strategic Economic Dialogue
May 03, 2018 Dr Teshu Singh Commentary

The swelling trade deficit with China has emerged as key area of concern in India’s bilateral ties. Some fear a hollowing out of large segments of Indian industrial capacity. It is in this background that the fifth India-China Strategic Economic di....

Keywords : Economic Studies , Commentary , India-China trade deficit , Strategic Economic Dialogue
Commentary: Swami Vivekananda’s Impressions about China and Japan
May 02, 2018 Dr Arpita Mitra Commentary

Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902) was a widely-travelled person. For someone who had not even seen the age of forty, to have travelled so widely in India and other parts of the world was not altogether a chance happening. It was part of the task he was d....

Keywords : Historical and Civilisational Studies , Commentary , Swami Vivekananda; Vivekananda on China and Japan
Commentary: Constitution of the new Defence Panel Chaired by the NSA
May 01, 2018 G. Mohan Kumar Commentary

Recently, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has constituted a Defence Planning Committee (DPC) chaired by the National Security Advisor (NSA) with the objectives of: (1) Drafting a national security strategy; (2) drawing up a capability developmen....

Keywords : National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Commentary , Planning Committee , National Security Strategy , defence manufacturing
Commentary: Air Chief Marshal BS Dhanoa Explains the Role of Indian Air Force in the Changing Security Environment at a Public Lecture
April 27, 2018 Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF Commentary

At the invitation of Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF), Air Chief Marshal B. S. Dhanoa delivered a public lecture on the “Role of Indian Air Force in National Security”. The lecture was attended by the members of the strategic community....

Keywords : National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Commentary , Role of Indian Air Force , modernisation of IAF , Exercise ‘Gagan Shakti
Commentary: Implications of Pakistan on the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) Grey List
April 23, 2018 Maj Gen (Retd.) P K Chakravorty Commentary

The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) The ‘Group of Seven’ countries, commonly referred as G-7, was conceptualised prior to the 1973 oil crisis. It started with an informal meeting between the US Secretary of the Treasury and....

Keywords : Terrorism , National Security and Strategic Studies , Commentary , FATF Grey List , Pakistan’s terror-finance , FATF
Commentary: PLA Navy’s Major Exercise in the South China Sea: An Analytical Perspective
April 19, 2018 Brig Vinod Anand, Senior Fellow, VIF Commentary

The massive People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Navy exercises conducted in the second week of April near Hainan and further east, and review of the same by President Xi Jinping come in the wake of evolving strategic situation at the global and regional....

Keywords : International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Commentary , South China Sea , Chinese naval exercise , PLA Navy
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