International Relations in India & Beyond
The ministry of defence (MoD) has released a policy called Defence Acquisition Procedure 2020(DAP 2020). 657 pages long policy, replaces the Defence Procurement Procedure (DPP) which was adopted in 2002. It is a mature...
A full Chinese invasion of Taiwan with troops landed and ports and airports seized would be very difficult to achieve due to problems China would have in landing and supplying troops, Taiwan’s Defence Ministry...
Following the construction of INS Vikrant, India became one of the few countries that have built an aircraft carrier mostly with indigenous technology. The Indian Navy’s Directorate of Naval Design is responsible for the...
This is a long read article and contains 7500+ words Introduction The recent incidents and skirmishes between Indian and Chinese forces have evoked a fresh and invigorated interest to understand the genesis of the...
Guns supplied by Iran to its Houthi allies in Yemen are being smuggled across the Gulf of Aden to Somalia, according to a Geneva-based think tank, where al Qaeda-linked al Shabab insurgents are battling...
An unprecedented election pledge by Japan’s ruling party to double defence spending underscores the nation’s haste to acquire missiles, stealth fighters, drones and other weapons to deter China’s military in the disputed East China...
The arms race and defence acquisition is a pattern of competitive procurement of military capabilities between two or more countries involving bureaucratic management and defence organizations turning their money into maximum military capacity. This...
Taiwan proposed on Thursday extra defence spending of T$240 billion ($8.69 billion) over the next five years, including on new missiles, as it warned of an urgent need to upgrade weapons in the face...
We live in the Anthropocene and the missile age wherein countries with technological edge are vying with each other to have projectiles that are sleek, fatal and faster to hit targets as far as possible. This...
Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh is in Dushanbe to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Defence Minister’s Meet. The SCO meeting is being held at a time when there are tons of tensions in...
