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Air Marshal Anil Khosla took over as Director General Air Operations at Air Headquarters today. An alumnus of the National Defence Academy, he was commissioned in the fighter stream of the Indian...

BAE Systems names Deepak Parekh India chairman

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 January 2015

BAE Systems has appointed Deepak Parekh, Chairman of HDFC Ltd, as a non-executive Director and Chairman of its Indian subsidiary, BAE Systems India (Services) Private Limited, with effect from 1st...

Gaming Military Money

By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 January 2015

The report submitted by the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Defence to the Parliament on 22 December 2014 made little news. There were odd news items talking of its contents, mentioning the...

Modernization of the Chinese Army

By: Lt Gen (Dr) JS Bajwa |Issue: Book Excerpt: Modernization of Chinese PLA | Date: 11 January 2015

The gross structure of how the PLA elements are organized is fairly discernible. The Army is divided into main forces (including the Rapid Reaction Forces (RRF), independent formations and the...

Thinking the Unthinkable: Rise of ISIS

By: Anant Mishra |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 January 2015

The United Nations Security Council has given a top priority to eliminate the threat of Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL popularly known as IS or ISIS) that posses a grave danger to the...

Ridiculing National Security

By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 January 2015

The political rhetoric and drama that followed the recent episode of a Pakistani boat that was chased inside India waters, intercepted, chased and blew itself up would have put any country to...

The Rafale Saga

By: Claude Arpi |Issue: Courtesy: http://claudearpi.blogspot.in/ | Date: 08 January 2015

Very few in India know the meaning of the French word ‘Rafale’, which is now associated with the supply of 126 Medium Multi-Role Combat Aircraft (MMRCA) to the Indian Air Force (IAF);...

Employment of Rotary Wing Platforms in Battle

By: Gp Capt B Menon |Issue: Vol. 29.3 Jul-Sep 2014 | Date: 07 January 2015

Apart from other roles, insurgencies in Malaya, Kenya, Zimbabwe, French Indo-China and Algeria saw helicopters being used for troop induction into and extraction from combat zones, rudimentary...

Pakistan sponsored terror: India must prepare for a long haul

By: Dr Simrit Kahlon |Issue: Courtesy: www.defenceinfo.com | Date: 06 January 2015

An All Party Conference (APC) has recently been held at Islamabad, Pakistan, to formulate a National Action Plan (NAP) against terrorism. PM Nawaz Sharif has hailed this as historic solidarity...

Modernisation of Army Air Defence

By: Lt Gen Ram Pratap |Issue: Vol. 29.3 Jul-Sep 2014 | Date: 05 January 2015

As threats from the air play a decisive role in war, there will always be a need to protect the vital static assets as well as retain the freedom to manoeuvre mobile combat forces with no or...

China becoming a superpower or just a regional player?

By: RSN Singh |Issue: Book Excerpt: Asian Strategy and Military Perspective | Date: 05 January 2015

The end of the Cold War in 1989, and the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, opened up strategic opportunities for China. As per Chinese perceptions, the era of bipolarity had given way to a...

Cyber Spying: A Challenging Threat for India

By: Jatin Kumar |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 January 2015

The significance of intelligence has been recognized as one of the oldest bulwark of the art of statecraft. The treatises of Sun Tzu and Kautilya have highlighted the importance of intelligence...

Assam in the Cross-Fire

By: Brig Deepak Sinha |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 January 2015

The world watched with horror and utter disgust as a radical element of the Pakistani Taliban (TTP), in what they termed as retribution, attacked the Army Public School in Peshawar, targeted the...

Defence Minister visits Hindan Air Base

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 January 2015

The Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar, familiarised himself today at Air Force Station Hindan, with the operations being carried out by the C-17 ‘Globemaster III’ and the C-130 J ‘Super...

Turkey with Presidential Pardons

By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 January 2015

On 27 November of last year, President Obama stepped outside the White House for pardoning a lucky turkey named Popcorn saving it from slaughter during the upcoming Thanksgiving festivities,...

Boko Haram: Beginning of a New Crusade

By: Anant Mishra |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 January 2015

Boko Haram is an Islamists militant group located in the Northern region of Nigeria. The name “Boko Haram” in regional Nigerian dialect means “Western Education is forbidden” which...

Bargaining with the defence services

By: Lt Gen Harwant Singh |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 January 2015

First it was the then officiating defence minister shri Jaitley, who, during his meeting with a delegation of veterans, told them to lower their demand for One Rank One Pension, (OROP) Now the...

The myths on Pakistan

By: Bharat Verma |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 31 December 2014

Indians have been spoon-fed for decades that stable Pakistan alone is necessary for India’s growth. Or that united Pakistan poses less threat than fragmented Pakistan. The myth propagated is...

What Type of War did the US Fight in Afghanistan?

By: Dr Amarjit Singh |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 December 2014

It is confusing that the US fought in Afghanistan the strange type of war it fought. For years, they had nothing more than the equivalent of one division in the whole of Afghanistan – hardly...

Pakistan’s Nuclear Choreography

By: Lt Gen Gautam Banerjee |Issue: Vol. 29.4 Oct-Dec 2014 | Date: 29 December 2014

The vice-like grip of Pakistan’s nuclear choreography is so mesmerising that India seems to be unable, or unwilling, break free of the spell it has cast, and so be able to evaluate hard facts...