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Twelve multi-role all-weather Mirage 2000 fighter aircraft of the Indian Air Force (IAF) supported by SU-30MKI air-superiority fighters and combat enablers like the Airborne Warning and Control...

The Space Frontier – Arena for Hybrid War

By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 June 2020

Following Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s announcement of Rs 20 lakh crore economic package, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said in a press briefing on May 16 that future projects for...

Shifting Claim Lines of Nepal: Kalapani to Lampiyadhura - A historical...

By: Brig BS Chauhan |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 June 2020

Kali River, name is given to the River that draws its water from various mountainous streams that originate in the neighbourhood of Village Kalapani that is located in NE of State of Uttrakhand....

Kabul’s Influence: Strained by Deadly Assaults and Defectors

By: Terry Bishop |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 June 2020

On February 29, 2020, in Doha, Qatar, U.S. special envoy Zalmay Khalilzad and Taliban leader Mullah Baradar Akhund signed the “Agreement for Bringing Peace to Afghanistan.” Touted as a peace...

Ladakh Standoff – Keep the Powder Dry

By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 June 2020

China recently stated that situation at the border is overall stable and controllable. China’s Foreign Ministry spokesman said both China and India have proper mechanisms and communication...

Dissecting Tour of Duty

By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 31 May 2020

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) is reportedly preparing a case for Tour of Duty (ToD) in the Army; one year training for youth followed by 3-year Army stint as Officers and Jawans, who thereafter...

ToD - a proposal by Generals or General Managers?

By: Sumit Walia |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 31 May 2020

Late Gen Hamid Gul of the Pakistan Army was termed as the father of terror by few western journalists and even a documentary was made on him with this title. He was forced to retire from Pak Army...

Fully Autonomous Military Systems – Challenges in Development

By: Commander (Dr) Jayakrishnan N Nair |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 May 2020

After the advent of Artificial Intelligence (AI), few advanced nations are busy in developing and deploying an array of autonomous weapon systems to attain better speed and accuracy. All fatal...

CPEC and Pakistan’s Great Expectations

By: Nilesh Kunwar |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 May 2020

Since Islamabad has been bandying the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) as the ultimate panacea for all the financial woes that Pakistan is facing as well as a “game changer for the...

Peoples Land-grab Army (PLA) of China is presently at its element

By: Col Jaibans Singh |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 May 2020

“Desperate men do desperate things,” these words ring in the ears with regard to the series of misadventures that China is indulging in the critical COVID environment. Apart from its international...

Dragon Dares India: How to Face the Dragon

By: Brig Anil Gupta |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 May 2020

In the ongoing battle of supremacy amidst the corona crisis between USA and China, the latter let loose its wolf warriors signifying China’s new, more robust diplomatic riposte against those...

India: Challenges & Opportunities - The War against Terror

By: Brig Pradeep Sharma |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 May 2020

India has faced insurgencies and terrorism since independence with the ingress of ‘Razakars’ from Pakistan with an intermix of regulars, reportedly even led by British Officers! The 80’s saw...

Sino-Indian Stand Off: A Case of Russian Roulette

By: Brig Deepak Sinha |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 May 2020

While our complete attention has been taken up in tackling the COVID 19 pandemic, we find ourselves hit by another virus again involving China, in the form of deliberate attempts by the People’s...

Anatomy of Stone Pelting During Encounters in Kashmir

By: Nilesh Kunwar |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 May 2020

It’s very easy for activists and the intelligentsia who sit safely in the confines of their homes to decry temporary suspension of mobile and internet services in an area where an is encounter...

India-Nepal Tension Needs Attention

By: Maj Gen Ashwani Siwach |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 May 2020

On 7th May 2020, India’s Defence Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated the road from Tawaghat to Lipulekh in Pithoragarh Distt of Uttarakhand via a video conferencing. The road is passing through...

Is China Testing India’s Resolve?

By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 May 2020

China has gone overtly aggressive against India with PLA indulging in physical fights with Indian Army. One may say these are Border Divisions of China but these formations being directly under...

PTM Leader Sardar Arif Wazir’s Killing: Warning Not Heeded?

By: Nilesh Kunwar |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 May 2020

Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) leader Sardar Arif Wazir, who had been detained by Wana police on April 17 must have been really very happy on being granted bail just 10 days after his arrest,...

JK Domicile Rules: Win-Win for All

By: Brig Anil Gupta |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 May 2020

The Government of India on 05 August 2019, by abrogating controversial Article 35A of the Constitution of India undid the injustice done to the citizens of India against the spirit of the same...

That’s The Dragon in Nepal’s Shadow!!

By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 May 2020

On May 8, 2020 the Defence Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated the road to Lipulekh Pass on the Himalayan Watershed (the ancient customary and traditional boundary between India and Tibet) to...

The ‘Death Squads’ in Balochistan

By: Nilesh Kunwar |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 May 2020

The Director General (DG) of Pakistan Army’s media wing, Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR), informed about the improvised explosive device (IED) attack on a Frontier Corps vehicle on May 8...

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