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5Jan 202625 Feb 2026

Strings Attached: How Military Aid Shapes Alliances

Published Taaza Khabar News 05 Jan 2026 https://taazakhabarnews.com/strings-attached-how-military-aid-shapes-alliances/ The global arms trade has transcended mere commercial transactions and emerged as…

16Dec 20251 Jan 2026

Deconstructing and Countering the Triple Trap of Defence Dependency

Published 17 Dec 2025-Taaza Khabar News https://taazakhabarnews.com/deconstructing-and-countering-the-triple-trap-of-defence-dependency/ The “Triple Trap” is a significant issue encountered by nations that are heavily…

12Dec 20251 Jan 2026

China’s Strategic Penetration in the Pacific Islands: Geopolitical Dynamics

Published 12 Dec 2025 Council for Strategic Affairs, USA https://www.councilforstrategicaffairs.org/csa-journal/dr-s-kulshrestha#h.tl4nicrtpcvv The vast Pacific Ocean would always remain the islanders’ great…

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Sensitive Evolution of Insensitive Munitions

25 Dec 2019

Published Indrastra Global 24 Dec 2019 Everyone was stunned by the explosion and the shrapnel that hit all about the island…. Both twin agent units [full of flame-retardant foam] were…

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The Interweaving of Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence

23 Jun 201923 Jun 2019

(Published IndRastra Global 22nd Jun 2019) On September 28, 2018, the Facebook security team disclosed that hackers/criminals had exploited three vulnerabilities in the Facebook site and have managed to steal…

Aircraft…

The Development of the Carrier Based Aircraft

1 Mar 201925 Apr 2019

Published ET-Aviation & Defence Review Feb 2019, http://etadfr.timesgroup.com/February19/ The Development of the Carrier Based Aircraft "1,000 bombardment airplanes can be built and operated for about the price of one battleship"…

Big Data…

Big Data: Need for Exploiting Potential for Indian Navy

20 Feb 2019

Published SP's Military Year Book 2018, Pg-97 "Data really powers everything that we do." Jeff Weiner, CEO, LinkedIn The oceans are complex mediums whose nature provides ample opportunity for an…

Armament…

Nanotechnology Massive Potential to Disrupt Military Applications

20 Feb 2019

15 Sep 2017-SP -1-MYB 2018 Published SP's Military Year Book 2018-Pg 73 “You only have to look at how IT made a huge difference to both the US economy and…

Indo-Pacific…

Unmanned Systems – Evolution and their Emerging Role in Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief

20 Feb 2019

Book Chapter: Unmanned systems – evolution and emerging role in humanitarian assistance and disaster relief EARTH OBSERVATION & NAVIGATION. AW AND TECHNOLOGY, 2018/3 (eds.) M. JANKOWSKA, M. PAWEŁCZYK, S. AUGUSTYN…

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Rockets Carried by Naval Aircraft –A Perspective

25 Dec 201825 Apr 2019

Rockets Carried by Naval Aircraft –A Perspective Published ET-Aviation & Defence Review Dec 2018 http://etadfr.timesgroup.com/December18/ Rear Admiral Dr S Kulshrestha, retd Introduction Naval Aviation entrenched itself in May 1912 when…

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Cupping the Pacific — China’s Rising Influence

27 Mar 201811 Sep 2018

(Published March 27, 2018 IndraStra Global) Cupping the Pacific — China's Rising Influence China's Rising Influence in the Pacific through Sale of Arms There is one aspect of the recent…

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Civilian Micro Drones, IEDs, and Extremists

21 Jan 201811 Sep 2018

Citation: Kulshrestha, S. "Civilian Microdrones, IEDs, and Extremists", IndraStra Global Vol. 04, Issue No: 01 (2018), 0035, | ISSN 2381-3652 “I look to the skies and expect artificial passenger pigeons, blackening…

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Cyber Warfare: Protecting the Soldier

7 Jan 201811 Sep 2018

(Published in CLAWS Scholar Warrior, 06 Jan 2018) The machine has presented us with a central nervous system, protected with no spinal vertebrae, lying almost naked for the cutting. If,…