Indian Defence Review

Dealing with the Stealth Threat: The Way Forward

The stealth muscle in the air threat vehicles of today is one dimension of survivability that is fast becoming a nightmare to air defence warriors. Why so? Because survivability directly translates into lethality. The relationship is fairly simple. Stealthy machines, by managing to become near invisible to the sensors...

What Made the ‘Sword of Islam’ Conquer Large Parts of the Ancient World?

The deep study of the characteristics of successful Muslim armies is very important for Indian military professionals, because we have Pakistan as our neighbour. Rulers there can unite the polity only when they wage war by overt and covert means onto the territory of Dar al Harab (non-Islamic region). On this important...

India-China-Pak Trilateral – mischievous trap sprung by Luo Zhaouhi

Luo Zhaohui, China’s crafty ambassador to India sprang a surprise on June 18 by proposing an India-China-Pakistan trilateral summit on the lines of China-Russia-Mongolia meet.. Luo was delivering the keynote address at the Chinese embassy, New Delhi at an event titled ‘Beyond Wuhan: How Far and Fast can China-India...

India-China-Pak Trilateral – mischievous trap sprung by Luo Zhaouhi

UN Human Rights Commission discredits itself

For the first time in the history of Kashmir question at the UN, the Chairman of Human Rights Commission Mr. Zeid Ra’d Al Hussein of Jordan has issued a 49-page tutored report spread over 20 paragraphs on “abuse and violation of human rights” in the State of Jammu and Kashmir mainly by India and peripherally by...

Has the US conceded more than gained from North Korea at historic summit

If there is one event in recent times that has taken the world by storm is the summit between North Korean President Kim Jong Un and his US counterpart Donald Trump at Singapore. The successful summit is likely to ease decades-long tensions in US-North Korean relationship. The world at large sees the summit as an...

Dealing with the Stealth Threat: The Way Forward

IAF Exercise Gagan Shakti 2018 –Simple Attrition Estimates

The Indian Air Force Conducted its recent Exercise Gagan Shakti 2018 in April 2018. It was an exercise to learn meaningful lessons in a short and intense battle scenario. According to the press release, “lAF exercised its entire war fighting machinery to validate its concept of operations and war waging...

Indigenous ‘Dhanush’ Clears Trials

The indigenous ‘Dhanush’ 155mm howitzer has cleared successful trials which is excellent news. The bad part is the headlines “It took 4,000 rounds and 5 Years for Dhanush to get Yes from Indian Army”. The public has no option to curse this organization called ‘Army’ which only wants phoren stuff. Who has...

What Made the ‘Sword of Islam’ Conquer Large Parts of the Ancient World?

Kashmir : From Azadi to Nizam-e-Mustafa

Recently a report by J&K police regarding militancy makes an interesting read. The report traces the life cycle of a local militant in four stages. The first stage is where the youngster feels “disillusionment with the status quo, lack of opportunity and no space for dissent”. In the next stage, he “turns to...

Kashmir Policy – questions for the hierarchy

While stating he and his other sons were also ready to sacrifice their lives for the country, Mohammed Haneef father of Sepoy Aurangzeb, recently abducted and killed by terrorists in J&K, questioned – why is Pakistani flag seen in Kashmir, why not the Indian Tricolour? For decades kith and kin of martyred soldiers...

Tata Boeing Aerospace delivers first AH-64 Apache combat helicopter fuselage

Tata Boeing Aerospace Limited announced the delivery of the first AH-64 Apache combat helicopter fuselage ahead of schedule from its state-of-the-art facility in Hyderabad. The fuselage will now be transported to Boeing’s AH-64 Apache manufacturing facility in Mesa, AZ, for integration into the final assembly line....

Commissioning of LCU, L-54

Vice Admiral GS Pabby, AVSM, VSM, Chief of Materiel commissioned IN LCU L54 into the Indian Navy today at Port Blair. IN LCU L54 is the fourth Landing Craft Utility (LCU) Mk-IV class to be inducted into the Indian Navy. The ship has been indigenously designed and built by Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers,...

Successful test firing of BrahMos to validate service life extension

BrahMos, supersonic cruise missile was successfully test fired at 1040 hours today from the Integrated Test Range (ITR) in Balasore, Odisha as part of service life extension programme. The life extension test firing of BrahMos was conducted from a Static Inclined Launcher, proving the efficacy and longevity of the...

Kargil Controversy: An IAF Response

Lt Gen Harwant’s article “Kargil Controversy : Sorry State of Higher Defence Management”, published in...

The Khalistani Terrorism

In the first few years after India’s independence, the Sikh migrants from Punjab constituted the largest single...

An Analysis of the Trump-Kim Summit

The Singapore summit between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un is now over. While the massive ups and downs leading up to the meeting had led to almost the entire world being interested in the summit taking place and feeling like a stakeholder in what would surely be a massive win for peace and diplomacy. The resultant declarations from the summit, however, have left countries and analysts across...

3 new Tibet airports near border pose threat

On June 9, the Civil Aviation Administration of China and the Tibetan Autonomous Region’s (TAR) government announced that Tibet will soon have three new airports. A communiqué said: “Construction of the three airports, all above the altitude of 3,900 meters, should begin in...

Myanmar: Army- Civil Relations and Insurgency

On 29th May, in response to a question from the Irrawaddy’s Representative, the Permanent Secretary of the Defence Ministry, Brigadier General Aung Kyaw dropped a bomb shell that the Tatmadaw (the Army) is ready to obey if President U Win Myint orders a stop to the ongoing...

Is China Changing? Religious practices in Tibet

In October 1950, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) entered Eastern Tibet with the objective of ‘liberating’ the region. The Tibetans, who for centuries had lived in beatific seclusion, could not really understand from what they needed to be ‘liberated’; a large...

“This far and no more” message for misguided youth of Kashmir

The recent two day visit of Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh to Jammu and Kashmir has been significant. Ostensibly, the objective was to assess the security situation post the unilateral suspension of operations in the holy month of Ramadan, taken by the centre at the behest of Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti. The Home Minister had a packed schedule that included, apart from discussions with political leaders and field commanders of the...