Articles By Lt Gen Vinay Shankar
The Match with Pakistan
Issue: Vol 20.2 Apr-Jun 2005 | Date: 25 April 2012
We should not blame our cricketers or our hockey players for our dismal record against Pakistan. It is something to do with our national psyche. This hypothesis is validated if we look at the bigger game both our countries have been playing...
Thinking the Unthinkable
Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 October 2011
While our Prime Minister plays the conjuror with war clouds and the mysteries of lightening strikes, a grave and potently disastrous possibility of an armed Indo –Pak conflict is being peremptorily dismissed, through mere warnings of the...
The Price of Security
Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 February 2012
The political and administrative elite of India has yet to assimilate a fundamental lesson in the management of the Country’s defense policy. Like in almost every other sphere the quality of security will largely depend on the kind of...
Army's Capability Accretion
Issue: Vol 25.1 Jan-Mar 2010 | Date: 28 February 2012
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 missions that the army may be expected to...
The Challenge of China
Issue: Book Excerpt: Threat from China | Date: 11 February 2012
The recent denial of a visa by China to one of our senior most serving army officers has taken the Indian Security and Diplomatic establishment by considerable surprise, more so when the visa was being sought for an official visit. The surprise...
Defence Industry: Change in approach overdue
Issue: Vol 23.1 Jan-Mar 2008 | Date: 22 December 2010
It is almost seven years since the first set of major policy changes were promulgated by the Government to give a fillip to our stagnating and moribund defence industry. The fundamental underpinnings to the policy changes were two:...
Catalysing the Defence Industry
Issue: Vol 21.4 Oct-Dec 2006 | Date: 15 December 2010
Any current survey of India’s Defence Industry would take us back to the Fiat and Ambassador age. Should it be so at a time when we are on the threshold of emerging as a software superpower and – the Made in India – Mercedes...
India's Defence Procurement Procedure (DPP) prevents procurement
Issue: Vol 25.4 Oct-Dec 2010 | Date: 02 December 2010
“A comparison with other defense industries would be in order to draw some relevant deductions. Take China, Turkey, South Africa, South Korea, Israel and closer home even Pakistan. We began at about the same time and with a similar...
Parameters for Indian Army 2020
Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 February 2012
Recently under the aegis of the Army a seminar was conducted to discuss the shape, size and structure of our Army in 2020. The scope of the seminar also included an assessment of emerging challenges and doctrinal issues. The deliberations...
Diagnosing the Pakistani Overreach
Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 November 2010
Our Foreign Secretary in a recent talk has stated that “India’s efforts to bridge the trust deficit and pave the way for a serious and comprehensive dialogue were thwarted by a level of overreach by Pakistan”. The overreach is...
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