Stable Pakistan not in India’s interest

Indians pose the biggest threat to the union of India. The reason is simple. An average Indian does not constitute a nation but is merely an individual. His personal well-being overrides all other considerations including the national interests.
Therefore, many have begun to propagate parting of Kashmir in their write-ups, since it does not belong individually [...]

Defence Industry

It is almost seven years since the first set of major policy changes were promulgated by the Government to give a fillip to our stagnating and moribund defence industry.  The fundamental underpinnings to the policy changes were two: firstly, bring in the private sector; and secondly, opening the door for foreign companies by permitting up [...]

Boeing plans to bring to India a uniquely Indian solution

Chris Chadwick, President, Boeing Military Aircraft 
Interview by Priyanka Verma
The Civil Aviation Ministry carries out procurement of commercial aircraft. The MOD handles military aircraft. Each ministry follows different procedures and policies. This may be posing problems to your management especially, since you have adopted the ‘one company-single enterprise model’. What practices have you adopted to harmonise [...]

Militarization of Space

Use of ‘outer space’ (also referred as ‘space’) to fight wars is not a new idea. Rockets reaching high into the atmosphere was talked about since World War II. The investments made by the Nazi’s towards development of such rockets are well known. In the 1960s, the erstwhile USSR had an orbital weapon called a [...]

The Jihadi War

The lack of success in operation enduring Freedom in Afghanistan results from the US-led coalition’s failure to develop and implement, jointly, a coherent strategy for its conduct that integrates counter-insurgency, counterterrorism, and stability and reconstruction operations. The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), internal cohesion for development of the Afghanistan operation, is becoming increasingly fragile.