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Protecting National Interests in Uncertain Times AVAIL YOUR COPY NOW! April-July 2020 Volume 15 No. 2-3 `100.00 (India-Based Buyer Only) SP’s Military Yearbook 2019 For details, go to Back Cover www.spsnavalforces.com ROUNDUP THE ONLY NAVAL MAGAZINE FOR NAVIES ACROSS ASIA-PACIFIC PAGE 4 LEAD STORY Modernisation for Operational Effectiveness Protecting Airborne fighter assets at sea provide the flexibility of shifting the theatre of war as also National Interests bring to bear concentrated firepower which can cripple the economy of any adversary. Vice Admiral Shekhar Sinha (Retd) PAGE 6 Hitting the Chinese at Sea in Uncertain Times The role of the Indian Navy in the current overreach by China on the LAC. A secure internal and external security environment, provided by the military and Commodore G. Prakash (Retd) other agencies will facilitate sustained growth and development of the nation. There is PAGE 7 A Timely Meeting of Minds a renewed interest from the world to engage with India in this region as the strategic need to preserve peace, promote stability and maintain security across Indo Pacific is no long a regional necessity but indeed a global imperative. PHOTOGRAPH: Indian Navy Nimitz Strike Group of US Navy transits through Indian Ocean Region. During the passage, Indian Navy undertook Passage Exercise (PASSEX) with US Navy. Indian Navy had also conducted similar PASSEXs with JMSDF and French Navy in recent past. Commodore G. Prakash (Retd) PAGE 8 Quadrilateral (QUAD) Security Dialogue QUAD had lost its momentum till November 2017 when it got revived due to China’s aggressive posture in South China Sea and in the Indo-Pacific region. Lt General Naresh Chand (Retd) PAGE 9 Successful ‘Make in India’ for P75(I) by Navantia INS Vikramaditya: Force projection in the IOR is a key contributory factor in protecting the nation’s interest n ADMIRAL SUNIL LANBA (RETD) by multi-layered and multi-faceted diversity Navantia organised the first Indian Industry from political, demographic, economic, envi- online event for the P75(I) submarines pro- HE STRATEGIC NEED FOR nations ronmental and strategic viewpoints. gramme with the participation of more than to protect and promote their Everything around us seems to indicate 200 Indian companies. national interest in a changing that the world is in another period of histori- SP’s Correspondent world order has been the centre cal transition. Therefore, it would be a fair PLUS piece of global strategic discourse assumption that we are indeed living through Tfor some time now. Linked to this aspect of a period of ‘strategic uncertainty’. The world Navantia’s “BEST” AIP (Bio-Ethanol Stealth national interest is the need to build one’s also is in a grip of a global pandemic after a Military Capability to prepare for the array century and at the moment there is no end in Technology) 10 of security challenges that lie ahead and also sight with numbers growing in our country NAVANTIA Launches the aspect of developing new partnerships, and the world lives in the hope of a vaccine, the First Corvette for as the global order shifts from a unipolar which is anywhere from 12 to 18 months away. Saudi Arabia 10 model to a multipolar one. There is little It may not be wrong to assume that a Special Reports 11 dispute that the world today, is characterised perfectly stable world order is a rare thing1. 2-3/2020 1 LEAD STORY During these difficult times of our relationship with China as in Indian Ocean Region (IOR). He and starts, since 2007, it got COVID-19 and China’s aggres- the end we may still have to face feels that in spite of the perceived revived in November 2017 due sive posture in Ladakh, it is but the challenges alone. superiority of China’s Navy in to China’s aggressive posture natural that defence strategists The article on the moderni- sheer numbers, it has serious in South China Sea and in the attempt ways to stretch the sation of Indian Navy’s Aviation limitations as the Indian Navy Indo-Pacific region. adversary in other dimensions Arm, by Vice Admiral Shekhar enjoys the familiarity with home There are also multiple like sea and air. Thus the lead Sinha (Retd), is focussed on waters. With the multiple fronts reports on developments at article by Admiral Sunil Lanba, a the current voids in reconnais- that the Chinese have opened up Navantia including their new former CNS, who is also a dis- sance; anti-submarine warfare including loss of universal good- BEST AIP as well as their com- tinguished sea power strategist, aircraft including multi role naval will due to COVID-19, they will mitment to a successful ‘Make in gives an oversight as how to helicopters; UAVs to include have limitations in sparing ade- India’ in the Indian Navy’s P75(I) protect India’s national interests land based, ship based and quate combat units to safeguard programme in which they are in the current scenario. He sug- rotary wing; and carrier based their interests in the IOR. participating. gests that in the recent past, the fighter aircraft. There is a need As the USS Nimitz Carrier This issue is wrapped up EDITORIAL idea of Indo-Pacific has gained to include two more aircraft car- Strike Group transited through with Special Reports. immense importance in interna- riers -one each for eastern and the Indian Ocean Region, during Happy Reading! tional geopolitics and there is a western coast and one reserve the passage, Indian Navy units renewed interest from the world with adequate fighter aircraft undertook Passage Exercise to engage with India in this region and multi role naval helicopters. (PASSEX) with US Navy. There as the strategic need to preserve In an article on ways and is also a photo feature on this. peace, promote stability and means to make China feel the Another article on naval maintain security across Indo- pressure through sea power, strategy by Lt General Naresh Pacific is no longer a regional Commodore Prakash (Retd), a Chand (Retd) suggests empow- necessity but indeed a global specialist in Naval Aviation and ering the Quadrilateral (QUAD) imperative. He extols that this ASW, suggests an aggressive Security Dialogue to its logical JAYANT BARANWAL crisis must be utilised to review posture by the Indian Navy in the end by giving it teeth. After fits Publisher & Editor-in-Chief The global order in which we live today has power competition– that of the Indo-Pacific. been built in the aftermath of World War II. Sea Lines of Communication Showing The 21st century has witnessed an east- Broadly speaking, this order consisted of ward shift in the focus of global geopolitics two parallel orders for most of its history2. Choke Points in the Indian Ocean and economic power play6. In the recent One, that grew out of the Cold War between past, the idea of Indo Pacific has gained the United States and the then Soviet Union. immense importance in international geo- The other was the liberal order, which used politics. Given the arterial trade and energy aid and trade to strengthen ties and fos- routes originating and passing through tered respect for the rule of law both within the region, several major players are mak- and between countries. Strait of Hormuz ing long-term investments to protect their Coming to the present times, today’s energy interests hinging on this region. As competition between China and the United an example to highlight the region’s grow- Six Degree Channel States is a new twist to an old story. Until the ing geostrategic importance, it is interesting onset of the nineteenth century, China was Bab-el-Mandeb Nine Degree Channel to note that about 80 per cent of the trade Strait of Malacca by far the world’s largest economy, with an originating from here is actually extra- estimated 40 per cent share of global GDP3. regional. Unhindered flow of maritime trade Then it entered a long decline, and around Sunda Strait through Indo Pacific region thus assumes the same time the United States was born tremendous significance for the entire World Food Programme Indian Ocean and began its long ascent to global domi- Lombok Strait world. Further, in pure economic terms, the nance. So both countries have dominated the Indo Pacific region contributes about 60 per world, each has its own strengths and weak- cent of global GDP and is home to four of Mozambique 7 nesses, and for the first time, each confronts Channel the top ten economies of the world. In mili- the other as near peer4. It is too soon to tell tary context, the region is home to the ten Choke Points how the innings ahead will play out. But we largest standing armies8 in the world and can be confident that the game will continue, seven of the top ten countries9 in terms of as the world moves from an earlier unipolar global military expenditure. The rising mili- or bipolar order to a multipolar one. Details of Naval Ships/Submarines tary power of the region has come to com- Strategic thinkers need to maintain a ‘long plicate the security calculus in many ways. view’ and not be overly influenced by short- China and India The geo-strategic eminence of the Indo term changes. This is particularly important CHINA INDIA Pacific region is here to stay. In the foresee- since there may be a tendency to view devel- able future, the region would play a pivotal Submarines Submarines opments over the last few years as a sign of role in shaping the global economic and the eclipse of a so called ‘stable world order’5.
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