Indian Navy's 'Op Sankalp': Indian Navy has responded to the manifestation of Israel–Hamas conflict in the maritime domain by re-orienting and significantly enhancing the scope of its ongoing maritime security operations since mid-Dec 23.
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Does India really need a strategic bomber?: The modern active strategic bombers currently in service are Northrop Grumman B-2 sprit, Boeing B-52 Stratofortress, Rockwell B-1 Lancer with United States, Xian H-6 with China and Tupolev Tu-95, Tu-22M and Tu-160 with Russia.
IONS Maritime Exercise 2022 (IMEX 22): The maiden edition of Indian Ocean Naval Symposium (IONS) Maritime Exercise 2022 (IMEX- 22) was conducted at Goa and in Arabian Sea from 26–30 March 2022.
Where Giants once sailed: Soviet Navy presence in the IOR: During height of the Cold War in the’ 60s, strategic importance of the Indian Ocean, and its littoral states grew for both the US and USSR. Asia had emerged as a ‘hotbed’ for proxy wars, with directly participating in conflicts, the focus increasingly on the third world.
To persuade Beijing from responding in kind, Mr Karnad wants India to develop, test and deploy thermonuclear weapons, which he regards as the final arbiters of power. Washington, he believes, constrains not benefits India.
New Delhi has, very sensibly, resisted the urge to invoke an ‘Indian Monroe Doctrine’ and attempt regime-change in Male through military action; its forbearance is bound to be rewarded.
Historically, India, because of its central geographic location, has been privileged to play a catalytic role in this process of synthesis and churning.
A parallel endeavour on India’s western flank, dubbed the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), will create access to the Arabian Sea from Xinjiang to the Pakistani port of Gwadar via Gilgit-Baltistan.
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