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Danger at Sea
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 08 Jun , 2014
Vietnam, India’s strategic partner in the east is facing the heat. Not that Vietnam has not seen much worse days, having fought years of war with the US, latter using every known weapon system...
Lengthening Malevolent Chinese Shadow
By: Maj Gen Sheru Thapliyal, PhD | Issue: Vol 25.4 Oct-Dec 2010 | Date: 07 Jun , 2014
“It is astonishing that we have never till date asked China to vacate our territory occupied by it in Aksai Chin. We go out of our way, even today, to explain away every Chinese intrusion into...
India as a defence manufacturing hub
By: Maj Gen Mrinal Suman | Issue: Vol 26.1 Jan-Mar 2011 | Date: 07 Jun , 2014
Two major defence production related developments that took place nearly a decade ago need to be recalled here at the outset. One, having realised the limitations of the public sector, the...
‘Siachen Track II Forum’ on a Treacherous Trek
By: Karan Kharb | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Jun , 2014
Peace and good neighbourly relations between India and Pakistan or between India and China are very much needed and would be any day a welcome scenario. Sadly, these relations have been far from...
The Making of the Pakistani Bomb
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Vol 26.1 Jan-Mar 2011 | Date: 05 Jun , 2014
In 2009, soon after President Obama announced that Pakistan’s nuclear materials “will remain out of militant hands”, the US ambassador in Islamabad sent a secret message to Washington. Anne...
Private Sector in Defence Production
By: Maj Gen Mrinal Suman | Issue: Vol 22.3 Jul-Sep 2007 | Date: 04 Jun , 2014
The Government of India has been reiterating its commitment to achieve the much-publicised target of procuring 70 per cent of its defence requirements from indigenous sources by 2010. Despite its...
M-346 Trainer Aircraft from Alenia Aermacchi
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Jun , 2014
In March this year, at its plant in Venegono Superiore in Italy, Alenia Aermacchi rolled out the first M-346 advanced trainer aircraft out for the Israeli Air and Space Force. The M-346 is...
Marketing of Combat Jets
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Jun , 2014
Emerging countries in need of modernising their weaponry are rushing to buy state-of-the-art fighter jets, sparking a fierce marketing battle among the global aerospace majors. French Defense...
SAR Helicopters from AgustaWestland
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Jun , 2014
AgustaWestland, a Finmeccanica company, has been awarded a contract for 16 AW101 helicopters as also support and training, valued at approximately €1.15 billion, to meet the Norwegian All...
USAF B-1 Bomber Contract for Boeing
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Jun , 2014
As per an announcement by the Pentagon, Boeing has been selected for the award of the $750 million five-year contract for work on the US Air Force fleet of B-1 bombers. The contract includes...
Indo-French bilateral exercise Ex Garuda V commences at Jodhpur
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 Jun , 2014
With the aim of enhancing Operational Co-operation and to validate capabilities, the Indian Air Force & French Air Force commenced the bilateral exercise “Ex Garuda V” at Jodhpur Air...
India has to take a long hard look at its foreign policy
By: Kanwal Sibal | Date: 02 Jun , 2014
Internally, much can improve with the spectacular electoral success of the Bharatiya Janata Party. India can now look forward to a strong and stable government at the Centre which the weak...
हमारा नहीं पाकिस्तान का हित...
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Courtesy: www.jagran.com | Date: 02 Jun , 2014
प्रधानमंत्री नरेंद्र मोदी ने दक्षेस सदस्य देशों को अपने शपथ ग्रहण समारोह...
Ajit Doval – the Chanakya in the Team
By: Karan Kharb | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 Jun , 2014
Just as Prime Minister Narendra Modi assumes office after a blitzkrieg electoral offensive that saw Congress and its allies vanquished as never before, the dishonest and inefficient bureaucrats in...
Article 370 and Nation-Building: A Reality Check
By: Brig Amar Cheema | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 31 May , 2014
“Nothing is as admirable in politics as a short memory’’ –John Galbraith Nation building is an ‘ongoing’ phenomenon and in the case of India’s quest for nationhood, it is definitely...
J&K: Theatre of the Next War
By: Maj Gen GD Bakshi, (Retd) | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 30 May , 2014
Significance of the Gilgit–Gwadar Corridor The ominously rising strategic salience of the Gilgit–Baltistan region was made sharply apparent by Selig Harrison’s startling disclosure in 2010...
Pakistan Occupied Kashmir and Northern Areas
By: Bhashyam Kasturi | Issue: Vol 14.3 Jul-Sep 1999 | Date: 30 May , 2014
The Northern Areas form a large chunk of territory annexed by Pakistan in 1947. It provided the bulk of the manpower for the intrusions in Kargil, consisting of the Northern Light Infantry of the...
Security in Jammu and Kashmir
By: Col Jaibans Singh | Issue: Courtesy: www.defenceinfo.com | Date: 29 May , 2014
2013 offered a mixed bag for Jammu and Kashmir so far as security is concerned. This was the third consecutive year when the state witnessed a modicum of peace which translated into unhindered...
Diplomatic engagement in a post nuclear use environment
By: Ali Ahmed | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 May , 2014
Strike corps exercises are usually well covered by the media. Inevitably mentioned in write ups from reporters over the past decade since Exercise Poorna Vijay has been the nuclear backdrop. The...
Pakistan: The most dangerous country in the world
By: EN Rammohan | Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 27 May , 2014
The subcontinent of South Asia has inexorably been developing into a cauldron of violence ever since the origins of Islam in Arabia and its steady expansion to the east. Here it clashed with...