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 | LIMITED WAR AND NUCLEAR DETERRENCE PART I AND II By Major General PK Mallick, VSM (Retd)
On 15 June 2020, in a brutal, savage skirmish,the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) used fists, rocks, rods, baton, spikes, knuckle-dusters, nail-studded clubs and wooden clubs wrapped in barbed wire at a post at Galwan on the
Indian side of Line of Actual Control(LAC) in
Ladakh sector at an altitude of 4,250 meters.
India lost a Commanding Officer of an infantry
battalion and 19 other ranks. China did not divulge its casualty figures. There is a famous saying that no two nuclear-powered ...Read more > | 30 Pages 904.35 KB |
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 | DEFINING CHINA’S INTELLIGENTIZED WARFARE AND ROLE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE By Maj Gen PK Mallick, VSM (Retd)
Marshal NV Ograkov, Chief of Staff of the Soviet Army in late 1970s-early 1980s gave
out the theory of Military Technical Revolution (MTR). In the wake of overwhelming
victory of coalition forces in Operation Desert Storm, net assessment specialists like
Andrew Marshal came out with the term Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA)
which basically evolved from earlier term MTR used by Soviet Military ...Read more > | 29 Pages 657.48 KB |
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 | ARMENIAN-AZERBAIJANI CONFLICT OVER NAGORNO-KARABAKH: GEOPOLITICAL IMPLICATIONS By Maj Gen P K Mallick, VSM (Retd)
Since the last days of the Soviet Union Armenia and Azerbaijan, the two states
have been locked in an intractable conflict over the disputed region of NagornoKarabakh. Nagorno-Karabakh, is an autonomous province of the former
Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh, a self-declared country
whose independence is not internationally recognised. Nagorno-Karabakh and
surrounding regions have seen periodic outbursts of violence in recent years, but
the current war is the most ...Read more > | 97 Pages 2.25 MB |
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 | CHINESE INTRANSIGENCE IN LADAKH: AN OVERVIEW By Major General PK Mallick, VSM (Retd)
China and India are heirs to the two oldest
civilisations of the world. Both emerged in their
present form after World War II. India became
independent in 1947 and the People’s Republic of
China was founded in 1949. They share one of the
world’s longest borders, about 3488 kms, across
the Himalayas. Both are nuclear weapon states.
China’s missiles can reach anywhere in the world.
India’s latest Agni series missiles can reach Beijing
comfortably. On border issues there have ...Read more > | 12 Pages 3.47 MB |
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 | IS THE NAVAL BLOCKADE OF THE STRAITS OF MALACCA A REALISTIC OPTION FOR INDIA: AN ASSESSMENT By Major General PK Mallick, VSM (Retd)
The Straits of Malacca is the shortest sea route
between Persian Gulf suppliers of oil and key
Asian markets. It links major economies such as
Middle East, China, Japan, South Korea, etc.
Being the 500 nautical mile funneled waterway, the
Strait is only 1.5 nautical miles (2.8 km) wide at its
narrowest point─ the Phillips Channel in the
Singapore Strait. The Strait is not deep enough to
accommodate some of the largest ships, mostly oil
tankers, but it is significant as through the ...Read more > | 9 Pages 577.54 KB |
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 | IS ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) CHANGING THE NATURE OF WAR? By Maj Gen P K Mallick, VSM (Retd)
The professional military body differentiates between an objective nature and a subjective
character of war by drawing upon Clausewitz. Nature of war describes what war is and character
of war describes how it is actually fought. Nature of war is violent, interactive between opposing
wills and fundamentally political. War’s character is influenced by technology, law, ethics, culture,
methods of social, political, and military organization and other factors that change across time
and ...Read more > | 9 Pages 99.19 KB |
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 | LOCUST INVASION IN INDIA By Maj Gen PK Mallick, VSM (Retd)
It has been a double whammy. As the nation is reeling under the
effects of COVID-19 pandemic, India has to fight another menace:
locust invasion. Massive swarms of desert locusts have devoured
crops across seven states of western and central India including
Rajasthan, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Haryana, Maharashtra,
Uttar Pradesh and Punjab. The locust population might grow 400
times larger by end June 2020 and spread to new areas without
action. It would be disrupting food supply, ...Read more > | 31 Pages 2.06 MB |
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 | CYBER AND SPACE STRATEGY FOR INDIA By Maj Gen PK Mallick, VSM (Retd)
