Articles in Issues
Pakistan’s Nuclear Choreography
By: Lt Gen Gautam Banerjee | Issue: Vol. 29.4 Oct-Dec 2014 | Date: 29 Dec , 2014
The vice-like grip of Pakistan’s nuclear choreography is so mesmerising that India seems to be unable, or unwilling, break free of the spell it has cast, and so be able to evaluate hard facts...
Modernization of the Chinese Air Force
By: Lt Gen (Dr) JS Bajwa | Issue: Book Excerpt: Modernization of Chinese PLA | Date: 28 Dec , 2014
Of all the PLA, PLAAF has been the slowest to modernize. In many respects this is linked to its history. The air force’s close identification with Minister of Defense Lin Biao and leftist...
INS Vikramaditya and India’s Naval Security
By: Dr Anil Kumar Singh | Issue: Vol. 29.3 Jul-Sep 2014 | Date: 26 Dec , 2014
As far as naval-vessel-building facilities are concerned, China and India are not at the same industrial level. Over the past ten years, the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) has built 16...
Threat Perception of India
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Book Excerpt: Asian Strategy and Military Perspective | Date: 26 Dec , 2014
Very few countries in the world are beset with as many hostile or uncomfortable neighbours as India. With its two neighbours China and Pakistan, it has a post-independence history of wars and the...
LCA (Navy) Successfully Ski Jumps on an Aircraft Carrier Simulated Deck
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Dec , 2014
It was a defining moment when LCA (Navy) Prototype 1 (NP1), the first indigenously designed and developed 4th plus generation combat aircraft designed to operate from the decks of air-craft...
Fifth Generation Fighter Aircraft for the Indian Air Force
By: Gp Capt B Menon | Issue: Vol. 28.2 Apr-Jun 2013 | Date: 25 Dec , 2014
The IAF has decided that there is a pressing requirement to have a stealth fighter with multi-role capabilities in its inventory to cater for future threats. It is also evident that this...
The Rise and fall of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks
By: Anant Mishra | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Dec , 2014
The late Palestinian president Yasser Arafat famously said “Palestine is the cement that holds the Arab world together, or it is the explosive that blows it apart”. This quote illustrates the...
ISIS’s Impact on Pakistan: Will India Bear the Brunt?
By: Kirit Nair | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 24 Dec , 2014
Irrespective of whether ISIS continues to expand or gets eliminated, its most visible impact on Islamic nations in South Asia is the inspiration that its radical elements derive from ISIS’s...
Challenges in Restructuring the Combat Power of IAF
By: Air Marshal Raghu Rajan | Issue: Vol. 29.3 Jul-Sep 2014 | Date: 24 Dec , 2014
The IAF’s capability covers the IOR countries on the maritime side and its principal adversaries Pakistan and China on the landward side. The government needs to finalise the contract for the...
Virtual Terrorism
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Dec , 2014
While no definition of terrorism has been still not been accepted, the US had come up with the term “violent terrorism”. Even within the US hate crimes have been brought into the ambit of...
Fifth Generation Fighters and the IAF
By: Gp Capt Joseph Noronha | Issue: Vol 27.3 Jul-Sep 2012 | Date: 21 Dec , 2014
The capability of any modern fighter is usually way ahead of its predecessors, especially so if it is replacing decades-old planes such as the MiG-21 and the MiG-27. This is even more applicable...
How to Make Proxy War Succeed in Baluchistan
By: Dr Amarjit Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Dec , 2014
For decades, Pakistan has engaged in a proxy war against India. Much of that proxy war has been secretive, while many of those secrets have been exposed. At other times, Pakistan has made...
Crystal Gazing the Future from Peshawar
By: Danvir Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Dec , 2014
Pakistan was created on religious lines in 1947 by partitioning of India. Today it stands at the cross roads even after 67 years of its creation completely confused and chaotic. One side is the...
The Power of Media
By: Brig Deepak Sinha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Dec , 2014
It is ironic that television channels and print media, the world over, have taken, what can only be described as vicarious pleasure, at providing live coverage of the recent hostage crisis in...
Macabre Irony – Peshawar massacre
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Dec , 2014
In the wildest of macabre irony to the ‘good’ and ‘bad’ Taliban theory that Pakistan successfully sold to the US, comes the ghastliest of terrorist attack at the Army Public School,...
Taliban set to takeover Pakistan
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Vol. 29.2 Apr-Jun 2014 | Date: 17 Dec , 2014
In the near future, Taliban and Taliban like groups will impose Afghanistan type Taliban regime on Pakistan. The civil war raging inside Pakistan in search of elusive ‘purity’ of philosophy...
Now at Sydney: Is India Prepared
By: Danvir Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Dec , 2014
Indians woke up to the news of a hostage crisis at Sydney’s busy Martin Place in the central business district. Around 40 hostages were held up at Lindt Chocolate Shop and Café by a likely IS...
Dealing with China
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Dec , 2014
How to deal with China has been a problem for the Indian diplomacy from the day the People’s Liberation Army entered Eastern Tibet in October 1950. South Block (both the Ministry of External...
The CIA and China
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Courtesy: http://claudearpi.blogspot.in/ | Date: 12 Dec , 2014
The much-awaited report (summary) from Senate Intelligence Committee on the CIA’s Detention and Interrogation Program is finally in the public domain. Its conclusion are clear, the Intelligence...
Fighting the Proxy War on Social Media
By: Danvir Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Dec , 2014
On one side Modi in his Srinagar rally literally snatched the moral high ground from the army that it had assumed by a series of path breaking stances. And on the other our top military brass was...