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In March, The Times of India reported that the Indian Army is “fast running out of ammunition”. The daily affirmed: “Tanks and air defence units, artillery batteries and infantry soldiers...

Review of Policy on FDI

By: Maj Gen Dhruv C Katoch |Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 02 September 2014

The recently released Press Note 7 of 2014, dated 26 August 2014, notifies the changes brought about by the Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion (DIPP) in Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)...

Standards of Intervention

By: Anant Mishra |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 31 August 2014

Formed in the wake of the horrors of World War II and the Holocaust, the United Nations took as its primary mission the maintenance of international peace and security. Since the end of the Cold...

Speeding up DRDO output

By: Lt Gen Harwant Singh |Issue: Courtesy: HT (Chd edition) | Date: 30 August 2014

The Prime Minister Narendra Modi has called upon Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO) to speed up projects and advance delivery schedules. He has opined that India can be world...

Defence Industry of Pakistan

By: RSN Singh |Issue: Book Excerpt: Asian Strategy and Military Perspective | Date: 30 August 2014

After partition, Pakistan did not inherit any military production facilities. In 1951, the Pakistan Ordnance Factory was established at Wah cantonment to produce small arms, ammunition and...

India's hollowness and Pak’s perpetual war path

By: Lt Gen Gautam Banerjee |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 August 2014

“Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from defeat” – Jean-Paul Sartre After many years, the nation’s retrieval of some lost territory astride the Kargil...

Ceasefire Violations: Is Pak Army trying to regain its confidence?

By: Mehtab Karan Singh |Issue: Courtesy: www.defenceinfo.com | Date: 27 August 2014

Pakistan!! Trying to figure out this nation is by far the most elusive challenge for a political or a military analyst! What makes this nation tick? How is it staying afloat given its...

Pakistan isn't ready for peace with India

By: Kanwal Sibal |Issue: Courtesy: Mail Today | Date: 26 August 2014

We have to draw some hard lessons from the latest drama in India-Pakistan relations. If we do not, we will continue being beset with unmet expectations, unrequited gestures and a thousand...

The Great Upsurge of 1857: Historical sites in Meerut Cantonment

By: Dr Amit Pathak |Issue: Vol 25.3 Jul-Sep 2010 | Date: 26 August 2014

Meerut Cantonment The British formally arrived in Meerut in 1803, through a treaty with the Marathas. The cantonment of Meerut was established in 1806 with specific strategic interests including...

The situation in Syria: Then and Now

By: Anant Mishra |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 August 2014

The wave of Arab unrest that began with the Tunisian revolution reached Syria on March 15, 2011, when residents of a small southern city took to the streets to protest the torture of students who...

Review of India’s Security Imperatives: Agenda for the New Government

By: Lt Gen (Dr) JS Bajwa |Issue: Vol. 29.3 Jul-Sep 2014 | Date: 25 August 2014

The armed forces of a country are a manifestation of the Government’s commitment to the people it represents of its concern for the pursuing the country’s national interests, for providing...

Kashmir: Solution lies elsewhere

By: Danvir Singh |Issue: Book Excerpt: Kashmir's Death Trap | Date: 23 August 2014

The root cause of instability in the South Asian region is no doubt the lingering dispute in Jammu & Kashmir (J&K). Whether India agrees to this or not, the Kashmir issue is the core issue beyond...

Indian Army and Management of Stress

By: Maj Gen Mrinal Suman |Issue: Vol 24.2 Apr-Jun 2009 | Date: 23 August 2014

Military’s Paraplegic Rehabilitation Centre (PRC) at Pune provides rehabilitation support to paraplegic and tetraplegic soldiers. Most of the inmates are victims of bullet or other injuries...

National War Memorial: A question of honour

By: Air Marshal B D Jayal |Issue: Courtesy: The Telegraph | Date: 22 August 2014

Before the flicker of the last candle to commemorate those who laid down their lives for their motherland during the Kargil conflict dies out and memories of this 15th anniversary of Kargil Diwas...

The India Pakistan merry-go-round

By: Vikram Sood |Issue: Courtesy: MidDay Mumbai | Date: 21 August 2014

Narendra Modi’s invitation to SAARC leaders for the swearing in May was a smart move and it threw three groups into a spin. As the startled Nawaz Sharif government went into a confused silence,...

The China Factor: India’s Tryst with the Dragon

By: Jayadeva Ranade |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 August 2014

Beijing’s accelerated push in recent years for recognition as the dominant power in the Asia-Pacific has accentuated the implicit contest for strategic space between Japan, the US, India and...

Pakistan does not want ‘Aman’ with India

By: Sunil Garodia |Issue: Courtesy: www.theindianrepublic.com | Date: 19 August 2014

The Pakistan foreign ministry has issued a statement displaying injured innocence as a result of India’s cancelling the Foreign Secretary level talks in Islamabad on Aug 25. The statement says...

Pakistan Army’s official take on 1948 invasion of Kashmir

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 August 2014

“By November 1947 Auchinleck, Supreme Commander based in New Delhi, being convinced that Indian Cabinet was seeking to destroy and undo Pakistan by economic and military means, was forced to...

Pakistan is a rogue country and should be treated accordingly

By: Maj Gen Mrinal Suman |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 August 2014

Pakistan is at it again. Five soldiers have lost their lives. Indian leadership appears unfazed and wants to continue dialogue with Pakistan. One of the greatest misfortunes for India is the fact...

Internal Security: The Maoist Dimension

By: Lt Gen Gautam Banerjee |Issue: Vol. 29.2 Apr-Jun 2014 | Date: 13 August 2014

The Maoist rebellion is a phenomenon, an adverse one of course, in which bands of armed local inhabitants, led by firebrand ‘area commanders’, assume a role that should truly lie within the...