Articles By Air Marshal Dhiraj Kukreja
Integrated Air Defence for the Indian Airspace
By: Air Marshal Dhiraj Kukreja | Issue: Vol. 29.4 Oct-Dec 2014 | Date: 29 Jan , 2015
Events such as the Purulia arms drop, use of hijacked airliners as a lethal arm of terrorism, disappearance of a civil airliner from the radar screen and proliferation of tactical and intermediate...
Exorcise the Ghosts of 1962
By: Air Marshal Dhiraj Kukreja | Issue: Vol. 29.3 Jul-Sep 2014 | Date: 14 Nov , 2014
To some, the India-China War, which started on October 20, 1962 with the Chinese Army walking across the contested and an undefined border, was not a war at all but an armed incursion across the...
Defence Collaboration: Strategic Partnership with USA
By: Air Marshal Dhiraj Kukreja | Issue: Vol. 29.1 Jan-Mar 2014 | Date: 06 Mar , 2014
The US occupies, and in the foreseeable future, will continue to occupy a position of pre-eminence on the world stage. Indian perception of world politics is a multi-polar world where a...
Andaman and Nicobar Islands: A security challenge for India
By: Air Marshal Dhiraj Kukreja | Issue: Vol. 28.1 Jan-Mar 2013 | Date: 16 Sep , 2013
India’s military build-up, particularly of its naval capabilities and naval installations in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, worried ASEAN policy makers, who saw India as a potential threat to...
Simulation and Training: The IAF Perspective
By: Air Marshal Dhiraj Kukreja | Issue: Vol. 28.2 Apr-Jun 2013 | Date: 12 Aug , 2013
“Simulators go a long way in ensuring that a pilot learns about systems under simulation before he actually uses these on-board an aircraft thus saving precious flying hours. Apart from...
Higher Defence Management through Effective Civil-Military Relations
By: Air Marshal Dhiraj Kukreja | Issue: Vol. 27.4 Oct-Dec 2012 | Date: 10 Dec , 2012
“He (the soldier) is thus the very basis and silent, barely visible cornerstone of our fame, culture, physical well-being and prosperity; in short, of the entire nation building activity. He...
Integration of Service Headquarters with Ministry of Defence
By: Air Marshal Dhiraj Kukreja | Issue: Vol 27.3 Jul-Sep 2012 | Date: 11 Nov , 2012
Except for the debacle of the Sino-Indian War of 1962, India has managed to perform quite well in the various military conflicts. However, each of these did leave behind unmistakeable signs of...