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Pak nuclear card limits Indian anti-terror options

By: Lt Gen Harwant Singh |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 February 2011

ITS three decades since Pakistan has been fermenting trouble in India. It started with Punjab and later in Jammu and Kashmir, followed by sporadic terrorist attacks in rest of India. While it is...

Aerospace Leadership in the coming decades gets underway

By: IDR News Network | Date: 04 February 2011

The third edition of “Jumbo” Majumdar International Conference on “Aerospace Leadership in the coming decades” was inaugurated by Minister of State for Defence, Dr MM Pallam Raju, in New Delhi,...

The Arab lessons

By: Prakash Nanda |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 February 2011

While it will be little premature to suggest that a democratic revolution is sweeping across the Arab world at the moment, the Arabs are no doubt undergoing a great period of turmoil. It started...

BAE Systems supports the Typhoon bid for MMRCA

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 February 2011

Underlining its commitment to Typhoon, BAE Systems will continue its vigorous support of the Typhoon bid for the Medium Multi Role Combat Aircraft (MMRCA) programme at Aero India that starts...

Eurofighter Typhoons land in Bengaluru

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 February 2011

Two Eurofighter Typhoons of the Italian Air Force arrived safely in Bengaluru to showcase their outstanding operational capabilities at Aero India 2011. The air show will be held at the Air...

Aero India 2011 to surpass all previous edition statistics

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 February 2011

The 8th edition of Aero India, being held in Bengaluru from February 9 to 13, 2011, is expected to surpass all previous editions of the premiere air show in terms of participation and volume....

ALH Dhruv Simulator Cockpit at HATSOFF

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 February 2011

The Helicopter Academy to Train by Simulation of Flying (HATSOFF) is a Rs 300 crore joint venture enterprise with 50:50 partnership between Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) and CAE of Canada....

Egypt: The Modified Script

By: RSN Singh |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 February 2011

The contagion of protests spreading from one country to another in the Arab world has made the ruling dispensations edgy and nervous. The general feeling in India and many other parts of the...

The Jihadi Barbarity

By: B Raman |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 February 2011

In our excitement over the revolution from nowhere sweeping across the Arab world and in our preoccupation with trying to understand what has been happening in Egypt, we should not fail to...

The Basic Military Laws!

By: Anonymous |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 February 2011

Try to look unimportant; the enemy may be low on ammo and not want to waste a bullet on you. • Never share a foxhole with anyone braver than yourself. • Never forget that your weapon was...

'invisible Violence' that consumes India

By: RSN Singh |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 February 2011

On Monday, LeT militants dragged two teenaged sisters from their house in the Kashmir Valley and killed them in the most brutal manner. It served as reminder that the situation in the valley has...

The Karmapa Controversy

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

The Karmapa is the head of what is known as the Karma Kagyu sect of Tibetan Buddhism.It is claimed that the institution of Karmapa is more than 200 years older than the institution of Dalai Lama,...

Army's Capability Accretion

By: Lt Gen Vinay Shankar |Issue: Vol 25.1 Jan-Mar 2010 | Date: 31 January 2011

The challenges that the Army is expected to face in the next decade are not likely to be any less formidable. An appraisal of the emerging threats in fact indicates an increasing complexity of...

The Chinese Conundrum: Friends and Foes

By: Air Marshal Narayan Menon |Issue: Vol 24.1 Jan-Mar 2009 | Date: 31 January 2011

Indian Navy and its Chinese counterpart conducted a joint exercise for the first time in the seas off the Shanghai coast in November, 2003. The latest naval exercise between the two navies was...

Offset Contracts: under defence procurement procedures

By: Sandeep Verma |Issue: Vol 25.1 Jan-Mar 2010 | Date: 31 January 2011

The practice of countries demanding discharge of offset obligations as a prerequisite to foreign firms’ participation in major defense contracts is not new. While there is substantial...

Will Egypt cost Obama a second term in White House?

By: B Raman |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 January 2011

The people’s revolt in Egypt, which has cost over a hundred lives since January 25, is showing signs of taking an anti-US turn. “Neither Mubarak nor Suleiman; we’re sick of Americans.” So...

Perilous roads to Kabul

By: Air Marshal AK Trikha |Issue: Vol 24.3 Jul-Sep 2009 | Date: 28 January 2011

Any General tasked to lead an expeditionary force to subjugate Afghanistan would not like to be reminded of the fate that befell the British in a similar attempt in the 19th century. Lady...

Internet poses threat to Authoritarian Regimes

By: Maj Gen Dhruv C Katoch |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 January 2011

The Jasmine Revolt: The story of Tunisia gives one hope that oppressive regimes can be overthrown by the power of people mobilised to fight injustice without recourse to violence or civil war....

Guns versus Butter

By: Vice Admiral Arun Kumar Singh |Issue: Vol 24.3 Jul-Sep 2009 | Date: 28 January 2011

India, with limited resources and rising aspirations, faces the age old “guns versus butter” question, which has become even more complex in the era of terrorism, piracy, insurgency, in the...