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Rheinmetall wins multi-million euro contract for mortar ammunition
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 Sep , 2013
Rheinmetall AG of Düsseldorf has booked a major order for mortar ammunition. A customer in the Middle East/ North Africa (MENA) region has contracted with Rheinmetall Denel Munition of South...
Syria: Two-faced in West Asia
By: Kanwal Sibal | Date: 04 Sep , 2013
President Obama’s plan to take military action against Syria can be legitimately questioned on legal, political and moral grounds. Syria has not, strictly speaking, violated international law in...
National Security: Can the nation expect PM to stop swimming in slush?
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Sep , 2013
In one crisp interview to Spiegel, Jayati Ghosh has disrobed the government in deflecting blame on “foreign factors” for the economic slush that they have landed this country into. Both the...
War over Syria: Imperatives, Ramifications and Implications
By: Brig Amar Cheema | Date: 02 Sep , 2013
Despite the plain talk by President Barack Obama, there is still no clarity on ‘when,’ ‘how’ and ‘with what’ the ‘coalition of the willing,’ led by the USA would act against Syria...
If ever the twain should meet…
By: Vikram Sood | Date: 31 Aug , 2013
The attack across the LoC by the Pakistan Army on August 6 was soon after Pakistan Prime Minister called for better relations with India. This act and the continuing provocation is meant to convey...
China-US- North Korea: The Dynamics of a Strategic Triangle
By: Ashok Kapur | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 31 Aug , 2013
China has developed a double policy in relation to North Korea. Its primary interest was and remains to maintain North Korea as a strategic buffer against the extension of American commercial,...
Time Critical Targeting: UAVs
By: Air Vice Marshal AK Tiwary | Issue: Vol. 28.2 Apr-Jun 2013 | Date: 30 Aug , 2013
The obvious advantage of stand-alone UAVs for TCT is the shortened sensor-to-shooter timeline since no dissemination of information is required from sensor to shooter. In optimum conditions, it is...
Will Iran face Biological mess?
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Date: 29 Aug , 2013
In the Times of India of today, Chidanand Rajghatta writes that ihe US has fought some 70 wars since it birth 234 years ago, at least 10 of them major conflicts and that till 1947 the US...
Kamov and Sagem team up on Ka-52 Alligator attack helicopter
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Aug , 2013
Sagem (Safran) and Kamov (Russian Helicopters) have combined their complementary areas of technological and industrial expertise to develop an enhanced version of the Kamov-52 Alligator attack...
Time for a hard look at the aviation industry
By: Air Marshal B D Jayal | Date: 27 Aug , 2013
India has steadfastly refused to review the organisational model of the MoD, which remains frozen in time. Therefore, the inter-service rivalry results in wasteful duplications and a...
Unconventional Warfare – Whose Baby?
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 Aug , 2013
David Maxwell’s recent article ‘Unconventional Warfare Does Not Belong to Special Forces’ in warontherocks.com makes interesting reading. English is a West German language that originated...
India lost in Afghan endgame
By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Courtesy: Mail Today | Date: 27 Aug , 2013
The situation in Afghanistan is full of uncertainties and the prospects of India’s neighbourhood becoming even more difficult for us are real. We have little control over the situation in...
Why should our soldiers ‘be nice’ to Pakistanis asks a Common Man
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Aug , 2013
While reading an article (http://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/Pakistan/Decoding-Indo-Pak-ties-It-s-talks-versus-fights/Article1-1105336.aspx?hts0021) in the Hindustan Times which advocated...
Insight into Myanmar
By: Shubhodeep Chattopadhyay | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 26 Aug , 2013
Ethnic minorities constitute almost one-third of the total population; the minority communities are located mainly in seven states, and these are named after these communities. The following...
The Chinese Game Plan
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Vol. 28.3 Jul-Sep 2013 | Date: 26 Aug , 2013
With the opening of two fronts against New Delhi, Beijing will, in collusion with Islamabad, repeat ‘1962’ in the near future on an enlarged scale. The ‘peace’ witnessed in Kashmir for...
Maoists: Crimson Tide
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Vol. 28.2 Apr-Jun 2013 | Date: 24 Aug , 2013
With adequate potential for civil war aimed at Balkanizing India, the Maoist insurgency requires total national focus and synergy, according equal importance to politico-social-economic issues in...
Coherence and Resolve in Foreign Policy
By: Maj Gen Pushpendra Singh | Issue: Vol. 28.2 Apr-Jun 2013 | Date: 23 Aug , 2013
In the recent LoC incident, many TV channels indulged in competitive hysteria and opposition too went overboard demanding ten heads for one! This contrasts glaringly with the mature support the...
Reactivation of the Kashmir Frontiers
By: Brig Amar Cheema | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Aug , 2013
The Line of Control (LC) that marks the de-facto Indo-Pak border in the disputed state of J&K is witnessing the familiar sequence of infiltration, reverberating gunfire and mindless violence which...
IAF C 130J-30 makes an historic landing at Daulat Beg Oldie (DBO)
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Aug , 2013
In a significant capability demonstration move by the IAF, a C 130J-30 Super Hercules aircraft landed at Daulat Beg Oldie (DBO), the highest airstrip in the world at 0654 hrs today. The Commanding...
Nepal: Namaste China
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 19 Aug , 2013
Nepal has become a full-fledged colony of China, with the Nepali leaders repeating blindly what Beijing tell them to say, using even the Chinese Communist jargon. According to China Tibet...