
AIRCRAFT CARRIERS- GLUG GLUG GLUG.... REALLY? SIGNIFICANCE OF CARRIER BORNE AIRPOWER FOR INDIA
In his recent article published by the Lowy Institute, titled “Glug, Glug, Glug: India’s interest in unsinkable Aircraft Carriers”, David Brewster[1], probes India’s medium term plan to develop into a three carrier fleet. Brewster cites…

RELEVANCE OF AIRCRAFT CARRIERS FOR INDIA: AN ASSESSMENT
Introduction
The epic sea battles between aircraft carriers never recurred after the Second World War. In the post-war period, most carriers began to retire without even having participated in battle. Many countries that possessed carriers…

TRUMP'S TRADE WAR: A NEW THREAT TO THE 'QUAD'
The spillover of India’s determination to counter US trade threats could endanger nascent security dialogues in the Indo-Pacific.
The idea of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue or Quad, as it is often called, was mooted by Japanese premier…

THE FOCUS IS ON INDO-PACIFIC
In the taxonomy of ‘Geopolitics’ and ‘Geo-strategy’, the prefix ‘geo’ refers to a country’s strategic geography, which is the core underpinning of its national-strategy. Geopolitics involves the satiation of the country’s geo-economic…

COMCASA – WIND-VANE OF INDIAN FOREIGN POLICY?!
The United States has been prodding India to sign the communications, compatibility and security agreement, better known as COMCASA, for more than a decade. COMCASA is a version of CISMOA (Communication interoperability and Security memorandum…

COMMUNITY-ENGAGED MARITIME SECURITY: BEYOND 'EYES AND EARS'
In March 2018, as per media reports, Neil Basu, the Scotland Yard’s newly appointed Indian-origin Assistant Commissioner of Police responsible for counter-terrorism, launched a new campaign to urge the public to fight terrorism. According…
Image courtesy- Indian Navy Website https://indiannavy.nic.in/content/malabar-exercise-20REVISITNG ‘SAGAR’ – INDIA'S TEMPLATE FOR COOPERATION IN THE INDIAN OCEAN REGION
The month of March 2018 marks three years since the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi first enunciated India’s vision for the Indian Ocean Region (IOR) commonly known by its acronym - SAGAR (Security and Growth for All in the Region). In…

MARITIME DIMENSION OF HYBRID WARFARE – THE INDIAN CONTEXT
(This is a revised extract of chapter titled “India’s Strategic Landscape, Hybrid Threats and Likely Operational Scenarios” jointly authored by Gurmeet Kanwal, Syed Ata Hasnain, Gurpreet S Khurana and Manmohan Bahadur, in Satish Kumar…
Vivekananda international foundationREVIVAL OF QUADRILATERAL: A SHIFT IN INDIA’S POLICY TOWARDS CHINA?
The prospect of a revival of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (QSD), involving the US, India, Japan and Australia, has recently set the international media abuzz. The first meeting of the Dialogue was held in Manila on the sidelines of the…
Vivekananda international foundationINDIAN PRESIDENT’S VISIT TO DJIBOUTI: FULFILLING A STRATEGIC NECESSITY
On the third and fourth of October 2017, the 14th President of India, H.E Ram Nath Kovind undertook his first official visit abroad. It was significant that this was to Djibouti, an Indian Ocean littoral country of immense geo-strategic importance.[1]…
Vivekananda international foundationROHINGYA CRISIS: A POTENTIAL MARITIME QUAGMIRE FOR INDIA
Continued ethnic strife and the State’s overtly discriminatory policies in the Rakhine province of Myanmar have resulted in hundreds of thousands of Rohingyas fleeing their homes. As the exodus began in earnest in the late 1970s,…
Vivekananda international foundation‘BEYOND HARDWARE AND TECHNOLOGY’: THE INTANGIBLES OF CHINA’S NAVAL POWER (PART 3)
This is part three of a three-part series on China's naval power
(PART 3: TACTICAL LEVEL)
As introduced in the Part 1, so far, most analysis of China’s naval power worldwide has focused on the PLA Navy’s existing and projected…
