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The 2 May killing by U.S. Navy Seals of the notorious al-Qaeda leader, Osama bin Laden, at his residence next door to Pakistan’s principal military academy, Pakistan Military Academy (PMA), in...

New French Base in the Gulf

By: Claude Arpi |Issue: Vol 24.2 Apr-Jun 2009 | Date: 29 August 2011

A small revolution is happening in the French defense establishment: Paris will soon open an inter-service base outside France, in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Though it is not...

The Price of Security

By: Lt Gen Vinay Shankar |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 August 2011

The political and administrative elite of India has yet to assimilate a fundamental lesson in the management of the Country’s defense policy. Like in almost every other sphere the quality of...

US and Indian scientists share cutting-edge forensic expertise

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 August 2011

The United States’ Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Indian Ministry of Home Affairs on Friday, August 26, concluded a two-week seminar with 20 top Indian forensic scientists, with...

Boeing and Delta Air Lines Announce Order for 100 Next-Generation 737-900ERs

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 August 2011

Boeing and Delta Air Lines announced an order for 100 Next-Generation 737-900ER (extended range) airplanes. The order, with a list–price value of more than $8.5 billion, is part of Delta’s fleet...

Sino-Indian Border Dispute

By: Lt Gen (Dr) Mohan Bhandari, (Retd.) |Issue: Vol. 23.4 Oct-Dec 2008 | Date: 29 August 2011

China launched full scale invasion on India in 1962. In fact, Chinese invasion had commenced way back in 1906 when it maneuvered and succeeded in concluding the 1906 Convention in Calcutta. In...

General Kayani and Future of Pakistan - II

By: Bhashyam Kasturi |Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 27 August 2011

The Army and Counter-Terrorism Pakistan’s counterterrorism strategy in Afghanistan is rife with inherent contradictions, caught between an inclination to fight militant forces and yet having to...

General Kayani and Future of Pakistan - I

By: Bhashyam Kasturi |Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 26 August 2011

Recent events in Pakistan, including the special forces assault on the Abbottabad compound in which Osama bin Laden was hiding and living, the attack of PNS Mehran in Karachi and many more have...

Maritime Rapid Reaction Force

By: Dr Vijay Sakhuja |Issue: Vol 21.4 Oct-Dec 2006 | Date: 26 August 2011

Addressing the combined conference of Indian Military Commanders on October 26, 1999 Former Defence Minister George Fernandes had noted that the Indian Armed Forces should set up a Rapid Reaction...

Eurofighter Typhoon on QRA interception training with new Lufthansa A380

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 August 2011

After Vienna’s Mayor Dr. Häupl christened the new Lufthansa A380 “Wien” at the hub of Austrian Airlines, two Austrian Eurofighters conducted a QRA training interception of the new Airbus on its...

Karachi is Burning

By: B Raman | Date: 20 August 2011

The civil war-like situation in Karachi continues without respite. Seventy-three persons belonging to different communities and religious sects were reported to have been killed—many of them in...

Air Power & Irregular Warfare in the Indian context

By: Air Cmde Arjun Subramaniam |Issue: Vol 24.1 Jan-Mar 2009 | Date: 19 August 2011

“This is another type of war, new in its intensity, ancient in its origin — war by guerrillas, subversives, insurgents, terrorists, war by ambush instead of by combat; by infiltration,...

India in the Neighbourhood

By: Vikram Sood |Issue: Vol 22.1 Jan - Mar 2007 | Date: 19 August 2011

Leo Tolstoy’s classic Anna Karenina begins with the famous sentence: “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” The Indian subcontinent is somewhat like...

Maoist terror, governance failures and the keyboard terrorist

By: Maj Gen Dhruv C Katoch |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 August 2011

The growth of Left Wing Extremism in India from an obscure village in the Naxalbari Block of West Bengal in 1967 to 235 districts across its length and breadth in 2011 does not bode well for the...

Neglect of the Indian Military

By: Lt Gen Harwant Singh | Date: 15 August 2011

In a developing economy, rapid industrialization and a country well on the road to prosperity, preference for government jobs tends to decline. This has not happened in India so far due to a...

The Child Guerrillas of the Northeast - I

By: Rajeev Bhattacharyya |Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 15 August 2011

Adults fight wars, but often they drag children into it. The Spartans of Ancient Greece created a highly martial society, with boys as young as seven being introduced to rigorous military...

The Child Guerrillas of the Northeast - II

By: Rajeev Bhattacharyya |Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 15 August 2011

Dearth of cadres has forced outfits to adopt ingenious tactics also in Assam albeit in a manner more devastating than in Manipur. The United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) has been forced to...

The New Fundamentalist Challenges

By: Maj Gen Afsir Karim |Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 14 August 2011

The vulnerability of the Indian coastal areas and islands of the Western Indian Ocean to the activities of al-Qaeda and Pakistan based terrorist groups became apparent following the terrorist...

Is China Changing?

By: B Raman |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 August 2011

Recent events in the port city of Dalian in north-east China where public protests forced the local Government to accept a demand for closing down a chemical plant following an accident and for...

Indian Army: Demilitarisation and Civilianisation - II

By: Lt Gen Gautam Banerjee |Issue: Vol. 26.3 July - Sept 2011 | Date: 11 August 2011

Personnel Management: As discussed above, misplaced notions of ‘equivalency’ between the soldiery and the civilian establishment has led to the Army becoming top heavy and aged. Rather than...