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FRANCE: MAKE IN INDIA AND THE INDO-PACIFIC CONNECT
Much has been said about the delivery of the first two Scorpene submarines from France to India, and especially about the associated technology transfer, allowing India to consider the construction of the next four engines on its own. However, the issue of France’s interests in this partnership has been less discussed. Even since Japanese Prime […]
MITIGATING COVID-19 : THE INDIAN NAVY IN THE VANGUARD — AS ALWAYS
This article seeks to provide the lay reader an insight into the Indian Navy’s centrality and the positivity of its contribution — at the strategic, operational and tactical levels — to India’s maritime efforts to mitigate the adverse impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. It also seeks to provide a glimpse into the cost-benefit ratio of […]
ADOPTION BY INDIA OF HYDROGEN: AN OCEAN RENEWABLE ENERGY APPROACH PART 1:GEOPOLITICS OF WEST ASIA & CLIMATE CHANGE
GEOPOLITICS OF WEST ASIA & CLIMATE CHANGE AS COMPELLING DRIVERS OF INDIA’S SHIFT TO RENEWABLE RESOURCES OF ENERGY This article is an integral part of the series of major research-studies on the maritime facets of India’s energy security, being undertaken at the National Maritime Foundation. This portion of the research-study, which advocates the adoption of […]
CRUDE-OIL STORAGE IN AN ERA OF PLENTY- Part 2: LESSONS FROM THE USA’s STRATEGIC PETROLEUM RESERVE
This is the second in an ongoing series of articles by the author on issues relevant to the strategic storage of crude oil. Part 1 had focussed the reader’s attention upon the prevailing state of India’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR). This one dwells upon the USA, which was, like India, one of the top importers […]
CRUDE-OIL STORAGE IN AN ERA OF PLENTY: Part 1: INDIA’S STRATEGIC PETROLEUM RESERVES
Abstract Excess crude oil in the global market, coupled with the drastic reduction of consumption in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and the resultant curtailment of seaborne transport, have led to a phenomenon hitherto unseen in the 160 years since the beginning of the mass production of crude oil. The resulting historically […]
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND MACHINE LEARNING FOR THE INDIAN NAVY
Introduction Artificial Intelligence (AI) — and its attendant term, ‘Machine Learning’ (ML) — is described as the capability of a computer system to perform tasks that normally require human intelligence, such as visual perception, speech recognition and decision-making. Almost all AI/ML examples in commercial as well as military use today rely on data stores that […]
INDIA’S FOOD SECURITY AND THE MARITIME-IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE — THE LOCUST-INTERMEDIARIES
Attaining food security for India continues to remain a daunting task. Since the Green revolution of the 1960s, the country’s agricultural policies have led to an increase in agricultural productivity and overall food-production. However, with a rapidly increasing population, the demand for food grains is projected to be even higher in the future. Mittal (2008) […]