Articles in Issues
Prepare for a dangerous Pakistan
By: Dr Ramesh Tamiri | Issue: Courtesy: www.dailyexcelsior.com | Date: 11 Sep , 2014
Pakistan’s neurotic obsession to change the status quo in Kashmir, seek parity with India by resorting to cross-border terrorism to check its ascendency to a regional power and chase strategic...
Boeing Delivers 5th P-8I Maritime Patrol Aircraft to India
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Sep , 2014
Boeing delivered the fifth P-8I maritime patrol aircraft to India, on schedule, on Sept. 9 as part of a contract for eight aircraft to support the Indian Navy’s maritime patrol requirements. The...
Elusive Peace in West Africa and Sahel
By: Anant Mishra | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Sep , 2014
The Sahel is a word derived from the Arabic word ‘Sahil’ meaning shore. The region, characterized as a semi-arid belt of barren, sandy and rock-strewn land, stretches approximately 3860 km...
DARPA Unveils Hack-Proof Drone
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Sep , 2014
The Pentagon’s research arm unveiled a new drone built with secure software that prevents the control and navigation of the aircraft from being hacked. The programme, called High Assurance Cyber...
SR-72 Hypersonic Drone
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Sep , 2014
The Skunk Works SR-72 design is a hypersonic unmanned aircraft developed to execute Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance and strike missions at speeds up to Mach 6. At this speed, the...
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,...
Israel's Threat Perception
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Book Excerpt: Asian Strategy and Military Perspective | Date: 10 Sep , 2014
Israel’s geo-political location is a security nightmare for Israeli defence planners, given the hostile or potentially belligerent neighbourhood on each of its flanks. Nevertheless, for the US...
The role of Pakistan in the Taliban insurgency
By: EN Rammohan | Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 09 Sep , 2014
The name Afghanistan means the land of the Afghans. The origins of the name Afghan remain unclear. Its use dates from the 18th century, when Pashtun tribes began to carve out a region of Central...
Could Tibet be defended?
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Courtesy: http://claudearpi.blogspot.in/ | Date: 08 Sep , 2014
I am posting here an interesting note from Harishwar Dayal, the Political Officer in Sikkim between 1948 and 1952. The note dates from the early months of 1950. Dayal answers some points made by...
China’s dilemmas in Af-Pak region
By: Col R Hariharan | Issue: Courtesy: www.col.hariharan.info/ | Date: 08 Sep , 2014
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Pakistan to be scheduled along with his visit to India this month has been cancelled. It was strategically a very important visit for both China and...
AW101 helicopter flies UK Prime Minister David Cameron during NATO Summit
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Sep , 2014
The Finmeccanica – AgustaWestland AW101 helicopter will transport the UK Prime Minister David Cameron and the UK delegation during the two day NATO Summit, which will be attended by more...
VULCANO Guided Long Range ammunition family enters the joint Italian-German...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Sep , 2014
The German Federal Procurement Agency BAAINBw informed the Italian Ministry of Defense about the decision to proceed with the joint qualification program of the VULCANO Guided Long Range (GLR)...
ISIS Threat: Dance of Barbarians
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Sep , 2014
The fact that Al Qaeda has been bamboozled by the ISIS in the Middle East is no secret. Pressured by US-NATO, Al Qaeda was in the mode of shifting its major base from Pakistan to Africa when...
The WhatsApp Soldier
By: Ganapathy Vanchinathan | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 06 Sep , 2014
The army has been in the news over the last fortnight, and again for all the wrong reasons. These include an incident regarding the functioning of the Army Wives Welfare Association, and a...
Double cross and deceit by the Pakistan army
By: Dr Simrit Kahlon | Issue: Courtesy: www.defenceinfo.com | Date: 05 Sep , 2014
Nawaz Sharif, Prime Minister of Pakistan, is a very lonely man today; undoubtedly he would also be sad, dejected and depressed by the manner in which he has been let down by the generals of his...
Raising FDI Cap in Defence: Misplaced Euphoria?
By: Maj Gen Mrinal Suman | Issue: Vol. 29.3 Jul-Sep 2014 | Date: 04 Sep , 2014
It is time India makes up its mind whether it wants FDI in defence or not. If it is felt that FDI is not essential and India can achieve technological excellence through indigenous efforts; it...
Fight alienation and not AFSPA
By: Lt Gen Harwant Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Sep , 2014
Periodically Omar Abdullah demands abrogation of AFSPA from certain areas of the state of J and K. He claims that there is complete peace in these areas and therefore there is little justification...
Tibet: PLA’s frequent trainings with live ammunitions
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Sep , 2014
In March, The Times of India reported that the Indian Army is “fast running out of ammunition”. The daily affirmed: “Tanks and air defence units, artillery batteries and infantry soldiers...
Review of Policy on FDI
By: Maj Gen Dhruv C Katoch | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 02 Sep , 2014
The recently released Press Note 7 of 2014, dated 26 August 2014, notifies the changes brought about by the Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion (DIPP) in Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)...
Standards of Intervention
By: Anant Mishra | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 31 Aug , 2014
Formed in the wake of the horrors of World War II and the Holocaust, the United Nations took as its primary mission the maintenance of international peace and security. Since the end of the Cold...