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But for China!

By: RSN Singh |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 October 2014

The decade of 50s was characterized by romanticisation of communism in India. Such was the romance that many leaders of the post-Independence dispensation, most of who claimed to have made huge...

Rear Admiral Ajendra Bahadur Singh takes over as Eastern Fleet Commander

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 October 2014

Rear Admiral Atul Kumar Jain, VSM, Flag Officer Commanding Eastern Fleet, handed over the command of the Eastern Fleet to Rear Admiral Ajendra Bahadur Singh, VSM. The change of guard took place...

The Indian Atom Bomb

By: Air Marshal RK Nehra |Issue: Book Excerpt: Hinduism & its Military Ethos | Date: 08 October 2014

On 11 and 13 May 1998, India crashed into the exclusive and elitist club of the ‘Nuclear Haves’, with five nuclear blasts; the whole country was euphoric. Pakistan responded on 28 and 30 May...

Slump in Maoists’ War: An Opportunity to Reap

By: Shashank Ranjan |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 October 2014

On 20 September 2014, The Indian Express carried a report, captioned, “Ahead of Global Meet, Maoists Admit to Setbacks”. The report mentions about a letter uploaded on CPI (Maoist)...

It is time to wrest the initiative from Pakistan

By: Col Jaibans Singh |Issue: Courtesy: www.defenceinfo.com | Date: 06 October 2014

There seems to be no stopping Pakistan from digging its own gave on the Kashmir issue. Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif faced considerable embarrassment for his unfortunate address to the...

Sardar Patel’s Foreign Policy

By: Prakash Nanda |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 October 2014

Now that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has ensured that the country “acknowledges” the contributions of India’s first Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister Sardar Vallabhai Patel towards...

Sikorsky Unveils S-97 RAIDER Helicopter

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 October 2014

Sikorsky Aircraft, a subsidiary of United Technologies Corp., today unveiled the first of two S-97 RAIDER(TM) helicopter prototypes, signaling the start of activities in the program’s test flight...

Modernisation of India's Military Aviation

By: Air Commodore KB Menon |Issue: Vol 26.1 Jan-Mar 2011 | Date: 06 October 2014

Indian military aviation went through its first phase of modernisation during the mid sixties and the second phase was in the late seventies to early eighties. Today India’s military aviation...

The forgotten hero of Punjab – Jassa Singh Ahluwalia

By: Sumant Dhamija |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 October 2014

The year was 1762. In a forgotten corner of the world, Punjab was fighting for her freedom. Ahmad Shah Abdali (Durrani), lord of Punjab whose vassal included the Mughal emperor in Delhi and the...

How much will the ISIS and Al Qaeda impact Indians?

By: Ganapathy Vanchinathan |Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 01 October 2014

Recently, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in his first interview as Prime Minister of India to a TV channel, responding to a question on the formation of AQIS, said it would be delusional to think...

Strengthen India's Aerospace Power

By: Air Chief Marshal SP Tyagi |Issue: Vol 22.1 Jan - Mar 2007 | Date: 01 October 2014

India missed out on the first industrial revolution and as a result, for centuries, we remained an agrarian society. A large part of our population continued to languish in poverty. Today, India...

Thales & Bharat Electronics form a joint venture in India

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 September 2014

Navratna Defence Public Sector Undertaking Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) and Thales announce that the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Government of India, has approved the incorporation of their...

Indo-US relations: Not natural partners at all

By: Kanwal Sibal |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 September 2014

If the media coverage in India of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s US visit and the adulation with which the Indian-American community greeted him in New York were any yardstick, it can already be...

The Arc of the India-US Partnership

By: Kanwal Sibal |Issue: Vol. 27.2 Apr-Jun 2012 | Date: 29 September 2014

Today, the India-US relationship is a transformed one with the change in Indian thinking about America being the most important element. Being ‘pro-American’ is not a stigma any longer...

Xi in India: a thorny route at home?

By: Claude Arpi |Issue: Courtesy: http://claudearpi.blogspot.in/ | Date: 27 September 2014

There are two ways to look at an event, especially a State visit by a foreign dignitary: it can be described as a resounding success, a game-changer, or it can be seen as a missed opportunity, a...

Sharif’s UN speech: His Master’s Voice

By: Col Jaibans Singh |Issue: Courtesy: www.defenceinfo.com | Date: 27 September 2014

Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, once again, brought up the issue of Kashmir in the United National General Assembly (UNGA). He said that the “veil cannot be drawn over the core issue of...

China at a Crossroads in Gilgit-Baltistan

By: Senge H. Sering |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 September 2014

With large outcry in Pakistan against recent Palestinian killings, one wonders at the nation’s pronounced silence on the continued Uighur genocide in China’s restive Xinjiang...

Israel Palestine and the divine intervention

By: Anant Mishra |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 September 2014

In the 7th Century, the Arab conquest of Palestine assimilated its inhabitants (who are today known as the Palestinians). In the year 1516, the land was conquered by the Ottoman Turks. In 1831,...

Indo-US Military Trade: A Decade of Wasted Opportunities

By: Maj Gen Mrinal Suman |Issue: Vol. 27.2 Apr-Jun 2012 | Date: 26 September 2014

India acknowledges the technological superiority of the US weapon systems and wants to develop and produce them through joint ventures. It seeks partnership and not a seller-buyer relationship....