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The Henderson-Brooks Report is out by Neville Maxwell
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Jul , 2014
The Henderson-Brooks/Bhagat Report of the 1962 is out! Neville Maxwell, the author of India’s China War has posted the famous Report on his website. Here are his explanations. Click to download...
Afghanistan’s Three New Crises
By: Vikram Sood | Date: 10 Jul , 2014
Afghanistan today faces three emerging crises just when one felt that the country, after decades of turmoil and violence unremittingly imposed from external forces, might be looking at a chance of...
Defence Budget 2014: Allocation Raised to Rs 2,29,000 crore
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Jul , 2014
Allocation for defence in this year’s General Budget has been raised to Rs 2,29,000 crore. Presenting the Union Budget in Lok Sabha today, the Union Finance Minister Shri Arun Jaitley also...
Impact of Talibanisation
By: Alok Bansal | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 10 Jul , 2014
The most serious implication of this onward march of the Taliban has been the radicalisation of Pakistan’s armed forces. As the armed forces draw their manpower from the same society, its...
Human Rights and the Indian Soldier
By: Col Gopal Karunakaran | Date: 10 Jul , 2014
Naik Ramesh was going on leave. Watching the lush green paddy field in the plains of Punjab go by from his military compartment of the Jammu Mail, he thought fondly of Indu, his loving wife...
FDI in Defence: Dispelling the Myths
By: Maj Gen Mrinal Suman | Issue: Vol. 28.3 Jul-Sep 2013 | Date: 08 Jul , 2014
India should adopt a flexible FDI policy to import much needed technologies which cannot be mastered through indigenous efforts in the acceptable time frame. Unfortunately, every time the issue...
US Policies: Security Threat to India
By: Kanwal Sibal | Date: 08 Jul , 2014
Current developments in Iraq expose further the failure of US policies in West Asia. With all the resources at its command, of information, analysis and technical expertise, and the sense of...
Article-370: Why not discuss and not simply debate abrogation?
By: Daya Sagar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Jul , 2014
The subjects and jurisdictions of the Center (Union) and States have been classified under Article 246 of Indian Constitution (1950) as (1) UNION list, (2) State list and (3) Concurrent List...
DRDO Chief Calls for Indigenous Defence Production, Capability Development Plan
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Jul , 2014
Commitment to Indigenous defence production and creation of a Capability Development Plan, are the major prerequisite for creating Indigenous defence manufacturing capability in the country,...
Lenco announces successful Blast Test of BEAR Troop Transport Armored Vehicle
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Jul , 2014
Lenco Industries, Inc., the global leader in the design and manufacture of armored police vehicles, announces successful underbody and side blast testing of the BEAR® 17-man Troop Transport...
Pakistan must not be India’s neighbor
By: Dr Amarjit Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Jul , 2014
Does India want good neighborly relations with its neighbors? Yes, but not with Pakistan. Does India love its neighbors? Yes, but not Pakistan. Should India live on good terms with its...
Siachen Again!
By: Lt Gen Mukesh Sabharwal | Issue: Vol 27.3 Jul-Sep 2012 | Date: 07 Jul , 2014
De-militarisation is a process that consists of several logical steps: ceasefire, authentication, demarcation, withdrawal, re-deployment and verification. It is a concept that formal and informal...
India Pays Dearly for Poorly Negotiated Arms Deals
By: Maj Gen Mrinal Suman | Issue: Vol 23.3 Jul-Sep 2008 | Date: 07 Jul , 2014
It has recently been reported in the Israeli press that India paid more than double the amount for the purchase of three AWACS aircraft from Israel in March 2004. These aircraft were earlier being...
Chinese Air Force way ahead of IAF
By: Air Marshal Narayan Menon | Issue: Vol. 26.4 Oct-Dec 2011 | Date: 05 Jul , 2014
The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 proved to be a boon to China and the PLAAF. Apart from a formidable enemy being neutralised, many displaced scientists, engineers and technicians from the...
Tawang is not part of China!
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Jul , 2014
The Dalai Lama took refuge in India on March 31, 1959. He crossed the Indian border at Khenzimane at the bottom of the famous Thagla ridge in West Kameng Frontier Division of the North-East...
Why start with demilitarising Siachen?
By: Maj Gen Dhruv C Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 Jul , 2014
The talk of demilitarising the Siachen Glacier which was on the back burner for a long time suddenly hit centre stage after a tragic snow avalanche buried all the 140 odd personnel of the...
KMW and Nexter Systems plan alliance
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 Jul , 2014
Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW) and Nexter Systems (Nexter), two leading European providers of land defence systems, intend to share their future road ahead. On 01. July 2014 in Paris, the owners of...
Indigenously Built Stealth Frigate Ship INS Sahyadri reached USA to...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 Jul , 2014
Covering a distance of over 5000 nautical miles (9000 Km), Indian Naval Ship Sahyadri, an indigenously built guided missile stealth Frigate arrived today at Pearl Harbour, USA to participate in...
Pakistan is looking at a long-term disaster
By: Maj Gen Dhruv C Katoch | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 02 Jul , 2014
On Sunday, 15 June 2014, a press release from Pakistan’s Inter Services Public Relation (ISPR), announced the launch of “Operation Zarb-e-Azb”, to clear North Waziristan Agency (NWA) of...
Shortage of Officers in the Services
By: Maj Gen Mrinal Suman | Issue: Vol 23.2 Apr-Jul 2008 | Date: 02 Jul , 2014
Currently, the Indian Army is facing a shortage of 11,238 officers, a huge 24.1 percent of its authorization of 46,615 officers. The other two services face similar problems. The situation seems...