A group of US senators allegedly issued a letter to India in 2020, requesting that India join the Blue Dot Network. According to observers, the Blue Dot Network serves as a counterweight to China’s One Belt, One Road (OBOR) plan. What is Blue Dot Network?The Blue Dot Network is a[Read More…]

Recent times have seen the Government introduce a slew of changes aimed at spurring the Indian Aerospace and Defence (A&D) Sector, foremost amongst them being the recognition that this sector will be one of the main pillars of the ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat’ initiative. These vital policy changes reflect a remarkable clarity[Read More…]

With the Asia-Pacific Region (APR) increasingly recognised as the engine and focal point of future global development and growth, it is critical to highlight the historic event taking place on 12 March 2021—the high-level virtual summit of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad) of the United States, Japan, Australia, and India.[Read More…]

Maritime security matters immensely to a country like India given that it stretches into three prime sea areas in the Arabian Sea, the Bay of Bengal, and the Indian Ocean. Since the bygone times, maritime security has been a concern as the open seas have offered a convenient medium for[Read More…]

“The world is neither unipolar, multipolar, nor chaotic—it is all three at the same time.” Joseph S. Nye, Jr. Who wields greater power in the games of power-politics among nations? While there is no plain and simple answer to this complex question, it can nevertheless be said (at the very[Read More…]

Once upon a time, the import of Iranian oil in India was so huge that Indian refineries were built in a manner to specifically refine Iranian crude oil-remember Mangalore refinery. Iran was supplying 90% of India’s crude oil requirement at one point. Iran was only conduit to the gas fields[Read More…]

(This is the perspective of a non-Indian resident over the current situation in India) COVID-19 brought unpredictable changes worldwide, restricted domestic and international travel and severely impacted economies and industries all over the world. Nevertheless, 2020 brought a general sense of hope that the following year was going to be[Read More…]

The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has been deeply influenced by the means of carrying out ‘non-contact warfare’. The concept of unrestricted form of warfare is based on multipronged approach assimilating the legal warfare, economic warfare, financial warfare, psychological warfare, information warfare, propaganda warfare, public opinion warfare, diplomatic warfare, so on and so forth. China’s perception[Read More…]

Chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) warfare has been an enduring manufacturer of fear and anxiety in most societies of the modern world. While any non- conventional attack could easily create a catastrophic event, COVID-19 has exposed the serious and dangerous threat of biological warfare. Chemical, radiological, and nuclear weapons[Read More…]