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MODI, MOODI, MOOODI, is not one of the chants by the crowd which we all have heard in India during past six to eight months during the course of political campaign of 2014. This euphoria was not...

Silent Subterfuge – LoC to Border?

By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 May 2014

Media reports quote the Special Representative of the Prime Minister on Pakistan saying that India and Pakistan should ensure the LoC is like border. The Special Representative was reportedly...

Designing A Modern Dockyard

By: Cdr Douglas C Deans |Issue: Vol. 29.1 Jan-Mar 2014 | Date: 14 May 2014

Dockyards have often grown from older historical bases by “Alteration and Additions” during spikes of modernisation and expansion dictated by evolving rivalries between maritime nations. As...

Spy vs Spy: When R&AW lost

By: B Raman |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 May 2014

A spook spends his working life in a cloistered world—protecting himself, his relatives, his feelings and his joys and sorrows from unwanted curiosity. The special bonds that one develops in this...

Non Implementation of One Rank One Pension

By: Maj Gen Satbir Singh |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 May 2014

The UPA Govt announced the grant of One Rank One Pension (OROP) to all defence personnel with lot of fan fare and earned lot of gratitude and accolades from the defence fraternity. During the...

Election Commission and Defence Services voters

By: Lt Gen Harwant Singh |Issue: Courtesy: HT (Chd edition) | Date: 12 May 2014

Just and fair elections are the very bed rock of democracy, where no group or groups of people are disadvantaged in any manner or denied this basic right, by subterfuge or through coercion or any...

Pakistan: The Art of Lying

By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 May 2014

John F Kennedy had said, “No matter how big the lie; repeat it often and the masses will regard it as truth”. However, wisdom speaks that quotes more often are like guidelines that cannot be...

BrahMos Supersonic Cruise Missile : Cementing Deterrence

By: Dr Monika Chansoria |Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 10 May 2014

With the Indian Army successfully test firing an advanced version of the 290 km-range supersonic cruise missile BrahMos in April 2014, India has displayed its continuing advancement towards...

Northeast: the Role of Narcotics and Arms Trafficking

By: Brig (Dr) SP Sinha |Issue: Book Excerpt: Lost Opportunities | Date: 10 May 2014

The illegal narcotics trade is one of the major reasons for the continuance of insurgencies in the North-east. The consequences of trafficking in narcotics are many; for one, it is a major source...

Containing Maoist Insurgency: An Organisational Approach

By: S V Raghavan and V Balasubramaniyan |Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 08 May 2014

India has been suffering from armed internal violence for the past four decades. Terrorists and insurgent groups have created havoc in various parts of India, targeting combatants and...

India to Provide Helicopters to Afghanistan

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

As per the Indian Minister of External Affairs, Salman Khurshid, India as agreed to provide helicopters to war-torn Afghanistan in the near future. Apparently, this decision of the Government of...

Airbus A-330 Multi Role Tanker Transport (MRTT) for Singapore

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

The Republic of Singapore Air Force has opted to acquire six Airbus A-330 MRTT flight refuelling aircraft under a new contract with the European aerospace major Airbus Defence and Space. The...

F-35 Lightning II for South Korea

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

As part of its F-X fighter jet acquisition programme, South Korea has taken a decision to procure the F-35 Lightning II fifth generation combat aircraft built by Lockheed Martin...

Withdrawal from Siachen – a manifestation of Prithviraj Chauhan syndrome!

By: Maj Gen Mrinal Suman |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 May 2014

Siachen is in the news again.Having served at the glacier, one is aware of the ground realities. It is being suggested that ‘demilitarization’ of the glacier will act as a catalyst to foster...

The Subverted Indo-Bangladesh Border : I

By: VK Shashikumar |Issue: Vol 24.2 Apr-Jun 2009 | Date: 07 May 2014

Operation Zero Line Investigates the gateway of terror in the East – the 4,095 km (2,979 km land border and 1,116 km riverine border) long India-Bangladesh border, half of which is along West...

SonAir takes delivery of a new EC225 from Airbus Helicopters

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

Airbus Helicopters’ EC225 presence in the African oil and gas heli-lift market will expand following delivery of an additional workhorse rotorcraft to SonAir, which is to deploy this long-range...

Royal Brunei Airlines selects the A320neo

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

Royal Brunei Airlines (RB) has signed a contract with Airbus covering the firm order of seven A320neo aircraft plus three options, under the latest phase of its fleet modernisation programme....

Boeing Delivers 100th EA-18G Growler to US Navy

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

Boeing delivered the 100th EA-18G Growler to the U.S. Navy, marking a major milestone in the program that has transformed airborne electronic warfare capability for the U.S. and its allies. A...

Creation of Bangladesh: Shining Moment or Strategic Blunder

By: Maj Gen Sheru Thapliyal, PhD |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 May 2014

“DURGA ASTRIDE A TIGER”. This is how Atal Behari Vajpayee described Indira Gandhi immediately after India’s lightening victory in the 1971 war, which resulted in creation of Bangladesh. ...

Taking on the Dragon

By: Maj Gen Sheru Thapliyal, PhD |Issue: Vol. 27.4 Oct-Dec 2012 | Date: 06 May 2014

A defeat in a future conflict with China will be a disaster for India. Apart from the economic ruin, it will substantially damage India’s standing in the comity of nations and degrade her...