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 | EMERGING WORLD SECURITY ENVIRONMENT AND ROLE OF INDIA By MAJ GEN PK MALLICK, VSM (Retd)
An English princess with an Egyptian boyfriend crashes in a French
tunnel, driving a German car with a Dutch engine, driven by a Belgian
who was drunk on Scottish whiskey, followed closely by Italian
Paparazzi, on Japanese motorcycles, treated by an American doctor,
using Brazilian ...Read more > | 62 Pages 8.69 MB |
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 | CYBER AND SPACE STRATEGY FOR INDIA By MAJ GEN PK MALLICK,VSM (RETD)
Increased public focus on the SSF
indicates its growing prominence in the
PLA and the priority of its assigned
missions. China successfully launched 16 of 18
space launch vehicles (SLVs), orbiting
some 31 spacecraft, including
communications, navigation, ISR, and
test/engineering ...Read more > | 40 Pages 3.30 MB |
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 | ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN ARMED FORCES- AN ANALYSIS By Maj Gen PK 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 875.17 KB |
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 | LAND WARFARE DOCTRINE 2018 OF INDIAN ARMY – A CRITIQUE By Maj Gen P K Mallick, VSM (Retd)
Doctrine provides guidance for all aspects of a service’s activities, including training,
organization and force structure. In the absence of a clearly articulated doctrine, a
service may have a difficult time maintaining a coherent approach to its preparation
for future war. Paying attention to military doctrine is important for following ...Read more > | 21 Pages 1.90 MB |
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 | 2+2 DIALOGUE AND INDO U.S. RELATIONS By Maj Gen P K Mallick, VSM (Retd)
There has been significant advances in the U.S.-India relationship over the
years. U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis and Secretary of State Mike
Pompeo, accompanied by Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Joseph Dunford, met with
their counterparts, Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj and Defense Minister Nirmala
Sitharaman at New Delhi on 6th September 2018, in what was dubbed the ‘twoplus-two’ summit. This comprehensive dialogue aimed to combine foreign and
defence policy issues and deal with ...Read more > | 39 Pages 1.65 MB |
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 | US-CHINA TRADE WAR: ANALYSES OF DEEPER NUANCES AND WIDER IMPLICATIONS By Maj Gen PK Mallick, VSM (Retd)
On March 8, 2018, the US President Donald Trump announced imposing
additional tariffs on China’s export of steel and aluminium to USA. On March 22,
2018, President Trump announced plans to enact sanctions against China over its
Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) policies that negatively affect the US stakeholders. These sanctions included raising tariffs by 25 percent on selected Chinese
products valued at $50 billion to $60 billion. On April 1, China announced that it
had retaliated ...Read more > | 47 Pages 2.72 MB |
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 | WARGAMING AND STRATEGIC MILITARY DECISION MAKING By MAJ GEN P K MALLICK, VSM (RETD)
The popular game chess dates
back to ancient India where it was
called chaturanga The game, a
simulation of war involving
warfighting functions and formations
of its day, helped rulers and their
advisors visualize and describe
military problems while practicing
new schemes of maneuver. The Persians picked up the game
and it spread throughout the world
often paralleling the conquests of
early Islamic kingdoms and ...Read more > | 28 Pages 3.77 MB |
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 | SELECTION OF ARMY CHIEF
With the announcement of Lt Gen Bipin Rawat, present Vice Chief of Army Staff to be the next Army
Chief there has been lot of discussions on this issue as the traditional method of seniority has not been
followed by the present Government. Two other General Officer Commanding of Eastern and Southern
Commands are senior to Lt Gen Bipin Rawat.
It is still not clear whether Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) or Permanent Chief of Chiefs of Staff
Committee (COSC) will be appointed and who will get ...Read more > | 10 Pages 762.96 KB |
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 | TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS TO REINFORCING SECURITY By By Maj Gen P K Mallick, VSM(Retd)
21st century is characterized by phenomenal growth of technology specially
Information Technology (IT) and Internet. The technology is becoming cheaper, easy
to operate and provide facilities which could not be even imagined decade earlier.
Technology is also a great leveler. Today the same facilities provided by latest
technology advancements are available to violent elements as well as law enforcing
agencies and armed forces. Today’s enemies are dynamic, unpredictable, diverse,
fluid, ...Read more > | 11 Pages 424.98 KB |
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.jpg) | TESTIMONY OF ADMIRAL MICHAEL S. ROGERS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR INDIA By Maj Gen P K Mallick, VSM (Retd)
Admiral Michael S. Rogers is the Director of the National Security Agency (NSA), Commander of the U.S. Cyber Command
(USCYBERCOM) and Chief of the Central Security Service (CSS) since April 3, 2014. He is going to be replaced by US Army’s Army
Cyber Command Chief Lt. Gen. Paul Nakasone. On 27 February 2018 Admiral Michael Rogers testified before the Senate
Committee on Armed Services. In his prepared speech the Admiral explained the various progress made by the USCYBERCOM.
This was his ...Read more > | 4 Pages 208.00 KB |
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 | CHINA’S DEFENCE BUDGET: AN ANALYSIS AND COMPARISON WITH INDIA’S DEFENCE BUDGET By Maj Gen P. K. Mallick, VSM (Retd)
The Chinese Premier (Prime Minister), Li
Keqiang, kicked off a potentially momentous
political summit in Beijing at the annual meeting
of China’s National People’s Congress. Speaking
in the Great Hall of the People, the cavernous
Mao-era building where China hosts its most
important political spectacles, Premier Li Keqiang
released the annual budget. Li Keqiang said as
he read a report to nearly 3000 delegates in the
Great Hall of the People on March 05, 2018, “We
will stick to ...Read more > | 11 Pages 1.29 MB |
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 | WHAT IS HAPPENING IN TIBET By Maj Gen PK Mallick, VSM(Retd)
On November 26, 2017 a 63-year-old Tibetan popular monk and volunteer
teacher of village children named Tenga from Kardze self-immolated in
Sichuan province s Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. He called out for
freedom in Tibet before he set himself aflame. These self-immolation
protests have explicitly called for greater freedom for the Tibetan people.
They represent the deep frustrations and yearnings of the Tibetan people.
Since 2008-2009, the unrest of resorting to self immolation ...Read more > | 18 Pages 1.39 MB |
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 | ENHANCED SITUATIONAL AWARENESS FOR MODERN WARFARE By Maj Gen PK Mallick, VSM(Retd)
Gathering of information on the state of one’s own forces—as well as
the enemy and on such external factors as weather and terrain. The
information having been gathered, means must be found to store,
retrieve, filter, classify, distribute and display ...Read more > | 42 Pages 1.99 MB |
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 | NATIONAL DEFENCE STRATEGY OF USA: WHERE IS INDIA’S NATIONAL DEFENCE STRATEGY By Maj Gen P K Mallick, VSM (Retd.)
The U.S. Secretary of Defense, Jim Mattis released the 2018 National Defense Strategy (NDS) summary during a speech at Johns Hopkins University’s Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies on January 19, 2018. This is the first National Defense Strategy in nearly a decade. The last was published under the signature of Bob Gates in June 2008, during the latter days of the Bush administration. The NDS replaces the erstwhile Quadrennial Defense ...Read more > | 5 Pages 862.49 KB |
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