IDR Blog
What is Chinese Military thinking?
Mr.LiangGuanglie, the Chinese Defence Minister, who is in Sri Lanka since August 29,2012, on an official visit at the head of a 23-member delegation, is reaching New Delhi on September 2,2012, for a three-day official visit before proceeding to Laos from where he will return home. In Mao Dze-dong and Deng Xiao-ping China had produced...
Should the PM avoid cosying upto Iran?
The Prime Minister, Dr.Manmohan Singh, has gone to Teheran to attend the summit of the Non-Aligned Movement. His participation in the summit will provide him with an opportunity to meet leaders from important countries of the NAM and to have another round of bilateral talks with President Asif Ali Zardari of Pakistan. Even if nothing...
Need for finesse in cyber counter-intelligence?
Intelligence is the collection of information from the real world that could be important for our national security. Counter-intelligence is the technique of preventing our ill-wishers from collecting intelligence about us that could weaken our national security. Cyber-intelligence is the collection of intelligence having a bearing on our...
Can committee of secretaries do justice to the armed forces?
Often the political executive appears to find solutions to difficult problems with the help of a group of secretaries. In some cases, this group of secretaries may not have complete knowledge and grasp of the issues under examination. In the late eighties the Army evaluated a number of indigenously developed diesel engines for the Vijayanta...
Has the military been given a raw deal on the pay front?
6Th Central Pay Commission (CPC) had, besides a few bureaucrats as part of the commission, approximately 125 officers drawn from various central services, (but none from the defence services) such as, postal service, Indian forest Service, police etc, on its staff to work out the nitty-gritty of the report. Predictably, these...