Pic courtesy : Wikiality.com Ever since I started reading up on InfoWar and gained an understanding of cyberspace from a military dimension, I have invariably wondered about what makes the vast bureaucracies of the West and China, manage and enforce the continuity in policy that would be needed to build and handhold the rise of their…
Pic Courtesy: http://www.cwjefferys.ca When pondering over the privacy debate wherein our nation is debating the need for a privacy bill and the need for data storage under Indian legal jurisdiction, I am invariably reminded of illustrations in old encyclopaedias of the early white settlers trading trinkets for native treasure as it has interesting parallels with todays data aggregator MNC’s….
I am enclosing the report of the Standing Committee on Information Technology which deals with the action taken by the Government on the Observations/Recommendations of the Committee contained in their Sixth Report (Sixteenth Lok Sabha) on „Demands for Grants (2015-16)‟ relating to the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (Department of Electronics and Information Technology)….
Pic courtesy : http://direitodiario.com.br In my endeavours to make the cyber security boffins of this nation aware of the dangers of the present ICT policy being a farce from a national security viewpoint, the one thing that has got many ‘cyber security experts’ to open their eyes was when I used to tell them…
Last month,i.e. Nov 2015 in a long speech carried by Xinhua, Mr Xi gave a rather detailed report on the planned reforms. for the military Mr Xi asserted: “Under the leadership of the Communist Party, our military has gone from small to big, from weak to strong, from victory to victory. On this road,…
The capitalist govt of USA and the communist govt of China both do it, the mixed economic Indian state also have and continue to nurture a vast array of commercial interests in a variety of fields including the military (PSU’s). As in love and war; in matters of the state there are no rules….
Pic Source: http://defencetalk.net/threads/kargil-war-11-things-you-should-know.6602/ Now this article below takes me back in time to Kargil during OP Vijay. I was there as part of a RR unit a specialised counterinsurgency unit that was send as initial reinforcements. My unit was never launched in any attack but were deployed as reserves to defend Kargil town and I…
Pic Source: Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is free Where the world has not been broken up into fragments By narrow domestic walls Where words come out from the depth of truth Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection Where the clear stream of reason…
