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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…

Green Energy…

Initiatives for Clean and Green Indian Navy

14 Nov 201711 Sep 2018
(Published in IndraStra Global 07 Aug 2017)  On 12 February 2017, INS Sarvekshak, a survey ship of the Indian Navy had completed installation of a 5KW solar power system on…
Afghanistan…

Massive Ordnance Air Blast, MOAB – A Perspective

9 Nov 201711 Sep 2018
(Published in CASS Journal, Vol4, No.3. Jul-Sep 2017. ISSN 2347-9191) On 13th April 2017 at 7:32 p.m. local time[1], U.S. Forces Afghanistan conducted a strike using a GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air…
Afghanistan…

Three Ports Under China’s Gaze

9 Nov 201711 Sep 2018
{Published in Indian Military Review Aug 2017 (https://goo.gl/2A1PGt) & IndraStraglobal (http://www.indrastra.com/2017/08/Three-Ports-Under-China-s-Gaze-003-08-2017-0050.html)} The Baluch and their lands hold the key to prosperity of the land locked Central Asian Region and Afghanistan.…
Ammunition…

Green Energy Initiatives by Defence Forces

9 Nov 201711 Sep 2018
(Abridged version published in SP’s Military Year Book 2017) “Unleashing war fighters from the tether of fuel and reducing our military installations’ dependence on a costly and potentially fragile power…
AI…

The Challenge of Military Artificial Intelligence

9 Nov 201711 Sep 2018
 (Abridged version published in SP’s Military Year Book 2017) Intelligent machines were the focus of research work at many institutes after the WWII. In 1950, Alan Turing argued that if…
AI…

Weaponised Unmanned Vehicles in the Indian Navy: Technology Outlook

13 Jun 201711 Sep 2018
(Published IndraStra Global   May 22, 2016 ) In the Navy unmanned vehicles constitute four types of vehicles which operate in aerial, surface-land, surface-sea and underwater environments. Even though more glamorous…
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Book Review Adam Kahane, Collaborating with the Enemy; How to Work with People You Don’t Agree with or Like or Trust. Pages 130. Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc. Oakland, CA. ISBN: 978-1-62656-822-8

6 Jun 201711 Sep 2018
(Published at IndrastraGlobal and Amazon) Book Review Adam Kahane, Collaborating with the Enemy; How to Work with People You Don’t Agree with or Like or Trust. Pages 130. Berrett-Koehler Publishers,…
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Military Domain of Cyber warfare

30 Mar 201717 Jun 2017
  (Published in CLAWS Scholar Warrior, Spring 2017, ISSN 2319-7331) “it would require sustained action for an adversary to take down a network for a period of time which would…
Cyber warfare…

Hybrid warfare-The Naval Dimension

1 Jan 201725 Jan 2017
(Published IndraStra Global 01 Jan 2017, http://www.indrastra.com/2017/01/FEATURED-Hybrid-Warfare-Naval-Dimension-003-01-2017-0002.html)  It is so damn complex. If you ever think you have the solution to this, you’re wrong, and you’re dangerous. You have to keep…
China…

Jade Necklace: Naval Dimension of Chinese Engagement with Coastal Nations Across the Oceans

17 Dec 201625 Jan 2017
(Published IndraStra Global, 17 Dec 2017; for complete interactive experience visit http://www.indrastra.com/2016/12/FEATURED-Jade-Necklace-Naval-Dimension-of-Chinese-Engagement-with-Coastal-Nations-Across-the-Oceans-002-12-2016-0032.html ) “Be extremely subtle even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious even to the point of…

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