Articles By Air Marshal B D Jayal
No Time for Turf Wars
By: Air Marshal B D Jayal | Issue: Courtesy: The Telegraph | Date: 09 Mar , 2013
Nothing could have painted a clearer security picture of our neighbourhood than three prominent news items on the same day in one national daily .Osama plotted to nuke US with AQ help, India...
A Nation and it’s Toothless Nuclear Doctrine
By: Air Marshal B D Jayal | Issue: Courtesy: The Telegraph | Date: 05 Mar , 2013
Even as the celebrations at our joining the ‘nuclear club’ start to ebb, contrary information from across the Atlantic is getting shriller. The Ministry of External Affairs now accepts that...
Rules of the Nuclear Club
By: Air Marshal B D Jayal | Issue: Courtesy: The Telegraph | Date: 02 Mar , 2013
The India-United States of America cooperation in the nuclear field started in the fifties under President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Atoms for Peace programme. In the sixties, India and the US...
How to Resolve the Problem of Roles and Missions
By: Air Marshal B D Jayal | Issue: Courtesy: The Telegraph | Date: 21 Feb , 2013
A national daily recently reported that highly classified documents pertaining to weapon system requirements and acquisition plans of all the three services along with those of surveillance...
Bedrock of Airpower: A Sound National Aerospace Policy
By: Air Marshal B D Jayal | Issue: Courtesy: The Telegraph | Date: 01 Jan , 2013
It is typical of the Indian security system, that only in times of security crises, does the nation wake up to gross weaknesses in re equipping of the armed forces. Recall the Kargil conflict,...
Demilitarizing Siachen: Looking for a Soft Option?
By: Air Marshal B D Jayal | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Dec , 2012
At what is commonly referred to as Siachen, India hold the dominating high ground on Saltoro Ridge. To the west of this is Gilgit and Baltistan, which is proposed to be leased by Pakistan to...
Waging a Different Kind of War
By: Air Marshal B D Jayal | Issue: Courtesy: The Telegraph | Date: 17 Dec , 2012
In 2009, the president of India, the supreme commander of its armed forces, created history by flying in an IAF Sukhoi combat aircraft. A gesture which, apart from being daring, communicated to...