Nailing the Chinese Lie!

According to Chhime Chhoekyapa, the Dalai Lama’s secretary, the Tibetan leader plans to visit Arunachal Pradesh during the second week of November. A visit to Tawang was scheduled last year. Invited by chief minister Dorjee Khandu

Chinese Incursions and India’s Flawed Response

Chinese incursions are making headlines in the Indian Press. It is good. Not because the Chinese persist in trespassing into Indian territory, but because the media bring some light onto such disturbing happenings. Instinctively, not to say genetically, the Indian leadership prefers to hide the truth,

Pakistan : The Counter Strategy

In the big picture of the Pakistani game plan, Kargil is merely a footnote. Pakistan’s end game is to cause as much destruction within India by activating direct insurgency in Kashmir, extending support to terrorist activities in the North East and supplying arms and explosives to sow seeds of dissent within the country against the [...]

Kargil and the decade since

It has been ten years since valiant Indian soldiers achieved the impossible feat of evicting Pakistani intruders from the dizzy heights of Kargil. Frontally assaulting peaks over 15,000 feet in waves the Indian Infantry defied all established norms of mountain warfare, a feat unthinkable for any modern army in the world today.

China Harmony or chaos?

India Bashing: China’s Superiority Complex
China suffers from a superiority complex. This is not new. Genetically, it must have been there for ages, but in recent years due to the rapid economic development, the tremendous advances in the defense field (including asymmetric warfare), the awe with which Western nations look at China1 and events like [...]

Formulating Rational Field Trials and Evaluation Plan

India’s defence procurement procedure is based on ’single-stage two-bid’ system. It entails submission of technical and commercial proposals by the invited vendors at the outset, albeit in two separate sealed covers. Technical proposals are opened initially whereas commercial proposals are kept sealed in safe custody.

Requiem for Prabhakaran

LTTE has been militarily defeated. Prabhakaran, its one and only leader, is dead – killed in battle. LTTE, the organization created by him in his own image was hailed as the most effective guerrilla force in the 20th century.1 Profiles of Prabhakaran sketched by a cross section of political and military leaders both in Sri [...]

Rapidly changing military sociology

The Post-Independence Indian Army continues to struggle with the British colonial model, ways and traditions, which served us well to a point. In fact, we were so enamored by the British ethos that we ceased to introspect about any adaptations that the uniqueness of this land and its changing values demanded. More so, because, at [...]

ASB Thermal Battery: The Power of Reliability

A Review of Advances in Thermal Battery Technology
New generations of Aeronautic systems demand high power capabilities, even for miniaturised defence systems. The modern power source requires being more robust to cope with higher velocity and environmental conditions, more reliable due to the high costs of modern systems,