Lt General Rajiv Bhalla, PVSM, AVSM, SM, VSM Writes : The COVID pandemic has forced the military to terminate all activities being done collectively with special reference to training courses being conducted at various Institutions.
STRATEGIC SIGNALLING IS A NUANCED ART OF MILITARY DIPLOMACY
Brig Narender Kumar, SM, VSM (Retd) Writes : There was a debate whether it was essential for the CDS and three Services Chiefs to address a joint press conference to show solidarity with the frontline Corona Warriors or same could have been done by the Public Relations Officers (PROs) from three services. The military fraternity was divided over this issue.
THE CO IS DEAD, LONG LIVE THE CO
Lt Gen (Dr) Prakash Menon, PVSM, AVSM, VSM (Retd) Writes : The tragic loss of Col Ashutosh Sharma, the Commanding Officer (CO) of 21 Rashtriya Rifles (RR) along with Major Anuj Sood, two jawans and a Sub-Inspector in North Kashmir on 2 May was a grim reminder of death stalking our heroes in uniform.
AN ASSESSMENT OF CHINA’S BIOLOGICAL WARFARE CAPABILITIES AND NEED FOR GLOBAL APPROACH TO BIO-SECURITY
Brig Vivek Verma Writes :CIA report on “The Darker Bioweapons Futures” talked about the diverse and elusive threat spectrum created due to rapid biotechnology development. It warned about the diversity of new biological agents creating broad range of attack scenarios, and that it would be virtually impossible to anticipate and defend against them
AN ASSESSMENT OF CHINA’S BIOLOGICAL WARFARE CAPABILITIES AND NEED FOR GLOBAL APPROACH TO BIO-SECURITY
Brig Vivek Verma Writes :Biological weapons are made of microorganisms or natural toxins to produce disease in humans, animals or plants. To act as a weapon, pathogens need a means for transmission. China has conducted considerable amount of defensive research in tularaemia, Q fever, plague, anthrax etc.
SOFT-SKILLS FOR ENFORCING A PROLONGED COVID LOCKDOWN
Shri Jayanto Narayan Choudhury, IPS (Retd) Writes: It still seems more fiction than fact: a near apocalypse caused not by a nuclear winter in the aftermath of a showdown between superpowers, but by a ‘pseudo-organism’. As scientists race to find a vaccine and accurate diagnostic tests, the global economy is on its knees; the world’s mightiest nations are powerless in this asymmetric contest with a sub-microscopic adversary that has spread across continents faster than any wildfire.