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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...

Strategic Depth – Not Mere Military Term

By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 June 2014

Strategic Depth is a term generally related to military operations. It has been described as the distances between the front-lines or battle sectors and the combatant’s capital cities,...

Leapfrog the Technological Gap

By: Bharat Verma |Issue: Vol 21.2 Apr-Jun 2006 | Date: 22 June 2014

India needs to do a China. Beijing has successfully converted China into a low cost manufacturing hub of the world. Similarly, New Delhi should rapidly transform India into a low cost, high end...

IAF welcomes 193 Flying Officers

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 June 2014

The morning of 21 Jun 2014 saw the officer who graduated thirty nine years ago, come back as Chief Guest to review the Combined Graduation Parade at Air Force Academy, Dundigal. Air Chief...

Armed Force Transformation and the National Security Problems

By: Brig Deepak Sinha |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 June 2014

With issues of getting India back on track economically and serious problems in keeping the navy afloat, India’s policy makers probably have little time to worry about the recent events that...

Nexter, L&T and Ashok Leyland signed agreement for MGS programme of the...

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 June 2014

Nexter Systems, Larsen & Toubro Limited (L&T) and Ashok Leyland Defence Systems have signed a consortium agreement to collaborate for the Mounted Gun System (MGS) artillery programme of the Indian...

Employing Special Forces: A Response to Popular Fallacies

By: Saikat Datta |Issue: Vol. 29.2 Apr-Jun 2014 | Date: 20 June 2014

In his article on ‘Special Operations Forces: Understanding the Dynamics of Change’ (refer IDR Jan-Mar ’14 Vol. 29.1) Brigadier Deepak Sinha (Retd.) makes an excellent case for setting up a...

When Nehru lied in Parliament

By: Claude Arpi |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 June 2014

On October 6, 1957, a Chinese newspaper Kuang-ming Jih-pao reported: The Sinkiang-Tibet – the highest highway in the world – has been completed. During the past few days, a number of trucks...

Iraq: India wastes Army’s Special Forces resource

By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 June 2014

The ISIS onslaught in Iraq is being watched by the whole world. For India, many challenges have sprung with 46 nurses trapped in Tikrit that fell to the ISIS and some 40 Indian workers under...

Nexter and CILAS announces cooperation on laser weapons

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 June 2014

During the EUROSATORY exhibition, Nexter Systems and CILAS announced the signing of a letter of intent for joint research work on the development of carrier-based laser weapons. This is an...

Akash Missile Flight Tested Successfully in very low altitude

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 June 2014

Akash, missile was successfully test fired, today in very low altitude near boundary mission from the Integrated Test Range, Balasore, Odisha. This flight trial was last among the validation...

Competitive Shia-Sunni Gas Pipelines Politics?

By: Brig Amar Cheema |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 June 2014

When combat soldiers are faced with a chemical attack, the military practice to exhale polluted air before donning a protective mask is by shouting ‘gas-gas-gas.’ By repeating the ‘G’...

Pakistan’s Domestic Jihad

By: Vikram Sood |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 June 2014

Pakistan watchers would not find the current spate of terror in that country surprising because there has been a steady escalation in its lethality, its dramatic impact, geographical range and...

The three dangers to India

By: Bharat Verma |Issue: Vol 22.3 Jul-Sep 2007 | Date: 18 June 2014

Very few policy makers in India dare to acknowledge the danger to the nation’s territorial integrity. The security and integrity of the nation has become hostage to vote-bank politics. Democracy...

Sagem's new Epsilon 10 navigator chosen by Renault Trucks

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 June 2014

The new Epsilon 10 land navigator from Sagem (Safran) has been selected by Renault Trucks Défense (RTD) for its “Battlenet InsideTM” electronics suite used to digitize combat vehicles. Sagem’s...