China-India Maritime Rivalry

Introduction
In the Post-Cold War Era re-distribution of power, the balance is clearly shifting to Asia. This is primarily due to the increasing comprehensive National Power (CNP) of China and India. But as they graduate to the global level, the two countries would need to contend with each other within the region.

When Commanders Become Bureaucrats

In late 1980s, an Engineer Regiment was asked to move to high altitude area as part of normal turn over of units. The regiment put in its demand for high altitude clothing for the troops well in time. However, the case got mired in bureaucratic wrangles between the Command Headquarters and the Army Headquarters. The [...]

Strategic Implications of Exercise Red Flag 2008

In the second week of July 2008, a contingent of the Indian Air Force (IAF) consisting of eight Su-30 MKI air dominance fighters, two IL-78 in-flight refuellers and an IL-76 heavy lift transport aircraft along with 247 personnel winged their way halfway across the globe to the deserts of Nevada. At the invitation of the [...]

Rheinmetall: Charting a course for the future

Oceans cover 71% of the earth’s surface. Today, around two-thirds of the world’s population live in coastal zones. Nearly 95% of global long-distance freight is shipped by sea. Each year, around 3.5 billion tons of cargo and some 350 million passengers pass through European ports alone. Globalization is nowhere so apparent as on the world’s [...]

Tactical Shifts in the Terror Profile

From June 08, India has been victim of a new phase of terrorism and enhanced ISI activities. This spurt in ISI sponsored terrorism was presumably initiated by Lt Gen Nadeem Taj to divert attention from former President Musharraf’s mounting problems at home.

The Sethusamudram Ship Canal Project

At present, ships transiting between the coasts of India have to go all the way around Sri Lanka because of a reef called Adam’s Bridge at Pamban, near Rameswaram Island. At Pamban, the depth of water is 11 feet.

India’s Civil Nuclear Industry

The nuclear deal is an historic accomplishment. We all know its many advantages and the potential it holds out for India’s future development. 

Blacklisting Foreign Vendors

India has a penchant for blacklisting foreign arms producers without considering negative effects it has on India’s military preparedness. This is the reasons why recent reports of irregularities in the procurement of seven Barak anti-missile defense systems and 200 missiles from Israel Aircraft Industries Ltd (IAI) have caused serious concern to the Indian armed forces. [...]

Spare the Army

Going by the selective and flip-flop leaks by the Anti Terrorist Squad (ATS) of Maharashtra, and the manner in which the media is lapping it up, it appears that there is a concerted and rather a desperate bid to make an ‘Osama bin Laden’ out of Lt Col Purohit and prove that the Sadhavi Pragya [...]

Pakistan: The Obvious Battlefield

Homage Ceremony by Tri Services Chiefs at Amar Jawan Jyoti, India Gate.
 
The British nearly gave up war in Afghanistan  recently and instead wanted dialogue with Al-Qaeda. Washington termed it defeatist and subsequently London rescinded the suggestion. The stalemate in the war on terrorism continued. 
The breed of Inherently Helpless Indians tells me repeatedly that “even the [...]

Radical Islam: Terror is the tool

Time has arrived for the unspoken to be spoken i.e. Radical Islam is at war with India.
The objectives of the war are to destroy India as a nation, with a composite culture and multi-ethnic society and replace it with a phenomenon which began in an enclave in Saudi Arabia in the 7th century and has already [...]