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“Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high … Into that heaven of freedom, my father, let my country awake.” —Tagore India is a millennium old civilisation of diverse...

Uttrakhand exposes poor early warning mechanisms

By: Col (Dr) PK Vasudeva |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 June 2013

The torrential floods in the Himalayas is one of the biggest disaster witnessed in the country over the years leading to over 600 deaths so far since June 15 2013 onwards in Uttrakhand alone. It...

Utharakhand: Disasters Come – Disasters Go !

By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 June 2013

The horrific disaster that has struck Uttrakhand has been assessed as a mix of natural and man-made. In fact, the various media analyses indicate we were asking for it and there were enough...

Can Tibet be defended?

By: Claude Arpi |Issue: Book Excerpt: 1962 and the McMahon Line Saga | Date: 21 June 2013

One often hears in Indian military circles that the ‘next war’ with Pakistan will be on Pakistani territory, though unfortunately, the ‘next’ one with China will be on Indian soil. With...

Pratt & Whitney Announces More Than 1,000 New Engine Orders

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 June 2013

Pratt & Whitney, a division of United Technologies Corp., announced new orders for more than 1,000 engines, including options, and highlighted key milestones for its military engines programs –...

MoD scuttled the proposal for a Permanent Chairman of Chiefs of Staff Committee

By: Col (Dr) PK Vasudeva |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 June 2013

Unfortunately, India is not likely to get a super-General as adviser to the defence minister and also member of the cabinet committee on security for advice on defence and national security...

Elusive Military Transformation

By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 June 2013

Two days back a defence correspondent wrote in a prominent daily that the Ministry of Defence (MoD) is apparently not in favour of a Permanent Chairman for the Chiefs of Staff Committee (COSC) and...

European Defence Agency launches e-Quip, the on-line defence market

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 June 2013

The European Defence Agency (EDA) today officially launched e-Quip, its government to government electronic market place for surplus defence equipment. Through e-Quip national governments can...

Why Maoist Insurgency Will Flourish in India

By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 June 2013

It was amusing to view the Singh Duo RPN Singh, Minister of State for Home Affairs and RK Singh, Home Secretary describing the Maoist attack on a train in Bihar as “Frustration” on the part...

The way to Regional Power status

By: Gp Capt AG Bewoor |Issue: Vol 25.1 Jan-Mar 2010 | Date: 13 June 2013

The Sin that is Committed by Killing One, Who Does Not Deserve to Be Killed, Is As Great as the Sin, of Not Killing One Who Deserves to Be Killed. Mahabharat Udyoga Parva. Chapter 72, Verse...

Boeing Transfers 1st C-17 to Indian Air Force

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 June 2013

The Indian Air Force (IAF) flew its first Boeing C-17 Globemaster III to India today, becoming the newest operator of the leading airlifter. “The C-17 will equip the Indian Air Force with amongst...

Make most of Japan’s overtures

By: Kanwal Sibal |Issue: Courtesy: Mail Today | Date: 12 June 2013

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s visit to Japan from May 27 to 30 was opportune as the circumstances today are more propitious than ever for India and Japan to forge a solid strategic...

Time To Walk A Thin Line

By: Air Marshal B D Jayal |Issue: Courtesy: The Telegraph | Date: 12 June 2013

In a season where scams are tumbling out of Lutyens’ Bhavans with an embarrassing regularity, it may appear that the AgustaWestland helicopter graft case has receded from public memory. Rather...

Surreal China - Lessons from Myanmar

By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch |Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 09 June 2013

Myanmar helped China seize the opportunity to integrate more with Myanmar militarily, politically and economically, Chinese strategists having visualised the long-term need for reaching out to...

Peace with Pakistan: an idea whose time has passed

By: Dr Prem Mahadevan |Issue: Vol 25.1 Jan-Mar 2010 | Date: 09 June 2013

A leading Indian english language newspaper has chosen to begin 2010 by stirring up controversy. It has run a series of editorials advocating peace initiatives with Pakistan, despite the manifest...

Defence production- a battle between free market and state control

By: Air Marshal B D Jayal |Issue: Courtesy: The Telegraph | Date: 08 June 2013

In a season where scams are tumbling out of Lutyens’ Bhavans with an embarrassing regularity, it may appear that the AgustaWestland helicopter graft case has receded from public memory. Rather...

Terrorism as an Instrument of Power Projection

By: Maj Gen Afsir Karim |Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 08 June 2013

It seems there is no change in the policy of the Pakistan army in matters related to Kashmir. The top brass, along with a crop of retired generals, still believes that India should not be allowed...

Chinese Longue Duree: PLA Modernisation

By: Pinaki Bhattacharya |Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 05 June 2013

An impressionable Henry Kissinger, the then U.S. national security adviser, was clearly awed by the presence of his Chinese interlocutor, Zhou Enlai, steeped in revolutionary history and the...

First Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner Begins Final Assembly

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 June 2013

Newest 787 complements, extends the super-efficient family Boeing has begun final assembly of the first 787-9 Dreamliner. The newest member of the 787 family began taking shape on schedule May 30...

Fight Maoist strategy and not the forces...

By: Danvir Singh |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 June 2013

The ‘Gandhians with Guns’ as they may be referred by the people like Arundhiti Roy, however the fact is that they are armed rebels working against the interestsof the union of India and its...