Articles By Air Marshal Narayan Menon
India Russia: Strategic Relations
Issue: Vol 23.1 Jan-Mar 2008 | Date: 03 December 2011
The India-Russia strategic relations with its embedded military ties have been, in the past 15 years, buffeted by the turbulence of international upheavals and domestic events. The collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the cold war have...
Chinese Air Force way ahead of IAF
Issue: Vol. 26.4 Oct-Dec 2011 | Date: 14 November 2011
The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 proved to be a boon to China and the PLAAF. Apart from a formidable enemy being neutralised, many displaced scientists, engineers and technicians from the erstwhile Soviet...
India's Special Operations Capability
Issue: Vol. 26.3 July - Sept 2011 | Date: 19 September 2011
The relentless pursuit of Osama Bin Laden ever since 9/11 occurred and his elimination early May by US Special Forces in the spectacular ‘Operation Geronimo’ has been a landmark event in the conduct of counter-terrorism operations....
State, strategy, power & policy: China and India
Issue: Vol 23.3 Jul-Sep 2008 | Date: 09 May 2012
The grand strategy of a state may be described as a long–term plan to accomplish its domestic and external objectives. Policies flowing from the grand strategy must aim to promote the vital interests of the nation while preventing other...
Downhill from Kargil
Issue: Vol 24.3 Jul-Sep 2009 | Date: 25 July 2011
It is only ten years since the Kargil War, and it has already faded from public memory. ‘Tiger Hill’, ‘Tololing”, “Pt 5140”, Mushkoh Valley, and Muntho Dhalo are remembered only in Indian Military...
The Chinese Conundrum: Friends and Foes
Issue: Vol 24.1 Jan-Mar 2009 | Date: 31 January 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 held off the Kochi coast in November, 2008, just...
Kargil Controversy: IAF on the ghosts of Kargil
Issue: Vol 25.3 Jul-Sep 2010 | Date: 02 December 2010
When the Pakistani Northern Light Infantry, officered by the regular Pak Army, reeling under incessant day and night attacks, both from air and surface, fled in complete disarray from the occupied heights during the Kargil war, they left behind...
Recollections of the 1971 War
Issue: Vol 24.4 Oct-Dec 2009 | Date: 23 November 2010
“Rockline Control from 202, request permission to start-up.” “202 from Rockline Control, standby for permission.” “202 from Rockline, permission denied, vacate cockpits and contact on land line.” It was the...
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