Articles By Dr Krishna S Dhir, PhD
The Re-Incarnation of INS Vikrant
By: Dr Krishna S Dhir, PhD | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Sep , 2021
Often, a newborn is given the name of a parent, or a grandparent or a great-grandparent, and so on. In India, a number of kings have been named Vikramaditya. In the western cultures similar...
An Indian Philosophy of A Soldier
By: Dr Krishna S Dhir, PhD | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Aug , 2019
Members of the Indian Armed Forces swear to observe and obey all the commands, not only of their Supreme Commander, the President of India, but of any officer set above them. Significantly, when...
Terrorism as a Cancer: Does this Metaphor Work for India?
By: Dr Krishna S Dhir, PhD | Issue: Vol. 33.4 Oct-Dec 2018 | Date: 09 Feb , 2019
Though primarily a medical term, the word ‘cancer’ is increasingly being applied to ideas associated with ‘terrorism’. It is generally understood that cancer is triggered by conditions...
A Tribute to INAS 310 Cobra Squadron in the 1971 Eastern Theatre
By: Dr Krishna S Dhir, PhD | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Nov , 2018
As Spring began in Hyeres, France, On twenty-first March of Sixty One, The Cobras began their history With Alizés’ founding an arial den. Before too long, in a mere decade, While thriving still...
Gallant Response to Militant Threat
By: Dr Krishna S Dhir, PhD | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 Feb , 2018
Militants tend to attack innocent citizens, usually in places where people come together in relatively high concentrations. In the experience of Indians, militants have targeted aircrafts and...
Two King Cobras Named Ravi Dhir
By: Dr Krishna S Dhir, PhD | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Oct , 2017
In the Indian Armed Forces there are two Cobra Squadrons, both engaged in reconnaissance, albeit in different Services, and, amazingly, both had a Ravi Dhir for their Commanding Officers …...
Was Tahrir Square Revolution a Failed Effort in Applying Nonviolence?
By: Dr Krishna S Dhir, PhD | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Jul , 2017
Although Islamic groups do not hold a monopoly on violence, the prevailing trends are such that many in the West, and also in the East, now conflate Islamic traditions with a propensity for...
Prerequisites for Success of Nonviolent Strategies
By: Dr Krishna S Dhir, PhD | Date: 23 Feb , 2017
In a recent essay published in this periodical on 9th of February, 2017, Martand Jha addressed the role of nonviolence and Gandhian thought in Indian strategic thinking. [1] Gandhi was part of...