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As per a statement made in the Parliament by the Minister of Defence Manohar Parrikar on December 12, 2014, the Indian Government has approved the training of combat pilots of the Vietnam Air...

Need for Structural Changes in India’s Higher Defence Management

By: Lt Gen Vijay Oberoi |Issue: Vol. 30.1 Jan-Mar 2015 | Date: 02 March 2015

The reality today is that India is facing the strategic environment of the 21st century with its higher defence structures largely as they were in the 1940s. This is a recipe for disaster. A...

Limited Rise in India’s Defence Budget 2015 - 16

By: Danvir Singh |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 March 2015

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley while presenting his maiden budget on 28 Feb, 2015 underlined that defence of every square inch of our mother land comes before anything else. …push towards ‘Make...

Sowing the Dragon’s Teeth: Role of United States in the Islamic World

By: Atul Razdan |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 March 2015

The activities of the Islamic State for Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) or the Islamic State (IS), which is its most recent avatar, have brought into sharp focus the schisms in the Islamic world. The...

Defence Budget 2015-16: Allocation Inadequate for Modernisation

By: Brig. Gurmeet Kanwal |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 February 2015

The finance Minister has hiked the defence budget for FY 2015-16 by 9.46 per cent to Rs 2,46,727 crore, which is Rs 23,357 crore more than the revised estimates for the current financial...

The Battle Untold: Ukraine and the Old Socialist Republic

By: Anant Mishra |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 February 2015

After a very long time, Europe is gripped in an armed conflict within its continent. From 2013 pro democracy protests in Kiev, to President Victor Yanukovych ousting, the situation rapidly...

Possibility of Military Coup in Bangladesh?

By: B.Z. Khasru |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 February 2015

Despite ongoing rumblings in certain Western circles — and a faint echo inside Bangladesh — of possible military intervention to end the country’s current political unrest, the armed forces...

Attaining Strategic India 2020: Lessons From Niccolo Machiavelli

By: Col JK Achuthan (Retd.) |Issue: Vol. 29.4 Oct-Dec 2014 | Date: 27 February 2015

Great individuals associated with the Renaissance such as Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Dante Aligheri and Galileo were Florentine citizens. The forces of debate, democracy, organised guilds,...

Changing Strategic Realities in India’s Immediate Neighbourhood

By: Dr Ashok Kapur |Issue: Book Excerpts: India's Strategic Problems | Date: 26 February 2015

Despite Nehru’s optimism and high profile in international conference diplomacy in the Far East, Indo-China and in Geneva and New York regarding nuclear, disarmament and peacekeeping issues,...

Humanitarian Crisis in the BTAD of Assam: A view from the Field

By: Dr Samrat Sinha |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 February 2015

On 23rd and 24th December 2014, 82 Adivasis (including 26 women and 16 infants) were shot dead by suspected militants belonging to the National Democratic Front for Bodoland (Songbojit) or...

Nexter Robotics announces the sale of 50 robotics systems in 2014

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 February 2015

Two years ago the Nexter Group announced the creation of a new subsidiary, Nexter Robotics, specialised in the design and marketing of land and air-land robots for defence and security...

Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant

By: Atul Razdan |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 February 2015

The Islamic State for Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), otherwise known as the Islamic State for Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and most recently as the Islamic State (IS) is, strictly speaking, a Sunni...

What makes nations great?

By: Maj Gen Mrinal Suman |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 February 2015

As India celebrates 62 years of Independence, one wonders as to what makes nations great. Why is the US an undisputed world power? Why has Britain remained undefeated for centuries? Why has India...

Sri Lanka will maintain equidistance between neighbours

By: VBN Ram |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 February 2015

Will Maitripala Srisena’s assumption of Office as the Sri Lankan president bring in a transformational ascendancy in bilateral ties? Though I am an optimist, I for one, would like to keep my...

Arunachal Pradesh – China’s fallacious claims

By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 February 2015

It was a surprise to receive an e-mail from the Press Attache in the Chinese Embassy at New Delhi titled ‘Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Hua Chunying’s Remarks on Indian Prime Minister Modi...

The Future of India’s Air Power

By: Lt Gen (Dr) JS Bajwa |Issue: Vol. 30.1 Jan-Mar 2015 | Date: 22 February 2015

The humongous prolonged gestation period in designing and operationalising any weapon system by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and assembly line manufacturing by the...

Army Aviation Corps: On the Wings of Transformation

By: Shantanu K Bansal |Issue: Vol. 30.1 Jan-Mar 2015 | Date: 21 February 2015

Established in 1986, the Army Aviation Corps (AAC) is one of the youngest Corps in the Indian Army. It has operated over all types of terrain from deserts plains, forests and high mountains to...

Effects of Covert and Clandestine Operations on International Peace and Security

By: Anant Mishra | Date: 21 February 2015

To understand the topic better, let us first understand few terminologies with respect to the topic. Covert Operation – A covert operation is defined as an operation conducted by armed...

Chief of Defence Staff – are we kidding or serious?

By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 February 2015

Going by media reports, the MoS Defence, Rao Inderjit Singh, has stated on the sidelines of an international seminar ‘Aerospace Vision: 2050’ on 16 February that the MoD has decided to create...

“...committed to supporting the government’s vision of positioning India...

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Vol. 30.1 Jan-Mar 2015 | Date: 20 February 2015

How have the eight decades of Rolls Royce in India been? Rolls-Royce 80 year’s association with India is marked with significant achievements. We started our association with the Indian...