Articles in Issues
Force Projection and Rapid Deployment Forces: Need for Reassessment
By: Brig Deepak Sinha | Issue: Vol. 29.2 Apr-Jun 2014 | Date: 03 Aug , 2014
As India’s regional and global aspirations grow with its increasing economic clout, it will be forced to build up its capacity to project power in its national interest to ensure that the...
A Two-Two as Army Chief
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Aug , 2014
General Dalbir Singh Suhag, has yesterday taken over as the 26th Indian Chief of the Army Staff (COAS), following the retirement of General Bikram Singh. General Dalbir Singh Suhag is from the...
Managing Perceptions for Maoists
By: Shashank Ranjan | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 01 Aug , 2014
The militant groups have tendency to show inclination to address the civil society, rather than the state – as an endeavour on their part to strike at the very thought process of the society....
Political – Civil – Military Participation in National Security
By: Vice Admiral Venkat Bharathan | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 31 Jul , 2014
Analysis of India’s approach towards its National Security reveals an unacceptable hiatus between the Political -Civil- Military systems. We perhaps were lucky enough to get away thus far even...
Future of Manned Combat Aircraft
By: Gp Capt Joseph Noronha | Issue: Vol. 28.2 Apr-Jun 2013 | Date: 31 Jul , 2014
It has long been known that the forte of an unmanned device is to undertake “dull, dirty and dangerous” missions. No pilot can ever hope to equal the staying power of a UAV while orbiting a...
Defence Preparedness: An unforgiving opportunity
By: Col Anil Athale | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 Jul , 2014
At Rs. 2.29 lakh crore, Defence expenditure is the largest component of the national budget. But true to Parkinson Law, when the figures are astronomical and beyond the grasp of human mind, the...
Maoists Through the Prism of their Victims
By: Lt Gen Baljit Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 Jul , 2014
What can be surmised from an understanding of the history of warfare in general is that in any form of armed conflict, collateral damage (loss of limb and life) to the populace at large as also of...
Employment of Helicopters in Counter Insurgency Roles
By: Gp Capt B Menon | Issue: Vol. 29.2 Apr-Jun 2014 | Date: 29 Jul , 2014
Experts estimate that about 80 different insurgencies are active around the world. Malaya, French Indochina, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Indonesia, South Africa, Algeria, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka,...
Strategies for Defence Modernisation and Self-Reliance
By: Bikramdeep Singh | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 28 Jul , 2014
In defence parlance, modernisation may be defined as relevant upgrades or improvement of existing military capabilities through the acquisition of new (imported or indigenously developed) weapon...
Indian Army: Reminiscences of a Soldier
By: Danvir Singh | Issue: Vol. 29.1 Jan-Mar 2014 | Date: 26 Jul , 2014
No matter how hi-tech the modern battlefield gets. No matter how powerful the Drones and the Robots become. The mission of the Infantry will continue to close-in and destroy the enemy, through...
The ‘Why’ of Rethinking Indian Nuclear Deterrence!
By: Col Anil Athale | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Jul , 2014
Indian nuclear decision making was always in the global political context. These were almost exclusively political decisions with the armed forces not in the loop. The 1974 Pokhran I tests were...
The Indo-Pak Peace Talks: A Duodrama
By: Danvir Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Jul , 2014
The two actors of our sub-continent prepare to enact the latest scene, in the series of peace drama running over decades. The script is yet to play out the denouement. Nevertheless they meet again...
Kargil Controversy: Army pinpoints IAF failures
By: Lt Gen Harwant Singh | Issue: Vol 25.2 Apr-Jun 2010 | Date: 24 Jul , 2014
Every military operation carries many lessons. The receptive imbibe some while the obstinate simply ignore. To be in a state of denial or finding alibis for mistakes rather than learn from...
Kashmiris are being hijacked!
By: Col Jaibans Singh | Issue: Courtesy: www.defenceinfo.com | Date: 24 Jul , 2014
The government in the centre has been there barely two months and a segment of the so-called prime-movers of the Kashmir valley, political leaders and intelligentsia, have started voicing a...
Defence Budget: A Perspective on self Reliance and Modernisation
By: Maj Gen Rajesh Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Jul , 2014
India’s Defence Budget for 2014-15 has an allocation of Rs.2,29,000 crores ($38 billion) which is an increase of 12% over the previous year’s allocation. The capital outlay which is for...
Israel under the Iron Dome - Should India Seek Cover?
By: Lt Col Sailesh Kumar Rai | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Jul , 2014
The ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict has once again brought into sharp focus the technological disparities between the two adversaries. Although there are news reports indicating use of UAVs by...
The Gaza Debate: A View Point
By: Dr Amarjit Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Jul , 2014
The Rajya Sabha had been pressing for a debate on the Gaza action of Israel, and with overwhelming pressure, including by threatening to forestall all other discussions in the Rajya Sabha, they...
Why not have ‘Technical Support Division’ at the Army Corps Level?
By: Col JK Achuthan (Retd.) | Issue: Vol. 29.2 Apr-Jun 2014 | Date: 18 Jul , 2014
The essence of successful conventional defensive battle is in maintaining elasticity and cohesion; thereafter debilitating the enemy’s combat power to the danger zone of exhaustion and...
Finmeccanica – Selex ES’s mini and micro UAVs see success in tests
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Jul , 2014
Finmeccanica – Selex ES’s ASIO-B and SPYBALL-B UAVs have passed their factory acceptance tests, leaving them ready for delivery to the Italian Army for its Forza NEC modernisation...
Raising FDI in Defence is not enough
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Jul , 2014
FDI in the Defence Sector has been hiked from erstwhile 26 percent to 49 percent when the Finance-cum-Defence Minister recently announced the Defence Budget amounting to 2.29 Lakh Crores ($38.5...