Centrality of Indian Air Power via a “Central Command”
Editor’s Note A strikingly different, incisive article by a naval officer arguing for a Central (Airpower) Command instead of an Air Defence Command by suggesting that the main argument... Read more
Defence Ministry’s ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat’Push: Import Embargo on 101 Items
Announcing a series of far-reaching reforms for the defence sector, taking to Twitter, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said “the Ministry of Defence has prepared a list of 101 items for... Read more
India Confident in Standing Solo Against China in any Future Border Dispute: European Think Tank
Post the violent June 15 Galwan Valley clashes, India has shown the confidence of standing solo against China in any future border dispute despite the United States’ offer of forming a Quad... Read more
Jaishankar, Pompeo Review Bilateral Ties, Assess Security in Indo-Pacific Region, Covid
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and his US counterpart Mike Pompeo have shared assessments on regional and global issues, including the COVID-19 pandemic, Indo-Pacific and Quadrilater... Read more
Saudi Holds Back Oil to Pakistan After Shah Mehmood Qureshi’s Threat to Split OIC
Saudi Arabia has halted the provision of oil on loan for Pakistan after the Imran Khan government threatened to split the Organization of Islamic Countries (OIC) over Kashmir. Hit by a sever... Read more
Should MoD Persist with Defence Offsets?
The draft Defence Procurement Procedure (DPP) 2020, released by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) on March 20, exempted foreign vendors from discharging offset obligation in all ‘Buy (Global)’ c... Read more
Two Light Combat Helicpoters (LCH) have been operating with the Indian Air Force (IAF) in Ladakh for a week, reports Livefist. Flown in to Ladakh last weekend from Bengaluru, the indigenous... Read more
Lockheed Martin Deepens Ties with Indian Defence Supply Chain
Lockheed Martin, the US aerospace major shared information about new partnership opportunities with the Indian defence industry during the five-day virtual annual suppliers’ conference concl... Read more
75 Years on, How Will the Nuclear Age End?
Seventy-five years ago, U.S. nuclear weapons devastated Hiroshima and Nagasaki. For individual human beings, 75 years signals nearness to the end of life. But for the nuclear age, does this... Read more
Muslim Leaders Are Betraying the Uighurs
Empty streets. Sprawling encampments in the desert nearby, spoken of in hushed whispers. That’s what a modern terror regime looks like. More than 1 million Muslim Uighurs in the Xinjiang reg... Read more









