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Chinese Goal: India’s isolation and encirclement
By: Maj Gen Sheru Thapliyal, PhD | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Jul , 2013
Recorded history shows that India and China have loomed large in each other’s consciousness from well before the first millennium. As both nations became independent almost at the same time, it...
AgustaWestland Displays AW169 Mockup and Virtual Trainer
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Jul , 2013
AgustaWestland, a Finmeccanica company, continues to lead the way in airborne law enforcement safety and innovation by showcasing the AW169 Mockup as well as the Virtual Interactive Procedure...
China’s Growing Interest in Gilgit-Baltistan
By: Senge H. Sering | Date: 17 Jul , 2013
Recent agreements between China and Pakistan during the visit of Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to Beijing on July 4 reflect China’s growing interest in Gilgit-Baltistan and...
Four Point Musharraf Formula – Oxymoroning India?
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Jul , 2013
Critics would scoff at the word ‘oxymoroning’ saying there is no such word. What the minister could not learn at Oxford that it was the minister’s party that had first coined the phrase...
Involve military in decision making to tackle China
By: Col (Dr) PK Vasudeva | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Jul , 2013
In April 2013, the Chinese troops came 19 km inside the Indian Territory in the Depsang valley in Ladakh, a desolate area 40 km southeast of Daulat Beg Oldie, a World War II airstrip which was...
The Fall of Maoist Revolution
By: Lt Gen Gautam Banerjee | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Jul , 2013
Having murdered the leading Congress party functionaries in Chattisgarh and celebrating that macabre act like the savages do, the Maoists have now elaborated their ‘hit list’ of politicians...
Why Henderson Brooks Report Cannot be De-classified
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 Jul , 2013
Claude Arpi’s demand to release the Henderson Brooks report is akin to Julian Assange and Edward Snowden seeking asylum in India. Understandably, Wikileaks disclosures of black money stashed...
Border Defence Cooperation Agreement (BDCA): China’s Dangerous Trap
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Jul , 2013
Writing in these columns on the brazen Chinese intrusions into Indian Territory, it had been brought out that China considers ‘minds of the hierarchy (political and bureaucratic)’ of the...
Army opening new route to Kedarnath Shrine
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Jul , 2013
On being requested by the Civil Administration and the NDRF, troops of Surya Command of the Army have now commenced work to open a new route to the Kedarnath Shrine. Uttarakhand has witnessed...
China cornered, India’s window of opportunity
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 11 Jul , 2013
China being strategically cornered globally in 2013 is a reality and this is likely to continue till such time China does not change its strategic postulations. Therefore this should have...
Combat Helicopters: The multi-role concept and future development
By: Lt Gen BS Pawar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Jul , 2013
While jet fighters are in their fifth generation, helicopters are still languishing with the same old airframes for the last several decades, with mostly upgrades to their credit. The APACHE...
Hawking India
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Jul , 2013
As per an exclusive report in the DNA today, Indian officials claim that Chinese are making repeated intrusions into Indian Territory because of an internal tussle between the Chinese PLA and...
Political Islam’s Failure
By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Courtesy: Mail Today | Date: 09 Jul , 2013
If the overthrow of President Mubarak by the mass of protestors in Tahrir Square in 2011 was a surprise, the ouster of President Morsi by even larger protests in Tahrir Square and across Egypt in...
Optimising the Potential of Special Forces
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Vol. 28.2 Apr-Jun 2013 | Date: 08 Jul , 2013
In India, the lack of strategic culture, more on account of keeping the military out from strategic military decision making, has led the hierarchy to believe that conventional forces coupled with...
Joining the Security Dots: Cyber Security, Surveillance and Democracy
By: Maj Gen S G Vombatkere | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Jul , 2013
Edward Snowden, in his courageous, principled expose, has brought out how USA’s National Security Agency (NSA) has been spying on most nations in the world. This spying is clearly to establish or...
China’s ‘New Cold War’ puts democracies in danger
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Vol 25.4 Oct-Dec 2010 | Date: 06 Jul , 2013
The spread of two authoritarian streams, Chinese communism and the Islamic fundamentalism, in combination or otherwise, threaten the survival of democracies in Asia. First, Beijing deftly sucked...
China: Another Cross Border Squeak
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Jul , 2013
Why are we getting so worked about uttering by Comrade Luo Yuan working ‘under’ the Director General of the world military research department at a People’s Liberation Army academy...
Mounting threat from China, lackluster Indian response
By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Courtesy: The Telegraph | Date: 05 Jul , 2013
India will have to manage its relationships with China and Japan with greater finesse. China constitutes by far our most difficult diplomatic challenge as its rise impacts us directly in view of...
The thinking man and the fighting man
By: Air Marshal B D Jayal | Date: 05 Jul , 2013
The date, May 23, 2013, may well go down in the history of the Indian republic as a day when the first rays of a new dawn began to shed light on the culture of barren strategic thought within the...
Boeing Awards Chinook Parts Contract to Dynamatic
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 Jul , 2013
1st supplier contract placed in India for CH-47 helicopter expands partnership with local industry Boeing and Dynamatic Technologies Limited have increased India’s global presence in aerospace...