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Defence Preparedness: An unforgiving opportunity
By: Col Anil Athale |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 July 2014
At Rs. 2.29 lakh crore, Defence expenditure is the largest component of the national budget. But true to Parkinson Law, when the figures are astronomical and beyond the grasp of human mind, the...
Maoists Through the Prism of their Victims
By: Lt Gen Baljit Singh |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 July 2014
What can be surmised from an understanding of the history of warfare in general is that in any form of armed conflict, collateral damage (loss of limb and life) to the populace at large as also of...
Employment of Helicopters in Counter Insurgency Roles
By: Gp Capt B Menon |Issue: Vol. 29.2 Apr-Jun 2014 | Date: 29 July 2014
Experts estimate that about 80 different insurgencies are active around the world. Malaya, French Indochina, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Indonesia, South Africa, Algeria, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka,...
Strategies for Defence Modernisation and Self-Reliance
By: Bikramdeep Singh |Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 28 July 2014
In defence parlance, modernisation may be defined as relevant upgrades or improvement of existing military capabilities through the acquisition of new (imported or indigenously developed) weapon...
Indian Army: Reminiscences of a Soldier
By: Danvir Singh |Issue: Vol. 29.1 Jan-Mar 2014 | Date: 26 July 2014
No matter how hi-tech the modern battlefield gets. No matter how powerful the Drones and the Robots become. The mission of the Infantry will continue to close-in and destroy the enemy, through...
The ‘Why’ of Rethinking Indian Nuclear Deterrence!
By: Col Anil Athale |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 July 2014
Indian nuclear decision making was always in the global political context. These were almost exclusively political decisions with the armed forces not in the loop. The 1974 Pokhran I tests were...
The Indo-Pak Peace Talks: A Duodrama
By: Danvir Singh |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 July 2014
The two actors of our sub-continent prepare to enact the latest scene, in the series of peace drama running over decades. The script is yet to play out the denouement. Nevertheless they meet again...
Kargil Controversy: Army pinpoints IAF failures
By: Lt Gen Harwant Singh |Issue: Vol 25.2 Apr-Jun 2010 | Date: 24 July 2014
Every military operation carries many lessons. The receptive imbibe some while the obstinate simply ignore. To be in a state of denial or finding alibis for mistakes rather than learn from...
Kashmiris are being hijacked!
By: Col Jaibans Singh |Issue: Courtesy: www.defenceinfo.com | Date: 24 July 2014
The government in the centre has been there barely two months and a segment of the so-called prime-movers of the Kashmir valley, political leaders and intelligentsia, have started voicing a...
Defence Budget: A Perspective on self Reliance and Modernisation
By: Maj Gen Rajesh Singh |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 July 2014
India’s Defence Budget for 2014-15 has an allocation of Rs.2,29,000 crores ($38 billion) which is an increase of 12% over the previous year’s allocation. The capital outlay which is for...
Israel under the Iron Dome - Should India Seek Cover?
By: Lt Col Sailesh Kumar Rai |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 July 2014
The ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict has once again brought into sharp focus the technological disparities between the two adversaries. Although there are news reports indicating use of UAVs by...
The Gaza Debate: A View Point
By: Dr Amarjit Singh |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 July 2014
The Rajya Sabha had been pressing for a debate on the Gaza action of Israel, and with overwhelming pressure, including by threatening to forestall all other discussions in the Rajya Sabha, they...
Why not have ‘Technical Support Division’ at the Army Corps Level?
By: Col JK Achuthan (Retd.) |Issue: Vol. 29.2 Apr-Jun 2014 | Date: 18 July 2014
The essence of successful conventional defensive battle is in maintaining elasticity and cohesion; thereafter debilitating the enemy’s combat power to the danger zone of exhaustion and...
Finmeccanica – Selex ES’s mini and micro UAVs see success in tests
By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 July 2014
Finmeccanica – Selex ES’s ASIO-B and SPYBALL-B UAVs have passed their factory acceptance tests, leaving them ready for delivery to the Italian Army for its Forza NEC modernisation...
Raising FDI in Defence is not enough
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 July 2014
FDI in the Defence Sector has been hiked from erstwhile 26 percent to 49 percent when the Finance-cum-Defence Minister recently announced the Defence Budget amounting to 2.29 Lakh Crores ($38.5...
Critical Deficiencies in the Indian Army
By: Sanjay Sethi |Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 17 July 2014
The Prime Minister was briefed by the Army Chief in the War Room of Military Operations Directorate on critical hollowness afflicting the army on June 13, 2014. As per media reports, the...
The Future of Military Helicopters
By: Gp Capt AK Sachdev |Issue: Vol. 28.1 Jan-Mar 2013 | Date: 16 July 2014
Regrettably, advances in helicopter design have not been as impressive as for fighter aircraft. This is despite the fact that helicopters have been utilised in every conflict situation and despite...
Lessons from the Henderson Brooks Report
By: Lt Gen (Dr) JS Bajwa |Issue: Vol. 29.2 Apr-Jun 2014 | Date: 16 July 2014
The Government’s ‘White Paper’ relating to India-China Boundary issue, published between 1951 and 1960, clearly indicated the adversarial bilateral relations between India and China. The...
Islamic Terror and India: What are We Doing?
By: Shaumik Samar Ghosh |Issue: Courtesy: www.theindianrepublic.com | Date: 16 July 2014
Islamic terror is something that is causing more damage than that caused by many natural disasters together. Al Qaeda, ISIS, Boko Haram and so many more, their groups are only adding more...
Drone Terrorism
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 July 2014
Media recently reported the arrest of four persons in Varanasi for filming the ‘Ganga Aarti’ using drone cameras at the Dashashwamedh Ghat without permission. The arrest was possible because...