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US fails to stabilise a disturbed West Asia
By: VBN Ram | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 17 Nov , 2014
Over the decades, US policy across West Asia has been devoid of vision and foresight. President Obama has recently conceded that his administration does not have a strategy to combat the ISIS....
Al-Qaeda set to burn the Ganga Post 2014
By: Danvir Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Nov , 2014
The year 2014 is very important to many of us, in the Indian sub-continent for some reason or other. The importance of which is being discussed on the television, the radio and in the print media...
Bangladesh Military’s Political Retreat: Sheikh Hasina’s War on Yunus & the...
By: B.Z. Khasru | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Nov , 2014
When seemingly unending political street-battles gripped Bangladesh in late 2006, the United Nations pushed the country’s military in a circuitous way to take over the administration, brazenly...
Israel: The Legitimacy of Occupation
By: Brig Deepak Sinha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Nov , 2014
In an earlier article Gaza and the Israeli Intervention, I had written on the savage and brutal retaliation by Israel against the Palestinians in Gaza for the unfortunate and revolting murder of...
Exorcise the Ghosts of 1962
By: Air Marshal Dhiraj Kukreja | Issue: Vol. 29.3 Jul-Sep 2014 | Date: 14 Nov , 2014
To some, the India-China War, which started on October 20, 1962 with the Chinese Army walking across the contested and an undefined border, was not a war at all but an armed incursion across the...
Reorganising the Defence of India: The Task Ahead
By: Special Correspondent | Issue: Vol. 29.3 Jul-Sep 2014 | Date: 14 Nov , 2014
Changes would provide a boost to defence preparedness, usher in an RMA, evolve requisite strategies and policies including for national security, response to asymmetric war, defence procurements,...
The Issue of Religious Extremism
By: Anant Mishra | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 Nov , 2014
Religion is an organized collection of beliefs, cultural systems and worldviews that relate mankind to the supernatural and spirituality. Most religions have numerous signs and symbols as well as...
The saga of India-Israel intelligence co-operation
By: Jatin Kumar | Date: 13 Nov , 2014
In the present global world, intelligence co-operation has become a major pillar in bilateral relations of the states. History of intelligence sharing can be traced from the Second World War, when...
Tackling the LWE Menace in India
By: Lt Gen Kamal Davar (Retd) | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Nov , 2014
“Of all kinds of dangers, internal dangers should be got rid of first, for it is internal troubles, like the fear from a lurking snake, that are more serious than external troubles.” —...
Myanmar: India’s security takes another knock
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Nov , 2014
Former Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar said that food worth Rupees 44,000 crores was wasted last year for lack of storage space in India including vegetables and fruits worth Rupees 13,000...
The Chinese Twin Silk Roads – Can India shake off its lethargy?
By: Navneet Bhushan | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Nov , 2014
If you have to see the future, look at the map of the future. Or better why not draw the map yourself. If you are the most populous, recently turned the largest economy and the emerging new type...
Counter Terrorism in Cyberspace
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 10 Nov , 2014
American writer-intellectual Gore Vidal once said, “The ‘war on terrorism’ is a war of ideas; and ideas cannot be bombed out of existence. The Bush-Blair partnership changed the word to...
Way to a Credible Deterrent
By: Arun S Vishwakarma | Issue: Vol 24.1 Jan-Mar 2009 | Date: 08 Nov , 2014
Ten years after the Pokhran (POK-2) series of tests in May 1998, it is useful to examine the progress on the diplomatic front and see what is needed further. The recently concluded India-US...
Helicopters in Military Aviation in China
By: Gp Capt AK Sachdev | Issue: Vol. 29.3 Jul-Sep 2014 | Date: 07 Nov , 2014
China has the world’s second largest defence budget next only to the US and with the future looking upbeat for China’s economy and for its military spending, defence manufacturers and...
Dark Shadow of Wahhabi Groups Across Asia
By: Maj Gen Afsir Karim | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 06 Nov , 2014
Ayman al Zawahiri’s declaration that al-Qaeda was opening an office in the Indian subcontinent poses a significant threat to India and other countries of the region. India needs to reassess the...
Boeing Completes Testing on New Anti-Jamming Technology
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Nov , 2014
Boeing has proven its new anti-jamming communications technology is capable of operating as either a ground-based user terminal or satellite-based networking hub, enabling the military to send and...
Not Easy to Understand Chinese Mind Set
By: Air Marshal RS Bedi | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Nov , 2014
China’s reaction to India’s plan to construct a strategic road from Vijay Nagar to Twang in Arunachal Pradesh was rather offensive. Ignoring all diplomatic niceties, it threatened India of...
Reforming the United Nations Security Council
By: Anant Mishra | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Nov , 2014
In an era where there is increasing inter dependence amongst nations, where a narcissistic approach is a thing of the past, where good diplomacy and smart foreign policies are a way to subdue your...
Humanitarian crisis in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir
By: Col Jaibans Singh | Date: 03 Nov , 2014
Substantial areas of the state of Jammu and Kashmir including Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (POK) were afflicted by floods of mammoth proportions in beginning September this year. On September, 07,...
Mechanism against terror still missing
By: Jagdish N Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Nov , 2014
Terrorism is a crime against humanity. It threatens most the lives and rights of ordinary citizens, whom every modern state must serve best to justify its legitimacy. Given this, Prime Minister...