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Unrestricted warfare 2.0: Is India Ready?

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…]

COVID-19: Bringing Attention to the Growing Capabilities of Asymmetric Warfare

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…]

COVID CONNUNDRUM

Various mutated forms of Covid-19 viruses, staring from double mutation cases from Vidarbha to triple mutation in Bengal, are spreading in India, staring at the face of a huge population and making mockery of the Indian healthcare system. A developing country aspiring to better its lot among comity of nations,[Read More…]

INDIA’S STRATEGY: PARALLEL BUT CONVERGING

Given India’s central geographical location in the region, together with the increasing maritime focus and enhanced blue water naval capabilities—its centrality in the region is increasingly being recognised by both regional and extra-regional actors. It is becoming increasingly clear that China’s assertive foreign policy postures and increasing use of military[Read More…]

INTEGRATING THE UNSEEN

It is easy to assume that a clever adversary will take out our eyes and ears in space before initiating terrestrial conflicts. There are key choke points in space this adversary must position his anti-satellite (ASAT) forces at, before initiating these surprise attacks. Good space domain awareness may detect this[Read More…]

DIPLOMATIC CHALLENGE

As much as US challenges in developing the force it wants in the Indo-Pacific are technological or fiscal or political in nature, perhaps the biggest challenge ahead is diplomatic. Very few countries are willing at this point to pick a side, and impressions of US ambivalence toward the region’s core[Read More…]

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