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Third Naval Base at Karwar

By: Vice Adm (Retd) GM Hiranandani |Issue: Book Excerpt: Transition to Guardianship: The Indian Navy 1991-2000 | Date: 26 March 2012

During the 1970s, the conceptual requirement for a ‘Third Naval Base’ on the West Coast, in addition to Bombay and Cochin, crystallised. The requirements were: Large waterfront with...

Insurgency, Counter-Insurgency and Peace - I

By: Col Anil Athale |Issue: Vol. 27.1 -Mar 2012 | Date: 26 March 2012

Counter-insurgency is a complex phenomenon demanding a complex solution. Any attempt at reductionism can be an invitation to disaster. Although it is very much a form of warfare fitting into the...

Insurgency, Counter-Insurgency and Peace - II

By: Col Anil Athale |Issue: Vol. 27.1 -Mar 2012 | Date: 25 March 2012

Counter-insurgency is a complex phenomenon demanding a complex solution. Any attempt at reductionism can be an invitation to disaster. Although it is very much a form of warfare fitting into the...

Strategic Significance of Maldives

By: RSN Singh |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 March 2012

Strategically significant and geopolitically sensitive, Maldives, a chain of 1192 islands 199 of which are inhabited and home to 3,15,000 people, has recently been brutalized by violence and coup,...

Rheinmetall Air Defence rejects allegations

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 March 2012

Rheinmetall Air Defence AG of Switzerland (RAD) objects to the decision of the Indian Ministry of Defence announced on 5 March 2012 to exclude it from doing business with India’s Ordnance...

Taking Nuclear War-Fighting Seriously

By: Ali Ahmed |Issue: Vol. 27.1 -Mar 2012 | Date: 19 March 2012

What are the implications of a nuclear battlefield? Since the early eighties, this question has been posed since Sundarji’s postal seminar on nuclear conflict while he was in command of the...

Air Chief to visit Bangladesh

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 March 2012

Air Chief Marshal NAK Browne, Chief of the Air Staff, leaves New Delhi on a four day visit to Bangladesh tomorrow. During this defence cooperation visit to reinforce defence ties, the Air Chief...

Afghanistan: All is not yet lost

By: B Raman |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 March 2012

All is not yet lost in Afghanistan. The Taliban and its affiliates such as the so-called Haqqani Network are alive and active not only in the interior provinces, but even in Kabul. They still...

Tibetan unrest spreads from Sichuan to Qinghai

By: B Raman |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 March 2012

The Tibetan unrest against the repressive policies of the Chinese authorities has spread from the Tibetan areas of Western Sichuan to Qinghai. According to details received late, Qinghai has...

Boeing Phantom Eye Conducts Medium-speed Taxi Test

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 March 2012

Hydrogen-powered high altitude long endurance aircraft approaching 1st flight Boeing announced that the Phantom Eye high altitude long endurance (HALE) unmanned aerial vehicle has conducted its...

CASSIDIAN appoints Peter Gutsmiedl as first India CEO

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 March 2012

Cassidian has appointed Peter Gutsmiedl as first Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of its India operations. Based in Bengaluru, the heart of India’s aerospace and defence industry, he will lead the...

Tibet 2030

By: P K Gautham |Issue: Book Excerpt: Asia 2030 - The Unfolding Future | Date: 13 March 2012

Economic Tibet. China’s aim is to have an economic Tibet. Urbanisation, infrastructure building, extension of rail, roads and airports, converting grasslands to farmland will...

Is Myanmar-China relation entering a tricky phase?

By: Col R Hariharan |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 March 2012

Myanmar’s decision to suspend the construction of the Chinese-aided Irrawaddy Myitsone hydroelectric dam project in Kachin State comes as a pleasant surprise, whatever be the reasons behind the...

Counter-Terrorism: The NCTC Controversy

By: B Raman |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 March 2012

India has been facing the evil of terrorism since 1971 when two members of the Jammu & Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) hijacked an Indian Airlines plane to Lahore and set it on fire after asking...

Battling the Dragon

By: MP Anil Kumar |Issue: Vol. 27.1 -Mar 2012 | Date: 06 March 2012

“To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.” —Sun Tzu, Art of War The Chinese maintain that the...

China: Better to counter microblogs than to block them

By: B Raman |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 February 2012

According to Radio Free Asia, funded by the US State Department, Zhu Mingguo,deputy leader of the Guangdong provincial Government in China, which witnessed a people’s revolt in the village of...

NCTC: Proposed powers have serious scope for misuse

By: B Raman |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 February 2012

In a letter to the Chief Ministers, who have expressed their reservations over certain features of the proposed National Counter-Terrorism Centre (NCTC), ShriP.Chidambaram, the Union Home...

National Counter Terrorism Centre Fiasco

By: B Raman |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 February 2012

Before 9/11 the assessment in the US was that terrorist threats to the US from abroad would be more serious than home-based threats.The responsibility for co-ordinating preventive action was,...

DCNS conducts first helicopter deck landing trials on FREMM Aquitaine

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 February 2012

DCNS has achieved formal qualification of the FREMM frigate Aquitaine’s flight deck for operations with the Lynx helicopter. This milestone was reached several months ahead of schedule after a...