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Why Xi is Giving a Slip to G-20 Summit at New Delhi?

By: Dr Rajasimman Sundaram | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Sep , 2023

On 04 September the Chinese Foreign Ministry issued a notification stating that the G-20 Summit meet to be held in New Delhi (September 9-10) will be attended by a team led by the country’s...

Aspirations to Greatness: Learning Lessons from History

By: Brig Deepak Sinha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Sep , 2023

On the gaining of Independence and the Partition that followed soon after, India and Pakistan adopted two very divergent roads in pursuit of their respective destinies. Today, our aspirations...

Debunking Channel 4: How RAW and SIS worked together to prevent Easter...

By: Dr Punsara Amarasinghe | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Sep , 2023

The recent video documentary released by Channel 4 in the UK is akin to a good tale told by a storyteller full of sound and fury, but signifying nothing. It is a basic principle in media ethics...

Pakistan Army versus Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan: All-Out War or ‘No...

By: Nilesh Kunwar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Sep , 2023

On July 14, Pakistan army’s media wing Inter Services Public Relations [ISPR] released a rather stern statement that read, “The Armed Forces of Pakistan have serious concerns on the safe...

Blowback of BRICS Expansion

By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Sep , 2023

There is an ongoing controversy whether the BRICS expansion by including Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates as full members of BRICS is a challenge to the...

Cracking the Siachen Walnut

By: Amit K Paul | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Sep , 2023

Walnuts, also known as ‘doon’ in Kashmiri and ‘akhrot’ in Hindi are found in large numbers in the Valley. Vonth, Kaghazi and Barzul are three local varieties of Kashmiri walnuts or...

Taiwan ready to face China with support from the US

By: Col (Dr) PK Vasudeva | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 31 Aug , 2023

Differences over Taiwan’s status have fuelled rising tensions between the island and the mainland. Taiwan has the potential to be a flash point in U.S.-China relations. Taiwan has been governed...

On Farooq Abdullah’s ‘Prescription’ for Resolving the Kashmir Issue

By: Nilesh Kunwar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 Aug , 2023

Indo-Pak Dialogue While there can be no two views that dialogue is the best way of resolving disputes amicably, there are certain cases that preclude this option, and unfortunately, the issue...

Chinese ‘Cartographic Offensive’ is a Part of its ‘Three Warfare...

By: Maj Gen SB Asthana | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 Aug , 2023

Backdrop The 2023 edition of the standard map of China, released by the Ministry of Natural Resources, Peoples Republic of China (PRC) is neither the first attempt to illegally document...

South Asia Terror – Western USP?

By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Aug , 2023

A recent UN report highlights the following: Afghanistan is becoming epicenter of terror with 20 terrorist groups operating from Afghan soil; Al Qaeda has infiltrated law enforcement agencies...

Ashok Leyland concludes 4000kms+ ‘Manzilka Safar’ at Leh

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Aug , 2023

Ashok Leyland, flagship of the Hinduja Group and the largest supplier of logistics vehicles to the Indian Army has concluded the4000kms+ drive – Manzilka Safar in the Stallion Truck at Leh in the...

Grad-P on the Bilafond La in April 1984

By: Amit K Paul | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Aug , 2023

Despite drone warfare and other technological advancements in this field it is widely accepted that the Russian artillery and its traditional artillery practices played a pivotal role in creating...

The Curious Case of Pakistan’s Official Secrets and Army Act Amendment Bills

By: Nilesh Kunwar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Aug , 2023

It sounds like a typical Hollywood potboiler. Two contentious bills that strike at the very heart of the democratic rights of citizens that are introduced in the Pakistan’s National Assembly are...

Pentagon establishes Task Force Lima to Study AI Issues

By: Col (Dr) PK Vasudeva | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Aug , 2023

The U.S. Defence Department has created a Task Force to evaluate and guide the application of generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) for national security purposes, amid an explosion of public...

Zorawar: The Mountain Tank

By: Col Alok Mathur, SM | Date: 23 Aug , 2023

Indian Army has required a light tank since the Kargil War 1999 and Doklam stand-off of 2017 to equip its Sikkim corps, Ladakh corps and Tejpur corps. During 1962 War in Trijap sub sector (North...

Demographic invasion of India from the North East

By: Brig Amrit Kapur | Issue: Vol 22.2 Apr-Jun 2007 | Date: 23 Aug , 2023

First Published in print issue of Indian Defence Review (Vol 22.2) Apr-Jun, 2007 Six decades of ‘Indian effort’, still Seven Sisters have not been fully integrated with the main landmass....

Return of Haji Pir Pass in 1965 – Myth and the Reality

By: Maj Gen Sheru Thapliyal, PhD | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Aug , 2023

In 1965 war, Indian Army had captured the strategic Haji Pir Pass. During the Tashkent talks between Indian and Pakistan, held through the good offices of Soviet Union, India agreed to return...

India’s Mine Counter-Measure Vessels Gap: A Critical Maritime Security...

By: Rahul B Wankhede | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Aug , 2023

Introduction Over the last few years India’s military naval fleet has seen a constant growth with the addition of new vessels like: frigates, destroyers, corvettes and even a full fledged...

Rawalpindi [Selectively] Cracks the Whip on Rioters

By: Nilesh Kunwar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Aug , 2023

In his farewell speech last year, former Pakistan army chief Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa expressed concern regarding burgeoning domestic criticism of the Pakistan army, and opined that “… the...

Ketagalan Forum 2023

By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Aug , 2023

The participation of former Army Chief, General Manoj Naravane, Navy Chief, Admiral Karambir Singh and Air Force Chief, Air Chief Marshal RKS Bhadauria in the recent ‘Ketagalan Forum 2023 –...