Articles in Issues
Review of India’s Security Imperatives: Agenda for the New Government
By: Lt Gen (Dr) JS Bajwa | Issue: Vol. 29.3 Jul-Sep 2014 | Date: 25 Aug , 2014
The armed forces of a country are a manifestation of the Government’s commitment to the people it represents of its concern for the pursuing the country’s national interests, for providing...
Kashmir: Solution lies elsewhere
By: Danvir Singh | Issue: Book Excerpt: Kashmir's Death Trap | Date: 23 Aug , 2014
The root cause of instability in the South Asian region is no doubt the lingering dispute in Jammu & Kashmir (J&K). Whether India agrees to this or not, the Kashmir issue is the core issue beyond...
Indian Army and Management of Stress
By: Maj Gen Mrinal Suman | Issue: Vol 24.2 Apr-Jun 2009 | Date: 23 Aug , 2014
Military’s Paraplegic Rehabilitation Centre (PRC) at Pune provides rehabilitation support to paraplegic and tetraplegic soldiers. Most of the inmates are victims of bullet or other injuries...
National War Memorial: A question of honour
By: Air Marshal B D Jayal | Issue: Courtesy: The Telegraph | Date: 22 Aug , 2014
Before the flicker of the last candle to commemorate those who laid down their lives for their motherland during the Kargil conflict dies out and memories of this 15th anniversary of Kargil Diwas...
The India Pakistan merry-go-round
By: Vikram Sood | Issue: Courtesy: MidDay Mumbai | Date: 21 Aug , 2014
Narendra Modi’s invitation to SAARC leaders for the swearing in May was a smart move and it threw three groups into a spin. As the startled Nawaz Sharif government went into a confused silence,...
The China Factor: India’s Tryst with the Dragon
By: Jayadeva Ranade | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Aug , 2014
Beijing’s accelerated push in recent years for recognition as the dominant power in the Asia-Pacific has accentuated the implicit contest for strategic space between Japan, the US, India and...
Pakistan does not want ‘Aman’ with India
By: Sunil Garodia | Issue: Courtesy: www.theindianrepublic.com | Date: 19 Aug , 2014
The Pakistan foreign ministry has issued a statement displaying injured innocence as a result of India’s cancelling the Foreign Secretary level talks in Islamabad on Aug 25. The statement says...
Pakistan Army’s official take on 1948 invasion of Kashmir
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 Aug , 2014
“By November 1947 Auchinleck, Supreme Commander based in New Delhi, being convinced that Indian Cabinet was seeking to destroy and undo Pakistan by economic and military means, was forced to...
Pakistan is a rogue country and should be treated accordingly
By: Maj Gen Mrinal Suman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 Aug , 2014
Pakistan is at it again. Five soldiers have lost their lives. Indian leadership appears unfazed and wants to continue dialogue with Pakistan. One of the greatest misfortunes for India is the fact...
Internal Security: The Maoist Dimension
By: Lt Gen Gautam Banerjee | Issue: Vol. 29.2 Apr-Jun 2014 | Date: 13 Aug , 2014
The Maoist rebellion is a phenomenon, an adverse one of course, in which bands of armed local inhabitants, led by firebrand ‘area commanders’, assume a role that should truly lie within the...
The CIA's reconnaissance operations in India
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Aug , 2014
The CIA recently declassified a new series of documents on the history of the U-2 surveillance planes. In their “The Central Intelligence Agency and Overhead Reconnaissance: The U-2 and OXCART...
Let Private Aerospace Manufacturing Flourish
By: Gp Capt Joseph Noronha | Issue: Vol. 29.2 Apr-Jun 2014 | Date: 10 Aug , 2014
Clearly the aerospace needs of India, civilian as well as defence, are growing. The public sector which has so far been tasked to meet these needs has failed to deliver. What’s more, as...
At the Conventional-Nuclear Interface
By: Ali Ahmed | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Aug , 2014
Conventional backdrop to nuclear foreground Accustomed to the phrase ‘nuclear backdrop’ as the army has been over the past two decades, the title may require explaining. The assumption is...
The Re-Emergence of Fundamentalist Forces
By: Maj Gen Afsir Karim | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 08 Aug , 2014
Capture of large parts of Iraq by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and declaration of establishing a Caliphate signals the start of a new phase of expansion of a powerful Sunni...
Israel-Gaza: Why India should sit on the fence?
By: Angikaar Choudhary | Issue: Courtesy: www.theindianrepublic.com | Date: 07 Aug , 2014
The conflict in Gaza is not new. This is not something which has happened suddenly. Since the creation of Israel, the region has been plagued with bloodshed. Uncountable lives have been lost on...
Planning for Tomorrow's Navy
By: Admiral Arun Prakash (Retd.) | Issue: Book Excerpt: From the Crow\'s Nest | Date: 07 Aug , 2014
Our racial memory has, with good reason, always been obsessed by the perpetual threat of invasion from the Himalayan passes; the Pakistani marauders who came across Uri in 1947 and the Peoples...
India, China and Sri Lanka: the uneasy triangle
By: Col R Hariharan | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Aug , 2014
China’s President Xi Jinping has accepted a long-standing invitation from President Mahinda Rajapaksa to visit Sri Lanka sometime this year. The first-ever visit by a Chinese President to Sri...
Kerry’s Visit: India and America need each other
By: Vice Admiral Venkat Bharathan | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 Aug , 2014
The Potomac and the Ganges are nature’s bountiful gifts. The former is witness to the evolution of modern America just around 240 years. The latter is holy, mystical and emotional to India for...
Nepal: The ticking time-bomb
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Vol 24.2 Apr-Jun 2009 | Date: 04 Aug , 2014
Nepal is at a critical crossroad; in fact the rebirth of the country as a new nation-state is in question. To assess the evolving situation, I recently undertook an extensive tour of the country....
Turning India into an Arms Exporter
By: Radhakrishna Rao | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 04 Aug , 2014
While dedicating the formidable Indian warship INS Virkamaditya, the retrofitted Russian aircraft carrier to the nation at an impressive ceremony held in June, Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a...