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India and Singapore Navies conduct maritime exercise
By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 March 2011
The Republic of Singapore Navy (RSN) and the Indian Navy (IN) are conducting the annual Singapore Indian Maritime Bilateral Exercise (SIMBEX) from 18 to 25 Mar 2011. Hosted by Singapore, this...
Libya: Increasing Confusion
By: B Raman |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 March 2011
“The rebels’ strategy is to push west but this has got off to a halting start, and without further concerted air strikes it is difficult to see how this rag-tag army will ever achieve its aim of...
INAS 310 Golden Jubilee
By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 March 2011
Cobras Mark Golden Jubilee- Two Unit citations, over eighty thousand hours of flying and firsts like Carrier Borne ASW and Information Warfare to credit Two unit citations, over 80,000 hrs of...
We the mere Indians
By: B Raman |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 March 2011
The publication in instalments of leaked WikiLeaks diplomatic cables by selected newspapers such as the “Guardian”of the UK, the “New York Times”, “Le Monde” of France, “Der...
Will Pakistan Implode?
By: Maj Gen Dhruv C Katoch |Issue: Vol 26.1 Jan-Mar 2011 | Date: 21 March 2011
Imagine a country where every week one or two young men – mostly in their teens, blow themselves up as suicide bombers in senseless acts of violence! Where targeted killings take place almost...
Lessons from Japan
By: Col US Rathore |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 March 2011
On 11 March, Japan was jolted by an earthquake of 8.9 magnitude. Soon a massive tsunami followed. Ten-meter-high waves invaded the eastern coast of the country. The epicentre of the earthquake...
Davis Deal: US to limit HUMINT Ops in Pak territory
By: B Raman |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 March 2011
It is leant from reliable sources in Pakistan that acceptance of blood money by the heirs to the two Pakistanis who were killed by Raymond Davis on January 27,2011, their withdrawal of the...
USS Decatur makes port call in Chennai
By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 March 2011
The U.S. Navy’s Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Decatur (DDG 73) will make a three-day port visit to Chennai, India, March 16-19. The Decatur is led by Commander Shanti Sethi, an American of...
Ethical Dimensions of the Tibet Question
By: Dalai Lama |Issue: Book Excerpt: Rising India | Date: 16 March 2011
The Tibet issue is a moral issue. First, the Tibetan nation or community has been influenced by Buddhism which came from India. It changed the whole Tibetan way of life, making it a more...
Bahrain: On the Sectarian Razor's Edge
By: B Raman |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 March 2011
Bahrain, a Shia majority State ruled by a Sunni family, is on the sectarian razor’s edge following the entry of about 2000 troops from the member-States of the Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC)...
1971 Operations - Case West - II
By: Major K.C. Praval |Issue: Book Excerpt: Indian Army After Independence | Date: 15 March 2011
Kashmir In the North-Eastern part of Kashmir, India was concerned about the safety of her lines of communication with Ladakh. Pakistani picquets in the Kargil area overlooked the Srinagar-Leh...
Tibetan cause after the Dalai Lama
By: B Raman |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 March 2011
While wishing and hoping for a long life for His Holiness the Dalai Lama, one has to mentally prepare onself to the eventuality of his being no more with us one day and think of how to keep the...
Shipbuilders dilemma and the way ahead
By: Vice Adm Rajeshwer Nath |Issue: Vol 25.4 Oct-Dec 2010 | Date: 14 March 2011
The global economic crisis has brought steepest decline in the shipbuilding industry across the world. The shipbuilding industry is facing tremendous head winds with no significant relief in...
1971 operations - Case West - I
By: Major K.C. Praval |Issue: Book Excerpt: Indian Army After Independence | Date: 14 March 2011
In the wake of President Yahya Khan’s threats, India had considered the various courses open to Pakistan on the Western front. Many possibilities were considered: an attack across the CFL in...
1962 War: The Chinese invasion - III
By: Major K.C. Praval |Issue: Book Excerpt: Indian Army After Independence | Date: 13 March 2011
The decision to make Se La the main defensive position of 4 Division and to put half its fighting strength there had been unwise. However, a withdrawal from that position when it was under a...
1962 War: The Chinese invasion - II
By: Major K.C. Praval |Issue: Book Excerpt: Indian Army After Independence | Date: 12 March 2011
Chinese counter-action, which Kaul had foreseen, came on 10 October. That day at dawn, Kaul was shaving outside his bunker and his batman was boiling water for tea, when the calm of the Namka Chu...
Internal Security and the Military
By: Lt Gen SC Sardeshpande |Issue: Vol 25.4 Oct-Dec 2010 | Date: 11 March 2011
After a century of peace since 1857, we entered an era of independence — a totally new era of representational democracy, secularism of our brand, social equality, economic equity, uplift of...
Commercial evaluation is the weakest link
By: Maj Gen Mrinal Suman |Issue: Vol 25.4 Oct-Dec 2010 | Date: 11 March 2011
The Indian defence procurement process consists of two distinct phases – technical and commercial. In the first phase, detailed technical evaluation is carried out of all competing systems to...
Hostages on Sea
By: Prakash Nanda |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 March 2011
As I write this, family members and supporters of the six Indian sailors onboard MV Suez, an Egyptian ship, captured by Somali pirates in August 2010, remains uncertain. With the deadline to pay...
1962 War: The Chinese invasion - I
By: Major K.C. Praval |Issue: Book Excerpt: Indian Army After Independence | Date: 11 March 2011
The Chinese reaction to the setting up of a post by India at Che Dong was a calculated move. By this time, China appears to have decided on a full-scale campaign to assert her territorial claims....