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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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 | 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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