Articles in Issues
FREMM: A Multi-Mission Frigate by DCNS
By: Danvir Singh | Issue: Vol. 29.4 Oct-Dec 2014 | Date: 11 Dec , 2014
The FREMM has already entered the world market. Morocco has also ordered one Aquitaine class FREMM Frigate. The vessel, to be named Mohammed VI, is set to become the flagship of the Royal Moroccan...
Why Russia still matters
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Dec , 2014
Russian President Vladimir Putin is visiting India in the second week of December for what will be the 15th annual summit between the two countries. He is scheduled to address, during his stay at...
The Legacy of Peshawar
By: Dr Amarjit Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Dec , 2014
If the United States had been sincere and provided aid to the Afghan Mujahidin after the Russians were ousted from Afghanistan, Afghanistan might have not gotten into its current situation. ...
Crimea – The War That Didn’t Boil
By: Anant Mishra | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Dec , 2014
The Crimean crisis was an international crisis in 2014 principally involving Russia and Ukraine over the control of the Crimean Peninsula, until its annexation by Russia. Crimea is populated by...
Anti Naxal Operations: Initiative must be Regained
By: Maj Gen Dhruv C Katoch | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 10 Dec , 2014
On the morning of 1 December, 14 CRPF personnel including two officers were killed and over a dozen injured in an ambush carried out by the People’s Liberation Guerrilla Army (PLGA) of the CPI...
Air Support for ITBP: MHA squandering tax-payers money
By: Lt Gen (Dr) JS Bajwa | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Dec , 2014
It was reported in the Times of India that – “Dedicate air support for ITBP gets govt nod”. The Government’s decision to acquire helicopters for the ITBP (Indo Tibetan Border Police) is...
Pakistan will never dismantle its Jehad Machine
By: Brig Arun Bajpai | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Dec , 2014
America’s decade old war on terror is finally drawing down in Afghanistan in next seven months. Even though Americans are going back on their own vocation in an orderly manner, most of the...
Central Armed Police Forces: The Need for Re-evaluation
By: Brig Deepak Sinha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Dec , 2014
With the recent tragic death of 14 CRPF personnel in an ambush in Chhattisgarh, trust the media to go off on a wild goose chase, once again. For a supposedly well informed fraternity, I cannot...
Beyond Mahura: Will impotency continue?
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Dec , 2014
The terrorist attack at the army camp at Mahura in Uri Sector of J&K on 5th December resulted in the martyrdom of at least eight army personnel and three police personnel including one Lt Col of...
Kurdish problem can redraw the map of Middle East
By: Anant Mishra | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 Dec , 2014
The 30 million or so Kurds are large ethnic minorities in Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran, but have no sovereign state of their own. This status quo is a continuing source of instability in the...
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...
Agenda for the new Defence Minister
By: Brig. Gurmeet Kanwal | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 Dec , 2014
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) did not have a full-time Defence Minister for over five months after the NDA government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi was sworn in on May 26, 2014. There is a...
Air Marshal Sukhchain Singh takes over as Air Officer-in-Charge Maintenance...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Dec , 2014
Air Marshal Sukhchain Singh Vishisht Seva Medal (VSM) assumed the responsibilities of Air Officer–in-Charge Maintenance at Air HQ, New Delhi on 01 Dec 14. The Air Marshal who belongs to...
ISIS Recruit: The Return of the Prodigal Son
By: Brig Deepak Sinha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Dec , 2014
So the prodigal son, Arif Majeed, has returned home and the government finds itself on the horns of a dilemma. We know that the call of religion and probably adventure led him and three others to...
Kashmir Under Spotlight and Our Response
By: Danvir Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Dec , 2014
Kashmir has come under focus for all the reasons that should worry India. The LOC has recently become active, as there have been a large number of cease fire violations and hostile actions by our...
India-Japan Strategic Cooperation - Expanding Engagement
By: Dr Srabani Roy Choudhury | Issue: Vol. 29.4 Oct-Dec 2014 | Date: 30 Nov , 2014
The current joint statement signed by Japanese Prime Minister Abe and Indian Prime minister Modi titled “Japan- India Special Strategic and Global Partnership” emphasizes the strategic and...
President Xi Jinping Comes Calling-On
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Vol. 29.4 Oct-Dec 2014 | Date: 29 Nov , 2014
At the Indian Council of World Affairs, the Chinese President hoped that China and India would be the ‘express trains’ driving regional development as well as the ‘twin anchors’ of...
Are the Good Days Coming...?
By: Air Chief Marshal PV Naik | Issue: Vol. 29.4 Oct-Dec 2014 | Date: 28 Nov , 2014
National interest is something India needs to learn from America. Regardless of the provocation, national interest must always dictate the actions of the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA)....
Six years later, are we ready?
By: Vikram Sood | Issue: Courtesy: MidDay Mumbai | Date: 27 Nov , 2014
Six years ago most of us sat and watched a carnage in Mumbai being enacted on our TV screens. It seemed like a bad dream as we watched terrorists in action and nothing could have brought home the...
Airbus delivers more naval radars to US Navy under contract to Lockheed Martin
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Nov , 2014
Airbus Defense and Space has installed and put into operation the third TRS-3D naval radar for the U.S. Navy’s Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) program through its agreement with LCS prime contractor,...