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Boeing has received authorization from the U.S. Air Force to produce and launch the eighth and ninth Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) satellites. The WGS-9 authorization and the WGS-8 production...

Sagem to modernize M270 Multiple Launch Rocket Systems

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 January 2012

Sagem (Safran group) has won a contract from Cassidian (an EADS company) to supply Sigma 30 navigation and pointing systems to modernize the self-propelled M270 Mars MLRS (Multiple Launch Rocket...

Future of Kashmiri Pandits?

By: B Raman |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 January 2012

It is 23 years today since Jammu & Kashmir saw the beginning of the ethnic-cleansing of the Kashmiri Pandits, the original inhabitants of Jammu & Kashmir (J&K), from their homeland at the...

Can Pakistan's Army be Restrained?

By: Bhaskar Roy |Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 18 January 2012

In an interview with the BBC last December, Pakistan’s Foreign Minister, Ms Hina Rabbani Khar admitted that the Pakistan army’s overwhelming power and influence over the civilian government...

Time for Solidarity with Balochs

By: B Raman |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 January 2012

The Killing Fields of Balochistan have started shocking the conscience of the international community. Not only non-governmental human rights organisations, but even Governmental spokesmen of...

Assertive Dragon

By: Dr Pushpa Adhikari |Issue: Book Excerpt: China Threat in South Asia | Date: 16 January 2012

Ahead of offering an Indian perspective on rising China, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh (in Washington) said lately, “there is but a certain amount of assertiveness on the Chinese part”...

Is Memogate Scandal planted by ISI?

By: Bharat Verma |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 January 2012

Pakistan is known NATO ally of United States. The Ambassador of Pakistan therefore is a very important player in Washington. He has full access to the top people both in the State Department and...

Indian Air Force Airlift Capability

By: Air Marshal BK Pandey |Issue: Vol. 26.3 July - Sept 2011 | Date: 15 January 2012

Since the nation gained independence on August 15, 1947, combat elements of the Indian Air Force (IAF) have been involved in three conflicts, two major and one minor – and all of them have been...

The India factor in Afghanistan

By: VK Shashikumar |Issue: Vol 23.3 Jul-Sep 2008 | Date: 14 January 2012

In 2001 US and its allies launch the war against terrorism after the world is stunned by the horrific terror on the WTC twin towers in New York. Seven years later Osama bin Laden and Mullah Omar...

Pakistan's export of fake currency via Nepal

By: VK Shashikumar |Issue: Vol. 23.4 Oct-Dec 2008 | Date: 13 January 2012

At most places along the 751 km Bihar-Terai contiguous no-man’s land on the India-Nepal border are dirt tracks. Solitary signpost marks the international boundary here. On one side is Bihar, on...

Game Plan for Return of Musharraf

By: Bharat Verma |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 January 2012

< !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> There is a clear link between Musharraf’s announcements to fight elections in 2012 and lead his party, propping up of Imran Khan, and Pakistan Army and the ISI. In a pre-planned move Musharraf...

Will China threat last beyond two years?

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 January 2012

A strange and amazing question to stall military expansion programme has been raised by the Finance Ministry to the Defence Ministry today: Will China threat last beyond two years? What it...

Unfolding US foreign policy attempts to contain China

By: B Raman |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 January 2012

As President Obama nears the end of his first term and gets ready to seek a second term, he has sought to give a new focus to the US foreign policy towards Asia. This new focus is marked by two...

Future of Asian Air Power-2030

By: Air Commodore Ramesh Phadke |Issue: Book Excerpt: Asia 2030 - The Unfolding Future | Date: 08 January 2012

Air power has been with us for nearly a century. Within less than a decade of the historic first flight of a ‘heavier than air machine’ at Kitty Hawk in the US on 17 December 1903, the...

China bolsters Pak Army's image

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

As the Pakistan Army confronts the US on the one hand and the civilian leadership headed by President Asif Ali Zardari on the other in a triangular re-assertion of its primacy in strategic...

Navy needs more Aircraft Carrier Battle Groups

By: Dr Amarjit Singh |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 January 2012

Since a few years now, India has been working towards procuring three aircraft carriers, commensurate with the mission and request of the Indian Navy to defend India’s sea coast and sea...

MoD extends battle winning advantage to the enemy!

By: Bharat Verma |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 January 2012

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) with its superfluous layers of bureaucracy and the complicated defence procurement procedures, has not only delayed the modernization of armed forces but its...

Younger Fighting Forces for Greater Combat Effectiveness

By: Air Commodore Jasjit Singh |Issue: Vol 18.1 Jan-Mar 2003 | Date: 02 January 2012

There are old pilots, and there are bold pilots, but there are no old-bold pilots —- Anonymous One of the most important lessons of the Gulf War II, even though not so easily visible on a casual...

The War of Nerves in Pakistan: Q & A

By: B Raman |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 January 2012

Q: What is the likelihood of Gen.Ashfaq Pervez Kayani, Pakistan’s Chief of the Army Staff (COAS), staging a coup, seizing political power and imposing the rule of the Army till fresh elections...

POW in China: Humiliations Galore

By: Lt Col KN Bakshi, VSM |Issue: Book Excerpt: I Was A Prisoner of War in China | Date: 30 December 2011

Though we stared long and hard, we could not see anyone. It seemed that no one had come to receive us. The usual compliment of military personnel was there, with their glum faces and their...