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De-militarisation is a process that consists of several logical steps: ceasefire, authentication, demarcation, withdrawal, re-deployment and verification. It is a concept that formal and informal...

Chinese Air Force way ahead of IAF

By: Air Marshal Narayan Menon |Issue: Vol. 26.4 Oct-Dec 2011 | Date: 05 July 2014

The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 proved to be a boon to China and the PLAAF. Apart from a formidable enemy being neutralised, many displaced scientists, engineers and technicians from the...

Tawang is not part of China!

By: Claude Arpi |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 July 2014

The Dalai Lama took refuge in India on March 31, 1959. He crossed the Indian border at Khenzimane at the bottom of the famous Thagla ridge in West Kameng Frontier Division of the North-East...

KMW and Nexter Systems plan alliance

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 July 2014

Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW) and Nexter Systems (Nexter), two leading European providers of land defence systems, intend to share their future road ahead. On 01. July 2014 in Paris, the owners of...

Indigenously Built Stealth Frigate Ship INS Sahyadri reached USA to...

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 July 2014

Covering a distance of over 5000 nautical miles (9000 Km), Indian Naval Ship Sahyadri, an indigenously built guided missile stealth Frigate arrived today at Pearl Harbour, USA to participate in...

Pakistan is looking at a long-term disaster

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

On Sunday, 15 June 2014, a press release from Pakistan’s Inter Services Public Relation (ISPR), announced the launch of “Operation Zarb-e-Azb”, to clear North Waziristan Agency (NWA) of...

Shortage of Officers in the Services

By: Maj Gen Mrinal Suman |Issue: Vol 23.2 Apr-Jul 2008 | Date: 02 July 2014

Currently, the Indian Army is facing a shortage of 11,238 officers, a huge 24.1 percent of its authorization of 46,615 officers. The other two services face similar problems. The situation seems...

Siachen Unmasked

By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 July 2014

Much water has flown under the bridge since 2nd October 2012 when Atlantic Council of Ottawa put out the news bulletin titled “India-Pakistan experts agree on confidence-building measures at...

Continuous Substantive Procurement for Indian Defense

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

India is a unique country for many reasons. But one possibly under-looked factor is that it faces security or destabilizing threats from every neighbor. This is even worse than Israel, which is...

Prepare for the Next Great War

By: Bharat Verma |Issue: Vol 24.2 Apr-Jun 2009 | Date: 30 June 2014

Today, India is ringed by turbulent states – Pakistan (land boundary with India 3,310 kms in the northwest), Nepal (land boundary with India 1,751 kms in the north), Bangladesh (land boundary...

Dauntless and Born Leader of Men in Crisis - L/Nk Karam Singh

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 June 2014

Lance Naik Karam Singh was born on 15 September 1915, in Barnala, Punjab. He was enrolled in 1 SIKH on 15 September 1941. During the Jammu & Kashmir operations in the summer of 1948 the Indian...

Image of the Armed Forces

By: Gp Capt AG Bewoor |Issue: Vol 22.4 Oct-Dec 2007 | Date: 27 June 2014

A significant constituent of India are her Armed Forces, to defeat aggression, wage war, and for ceremonial functions. Misemployment erodes their morale, efficiency, integrity, loyalty, sense of...

Indian Army: Enhancing Night Capability

By: Raveen Janu |Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 26 June 2014

.Across its spectrum, future conflict will occur in a continuous 24 hour engagement cycle to enable a Force to maintain the tempo of operations. An essential component of progressing operations...

The games nations play

By: Vikram Sood |Issue: Courtesy: MidDay Mumbai | Date: 26 June 2014

In the early days of the Cold War, nationalism was a particularly bad word in underdeveloped or developing countries, whose primary purpose was to service the First World and fulfil its economic...

The Culture Baggage of Indian Military Philosophy

By: Lt Gen SC Sardeshpande |Issue: Vol. 29.2 Apr-Jun 2014 | Date: 25 June 2014

The Gandhian philosophy of ahimsa has affected the Indian attitude towards war and use of force. Nehruvian distrust of India’s armed forces and military leadership has coloured the dispensation...

India's foreign policy has become a delicate balancing act

By: Kanwal Sibal |Issue: Courtesy: Mail Today | Date: 25 June 2014

The complexity of our foreign relations is illustrated by certain realities of our external political, economic, defence and popular ties. In the case of our major partners individually, the...

PSLV-C23 Launch Scheduled on June 30, 2014

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 June 2014

The launch of ISRO’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, PSLV-C23, is scheduled on June 30, 2014 (Monday) from Satish Dhawan Space Centre SHAR, Sriharikota. The vehicle lift-off time is scheduled at...

HAL Inducts Over 400 Young Officers

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 June 2014

Over 400 management and design trainees – selected through stringent procedures amid lakhs of applicants – have formally been inducted in Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) as officers at a...

Unraveling the direction of India’s China policy

By: Col R Hariharan |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 June 2014

Since then Prime Minister Modi has returned home after his maiden foreign visit to Bhutan. Modi’s as a relationship building exercise it may be called a moderately successful visit, considering...

Infrastructure, energy, defence key sectors for India-Japan cooperation

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 June 2014

Pushing for greater multi-sector cooperation between New Delhi and Tokyo, senior political representatives identified infrastructure, energy and defence as key areas for partnership between the...