StratPost Podcast

Today's Playlist: Progress is scarce on a resolution to the Ladakh stand-off, Australia plans to hike defence spending, NATO allies France and Turkey have had a row, Finland's air force has discarded its old insignia and Germany has disbanded a special forces unit over right wing extremism.

Today: No word from India-China corps commanders meet, China passes security law for Hong Kong, Airbus to cut 15,000 jobs, Boeing suffers a 97 aircraft order cancellation, Rude morale patch gets US Navy aviators a scolding & Boris's ride is back from the body shop

Daily fix of news, analysis and commentary on defence and strategic affairs, every weekday.

India bans the TikTok smartphone app

Indian and Chinese corps commanders to meet on Tuesday

Japan cancels Aegis Ashore

US-Russian intercepts

New AESA radar for German Eurofighter Typhoons

Angad Singh, military author and Project Coordinator at the Observer Research Foundation examines the response of the Indian armed forces to the Covid-19 contagion, its impact on operational availability, defence supplies and defence budgets.

Veteran defence journalist Sujan Dutta explains the setting of the Coronavirus outbreak in the Indian Navy establishment in Mumbai and its implications.

A Kargil martyr's daughter used to get angry waiting for someone to write about her dad. She finally wrote a book, herself. Diksha Dwivedi tells Saurabh Joshi why she wrote Letters from Kargil, how families of other personnel killed in action opened up to her and what it was like growing up for the daughter of Major Chandra Bhushan Dwivedi, 315 Field Regiment, Indian Army.

Angad Singh and Pushan Das help StratPost editor Saurabh Joshi understand how the new Indian Air Force contest for fighter aircraft will be different from the last one, why cost needs to be a priority and why it will take two general elections before an order is placed.

Ankit Panda, Senior Editor at The Diplomat reviews the 'Indo-Pacific', the 'Quad' and Indo-U.S. relations with Saurabh Joshi at the Shangri-La Dialogue 2018.