
MAKING WAVES E-NEWS BRIEF 15 MARCH 2021 – 21 MARCH 2021
The emergence of the instability in Mozambique as a new security threat on Africa’s east coast has attracted military assistance from Russia, the US, Portugal, France, Australia and South Africa. An expansion of an Islamist insurgency to the…
Indian Navy Commandos during Sea Vigil 21AN INTEGRATED APPROACH TO COASTAL AND OFFSHORE DEFENCE: LEVERAGING THE COASTAL SECURITY CONSTRUCT
Introduction
The second edition of Exercise SEA VIGIL, a two day pan-India biennial coastal defence exercise, was conducted on 12 and 13 January 2021.[1] The exercise, which is India’s largest such exercise, was facilitated by central…

MAKING WAVES E-NEWS BRIEF 08 MARCH 2021 – 14 MARCH 2021
A suspected Israeli angle to an explosion on board an Iranian container ship off Syria’s coast threatens to flare into another round of sea-based tit-for-tat strikes by these adversaries. An outbreak of hostilities, amidst the COVID-19 pandemic,…

MAKING WAVES E-NEWS BRIEF 1 MARCH 2021 – 7 MARCH 2021
A surge of pirate attacks in the Gulf of Guinea has led to calls for a major naval mission to police the maritime route off West Africa's two largest oil producers, Nigeria and Angola. Meanwhile, Singapore’s commitment to combatting the rise…

HOW ‘NON-ALIGNED’ SHOULD INDIA BE?
Introduction
The last three decades have transformed global geopolitics. While the 1990s saw the dissolution of the USSR and the decline of Russia thereafter, the first two decades of the new millennium have led to the rise of China. The…

MAKING WAVES E-NEWS BRIEF 22 FEBRUARY 2021 – 28 FEBRUARY 2021
The evolving geopolitical contours of India's relationship with China over the past year has now set its sights on reducing the trade imbalance between the two competitors. Reduction of the average turnaround time for ships at major ports in…
