Pakistan: Islamabad versus Rawalpindi
Things don’t seem to be going too well for Pakistan. While the country’s financial condition continues to worsen with each passing day, with former Prime Minister Imran Khan declaring ‘jihad’ [holy war] to save the country from the allegedly “imported” Shehbaz Sharif led government, the political situation...
Tour of Duty and the Mess Surrounding It
According to an article by Mr Dinaker Peri carried in The Hindu on May 21 2022, driven by the stale argument of a compulsion to reduce the costs of salaries and pensions of the Defense Forces alone, the Government is set to roll out ‘Tour of Duty’ for recruitment of personnel into armed forces, this time with a...
Soft Kill Air Defence Weapon Systems: The Better Alternative?
In recent times, drone and ballistic missile attacks have increasingly been in the news with one of the most targeted countries being Saudi Arabia which has had to defend itself against weekly drone and missile attacks by the Houthis. The 2019 drone attack by the Houthis using ten drones struck two key oil...
Pakistan: Islamabad versus Rawalpindi
Things don’t seem to be going too well for Pakistan. While the country’s financial condition continues to worsen with each passing day, with former Prime Minister Imran Khan declaring ‘jihad’ [holy war] to save the country from the allegedly “imported” Shehbaz Sharif led government, the political situation...
Anjum Accelerates Proxy War on India
It is not unusual for Pakistan to draw attention away from the turmoil within by stoking fires in India. Imran Khan is blaming America for his removal and is calling for fresh elections. The economy is in a poor state. There is tension between Taliban and Pakistan; Taliban blames Pakistan for attempts to fence the...
Xi Jinping will lead China for record third time, but is much weaker than we think
The 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) will be held in Beijing in November this year. About 2,300 delegates, representing an estimated 90 million members, will meet in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing and decide the fate of China for the next five years at least. The CCP Congress will...
Tour of Duty and the Mess Surrounding It
According to an article by Mr Dinaker Peri carried in The Hindu on May 21 2022, driven by the stale argument of a compulsion to reduce the costs of salaries and pensions of the Defense Forces alone, the Government is set to roll out ‘Tour of Duty’ for recruitment of personnel into armed forces, this time with a...
Soft Kill Air Defence Weapon Systems: The Better Alternative?
In recent times, drone and ballistic missile attacks have increasingly been in the news with one of the most targeted countries being Saudi Arabia which has had to defend itself against weekly drone and missile attacks by the Houthis. The 2019 drone attack by the Houthis using ten drones struck two key oil...
Pakistan Army: Twice ‘Bitten’ by TTP, Yet Not Shy!
For years, Pakistan army’s media wing Inter Services Public Relation [ISPR] had been claiming that it was the unholy nexus between New Delhi and previous regimes in Kabul which was solely responsible for unending spate of terrorist violence within the country. So, when Taliban seized power in Afghanistan last year,...
- Lessons from the 1962 Sino-Indian War in Ladakh
- Indian Army’s ‘Raksha Atmanirbharta’ [Defence Self-Dependency] Seminar and Exhibition
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- 1971 War movie 'Pippa' brings a forgotten tank battle to life
- CDS General Bipin Rawat Helicopter Crash - An Account From Ground Zero
- An Interview with Sam Manekshaw: Kashmir:1947
Is Pakistan Reinventing its Kashmir Strategy?
Pakistan appears to have been trying to reinvent its efforts to politicize and internationalize Jammu & Kashmir issue. The present Pakistani strategy appears to have adopted a more global approach with international legal process as its corner stone, with the sole intention to trap India. By doing this, Pakistan has...
On ‘Targeted’ Killings and Violence in Kashmir
The cold-blooded murder of Manzoor Ahmad Bangroo in Pattan area of South Kashmir on Friday is the latest incident of ongoing targeted killings by terrorists in Kashmir. The deceased was a sarpanch [an elected village-level functionary who acts as an interphase between the government and village community], and his...
Capacity, Autonomy and Venality: The Larger Challenges of Governance
Mr. Suba Rao, previously RBI Governor, has stirred a hornet’s nest by calling the IAS’ elitist, self-serving, perpetuating a set of bureaucrats who are out of touch with reality and wallow in their privileges and social status and have lost their courage of conviction to stand up for what is right’. As if this is...
Trentar Group to launch homegrown UAV products at the Bharat Drone Mahotsav – 2022
The Trentar Group, a Group Company of Dorf Ketal, is participating in the Bharat Drone Mahotsav – 2022, an initiative by the Drone Federation of India and Ministry of Civil Aviation. The group companies, Garuda UAV, TM Aerospace, and Trishula, will launch and showcase ‘made in India’ UAV innovations at the...
SKM Technologies opens its state of the art 70,000 sft new facility at Aerospace Park in Adibatla
Private industry can access government test systems and facilities for strengthening Indian defence industries: Dr G Satheesh Reddy, Chairman DRDO SKM Technologies Pvt Ltd, industry partner of DRDO involved in manufacturing of Aerospace and Defence components inaugurated its state-of-the-art 70,000 sft advanced...
Boeing Starliner En Route to International Space Station
The Boeing CST-100 Starliner spacecraft is on its way to the International Space Station after successfully performing the planned orbital insertion burn 31 minutes into flight. The spacecraft is expected to dock with the space station after a nearly 24-hour journey in low Earth orbit, bringing together the Boeing-built...
- DSIT signed an MOU with the Al Fattan Group for Supply Advanced Underwater Sonar Systems
- Indigenisation of defence items with the Industry in full swing
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- Eve and Thales enter a partnership to develop eVTOL aircraft
- Successful MMP firing with target designation made by a Novadem drone
- Rethinking Resupply to the Forward Line
Interviews / Spotlight
How to prevent assets from going AWOL in the military environment
Armies and military bases have to keep track of a considerable amount of assets, from big-ticket items such as...
Xi Jinping’s Global Security Initiative
Amid the ongoing Ukraine conflict, Chinese President Xi Jinping delivered the keynote speech at the annual Boao...
Is the Presence of ISIS in Afghanistan an Objective Fact or a Western Propaganda?
People’s Hatred of ISIS in Afghanistan Today’s analysis, forecasts, and surveys in Afghanistan also confirm that the emergence of the phenomenon of ISIL in this country is a program of foreign and Western origin to compensate for the defeat of ISIL in impossible ways.Afghans believe that most of Afghanistan’s people do not react positively to Salafi terrorist, extremist, and takfirist groups....
18 Punjab Operations in High Altitude Terrain of Kargil
Like most other days at Drass, 03 December 1971, was again a chilly day. The bone-chilling afternoon deterred all activity, but we had found out a method to beat back the freezing cold. Our prolonged deployment at Drass and the large open area adjoining our field fortifications had turned us into accomplished baseball players. Baseball had become our favourite game. And as we played baseball during that afternoon, our Commanding Officer,...
The President Ram Nath Kovind at the Presidential Fleet Review-2022 at Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh on...
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The Union Minister for Defencei Rajnath Singh visiting the exhibition of Defence Research and Development...
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The Union Minister for Defence Rajnath Singh with the Brigadier R.V. Jatar (Retd.) who had participated in...
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The Prime Minister Narendra Modi witnessing the Air Show at the inauguration of the Purvanchal Expressway,...
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The Union Minister for Defence Rajnath Singh paying homage to the fallen heroes at National War Memorial,...
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