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India's call for reformed multilateralism in G20

India’s G20 opportunity will be to persuasively encourage an inclusive, equitable and reformed multilateralism appropriate to meet the next decade’s challenges(PTI)

Published on Jun 13, 2023 09:47 pm IST

60 years after Cuban missile crisis, another nuclear threat

There is a compelling case now for Delhi to join Berlin and Tokyo and reach out to President Putin to avoid Armageddon and arrive at a modus vivendi. (Reuters)

Updated on Oct 13, 2022 07:53 pm IST

A welcome addition to the naval quiver

At 45,000 tonnes, Vikrant is the largest naval ship to be designed and built in India, and with this accomplishment, the country joins a select band of six nations that have demonstrated such capability: The United States (US), the United Kingdom (UK), France, Russia, Italy, and China. (PTI)

Updated on Sept 01, 2022 08:37 pm IST

Reducing the risk of a nuclear war

The stalled Iranian nuclear deal and periodic threats by North Korea about using its nascent weapons of mass destruction capability against the US and its regional allies add to the discord. Suffice it to note that 2022 is a blighted year in relation to the global nuclear challenge. (Shutterstock)

Updated on Aug 04, 2022 07:11 pm IST

The military’s apolitical ethos is key. Preserve it

Indian army soldiers stand guarding at Chakan-da-Bagh outpost of India-Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK) Line of Control of Poonch district about 250 KM from Jammu, the winter capital of Kashmir on 14 January 2013. (EPA)

Updated on Jul 04, 2022 09:26 pm IST

The nuclear club gets new member

India conducted five nuclear tests in May 1998 at the Pokhran range in Rajasthan.(HT archive)

Updated on May 06, 2022 11:45 pm IST

Preserve the pluralistic ethos of the Army

Whether the mandir-masjid-gurudwara system or the concept of a sarv dharam sthal, the abiding ethos of the Army is to respect all faiths while the soldier remains steadfast to naam-namak-nishan — or regimental honour and loyalty to country and flag (Waseem Andrabi /HTPhoto)

Updated on May 06, 2022 07:31 pm IST

Galvanise MoD to reduce military import index

PM Modi’s focus on self-reliance in the defence sector must be commended. But for this to happen, the domestic ecosystem must be receptive to foreign investment and tech transfers (ANI)

Updated on Apr 15, 2022 06:47 pm IST

Review the lapses in defence management

While India and Pakistan demonstrated their ability to restrain their media from going ballistic over a cruise missile malfunction — regional WMD stability needs a restoration of trust and nurturing this with sincerity. (Reuters)

Published on Mar 17, 2022 08:12 pm IST

What India can learn from the Ukraine crisis

Uniformed people are seen throwing items into a fire outside intelligence building on the premises of the Ukrainian Defence Ministry's unit, in Kyiv, Ukraine February 24, 2022 in this screen grab taken from a video. REUTERS TV/via REUTERS (REUTERS)

Updated on Feb 24, 2022 07:34 pm IST

Don’t sully the military for electoral advantage

When the R-Day parade, with its traditional pomp and pageantry, marched along a renovated Rajpath on Wednesday, the focus was on the Indian military — an institution committed to defend the nation and flag unto death and which owes its allegiance to the Constitution -– the sacred covenant that the people of India adopted in January 1950. (ARVIND YADAV/HT PHOTO)

Updated on Jan 26, 2022 09:21 pm IST

China: An abiding challenge for India

Indian Army and People's Liberation Army (PLA) of China exchange greetings along LAC. India’s military capability has been enhanced tactically to deal with the LAC challenge, but this is more a case of ‘reorganisation and realignment’ of assets — as opposed to addition to inventory or firepower capability (ANI)

Updated on Jan 04, 2022 09:36 pm IST

General Bipin Rawat’s zeal for jointness

General Rawat’s task was a Herculean one — of reorganising a vast, multilayered institution that includes uniformed personnel, civilian employees, defence production units as well as R&D organisations (PTI)

Updated on Dec 09, 2021 09:45 pm IST

A bleak and contested new world order

The current decade is one of the relative decline in US credibility. While the rise of an assertive China is a reality that some nations experience more acutely than others, it is unlikely that there will be a transition to the kind of bipolarity that characterised the Cold War decades (REUTERS)

