Articles By Special Correspondent
Nicobar as an IAF base in the Indian Ocean: Strategic Asset or Liability?
By: Special Correspondent | Issue: Vol. 31.4 Oct-Dec 2016 | Date: 21 Jan , 2017
The Indian Ocean Region (IOR) is slowly but surely turning out to be an area where there would be or perhaps there already is a conflict of interest between China and India. At the opening of the...
Artillery Modernisation
By: Special Correspondent | Issue: Vol. 29.2 Apr-Jun 2014 | Date: 04 Jun , 2015
Artillery modernisation in India implies the largest modernisation of this arm and needs to be given as much, if not more, importance commensurate with the manoeuvre arms it supports. The...
India’s Defence Industrial Complex
By: Special Correspondent | Issue: Vol. 29.4 Oct-Dec 2014 | Date: 19 Feb , 2015
For India the urgent reorganisation of the MoD needs to be undertaken; it is important – not only for optimising the defence-industrial complex but also to leverage the defence of the country. It...
Modernising India’s Security Sector for Homeland Security
By: Special Correspondent | Issue: Vol. 29.3 Jul-Sep 2014 | Date: 04 Dec , 2014
Post 9/11, homeland security got fast tracked in the US and it is generally believed that the mainland has not suffered any terrorist incident since then aside from the Boston bombings of 2013...
Reorganising the Defence of India: The Task Ahead
By: Special Correspondent | Issue: Vol. 29.3 Jul-Sep 2014 | Date: 14 Nov , 2014
Changes would provide a boost to defence preparedness, usher in an RMA, evolve requisite strategies and policies including for national security, response to asymmetric war, defence procurements,...
Making up Asymmetric Deficit vis-à-vis China
By: Special Correspondent | Issue: Vol. 29.3 Jul-Sep 2014 | Date: 13 Oct , 2014
China’s surging economic power has been matched by increasing military might including investments in an aircraft carrier, anti-ship ballistic missiles, satellites, modern weapon systems and...
Tiered Border Defence against China
By: Special Correspondent | Issue: Vol. 29.2 Apr-Jun 2014 | Date: 18 Sep , 2014
On balance, the prospects of Sino-Indian conflict remain. What appears certain is that China’s aggressive stance and the initiation of conflict will be aimed at undermining India’s status as...
Reorganising the Defence of India: The Task Ahead
By: Special Correspondent | Issue: Vol. 29.3 Jul-Sep 2014 | Date: 10 Sep , 2014
Changes would provide a boost to defence preparedness, usher in an RMA, evolve requisite strategies and policies including for national security, response to asymmetric war, defence procurements,...
Modernisation of Army Air Defence in India
By: Special Correspondent | Issue: Vol. 29.1 Jan-Mar 2014 | Date: 10 Apr , 2014
The air threat envelope is increasing exponentially both in range and altitude, making it essential that the range and altitude of coverage of GBADWS is increased commensurately. Air defence in...
Implications of a Mountain Strike Corps
By: Special Correspondent | Issue: Vol. 29.1 Jan-Mar 2014 | Date: 11 Mar , 2014
China’s past history is laced with aggression and blatant disregard to world opinion. The PLA is well ahead of the Indian Army and this ever-widening gap, if not checked and bridged, will...
Developments in Stealth Technology
By: Special Correspondent | Issue: Vol. 28.3 Jul-Sep 2013 | Date: 10 Sep , 2013
In the never ending rivalry between offence and defence, there will be a continuing race in development between stealth technology and detection devices of air defence systems. In future, stealth...
Force Multipliers for the Indian Air Force
By: Special Correspondent | Issue: Vol. 28.2 Apr-Jun 2013 | Date: 28 Jul , 2013
The IAF is currently embarked on a comprehensive and capital intensive modernisation plan. Over the next two decades, the combat fleet of the IAF will hopefully have 15 squadrons of Su-30MKI...