Iran and Saudi Arabia’s negotiations with China as a peace broker in light of the USA
The Middle East has long been a region fraught with conflicts and rivalries, with the Iran-Saudi Arabia rivalry being one of the most significant. Since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, Saudi Arabia has seen Iran as its most significant adversary in the Gulf’s quest for domination. Furthermore, the Saudis believe that Iran...
Mother of All Swarms
In the hunt to kill Osama bin-Laden, the US had fired its GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB) bomb (thermobaric/aerosol bomb) in Afghanistan on April 13, 2017; unaware that Osama was merrily enjoying the hospitality of Pakistan, sheltered close to Abbotabad. First tested in 2003, the GBU-43/B is colloquially known...
Finally, is Pakistan paying the price for its sins?
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its labourers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes...
- Why Khalistani Separatists Cannot Be Separated from Totality of Friendly India-UK Ties
- Chipping the Chip Industry
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- IDR News
- Around the halls: AUKUS defines an emerging alliance at sea
- Tea-breaks and terror: scenes from Ukraine’s last-ditch stand in Bakhmut
- One year into the Ukraine war — What does the public think about American involvement in the world?
Iran and Saudi Arabia’s negotiations with China as a peace broker in light of the USA
The Middle East has long been a region fraught with conflicts and rivalries, with the Iran-Saudi Arabia rivalry being one of the most significant. Since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, Saudi Arabia has seen Iran as its most significant adversary in the Gulf’s quest for domination. Furthermore, the Saudis believe that Iran...
Finally, is Pakistan paying the price for its sins?
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its labourers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes...
Why Khalistani Separatists Cannot Be Separated from Totality of Friendly India-UK Ties
The latest incident of pro-Khalistan activists demonstrating in front of our mission in London, climbing to the balcony on the frontage of the building and removing the national flag, and breaking some windows as well, has happened because the UK authorities have not taken seriously our long-standing protests about...
- Chipping the Chip Industry
- Will F-16s follow President Biden to Ukraine?
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- IDR News
- Around the halls: AUKUS defines an emerging alliance at sea
- Tea-breaks and terror: scenes from Ukraine’s last-ditch stand in Bakhmut
- One year into the Ukraine war — What does the public think about American involvement in the world?
Mother of All Swarms
In the hunt to kill Osama bin-Laden, the US had fired its GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB) bomb (thermobaric/aerosol bomb) in Afghanistan on April 13, 2017; unaware that Osama was merrily enjoying the hospitality of Pakistan, sheltered close to Abbotabad. First tested in 2003, the GBU-43/B is colloquially known...
Are Servicemen, soft targets for all and sundry?
There must be something radically wrong with a society that prides itself on being one of the most robust and resilient democracies of the world, but virtually tramples on the rights of Indian soldiery with such insensitivity and disdain. Reports of the constant attacks on serving or retired Army men, their...
The Big Takeaways from India’s Post-Independence Wars
A wise soldier learns from the past, both the successes and failures. Background Wars shape the destinies of nations and are characterised by tales of courage, resilience, and bravery. Military history or the study of past wars is thus, a fascinating subject. It has the added advantage of highlighting lessons for...
Indian Vision-2047 for Cyber Defence Security: Needs and Importance
In order to make the military into the “Aatmanirbhar” force that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had envisioned, the Ministry of Defence undertook ground-breaking reforms in 2022, led by Raksha Mantri Rajnath Singh. The Ministry of Defence’s inaugural “AI in Defence” symposium and exhibition in New Delhi saw the...
Decoding Targeted Killings in Kashmir
The cold-blooded murder of 45-year-old Sanjay Sharma in Achan village of South Kashmir’s Pulwama district on Sunday serves as a grim warning that there’s no let-up in the despicable trend of terrorists targeting minority community members in Kashmir Valley. What’s really disturbing is that despite being a Kashmiri,...
The Kashmir ‘Solidarity Day’ Charade
While flaunting it as a solemn occasion called ‘Kashmir Solidarity Day’, Islamabad organises a comical extravaganza of sorts with emotional [as well as menacing] speeches and contrived protests [which includes the indispensable burning of the Indian national flag] on February 5 every year. However, despite all...
- Significance of Joint Maritime Exercises
- Tawang, Tibet and Taiwan
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- India-China Dispute: Opposition Needs to Stop Playing Divisive Politics to Gain Political Points
- Lessons from India’s attempt to marry biometric and voter ID databases
- United States Blacklisted NSO Group Over Pegasus Spyware
Future of Attack Helicopters: The Million Dollar Question?
Background Third of October 2022, was a memorable day for Indian Aviation as the defence minister presided over the formal handing over of the Light Combat Helicopter (LCH) to the Indian Air Force.[1] Designed, developed and manufactured by HAL, the induction of LCH aka Prachanda, was a momentous occasion signalling a...
Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems: Existential Threat to Humanity?
Early in January 1942, Project X-Ray of the United States of America (USA) envisaged using the Mexican Bat, endemic to South Western USA, as a retaliatory weapon against the Japanese for the attack on Pearl Harbour. The plan envisaged attaching incendiary bombs to the bats and releasing them from cluster containers,...
Defense Allocation, Reforms, Reality & The Way Forward
The Indian economy has been an outlier in terms of growth, clocking a 7.1% increase in GDP during 2022-23, and is expected to achieve 6.5% growth in 2023-24. Agriculture has proved to be a robust sector, registering an average growth rate of 3.5%, and most importantly provided much-needed food security when nearly 50...
Interviews / Spotlight
The Making of an Officer and a Gentleman: Customs and Traditions
The armed forces have through evolution been led by leaders either born or thrown up by situations. The erstwhile...
Pakistan Army’s Undeclared War in Balochistan
Being mandated to ensure territorial integrity of their country, the armed forces of every nation are both...
India-Egyptian relations are now Strategic: Indian Envoy
Ambassador Ajit Gupte a senior diplomat from Indian Foreign Service (IFS) is currently serving as the Indian Ambassador to Egypt. We are presently witnessing a deepening of Indo-Egyptian ties as was evident from the recent visit of Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi to New Delhi as the Chief Guest of 74th Republic Day of India. In an exclusive interview with Manish Rai, Editor,...
The origins of the Russia Ukraine war and its Lessons
Carl Von Clauswitz, the great Prussian General and thinker, wrote in extreme detail over warfare. He bifurcated war into two types – Absolute and Real. According to him, the absolute war is irrational and illogical as it prohibits political mediation while the real war is both rational and logical, as the real war is fought to achieve the political objectives. He further added that in a real war there is no winner as the defeated prepares...
The Union Minister for Defence Rajnath Singh inaugurates of commissioning ceremony of INS Mormugao,...
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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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The Union Minister for Defence Rajnath Singh visits the ‘Artificial Intelligence in Defence’...
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Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) successfully conducted the flight test of...
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The Union Minister for Defence Rajnath Singh at the ‘INS Khanderi’ during his visit to Karwar Naval...
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