The national security of a country is closely tied to the welfare of its border residents. The unsettled boundary dispute between India and China in Eastern Ladakh has far-reaching consequences for ...

The Partition evokes not just emotions, memories of friendship, bonding but also loss of faith on humanity, despair, betrayal and losses amidst a range of coping mechanisms for those who left their ...

Recently, in an interview with the French daily, Le Matin, the Prime Minister in discussing the developments in Afghanistan is reported to have pointed out that country is on the Soviet border. The ...

The Korean Peninsula is one of the highly militarised regions in the world. In the milieu of the ongoing Russia–Ukraine war since 2022, which has seen extensive use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), ...

Humans have always distinguished themselves from all living beings by virtue of their intelligence. This special distinction has remained undisputed for centuries only to face a major challenge from ...

This article examines the interplay of development, militarization and culture of impunity in Balochistan. It contends that the State’s pursuit of large-scale infrastructure projects is intensifying ...

With the introduction of high-speed Internet, the need for defence against hostile attacks has become a challenge. In this article, an effort has been made to understand the sentiments of researchers, ...

India’s goal of becoming an atmanirbhar (self-reliant) global drone hub by 2030 could face certification and atmanirbharta challenges. The certification challenges of civil drones emerge from ...

In recent years, transfer of defence technology to India, as an alternate route to indigenous development, has been frequently brought up with widely varying views from the Indian defence technology ...

The versatility, speed and strategic reach of air power makes it an indispensable component of Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR) efforts, contributing significantly to the ...

This book is the third in a series of three volumes on “Kautilya and His Vocabulary” as a part of the “Indigenous Historical Knowledge” project undertaken by the Institute for Defence Studies and ...

Senior Fellow, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Dr Ashok K. Behuria’s Issue brief ‘Visit of Sri Lankan President to India: Issues at Stake’ has been published by International Centre for Peace Studies… Continue ...