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 | RISE OF CHINA HISTORY, TECHNOLOGY & POLICIES IMPLICATIONS FOR INDIA By Maj Gen P K Mallick, VSM (Retd)
China was the world’s largest economy in 1820, accounting for an
estimated 32.9 percent of global gross domestic product (GDP).
But foreign and civil wars, internal strife, weak and ineffective
governments, natural and manmade disasters, and distortive
economic policies caused China to fall behind. China’s policies kept
the economy poor, stagnant, centrally controlled, vastly inefficient
and relatively isolated from the global economy. By 1952, China’s
share of global GDP had ...Read more > | 156 Pages 1.40 MB |
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 | RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN CYBER DOMAIN AND INDIAN PERSPECTIVE By Maj Gen PK Mallick, VSM (Retd)
With the convergence of computer and communications technology
a vast, interdependent physical and electronic network has emerged
which connected government, commercial, scientific and educational
infrastructures including critical infrastructures. This rapid increases in
interconnectivity have facilitated enhanced communications, economic
growth and the delivery of services critical to the public welfare. ...Read more > | 67 Pages 1.48 MB |
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 | CHINA’S DEFENCE WHITE PAPER – AN ANALYSIS By Maj Gen PK Mallick, VSM (Retd)
China published a white paper on July 24 this year Titled ‘China’s National Defence in the New Era’.
It aims to help the international community understand China’s national defence strategies under
President Xi Jinping. This explains the practice, purposes and importance of China’s attempts to build
a fortified national defense and a strong military.
Some nation states publish their National Security Strategy and National Defence Strategy from time
to time generally coinciding ...Read more > | 20 Pages 1.39 MB |
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 | UNDERSTANDING RMA AND MILITARY TRANSFORMATION By Maj Gen P K Mallick,VSM (Retd)
Every few years the U.S. defense community latches on to a new term that
influences the efforts of the armed services, the Office of the Secretary of
Defense, the Joint Staff, and the various agencies, labs, think tanks and
others responsible for building and maintaining the U.S. military enterprise.
Words move money. Every few years, often at the beginning of an administration, a new
buzzword emerges: “revolution in military affairs,” “transformation,” “third
offset,” or even ...Read more > | 54 Pages 4.23 MB |
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 | 5G, HUAWEI AND INDIA By Maj Gen PK Mallick, VSM (Retd)
The ability to create and use new technologies is the source of economic strength and military
security. Technology and the capacity to create new technologies are the basis of information age
power. 5G as the cornerstone of a new digital environment is the focal point for the new
competition.
China’s success in creating globally competitive tele-communications firms has led the
Chinese government’s desire to seize leadership in next generation Information Technology (IT).
China is ...Read more > | 19 Pages 1.49 MB |
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 | THE AFGHANISTAN CONUNDRUM By Maj Gen P K Mallick, VSM (Retd)
The location of Afghanistan is geostrategically critical. It is a land bridge that links
China, Central Asia, South Asia and the Middle East. Geo-politically, Afghanistan is located
conveniently close to “the soft underbelly” of Russia and China and its neighbor Iran. Will
the Americans leave this geo-strategically important location? However the country is
constantly at war for several decades. For the country to prosper Afghanistan must have
some semblance of peace. For ending the 17 ...Read more > | 34 Pages 1.39 MB |
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 | PULWAMA AND AFTER By Maj Gen P K Mallick, VSM (Retd)
At least 44 personnel of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) were killed and 70 injured when a Maruti Eeco
car laden with explosives rammed into a CRPF bus—part of a massive convoy—in Awantipora town of Pulwama District
in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) on 14 February, in one of the deadliest terror attacks yet on government forces in J&K.
The incident took place at Lethpora, about 30 km from Srinagar on the Jammu-Srinagar highway around 3.15 pm. The
scene of the attack is not very far ...Read more > | 3 Pages 264.59 KB |
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 | QUAD AND INDIA’S BALANCING ACT By Maj Gen P K Mallick, VSM (Retd)
The Quad is a mechanism which facilitates
dialogue between four major democracies
within the Indo-Pacific region, Australia,
Japan, India, and the US, on issues of regional
security. The Quad believes in principles of
openness, freedom of movement, and respect
for the rules-based international order. Quad
is a dialogue mechanism, Indo-Pacific is a
concept. Quad does not define Indo-Pacific.
Quad is not an ...Read more > | 7 Pages 511.81 KB |
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 | 2+2 SUMMIT MEETING AND BEYOND By Maj Gen P K Mallick, VSM (Retd)
US Secretary of Defence, James Mattis and
Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, accompanied
by Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Joseph
Dunford, met with India’s Foreign Minister,
Sushma Swaraj and Defence Minister, Nirmala
Sitharaman, at New Delhi on September 6,
2018, in what was dubbed the “two plus two”
summit. Three months have passed since that
meeting. The ongoing trade war between the
USA and China and recent development in
Quad have critical bearing on the ...Read more > | 7 Pages 406.81 KB |
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 | ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN ARMED FORCES: AN ANALYSIS By Maj Gen P K Mallick, VSM (Retd)
Today is the age of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. The current period
of rapid, simultaneous and systemic transformations driven by advances
in science is reshaping industries, blurring geographical boundaries,
challenging existing regulatory frameworks and even redefining what it
means to be human. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the software engine
that drives the Fourth Industrial Revolution. AI is creating targeted
marketing, safer travel through self-driving cars, smarter weapons ...Read more > | 17 Pages 120.80 KB |
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 | THE PLA’S DEVELOPING CYBER WARFARE CAPABILITIES AND INDIA S OPTIONS By By Maj Gen P K Mallick, VSM (Retd)
Chinese President Xi Jinping has made it clear that his objective for China is to emerge as a ‘cyber superpower’. China wants to be the world’s largest nation in cyberspace and also one of the most powerful. The information technology revolution has produced both
momentous opportunities and likely vulnerabilities for china. China is home of largest
number of ‘netizens’ in the world. It also hosts some of the world’s most vibrant and successful technology companies. It also remains ...Read more > | 18 Pages 1.11 MB |
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 | EMERGING WORLD SECURITY ENVIRONMENT AND ROLE OF INDIA By MAJ GEN PK MALLICK, VSM (Retd)
Expanding and increasingly integrated global economy combined with continued tech revolution, particularly in the areas of IT and Bio Technology will put the forces of globalization into high gear. This flattening of the world is not simply about how Govt, business, org and people communicate and interact, it is about emergence of completely new social, political and business models. These changes will alter the way in which Govts apch conflicts. Example What’s App. ...Read more > | 20 Pages 1.16 MB |
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 | WHAT IS CLOUD COMPUTING?
An emerging computing paradigm where data and
services reside in massively scalable data centers and
can be ubiquitously accessed from any connected
devices over the ...Read more > | 19 Pages 2.33 MB |
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 | CYBER SECURITY IN THE ARMED FORCES : DEFENSIVE AND OFFENSIVE ASPECTS By Maj Gen PK Mallick, VSM (Retd)
Plans, coordinates, integrates, synchronizes, and conducts activities
to direct the operations and defense of specified Department of Defense
information networks, and prepare to, and When directed, conduct full spectrum
military cyberspace operations, in order to, Enable actions in all domains, ensure U.S./Allied freedom of action in cyberspace and deny the same to ...Read more > | 56 Pages 3.65 MB |
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