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What the Armed Forces Expect from DRDO?
By: Admiral Arun Prakash (Retd.) | Issue: Book Excerpt: From the Crow\'s Nest | Date: 02 Jul , 2014
At the outset, I would like to say that there is a need to unequivocally highlight the importance of the DRDO in the Navy’s scheme of things, and our sense of pride in your achievements. What...
Siachen Unmasked
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Jul , 2014
Much water has flown under the bridge since 2nd October 2012 when Atlantic Council of Ottawa put out the news bulletin titled “India-Pakistan experts agree on confidence-building measures at...
Continuous Substantive Procurement for Indian Defense
By: Dr Amarjit Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 Jun , 2014
India is a unique country for many reasons. But one possibly under-looked factor is that it faces security or destabilizing threats from every neighbor. This is even worse than Israel, which is...
Prepare for the Next Great War
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Vol 24.2 Apr-Jun 2009 | Date: 30 Jun , 2014
Today, India is ringed by turbulent states – Pakistan (land boundary with India 3,310 kms in the northwest), Nepal (land boundary with India 1,751 kms in the north), Bangladesh (land boundary...
Dauntless and Born Leader of Men in Crisis – L/Nk Karam Singh
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Jun , 2014
Lance Naik Karam Singh was born on 15 September 1915, in Barnala, Punjab. He was enrolled in 1 SIKH on 15 September 1941. During the Jammu & Kashmir operations in the summer of 1948 the Indian...
Blacklisting Foreign Vendors
By: Maj Gen Mrinal Suman | Issue: Vol. 23.4 Oct-Dec 2008 | Date: 28 Jun , 2014
India has a penchant for blacklisting foreign arms producers without considering negative effects it has on India’s military preparedness. This is the reasons why recent reports of...
What the Indian Army needs to learn from Modi
By: Aditi Kumaria Hingu | Date: 27 Jun , 2014
Now that the euphoria over Narendra Modi’s win has subsided, it is time to explore the feasibility of discovering a replicable model of his campaign that can be applied to the Indian Army. To...
Image of the Armed Forces
By: Gp Capt AG Bewoor | Issue: Vol 22.4 Oct-Dec 2007 | Date: 27 Jun , 2014
A significant constituent of India are her Armed Forces, to defeat aggression, wage war, and for ceremonial functions. Misemployment erodes their morale, efficiency, integrity, loyalty, sense of...
How is Modi’s political message being understood abroad?
By: IDR News Network | Date: 26 Jun , 2014
By reaching out dramatically to our neighbours and other major powers so rapidly after winning the general election, has Narendra Modi been unusually pro-active or unexpectedly defensive? Inviting...
Indian Army: Enhancing Night Capability
By: Raveen Janu | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 26 Jun , 2014
.Across its spectrum, future conflict will occur in a continuous 24 hour engagement cycle to enable a Force to maintain the tempo of operations. An essential component of progressing operations...
The games nations play
By: Vikram Sood | Issue: Courtesy: MidDay Mumbai | Date: 26 Jun , 2014
In the early days of the Cold War, nationalism was a particularly bad word in underdeveloped or developing countries, whose primary purpose was to service the First World and fulfil its economic...
The Culture Baggage of Indian Military Philosophy
By: Lt Gen SC Sardeshpande | Issue: Vol. 29.2 Apr-Jun 2014 | Date: 25 Jun , 2014
The Gandhian philosophy of ahimsa has affected the Indian attitude towards war and use of force. Nehruvian distrust of India’s armed forces and military leadership has coloured the dispensation...
India’s foreign policy has become a delicate balancing act
By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Courtesy: Mail Today | Date: 25 Jun , 2014
The complexity of our foreign relations is illustrated by certain realities of our external political, economic, defence and popular ties. In the case of our major partners individually, the...
The Importance of Pakistan
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Jun , 2014
Islamabad does not need to worry; regardless of the bin Laden episode, Washington will not walk out of their so-called alliance against terror. The United Sates needs Pakistan for its operation...
PSLV-C23 Launch Scheduled on June 30, 2014
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Jun , 2014
The launch of ISRO’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, PSLV-C23, is scheduled on June 30, 2014 (Monday) from Satish Dhawan Space Centre SHAR, Sriharikota. The vehicle lift-off time is scheduled at...
HAL Inducts Over 400 Young Officers
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Jun , 2014
Over 400 management and design trainees – selected through stringent procedures amid lakhs of applicants – have formally been inducted in Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) as officers at a...
Unraveling the direction of India’s China policy
By: Col R Hariharan | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Jun , 2014
Since then Prime Minister Modi has returned home after his maiden foreign visit to Bhutan. Modi’s as a relationship building exercise it may be called a moderately successful visit, considering...
Infrastructure, energy, defence key sectors for India-Japan cooperation
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Jun , 2014
Pushing for greater multi-sector cooperation between New Delhi and Tokyo, senior political representatives identified infrastructure, energy and defence as key areas for partnership between the...
Strategic Depth – Not Mere Military Term
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Jun , 2014
Strategic Depth is a term generally related to military operations. It has been described as the distances between the front-lines or battle sectors and the combatant’s capital cities,...
Leapfrog the Technological Gap
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Vol 21.2 Apr-Jun 2006 | Date: 22 Jun , 2014
India needs to do a China. Beijing has successfully converted China into a low cost manufacturing hub of the world. Similarly, New Delhi should rapidly transform India into a low cost, high end...