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Israel Weapon Industries (IWI) – a leader in the production of combat-proven small arms for governments, armies, and law enforcement agencies around the world – launches operations of its US...

China’s Space Programme & Its Implications for India

By: Air Marshal BK Pandey |Issue: Vol. 27.4 Oct-Dec 2012 | Date: 12 December 2012

China has already sent eight astronauts into space on four manned missions. Budgetary constraints and technology denial regimes have been cited as the primary causes of tardy progress in India....

Military and the CAG audit reports

By: Lt Gen Harwant Singh |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 December 2012

Military expenditure is subject to audit, similar to that of any other government department. Such checks are essential to guard against wasteful expenditure. CAG has generally done a good job...

Chinese military official meets Maldives defence minister

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 December 2012

BEIJING, Dec. 11 (Xinhua) — Xu Qiliang, vice chairman of the Central Military Commission of Communist Party of China (CPC), met with Mohamed Nazim, the Maldives’ minister of defence and national...

The March to Dacca - I

By: Maj Gen Sukhwant Singh |Issue: Book Excerpt: India's War since Independence | Date: 12 December 2012

On 9 December, Sagat Singh had secured the waterline of the Meghna in the general area of Ashuganj and was poised for an advance to Dacca. All the approaches to Dacca lay across the Meghna, which...

Bested by China’s Strategy

By: Kanwal Sibal |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 December 2012

China’s two-track policy towards India, that of targetting our territory as well as our market is proving effective. The Chinese calculate that they can periodically rile India politically...

Ethnic Violence in Myanmar: Impact on India

By: Maj Gen Dhruv C Katoch |Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 11 December 2012

Ethnic violence has once again flared up in Myanmar’s Rakhine state which due to the communal overtones of the conflict could have potential security implications for India. Myanmar has a small...

Airbus Military A400M completes critical flight-test phase

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 December 2012

Airbus Military has successfully completed the 300 hours of Function & Reliability (F&R) flight-testing of the A400M new generation airlifter which is a key requirement prior to full...

Higher Defence Management through Effective Civil-Military Relations

By: Air Marshal Dhiraj Kukreja |Issue: Vol. 27.4 Oct-Dec 2012 | Date: 10 December 2012

“He (the soldier) is thus the very basis and silent, barely visible cornerstone of our fame, culture, physical well-being and prosperity; in short, of the entire nation building activity. He...

Pratt & Whitney Singapore Engine Center Celebrates 7,000th Engine Delivery

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 December 2012

Pratt & Whitney announced its Singapore engine center celebrated more than 30 years of operations with the milestone delivery of its 7000th overhauled engine. Pratt & Whitney is a division of...

The Long Reach of Islamic Fundamentalism

By: Maj Gen Afsir Karim |Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 07 December 2012

Since the Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai was shot by Taliban gunmen on her way to school, the pressure has been mounting both in Pakistan and Afghanistan to bring those behind the crime to...

First Eurofighter Typhoon Meteor firing trial a success

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 December 2012

The Meteor Beyond Visual Range Air-to-Air Missile has been successfully launched from a Eurofighter Typhoon as part of the Future Enhancements Flight Test Programme. The missile was eject launched...

Indian Foreign Policy: Future Challenges

By: Kanwal Sibal |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 December 2012

I feel honoured at being asked to speak today to such a distinguished audience on a subject that is of great interest to foreign policy practitioners and commentators alike. What are the...

AFSPA: Who wants the military for internal security?

By: Maj Gen S G Vombatkere |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 December 2012

Parliament and Government Government can function in the interest of people only when there is peace and order in society, persons in power use people-oriented politics, and the rule of law is...

Formation of Afghanistan,Pakistan,China trilateral spells danger for India

By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch |Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 03 December 2012

According to the Chinese science of strategy, national interest is both the starting point and destination of military strategy. …she had already inducted 15,000 Chinese in Afghanistan in year...

'Navy plans to induct 5 to 6 ships and submarines every year': Navy Chief

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 December 2012

On the occasion of Navy Day on December 4, 2012, the Naval Chief Admiral D.K. Joshi announced the following in the press conference held at New Delhi: The world has acknowledged India’s economic...

Airbus Military delivers final A330 MRTT to Royal Australian Air Force

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 December 2012

Airbus Military has formally delivered the fifth and final new generation A330 MRTT multi-role tanker transport ordered by the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF).The handover of the aircraft, the...

India’s youth power serious liability if it takes wrong turn!

By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 December 2012

In 1947, our population was 350 million. As per the 2011 census it stood at 1.02 billion. Today we already are 1.21 billion constituting 17.3 percent of world population, implying every sixth...

Action plan to deal with Maoist Insurgency

By: B Raman |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 November 2012

Start a crash programme for the development of road and telecommunications infrastructure in the entire tribal belt of Central India. The Chinese realised that without effective road and rail...

The Maldivian Shock

By: Prakash Nanda |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 November 2012

While writing the history of Indian diplomacy 25 years hence, any dispassionate historian will agree that the Manmohan Singh government’s neighbourhood policy has been a monumental failure. It...