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The Chinese are apparently unhappy with the selection of the multipurpose combat plane Rafalefor the Indian Air Force. It is what appears from an article in the People’s Daily (French...

Mutiny in Maldives Leads to Replacement of President Nasheed by his...

By: B Raman |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 February 2012

The Maldives saw dramatic developments on February 7,2012, when President Mohammed Nasheed was forced to step down from office following a mutiny by about 100 officers of the Police and the...

It is time to wake up to Chinese incursions

By: Claude Arpi |Issue: Book Excerpt: Tibet - The Lost Frontier | Date: 07 February 2012

Kiren Rijiju, the 36-year-old firebrand Member of Parliament representing Arunachal Pradesh (West), does not share the government’s and Indian Army’s perceptions about Chinese incursions in...

Opening-Up of Myanmar

By: B Raman |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 February 2012

The three-day (Nov.30—Dec 2, 2011) visit of Hillary Clinton, US Secretary of State, to Myanmar— the first by a US Secretary of State since the visit of Johan Foster Dulles in 1955—...

Indian Navy: challenges beyond the horizon

By: Vice Adm RN Ganesh |Issue: Vol 23.1 Jan-Mar 2008 | Date: 06 February 2012

The Currency of Power: In the mid-1980s many commentators predicted the end of the role of military force as the “currency of power”. Subsequent decades were however marked by global changes...

Howe and Howe Technologies: Pushing the limits of extreme vehicle design...

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

Twin brothers Geoff and Mike Howe were already working as engineers before they knew what engineering was. At age six, they took a toaster apart to figure out how it worked. At eight, they built...

Civil Aviation: Component of Aerospace Power

By: Gp Capt AK Sachdev |Issue: Vol 26.2 Apr-Jun 2011 | Date: 06 February 2012

“Air power is indivisible. If you split it up into compartments, you merely pull it to pieces and destroy its greatest asset – its flexibility” – Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery. Since...

Russian-Chinese nervousness influences their vote on Syria

By: B Raman |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 February 2012

The veto by Russia and China on February 4,2012, of a resolution in the UN Security Council that called upon Syrian President Bashar Assad to step down in the face of the persisting movement...

India: Back to France

By: B Raman |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 February 2012

< !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> The Government of India must press ahead with its last-lap negotiations with Dassault Aviation of France for the finalisation of the definitive contract for the acquisition of 126 Rafale...

Japan Maritime Self-Defence Force Orders Northrop Grumman's ALMDS

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

The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force has purchased four helicopter-mountable, laser mine detection systems to help protect its coastline and the daily maritime traffic coming in and out of the...

Indian shipbuilding: key to maritime and economic security

By: Vice Adm BS Randhawa |Issue: Vol 25.1 Jan-Mar 2010 | Date: 03 February 2012

The first anniversary of 26/11 brings to mind the profound statement of Jawaharlal Nehru ‘To be secure on land we must be supreme at sea’. While Pandit Nehru’s views would have been formed...

Pakistan at War with Itself

By: Bharat Verma |Issue: Vol. 27.1 -Mar 2012 | Date: 02 February 2012

In the coming years, Islamabad will remain pre-occupied with internal strife without respite due to multiple contradictions arising out of the use of terrorism primarily against New Delhi as a...

Indian Air Force - Quo Vadis?

By: Air Marshal BK Pandey |Issue: Vol 26.2 Apr-Jun 2011 | Date: 01 February 2012

Even as the IAF prepares for the great leap into the next generation it must be realised that to erect an edifice there is the imperative of foundation. Visions of a powerful modern Air Force are...

India's space endeavour

By: Gp Capt Joseph Noronha |Issue: Vol. 26.3 July - Sept 2011 | Date: 01 February 2012

Space exploration has its moments of sheer ecstasy but it can be terribly unforgiving as well. Just 63 seconds into the launch of India’s most advanced rocket, the Geosynchronous Satellite...

Indo-French Friendship to Partnership-I

By: Claude Arpi |Issue: Vol 23.1 Jan-Mar 2008 | Date: 31 January 2012

Historical Background: To grasp the intricacies of Indo-French relations in the field of defence and security, it is necessary to first have a look at some issues which may seem unrelated, but...

Indian Air Force: Looking into the future

By: Gp Capt Joseph Noronha |Issue: Vol. 26.4 Oct-Dec 2011 | Date: 30 January 2012

When everything arrives together it may easily result in wastage of time and money. There may be sophisticated equipment lying unpacked in a corner because no one knows how to use it. There could...

Design Considerations for Indigenous Aircraft Carrier-2

By: Vice Adm BS Randhawa |Issue: Vol 25.4 Oct-Dec 2010 | Date: 30 January 2012

The keel of India’s first Indigenous Aircraft Carrier (IAC) was laid by the Raksha Mantri at Cochin Shipyard on the 28th of February 2009. This major milestone of the IAC project underlined the...

Future Wars Require Strong Army Aviation

By: Maj Gen Dhruv C Katoch |Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 27 January 2012

The Raksha Mantri, while speaking at a seminar organised by the Centre for Land Warfare Studies last year, said that the government was aware of the pace of military modernisation by countries...

Legal warfare: The neglected dimension

By: Ali Ahmed |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 January 2012

The legal dimension is usually taken as an after thought, coming to fore post conflict. This is no longer the case. The legal arena is now very much where the conflict plays out, even as the...

Curfew in Western Sichuan

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

11 Tibetans Die in Police Firing A curfew has been imposed and a shoot-at-sight order has been given to the police following two days of violent protests by Tibetans in certain parts of Western...