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It is ironic that television channels and print media, the world over, have taken, what can only be described as vicarious pleasure, at providing live coverage of the recent hostage crisis in...

Macabre Irony – Peshawar massacre

By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 December 2014

In the wildest of macabre irony to the ‘good’ and ‘bad’ Taliban theory that Pakistan successfully sold to the US, comes the ghastliest of terrorist attack at the Army Public School,...

Taliban set to takeover Pakistan

By: Bharat Verma |Issue: Vol. 29.2 Apr-Jun 2014 | Date: 17 December 2014

In the near future, Taliban and Taliban like groups will impose Afghanistan type Taliban regime on Pakistan. The civil war raging inside Pakistan in search of elusive ‘purity’ of philosophy...

Now at Sydney: Is India Prepared

By: Danvir Singh |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 December 2014

Indians woke up to the news of a hostage crisis at Sydney’s busy Martin Place in the central business district. Around 40 hostages were held up at Lindt Chocolate Shop and Café by a likely IS...

Dealing with China

By: Claude Arpi |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 December 2014

How to deal with China has been a problem for the Indian diplomacy from the day the People’s Liberation Army entered Eastern Tibet in October 1950. South Block (both the Ministry of External...

The CIA and China

By: Claude Arpi |Issue: Courtesy: http://claudearpi.blogspot.in/ | Date: 12 December 2014

The much-awaited report (summary) from Senate Intelligence Committee on the CIA’s Detention and Interrogation Program is finally in the public domain. Its conclusion are clear, the Intelligence...

Fighting the Proxy War on Social Media

By: Danvir Singh |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 December 2014

On one side Modi in his Srinagar rally literally snatched the moral high ground from the army that it had assumed by a series of path breaking stances. And on the other our top military brass was...

FREMM: A Multi-Mission Frigate by DCNS

By: Danvir Singh |Issue: Vol. 29.4 Oct-Dec 2014 | Date: 11 December 2014

The FREMM has already entered the world market. Morocco has also ordered one Aquitaine class FREMM Frigate. The vessel, to be named Mohammed VI, is set to become the flagship of the Royal Moroccan...

Why Russia still matters

By: Prakash Nanda |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 December 2014

Russian President Vladimir Putin is visiting India in the second week of December for what will be the 15th annual summit between the two countries. He is scheduled to address, during his stay at...

The Legacy of Peshawar

By: Dr Amarjit Singh |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 December 2014

If the United States had been sincere and provided aid to the Afghan Mujahidin after the Russians were ousted from Afghanistan, Afghanistan might have not gotten into its current situation. ...

Crimea – The War That Didn’t Boil

By: Anant Mishra |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 December 2014

The Crimean crisis was an international crisis in 2014 principally involving Russia and Ukraine over the control of the Crimean Peninsula, until its annexation by Russia. Crimea is populated by...

Anti Naxal Operations: Initiative must be Regained

By: Maj Gen Dhruv C Katoch |Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 10 December 2014

On the morning of 1 December, 14 CRPF personnel including two officers were killed and over a dozen injured in an ambush carried out by the People’s Liberation Guerrilla Army (PLGA) of the CPI...

Air Support for ITBP: MHA squandering tax-payers money

By: Lt Gen (Dr) JS Bajwa |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 December 2014

It was reported in the Times of India that – “Dedicate air support for ITBP gets govt nod”. The Government’s decision to acquire helicopters for the ITBP (Indo Tibetan Border Police) is...

Pakistan will never dismantle its Jehad Machine

By: Brig Arun Bajpai |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 December 2014

America’s decade old war on terror is finally drawing down in Afghanistan in next seven months. Even though Americans are going back on their own vocation in an orderly manner, most of the...

Central Armed Police Forces: The Need for Re-evaluation

By: Brig Deepak Sinha |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 December 2014

With the recent tragic death of 14 CRPF personnel in an ambush in Chhattisgarh, trust the media to go off on a wild goose chase, once again. For a supposedly well informed fraternity, I cannot...

Beyond Mahura: Will impotency continue?

By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 December 2014

The terrorist attack at the army camp at Mahura in Uri Sector of J&K on 5th December resulted in the martyrdom of at least eight army personnel and three police personnel including one Lt Col of...

Kurdish problem can redraw the map of Middle East

By: Anant Mishra |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 December 2014

The 30 million or so Kurds are large ethnic minorities in Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran, but have no sovereign state of their own. This status quo is a continuing source of instability in the...

Modernising India’s Security Sector for Homeland Security

By: Special Correspondent |Issue: Vol. 29.3 Jul-Sep 2014 | Date: 04 December 2014

Post 9/11, homeland security got fast tracked in the US and it is generally believed that the mainland has not suffered any terrorist incident since then aside from the Boston bombings of 2013...

Agenda for the new Defence Minister

By: Brig. Gurmeet Kanwal |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 December 2014

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) did not have a full-time Defence Minister for over five months after the NDA government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi was sworn in on May 26, 2014. There is a...

Air Marshal Sukhchain Singh takes over as Air Officer-in-Charge Maintenance...

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 December 2014

Air Marshal Sukhchain Singh Vishisht Seva Medal (VSM) assumed the responsibilities of Air Officer–in-Charge Maintenance at Air HQ, New Delhi on 01 Dec 14. The Air Marshal who belongs to...