Updated on Nov 29, 2021 08:26 pm IST

The Delhi declaration and its challenges

The Delhi declaration is a pithy summary that harmonises the divergent views and the security concerns of eight nations apropos of the Taliban-ruled Afghanistan (via REUTERS)

Updated on Nov 12, 2021 04:24 pm IST

LAC and the India-China stalemate

Almost six decades after the war of October 1962, India and China are yet to arrive at a modus vivendi on an intractable territorial issue, which, at its core, is a manifestation of major power contestation within the Asian grid (AFP)

Updated on Oct 10, 2021 07:38 pm IST

AUKUS roils the Indo-Pacific

The Virginia-class fast-attack submarine USS Illinois returns home to Joint Base Pearl Harbour-Hickam from a deployment in the 7th Fleet area of responsibility. (AP)

Updated on Sept 17, 2021 05:01 pm IST

Finally, a national maritime sherpa

Representational Image. (File photo)

Updated on Jul 15, 2021 05:22 pm IST

Tri-service commands: Use a strategy of persuasion

An Indian Air Force fighter jet flies in the backdrop of Himalayan mountain ranges. (Representational image/PTI)

Published on Jun 28, 2021 07:33 pm IST

For Narendra Modi and Rajnath Singh, a test on Indian defence

More than 60% of the IN's conventional boats (as submarines are referred to) are over 30 years old and there is a steady decline in the total number of fully operational submarines (Representational image/AP)

Updated on Jun 09, 2021 07:52 am IST

India’s worst offshore disaster was avoidable

Relatives of deceased crew member Nilesh Pitale, who was on barge P-305 that sank on May 17 due to Cyclone Tauktae, wait for his body outside JJ Hospital's mortuary in Mumbai on Thursday, May 20. (Anshuman Poyrekar/HT photo)

Updated on May 21, 2021 04:00 pm IST

In India’s Covid war, the role of the fauj

The primary role of the military is to safeguard national integrity, counter territorial challenges and prepare for war to deter any adventurism. The past year has been particularly taxing for the Indian military — China’s incursions across the Line of Actual Control, and the subsequent Galwan setback, occurred due to the pandemic-induced disruption of the Army’s annual deployment in Ladakh. (AP)

Updated on May 06, 2021 10:53 am IST

In the seas, when the US and India differ on principle

File photo of USS John Paul Jones (DDG-53). (Shutterstock)

Updated on Apr 13, 2021 06:44 am IST

Defence: The disjunct between words and action

At Kevadia, the PM “stressed on the importance of enhancing indigenisation in the national security system”. (ANI)

Updated on Mar 10, 2021 06:55 am IST

What Pangong means for Asian geopolitics

Will the disengagement and the acceptance of a temporary suspension by India of patrolling rights in one area lead to greater malleability in managing LAC and provide a road map for transiting to an agreed border? (AP)

Published on Feb 16, 2021 08:16 pm IST

As LAC becomes the new LoC, India’s challenge deepens

Soldiers of the Indian Army operating T-90 Bhishma tank near the Line of Actual Control, Chumar-Demchok area of Eastern Ladakh, January 6, 2021 (ANI)

Updated on Jan 30, 2021 04:47 am IST

January 6: A black day for US democracy

The white supremacist disregard for the sanctity of law has been on the increase during the Trump presidency and the contrast with how Washington dealt with peaceful protests by African-Americans in recent months is illustrative of the deep racial fissures that still fester in US society.(AP)

Updated on Jan 07, 2021 07:41 pm IST

Don’t rush into unviable theatre commands, with skewed structures

In this new MTC matrix, the CNS (chief of naval staff) is marginalised and the CDS assumes a supra-operational role that was not envisaged in the original conception of this post(PTI)

Updated on Dec 20, 2020 07:43 pm IST

To preserve its edge, the silent service must innovate | Analysis

In his annual comments in the run-up to Navy Day, naval chief Admiral Karambir Singh outlined the orientation of the IN as a force that is ”combat-ready, credible and cohesive”(PTI)

Updated on Dec 04, 2020 08:00 pm IST

HTLS 2020: Challenges and opportunities of new era in national security

Technology has always been at the heart of enhancing and refining capability and a holistic techno-strategic review specific to India’s national security needs the highest priority.

Updated on Nov 17, 2020 06:27 pm IST

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