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The post-independence Indian Army continues to struggle with the British colonial model, ways and traditions, which served us well to a point. In fact, we were so enamored by the British ethos...

Chinese incursions, now and then

By: Claude Arpi |Issue: Vol 24.4 Oct-Dec 2009 | Date: 28 January 2011

Chinese incursions have been making headlines in the Indian media. Unfortunately, the Indian leadership prefers to mitigate the facts, to not “hurt feelings of the Chinese” or “make things...

CII lauds US Export Control reform effort

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 January 2011

US President Barack Obama promised India Inc during his address in Mumbai in November 2010 to work on fundamentally reforming the US export regime to allow greater cooperation with India in a...

The pitfalls in evolution of Indian Army-III

By: Maj Gen Sukhwant Singh |Issue: Book Excerpt: India's War since Independence | Date: 28 January 2011

The Indian opening of a second front in Punjab on 6 September forced Ayub Khan to pull troops out of the Chhamb-Jaurian sector to reinforce the Lahore and Sialkot sectors. Despite thinning out,...

Fiddling in Davos while Arab World is burning

By: B Raman |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 January 2011

The prairie fire of mass protests in Tunisia continues to burn and shows signs of spreading to Libya, Algeria, Egypt, Jordan and Yemen. In Tunisia, protesters want the entire old leadership to...

The pitfalls in evolution of Indian Army-II

By: Maj Gen Sukhwant Singh |Issue: Book Excerpt: India's War since Independence | Date: 27 January 2011

Chaudhuri set about his task energetically and with dispatch, bringing to his job as Chief a wealth of experience of well-handled assignments both in command and staff, including his tenure as...

Fight against Terrorism and the Moral Dilemmas

By: Anand K Verma |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 January 2011

Terrorism is a phenomenon operating on both sides of morality. Dilemmas, therefore, arise not confined to any one side. This is best apparent by examining some well known cases. Take the case...

Military Power: key to India's future

By: Bharat Verma |Issue: Vol 15.3 Jul-Sep 2000 | Date: 26 January 2011

Despite the possible dawn of a democratic world order with the advent of the 21st Century, India continues to be saddled with a contradictory strategic environment. By virtue of the demographic...

Blue Print for Indian Aerospace Industry

By: Air Chief Marshal Fali Homi Major |Issue: Vol 22.4 Oct-Dec 2007 | Date: 26 January 2011

All of us would agree that aerospace power has multiple applications in peace or war. It impacts our lives, energises international relations and economic activity. It also matches the demands of...

Awards for Gallant Air Force Pilots

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 January 2011

On May 8, 2010, Wg Cdr Chaturvedi saved the life of one J&K police personnel who was evacuated out of deep jungles of Lar in the Mahore-gulabgarh area at 9500 ft density altitude. Considering...

Messages from Moscow Airport Blast

By: B Raman |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 January 2011

Thirty-five persons are reported to have been killed in a suicide blast near the arrival area of Moscow’s Domodedovo airport at 4-32 PM local time on January 24,2011. The suspected suicide...

Indian Flag at Lal Chowk, Srinagar?

By: RSN Singh |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 January 2011

The ongoing march by a political party to raise the national flag in Sri Nagar is being dubbed as politically motivated by its detractors. It indeed is a move for political mobilization for...

Army: A Need for Introspection

By: Maj Gen Sheru Thapliyal, PhD |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 January 2011

The recent surge in incidents that bring bad name to the Army must result in an introspection in the Army, more so in the senior ranks – Army being a hierarchical organization. What all ranks...

China's core interests

By: Claude Arpi | Date: 24 January 2011

Have you heard of ‘Core Interests’? No, it has nothing to do with ‘organising’ the CWG, IPL auctions, mining in tribal areas or OBC vote banks, though it is true that in India ‘core’...

Need for Multi-purpose Demining Systems

By: Maj Gen Mrinal Suman |Issue: Vol 21.1 Jan-Mar 2006 | Date: 24 January 2011

According to an assessment of the United Nations, there are more than 100 million mines lying buried in various present and past conflict zones in over 60 countries in the world. The...

Peep at the Nautical Crystal Ball

By: Vice Admiral Arun Kumar Singh |Issue: Vol 23.1 Jan-Mar 2008 | Date: 24 January 2011

The Indian Ocean Region (IOR), encompasses 56 littoral and hinterland nations with 33 percent of the world’s population, but only 25 percent of the land mass. The IOR, has numerous unresolved...

A stealth aircraft with peaceful Chinese characteristics!

By: B Raman |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 January 2011

Annexed below is an interesting article on the Chinese Stealth aircraft J-20 tested by the Chinese on January 11 before the meeting of Robert Gates, the visiting US Defence Secretary, with...

Defence Purchases: time India asserts itself

By: Maj Gen Mrinal Suman |Issue: Vol 24.4 Oct-Dec 2009 | Date: 19 January 2011

Press reports have been highlighting Russian refusal to deliver aircraft carrier Admiral Gorshkov at the contracted price and within the agreed delivery period. It is demanding more money on the...

Pakistan's Blackmail

By: Prakash Nanda |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 January 2011

US Vice president Joe Biden has just completed his so-called one-day secret trip to Pakistan, which, incidentally, was known well in advance to the media all over the world. Biden was in...

US & China: Friends or Foes?

By: B Raman |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 January 2011

China has emerged as a leading economic power next only in importance to the US. It is seeking to achieve a military capability commensurate with its economic strength, but its military...