IDSA Comments

With a new found celebrity status among the video conferencing applications, Zoom now faces a massive privacy and security threat as the platform’s default settings are not secure enough.

• Kritika Roy
• April 11, 2020
• IDSA Comments

The Hasina Government is in overdrive to meet the Covid-19 challenge head on, and ensure that this unforeseen threat does not snowball into a major national crisis.

• Smruti S. Pattanaik
• April 09, 2020
• IDSA Comments

There is a need to act quickly on the issue of force majeure to scotch all speculations about how the MoD is going to deal with the inevitable delay in performance of contracts and instil confidence among the vendors.

• Amit Cowshish
• April 06, 2020
• IDSA Comments

COVID-19 presents a unique opportunity to the global new-age mega corporations to up their game and showcase their innovativeness and resourcefulness.

• Ashish Chhibbar
• April 03, 2020
• IDSA Comments

While maintaining cyber hygiene in these disruptive times is indeed a challenge, each organisation should work towards putting in place a tailor-made work-from-home cyber defence strategy.

• Kritika Roy
• March 30, 2020
• IDSA Comments

The SIPRI report on the volume of international arms transfers during 2015-19 highlights the strengths of key strategic partnerships such as Russia-India, US-Japan and China-Pakistan, reinforced by arms trade.

• Kanica Rakhra
• March 25, 2020
• IDSA Comments

The European Union-3 and Iran are indeed up against formidable odds to keep the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) alive going forward.

• S. Samuel C. Rajiv
• February 21, 2020
• IDSA Comments

The Indian Army is at the cusp of a huge change. It has to concurrently manage the matter of Women Officers as seamlessly as possible. Success in this venture is predicated squarely on the mindsets of the seniors in charge and the WO community

• Alok Deb
• February 19, 2020
• IDSA Comments

The slowdown in economic growth not only seems to have cast its shadow on the allocation of the defence budget for 2020-21 but has also compounded the challenges for the country’s first CDS.

• Vinay Kaushal
• February 12, 2020
• IDSA Comments

The laser-based aerospace defence assets, as and when they are fully developed and deployed, could prove to be a potent deterrent.

• Atul Pant
• February 07, 2020
• IDSA Comments