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Eurofighter Typhoons land in Bengaluru
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 Feb , 2011
Two Eurofighter Typhoons of the Italian Air Force arrived safely in Bengaluru to showcase their outstanding operational capabilities at Aero India 2011. The air show will be held at the Air...
Aero India 2011 to surpass all previous edition statistics
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Feb , 2011
The 8th edition of Aero India, being held in Bengaluru from February 9 to 13, 2011, is expected to surpass all previous editions of the premiere air show in terms of participation and volume....
ALH Dhruv Simulator Cockpit at HATSOFF
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Feb , 2011
The Helicopter Academy to Train by Simulation of Flying (HATSOFF) is a Rs 300 crore joint venture enterprise with 50:50 partnership between Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) and CAE of Canada....
Egypt: The Modified Script
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Feb , 2011
The contagion of protests spreading from one country to another in the Arab world has made the ruling dispensations edgy and nervous. The general feeling in India and many other parts of the...
The Jihadi Barbarity
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 Feb , 2011
In our excitement over the revolution from nowhere sweeping across the Arab world and in our preoccupation with trying to understand what has been happening in Egypt, we should not fail to...
The Basic Military Laws!
By: Anonymous | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 Feb , 2011
Try to look unimportant; the enemy may be low on ammo and not want to waste a bullet on you. • Never share a foxhole with anyone braver than yourself. • Never forget that your weapon was...
‘invisible Violence’ that consumes India
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Feb , 2011
On Monday, LeT militants dragged two teenaged sisters from their house in the Kashmir Valley and killed them in the most brutal manner. It served as reminder that the situation in the valley has...
The Karmapa Controversy
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Feb , 2011
The Karmapa is the head of what is known as the Karma Kagyu sect of Tibetan Buddhism.It is claimed that the institution of Karmapa is more than 200 years older than the institution of Dalai Lama,...
Army’s Capability Accretion
By: Lt Gen Vinay Shankar | Issue: Vol 25.1 Jan-Mar 2010 | Date: 31 Jan , 2011
The challenges that the Army is expected to face in the next decade are not likely to be any less formidable. An appraisal of the emerging threats in fact indicates an increasing complexity of...
The Chinese Conundrum: Friends and Foes
By: Air Marshal Narayan Menon | Issue: Vol 24.1 Jan-Mar 2009 | Date: 31 Jan , 2011
Indian Navy and its Chinese counterpart conducted a joint exercise for the first time in the seas off the Shanghai coast in November, 2003. The latest naval exercise between the two navies was...
Offset Contracts: under defence procurement procedures
By: Sandeep Verma | Issue: Vol 25.1 Jan-Mar 2010 | Date: 31 Jan , 2011
The practice of countries demanding discharge of offset obligations as a prerequisite to foreign firms’ participation in major defense contracts is not new. While there is substantial...
Will Egypt cost Obama a second term in White House?
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 Jan , 2011
The people’s revolt in Egypt, which has cost over a hundred lives since January 25, is showing signs of taking an anti-US turn. “Neither Mubarak nor Suleiman; we’re sick of Americans.” So...
Perilous roads to Kabul
By: Air Marshal AK Trikha | Issue: Vol 24.3 Jul-Sep 2009 | Date: 28 Jan , 2011
Any General tasked to lead an expeditionary force to subjugate Afghanistan would not like to be reminded of the fate that befell the British in a similar attempt in the 19th century. Lady...
Internet poses threat to Authoritarian Regimes
By: Maj Gen Dhruv C Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Jan , 2011
The Jasmine Revolt: The story of Tunisia gives one hope that oppressive regimes can be overthrown by the power of people mobilised to fight injustice without recourse to violence or civil war....
Guns versus Butter
By: Vice Admiral Arun Kumar Singh | Issue: Vol 24.3 Jul-Sep 2009 | Date: 28 Jan , 2011
India, with limited resources and rising aspirations, faces the age old “guns versus butter” question, which has become even more complex in the era of terrorism, piracy, insurgency, in the...
Rapidly changing military sociology
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Vol 24.3 Jul-Sep 2009 | Date: 28 Jan , 2011
The post-independence Indian Army continues to struggle with the British colonial model, ways and traditions, which served us well to a point. In fact, we were so enamored by the British ethos...
Chinese incursions, now and then
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Vol 24.4 Oct-Dec 2009 | Date: 28 Jan , 2011
Chinese incursions have been making headlines in the Indian media. Unfortunately, the Indian leadership prefers to mitigate the facts, to not “hurt feelings of the Chinese” or “make things...
CII lauds US Export Control reform effort
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Jan , 2011
US President Barack Obama promised India Inc during his address in Mumbai in November 2010 to work on fundamentally reforming the US export regime to allow greater cooperation with India in a...
The pitfalls in evolution of Indian Army-III
By: Maj Gen Sukhwant Singh | Issue: Book Excerpt: India's War since Independence | Date: 28 Jan , 2011
The Indian opening of a second front in Punjab on 6 September forced Ayub Khan to pull troops out of the Chhamb-Jaurian sector to reinforce the Lahore and Sialkot sectors. Despite thinning out,...
Fiddling in Davos while Arab World is burning
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 Jan , 2011
The prairie fire of mass protests in Tunisia continues to burn and shows signs of spreading to Libya, Algeria, Egypt, Jordan and Yemen. In Tunisia, protesters want the entire old leadership to...