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Kashmir American Council: Games Intelligence Agencies Play
By: B Raman |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 July 2011
The practice of intelligence agencies floating and funding non-Governmental organisations and even publishing houses for using them for PSYWAR purposes was born during the Second World War and...
Pakistan: Unstable and Not at Peace - III
By: Pinaki Bhattacharya |Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 06 July 2011
Dysfunctional Polity: The duopoly of Pakistan’s polity denoted by Zulfiqar Ali–Benazir Bhutto family of Asaf Ali Zardari and Nawaz Sharif family continues unabated in the feudal,...
Jointmanship in the Military - II
By: Air Vice Marshal AK Tiwary |Issue: Vol 26.2 Apr-Jun 2011 | Date: 05 July 2011
The Air War : Simply stated the air war is about destroying/defuntionalising selected targets. As has been summed up so succinctly – “Air power is targeting and targeting is Intelligence”....
Mumbai Blasts 13/7: Q& A with B Raman
By: B Raman |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 July 2011
Q.Can the three blasts in Mumbai on July 13,2011, be attributed to an intelligence failure? A.Yes. I have always held that every successful terrorist strike is due to either an intelligence...
Pakistan: Unstable and Not at Peace - II
By: Pinaki Bhattacharya |Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 05 July 2011
The current spate of violence by the Deobandis against the Barelvis began after the 1990 formation of Sunni Tehreek (ST) by Mohammad Salim Qadri. The organisation was believed to be an offshoot...
Jointmanship in the Military
By: Air Vice Marshal AK Tiwary |Issue: Vol 26.2 Apr-Jun 2011 | Date: 04 July 2011
Victory in any event, be it a playful game or a bloodthirsty war, is a joint effort of all the members. How one orchestrates this effort is Integration. These fundamentals are universal. These do...
Pakistan: Unstable and Not at Peace - I
By: Pinaki Bhattacharya |Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 04 July 2011
Pakistan’s polity is in a crisis. Its society is in turmoil. And the country is in a state of flux, waiting to survive the deluge and see another day. On top of all that comes the deepening...
Import of Key Technologies: Need to revisit policy
By: Maj Gen Mrinal Suman |Issue: Vol 26.2 Apr-Jun 2011 | Date: 02 July 2011
Inaugurating a three-day international seminar on aerospace technologies in Bengaluru on 07 February 2011, Defence Minister Antony admitted that India had not benefitted much from the...
China is not Tunisia or Egypt
By: B Raman |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 July 2011
China is not Tunisia or Egypt. That is the message that the Chinese political leadership headed by President Hu Jintao and Prime Minister Wen Jiabao is seeking to send across to its own people...
The Winnable War
By: Bharat Verma |Issue: Vol 21.3 Jul-Sep 2006 | Date: 01 July 2011
On a scale of 1 to 10, an American editor of a defence newspaper told me that his threat perception on terror attacks inside the United States would merit an eight. A German minister rated it...
Intelligence Reform: no gains without a cultural shift
By: Anand K Verma |Issue: Vol 26.2 Apr-Jun 2011 | Date: 01 July 2011
The reforms, as and when the discourse reaches the stage of finality, should also focus on the role of the National Security Adviser (NSA) about which there is much confusion today. Is he an...
Untold Heroism of Mukti Bahini Frogmen: Prelude to Liberation - III
By: Vice Admiral Mihir K. Roy |Issue: Book Excerpt: War in the Indian Ocean | Date: 01 July 2011
Come September — Retribution and Retaliation: The unstinted support of the local population, which Sir Michael Howard had defined as the ‘forgotten dimensions of strategy’, emboldened the...
State, strategy, power & policy: China and India
By: Air Marshal Narayan Menon |Issue: Vol 23.3 Jul-Sep 2008 | Date: 30 June 2011
The grand strategy of a state may be described as a long–term plan to accomplish its domestic and external objectives. Policies flowing from the grand strategy must aim to promote the vital...
Untold Heroism of Mukti Bahini Frogmen: Prelude to Liberation - II
By: Vice Admiral Mihir K. Roy |Issue: Book Excerpt: War in the Indian Ocean | Date: 30 June 2011
Guerrilla Warfare in The Riverine Delta: Guerrilla warfare came into vogue during the Napoleonic wars. This type of warfare should not to be confused with the guerrilla tactics employed by...
Boeing Opens New 787 Vertical Fin Assembly Line in Salt Lake City
By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 June 2011
Boeing commemorated the opening of a new 787 vertical fin assembly line at its production facility in Salt Lake City, Utah. Operated by Boeing Fabrication, the site will build the vertical fin...
Untold Heroism of Mukti Bahini Frogmen: Prelude to Liberation - I
By: Vice Admiral Mihir K. Roy |Issue: Book Excerpt: War in the Indian Ocean | Date: 29 June 2011
Exploitation of East Pakistan: The East Bengal segment of Pakistan deeply resented the exploitation of the eighteen districts that comprised the four divisions of East Pakistan. The major source...
Internal Conflicts
By: Maj Gen Afsir Karim |Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 28 June 2011
Many mini-wars are raging around the world, but internal conflicts where the main instrument of destruction is terrorism pose a great danger to the entire world directly or indirectly. Internal...
Small Arms Proliferation in the Northeast: The Chinese Connection - II
By: Rajeev Bhattacharyya |Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 28 June 2011
Hubs, Routes and Rates: Most of the consignments used to originate in Thailand, which received arms from China and Cambodia. Ships with arms would reach Cox Bazar and other regions of Chittagong,...
DCI successfully completed major overhaul on Qatar Gazelle helicopters
By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 June 2011
Since the signature of the contract with the Qatar Ministry of Defense two years ago, DCI was in charge of executing major overhaul on 11 Gazelle helicopters. Generally speaking, a major...
Introspection in Pakistan: Will It Endure?
By: B Raman |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 June 2011
The anger and humiliation caused in Pakistan by the unilateral raid by US naval commandos on the residence of Osama bin Laden at Abbottabad on May 2,2011, and by the inability of the Pakistani...