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There is no solution yet in sight to the Raymond Davis tug of war between the US and Pakistan. Davis, as one would recall, is the US citizen posted in the US Consulate-General in Lahore as a...

Takshashila announces the 'B Raman Fellowship for Geopolitical Analysis'

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 March 2011

The Takshashila Institution, an independent, non-partisan, networked think tank, Sunday March 6th 2011, launched the B Raman Fellowship for Geopolitical Analysis—to encourage, recognise and...

Five Star CDS is a necessity

By: Bharat Verma |Issue: Vol 20.2 Apr-Jun 2005 | Date: 09 March 2011

The divisive Indian culture continues to act as the principal destroyer of consolidation of military power by dithering over the appointment of a Chief of Defence Staff (CDS). The ‘divide and...

Northeast: the future prospects

By: Brig (Dr) SP Sinha |Issue: Book Excerpt: Lost Opportunities | Date: 09 March 2011

It is always difficult to predict the future course of events. Nonetheless, there are some trends that are discernible. One such is the illegal immigration from Bangladesh, which will continue to...

Shipbuilding in India

By: Vice Adm Rajeshwer Nath |Issue: Vol 22.2 Apr-Jun 2007 | Date: 07 March 2011

It was during the Medieval period that a number of Indian Vessels were constructed, for the first time, purely for war at sea. Facilities for launching catapults and incendiary throwers, however,...

Training for anti-Maoist Operations

By: Col US Rathore |Issue: Vol 26.1 Jan-Mar 2011 | Date: 07 March 2011

Deployment of Central Police Organisation (CPO) in Low Intensity Conflict Operations (LICO) is not a new phenomenon. Many units of CPO have served in the northeast, Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab and...

Tibet: The Panikkar Factor

By: Claude Arpi |Issue: Book Excerpt: Tibet - The Lost Frontier | Date: 04 March 2011

One of the most important factors in the relation between Tibet and the Government of India was the appointment of K.M. Panikkar as the Ambassador to ‘two Chinas’. It is unusual that the...

Design Review of Naval Platforms

By: Vice Adm Rajeshwer Nath |Issue: Vol 25.1 Jan-Mar 2010 | Date: 04 March 2011

The existing system of naval platform (ship or submarine) design involves various iterations and stages with comprehensive inbuilt checks and balances in the entire design process. The...

India, China and the Indian Ocean

By: B Raman |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 March 2011

The following are my answers to some questions on the above-mentioned subject received by me by E-Mail from an Italian journalist: Gwadar in Pakistan, Hambantota in Sri Lanka, Akyab Cheduba and...

Winds of hatred continue to sweep across Pakistan

By: B Raman |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 March 2011

At a time when winds of change have been sweeping across many Islamic countries with calls for greater freedom and democracy, winds of hatred continue to sweep across Pakistan. Pakistan, which...

Dark Clouds over Pakistan

By: Prakash Nanda |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 March 2011

It all began in June 2009. Asia Bibi, a farm hand from the village of Ittan Wali in Sheikhupura District of the Punjab province in Pakistan, was asked to fetch water. Bibi, whose is the only...

To overlook reality would be stupid

By: Claude Arpi |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 March 2011

While China is free to believe that it has done nothing to raise hackles around the world, more so in its neighbourhood, that is far from the truth. It makes little sense for Beijing to feign...

Repeated Calls for Jasmine Strolls in China

By: B Raman |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 March 2011

Repeated calls for “Jasmine Strolls” in Chinese cities, including Beijing, emanating from overseas Chinese web sites have added to the nervousness of the Chinese authorities. A Jasmine Stroll is...

India and the Indian Ocean

By: B Raman |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 February 2011

The main security threats to Indian interests in the Indian Ocean area arise from three factors—firstly, the gradual erosion of the Indian political influence in the area; secondly, the increase...

Orissa: Surrender to Insurgents

By: B Raman |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 February 2011

The Orissa Government’s handling of the situation arising from the kidnapping on February 16,2011, of Shri Ravella Vineel Krishna, the popular District Collector of Malkangiri District, and a...

Defence Budget: Tinkering with commas and full stops

By: Bharat Verma |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 February 2011

The presentation of annual defence budget is an exercise in futility. The increase in defence budget from Rs.147,344 crores in fiscal 2010-11 to 164,415 crores in fiscal 2011-12, reflects a gain...

Export potential in naval sector

By: Vice Adm Rajeshwer Nath |Issue: Vol 23.3 Jul-Sep 2008 | Date: 25 February 2011

The defence systems are country-specific so as to meet the nation’s security requirements in most efficient manner and at economical terms. All the countries would like to have the defence...

India positions Dornier in Seychelles to support Maritime Surveillance...

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 February 2011

Indian Navy has deployed one Dornier to Seychelles under a government to government memorandum of undertaking. The Dornier is stationed at Victoria, capital of Seychelles and will be operated...

Ballistic Missile Defences in 2030

By: A Vinod Kumar |Issue: Book Excerpt: Asia 2030 - The Unfolding Future | Date: 25 February 2011

Not only can we hit a bullet with a bullet, we can hit a spot on the bullet with a bullet. –Lt. Gen. Henry A. Obering, Former Director, Missile Defense Agency, USA History has often shown that...

Will China cross the Rubicon of its history?

By: B Raman |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 February 2011

The seriousness with which China has been viewing the dangers of a new revolution in China inspired by the people’s uprising in Egypt would be evident from the number of high-level...