Indian Defence Review Online

Take the war to the enemy

By Bharat Verma
Issue: Vol. 24.1

New Delhi continues to fumble while India burns. 
Pakistan’s superior psychological warfare machinery further tied down the already overstretched Indian security forces in knots. Airports and railway stations are the new fortresses that are heavily guarded. Next will be Metro stations or shopping malls. The list is endless. This is what the enemy wants – tire [...]

January 14th, 2009.

Security Threats Facing India

By Anand K Verma
Issue: Vol 23.2

Threats are a matter of perception. Their assessments take into account capacities, not so much intentions, of a potential adversary. For an accurate reading, the short term and long term objectives of all leading players in the world have to be judged.

January 1st, 2009.

India’s Civil Nuclear Industry

By Ambassador David C Mulford
Issue: Vol. 23.4

The nuclear deal is an historic accomplishment. We all know its many advantages and the potential it holds out for India’s future development. 

January 1st, 2009.

Blacklisting Foreign Vendors

By Maj Gen Mrinal Suman
Issue: Vol. 23.4

India has a penchant for blacklisting foreign arms producers without considering negative effects it has on India’s military preparedness. This is the reasons why recent reports of irregularities in the procurement of seven Barak anti-missile defense systems and 200 missiles from Israel Aircraft Industries Ltd (IAI) have caused serious concern to the Indian armed forces. [...]

January 1st, 2009.

Spare the Army

By RSN Singh
Issue: Vol. 23.4

Going by the selective and flip-flop leaks by the Anti Terrorist Squad (ATS) of Maharashtra, and the manner in which the media is lapping it up, it appears that there is a concerted and rather a desperate bid to make an ‘Osama bin Laden’ out of Lt Col Purohit and prove that the Sadhavi Pragya [...]

January 1st, 2009.

Declining Military Prowess

By Bharat Verma
Issue: Net Edition

Despite the threat to the territorial integrity of the Union being visible for decades, New Delhi continues to mishandle the military preparedness year after year by degrading it.

January 1st, 2009.

Steering India’s Military Capabilities

By Lt Gen Vinay Shankar
Issue: Vol. 23.3

If we were to comment on the attitude of our leadership to our country’s defence preparedness the conclusion would be of unwitting indifference. There is no other plausible explanation to the manner in which we have been mishandling the defence of our nation.

January 1st, 2009.