The most significant event was the introduction of the information (IT) Act as early as 2000 and the promulgation of the National Cyber Security Policy by the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology in 2013.The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) was established in 2004 and continues to act. ...Read more > | 1 Pages 1.01 MB |
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 | U.S. NATIONAL CYBER STRATEGY AND DEPARTMENT OF DEFENCE (DOD) CYBER STRATEGY: AN ANALYSIS By Maj Gen PK Mallick, VSM (Retd)
The Trump Administration released the ‘National Cyber Strategy’ on 20 September
2018. Around the same time, the ‘Defense Department Cyber Strategy 2018’ was also
published. In the United States (U.S.), every government after taking over, announces some
important policies and or strategy documents. The present administration has already
released the ‘National Security Strategy’, the ‘National Defense Strategy’ and the ‘Nuclear
Posture Review’. The National Cyber Strategy ...Read more > | 20 Pages 1.38 MB |
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 | INDIA S NATIONAL CYBER SECURITY STRATEGY: HOW TO GO ABOUT IT By Maj Gen PK Mallick, VSM (Retd)
The exponential growth and rapid adoption of information and communication technologies (ICT) with its associated economics and social opportunities have benefitted billions of people around the world. The Internet has become the backbone of modern businesses, critical services and infrastructure, social networks and the global economy ...Read more > | 8 Pages 1.97 MB |
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 | CYBER WARGAME AN INDIAN SCENARIO By Maj Gen PK Mallick, VSM (Retd)
Immediately after the first gulf war in the early 1990’s the theories of Revolution in
Military Affairs (RMA) and Information Warfare were being studied all over the world as a
new kind of warfare. During that time, a course on Information Warfare was conducted
at the National Defense University of USA. The course participants were from senior
officers of the armed forces, representatives of Department of Defence and Department
of State and policy makers from the government. Rand ...Read more > | 7 Pages 247.83 KB |
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 | RETURN OF THE HASHISHIN (ASSASSIN) CULT?: WIDER IMPLICATIONS OF THE ATTACK ON SAUDI OIL FACILITIES By Maj Gen P K Mallick, VSM (Retd)
Considered to be the most serious kinetic attack on oil facilities in the
Gulf since the first Gulf War of 1991, on September 14, 2019 the oil
facilities in Saudi Arabia was attacked. The attack struck Abqaiq’s large
Aramco oil processing facility considered the largest of its kind in the
world run by the Saudi state oil company Aramco and another site
at the Khurais oil field. With remarkable precision, the aerial strikes
hit more than a dozen oil installations in Khurais and ...Read more > | 142 Pages 2.07 MB |
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 | CYBER ATTACK ON KUDANKULAM NUCLEAR POWER PLANT – A WAKE UP CALL By Maj Gen PK Mallick, VSM (Retd)
The media is agog with the report of a cyber attack in India’s largest civil nuclear facility - the
Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KNPP) in Tamil Nadu. Cyberspace provides a new opportunity
for determined adversaries to wreak havoc at nuclear facilities possibly without ever setting foot inside
the nuclear plant. If the network that runs the machines and software controlling the nuclear reactor
are compromised, cyber attacks on nuclear power plants could have physical effects. This can ...Read more > | 36 Pages 1.85 MB |
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 | ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND NATIONAL SECURITY By en P K Mallick,VSM (Retd)
The study of devices that perceive their
environment and define a course of
action that will maximize its chance of
achieving a given goal. A subset of artificial intelligence, in which
machines learn how to complete a
certain task without being explicitly
programmed to do ...Read more > | 51 Pages 1.60 MB |
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 | NOTRH KOREA, DAVID OF THE CYBER WORLD By Maj Gen P K Mallick, VSM (Retd)
In 2004 I went to deliver a talk and chair a session on Cyber War at College of
Defence Management, Secunderabad. After the session one of the participant
officers of Higher Defence Management Course who was doing his dissertation on a
relevant topic engaged me in a discussion that North Korea has no internet
connection and how do they do business. My answer that in today’s world no country
can afford to have complete disconnect seemed not to satisfy him. Of course Sony
happened ...Read more > | 16 Pages 640.25 KB |
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