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Libya: An Old Evil Is Dead, A New Evil Is Born
By: B Raman |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 October 2011
No right-thinking person would shed tears over the death of Gaddafi, the Libyan dictator, but any well-informed analyst with his feet firmly on the ground would be nervous over the likely sequel...
Terrorism and Indian Ambivalence
By: Raunaq Rathore |Issue: Vol 23.2 Apr-Jul 2008 | Date: 14 October 2011
Well over five decades, India has been combating insurgencies, militancy, and terrorism. Its security forces have been extensively employed to firefight such situations- erupting after years of...
Sagem's Infrared version of AASM Hammer enters service with French armed forces
By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 October 2011
The French Air Force and Naval aviation began operational deployment of the infrared terminal guidance version (SBU-64) of the Hammer IR AASM modular air-to- ground weapon. Developed and...
What does recovery of explosives in Ambala portend?
By: B Raman |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 October 2011
Acting on an alert from the Delhi Police, the Haryana Police are reported to have seized a car containing concealed explosives ( about 5 KGs), five detonators and two timers which had been...
India expands its strategic presence
By: B Raman |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 October 2011
Slowly, but steadily and unrelentingly, India has been expanding its strategic presence. One dimension of this became evident during the recent visit of President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan to...
Tactical Shifts in the Terror Profile
By: Maj Gen GD Bakshi, (Retd) |Issue: Vol. 23.4 Oct-Dec 2008 | Date: 08 October 2011
From June 08, India has been victim of a new phase of terrorism and enhanced ISI activities. This spurt in ISI sponsored terrorism was presumably initiated by Lt Gen Nadeem Taj to divert...
Sikorsky Chief Test Pilot Awarded SETP Honor for Achievement with X2...
By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 October 2011
Kevin Bredenbeck, the pilot who flew the revolutionary X2 Technology™ demonstrator last year to an unofficial speed record for conventional helicopters, has been recognized by the Society of...
Indian Army: Demilitarisation and Civilianisation I
By: Lt Gen Gautam Banerjee |Issue: Vol. 26.3 July - Sept 2011 | Date: 04 October 2011
A Case of Sleep-walk? Recently, the ‘Ajay Vikram Singh Committee (AVSC) Report Part II’ was implemented in the armed forces amidst much satisfaction among the military hierarchy. Thus a large...
Pakistan military’s Swat offensive
By: Col Rajinder Singh |Issue: Vol 24.3 Jul-Sep 2009 | Date: 03 October 2011
Most people and even some military minds do not appreciate the difference between fighting a conventional war and an unconventional war. The former is against a known enemy with well-defined...
Confronting the Dragon: Assertiveness Required
By: Maj Gen Dhruv C Katoch |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 October 2011
Chinese actions over the last few years reflect an increasing assertiveness bordering on domination. While the relationship between India and China could be considered stable at the strategic...
The Arab Spring: opening a pandora's box?
By: Anand K Verma |Issue: Vol. 26.3 July - Sept 2011 | Date: 02 October 2011
The so called Arab spring represents a massive popular movement, not seen or predicted in the Arab world ever since the Suez sponsored Nasserite upheaval. It is as significant as the falling of...
Extended South Asian Region - II
By: Col Harjeet Singh |Issue: Vol 22.2 Apr-Jun 2007 | Date: 02 October 2011
The Indian Ocean Region The Indian Ocean is the third largest body of water on the globe, covering 20% of the earth’s surface. They are the waters of wealth as well as conflict, depending on...
Pakistan military’s Swat offensive
By: Col Rajinder Singh |Issue: Vol 24.3 Jul-Sep 2009 | Date: 01 October 2011
Most people and even some military minds do not appreciate the difference between fighting a conventional war and an unconventional war. The former is against a known enemy with well-defined...
Indian built Zaranj-Delaram Highway under Taliban Control
By: VK Shashikumar |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 October 2011
The Zaranj-Delaram highway in Afghanistan built by India and handed over to the Afghan government on January 22, 2009 is now under Taliban control. Within two years of the commissioning of this...
CIA successes mounting against Al Qaeda
By: B Raman |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 October 2011
The USA’s Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has kept up its run of successes against Al Qaeda with the killing of Anwar al-Awlaki, a US citizen of Yemeni origin, and Samir Khan, a US citizen of...
Extended South Asian Region - I
By: Col Harjeet Singh |Issue: Vol 22.2 Apr-Jun 2007 | Date: 01 October 2011
Till the early 20th century Asia was referred to as one entity – the Orient. Subdivision of its regions changed the nomenclatures to Near East, East (the Indian subcontinent) and the Far East....
Ethnic Armies Revisited
By: Dr Sanjay Badri-Maharaj |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 September 2011
The article Ethnic Armies was first printed in the Indian Defence Review – April-June 2000 Eleven years ago, following a coup in Fiji, leading to the overthrow of the democratically elected...
Boeing P-8I Aircraft Completes 1st Flight for Indian Navy
By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 September 2011
Boeing’s first P-8I aircraft for the Indian Navy completed its initial flight today, taking off from Renton Field at 12:02 p.m. Pacific time and landing two hours and 31 minutes later at Boeing...
Unification of China?
By: Maj Gen Sheru Thapliyal, PhD |Issue: Vol. 26.3 July - Sept 2011 | Date: 28 September 2011
China’s economic growth, growing diplomatic leverage, and improvements in the PLA’s military capabilities, contrasted with Taiwan’s modest defence efforts, have the effect of shifting the...
US-Pakistan Tensions: China's Cautious Stance
By: B Raman |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 September 2011
The Chinese media have started informing the Chinese people of the tensions in Pakistan’s ties with the US without any editorial comment so far.There have been no comments from the spokesperson...