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Summary of IADN Strategic Focus November 2022 Issue

Summary of IADN Strategic Focus November 2022 Issue

Sridhar Chari Nov 14, 2022 13 min read

By Mr Sridhar Chari The November issue of the Strategic Focus covers the Defence Expo 2022 held in Gujarat from 18th to 22nd October and also analyse Xi Jinping’s “Work Continue Reading

India-Africa: Realising South to SouthRelations in A Better Perspective

India-Africa: Realising South to SouthRelations in A Better Perspective

Purushendra Singh Nov 10, 2022 5 min read

Article by Mr. Purushendra Singh This year’s Defexpo was 12th in the edition of occurrence but still the most unique! Unique as only made-in-India products were up for display. The Continue Reading

Understanding Xi Jinping’s China Dream

Understanding Xi Jinping’s China Dream

Shantanu K. Bansal Nov 8, 2022 20 min read

President of People’s Republic of China Xi Jinping headed the praesidium of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) at the ‘Great Hall of the People’ Continue Reading

Satellite Internet Will Change The Battlefield Once And For All

Satellite Internet Will Change The Battlefield Once And For All

Shantanu K. Bansal Oct 8, 2022 14 min read

Military Applications of the First Computer, Satellite and Internet Technology and military are highly related. A lot of technologies that we use today were actually invented during the times of Continue Reading

From Men Intensive To A Technologically Developed Force: Recent Chinese Military Reforms

From Men Intensive To A Technologically Developed Force: Recent Chinese Military Reforms

Shantanu K. Bansal Sep 8, 2022 14 min read

The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has been rapidly improvising since the Gulf War period, ‘from men intensive to a technologically developed force’. As China celebrates its 76th Independence Day in Continue Reading

INDIA@75: INDIAN START-UP DEVELOP AN UNMANNED GROUND VEHICLE ‘ASTRO’ IN JUST 2 MONTHS

INDIA@75: INDIAN START-UP DEVELOP AN UNMANNED GROUND VEHICLE ‘ASTRO’ IN JUST 2 MONTHS

Shantanu K. Bansal Aug 15, 2022 7 min read

UNVEILING EDGEFORCE ASTRO UGV On the occasion of this 15th August, Col. P Hani and Mr Ramachandran Andayi from Edgeforce India took upon the initiative to unveil Unmanned Ground Vehicle Continue Reading

Mig-21 Crashes: IAF-Politico-Bureaucratic Logjam

Mig-21 Crashes: IAF-Politico-Bureaucratic Logjam

Shantanu K. Bansal Aug 9, 2022 9 min read

The loss of Wing Commander M. Rana and Flight Lieutenant Adivitya Bal in the MIG-21 crash this year caused jitters around the nation. The crash happened on the night of Continue Reading

India and IPEF: Its Time for India to Take Responsibility

India and IPEF: Its Time for India to Take Responsibility

Purushendra Singh Aug 9, 2022 5 min read

A proposal made by the U.S. President during the East Asia Summit in October 2021 has fructified recently during the second in-person Quadrilateral alliance (Quad) summit in Tokyo amidst the Continue Reading

Kurds And The Perplexed World

Kurds And The Perplexed World

Aditi Dubey Jul 23, 2022 4 min read

The recent cold-blooded assault by Turkish forces against Kurds in Syria sparked off the dispute between Kurds and Turkey again. The strike against Kurds is not new but neither common Continue Reading

Military Domains, Dimensions, Doctrines: Towards Design Centric Warfare

Military Domains, Dimensions, Doctrines: Towards Design Centric Warfare

Navneet Bhushan Jul 7, 2022 4 min read

We need a clear, comprehensive and unambiguous delineation of military domains, military dimensions and of course emerging military doctrines and forms of warfare. In this new column “Of Military domains, Continue Reading