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India’s lack of a strong and a robust defence industry is a matter of grave concern as it makes India dependent on imports from foreign countries for about 70% of her defence equipment...

Modi's stance on foreign policy remains a mystery

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

Little interest has been shown domestically about possible new orientations in foreign policy under a Modi-led NDA government. Modi’s single-minded focus on the development agenda has dominated...

Soldiers – who will they vote for?

By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 March 2014

With the landmark Supreme Court judgment removing ‘mischievous’ stipulations to not let soldiers vote in elections at their place of posting and directions that with effect from 1st January...

Another Peace Dividend for the Defence Industry?

By: David Oliver |Issue: Vol. 29.1 Jan-Mar 2014 | Date: 23 March 2014

In the past three years, NATO countries have cut $120 billion from their combined defence budgets, and they are set to fall further in the next decade. In the US, the Budget Control Act will, by...

China’s War on Buddhism – Tibetan’s strategic depth

By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 March 2014

The release of the Hollywood movie ‘The Monument Men’ has been a huge hit. Not merely because of its celebrated cast but more because of the singular effort made by these men to recover and...

1962 War: Why keep Henderson Brooks report secret?

By: Claude Arpi |Issue: Vol 26.1 Jan-Mar 2011 | Date: 18 March 2014

“Even if the founder of the post-independence dynasty, Jawaharlal Nehru may have emerged in bad light in the Henderson Brooks Report, why put a blanket on the entire archives? Are we living in...

How Antony's incompetence has left India's defences in a mess

By: Bharat Verma |Issue: Courtesy: Rediff.com | Date: 12 March 2014

In the past seven years Defence Minister A K Antony’s incompetence has ensured that India’s military capability rapidly shrinks. Primarily, the tax-payer spends money on appointing the defence...

Managing the nation's defence, somehow

By: Vikram Sood |Issue: Courtesy: MidDay Mumbai | Date: 11 March 2014

Nine officers and men dead in the last six months in two submarine accidents with one submarine written off and another grounded. Who is responsible for the death of these persons and the loss of...

Implications of a Mountain Strike Corps

By: Special Correspondent |Issue: Vol. 29.1 Jan-Mar 2014 | Date: 11 March 2014

China’s past history is laced with aggression and blatant disregard to world opinion. The PLA is well ahead of the Indian Army and this ever-widening gap, if not checked and bridged, will...

Strategic Miscalculations

By: Kanwal Sibal |Issue: Courtesy: The Telegraph | Date: 06 March 2014

The United States of America is, once again, not managing its relations with India well. Gains made during George W. Bush’s presidency in building strategic trust between the two countries are...

Defence Collaboration: Strategic Partnership with USA

By: Air Marshal Dhiraj Kukreja |Issue: Vol. 29.1 Jan-Mar 2014 | Date: 06 March 2014

The US occupies, and in the foreseeable future, will continue to occupy a position of pre-eminence on the world stage. Indian perception of world politics is a multi-polar world where a...

Sagem wins order from Nexter Systems to supply 37 SIGMA 30 pointing systems

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

Sagem (Safran) has won a new order from Nexter Systems to supply 37 SIGMA 30 navigation and pointing systems for CAESAR guns, to be delivered to an Asian customer. Sagem’s SIGMA 30 system gives...

"US and India: Our Economic Opportunity in Tomorrow's Asia”: Biswal

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

Speech by Ms. Nisha Biswal, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Good afternoon, it is such a pleasure to be with you today. Thank you, George, for that kind...

Unchecked Infiltration

By: Shib Shankar Chatterjee |Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 05 March 2014

Muhammad Jamil Rehman, a trader, who had come to India to get his mother treated, was one of those, who preferred to stay back, for thorough health check-ups of his mother in India, where medical...

Robotic Limbs for Helicopter Drones

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 March 2014

Engineers and robotists at the German Aerospace Centre (DLR) have slapped a robotic arm to the belly of a small autonomous helicopter. The idea is to expand the tasks that aerial drones can...

Aerial Platform for BrahMos

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 March 2014

The Indian Air Force has plans to mount the supersonic BrahMos missiles on its frontline Sukhoi-30 MKI air dominance combat aircraft. The air version of the BrahMos missile is ready but testing,...

New game plan to deny soldier’s right to cast the ballot

By: Lt Gen Harwant Singh |Issue: Courtesy: HT (Chd edition) | Date: 05 March 2014

Earlier soldiers (which includes sailors and airmen too) were required to cast their vote by postal ballot. The procedure devised for this was so convoluted, that it was simply inoperative. Less...

Remembered Only at Election Time

By: Air Marshal B D Jayal |Issue: Courtesy: The Telegraph | Date: 05 March 2014

It is no secret that the armed forces of the Union have, to an extent, been viewed by our ruling elite as a necessary burden. Reportedly at one time our first prime minister even wondered if they...

US Javelin vs Israel’s Spike

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 March 2014

The Defence Acquisition Council under the Ministry of Defence is engaged in a debate over the issue of procurement of Anti-Tank Guided Missiles (ATGM) for the Indian Army. The choice before them...

Underwater Launch of UAV

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 March 2014

As per the US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), on December 05, 2013, the US Navy demonstrated the ability to launch Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) from a submarine while underwater. In the...