Articles in Issues
Critical Deficiencies in the Indian Army
By: Sanjay Sethi | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 17 Jul , 2014
The Prime Minister was briefed by the Army Chief in the War Room of Military Operations Directorate on critical hollowness afflicting the army on June 13, 2014. As per media reports, the...
The Future of Military Helicopters
By: Gp Capt AK Sachdev | Issue: Vol. 28.1 Jan-Mar 2013 | Date: 16 Jul , 2014
Regrettably, advances in helicopter design have not been as impressive as for fighter aircraft. This is despite the fact that helicopters have been utilised in every conflict situation and despite...
Lessons from the Henderson Brooks Report
By: Lt Gen (Dr) JS Bajwa | Issue: Vol. 29.2 Apr-Jun 2014 | Date: 16 Jul , 2014
The Government’s ‘White Paper’ relating to India-China Boundary issue, published between 1951 and 1960, clearly indicated the adversarial bilateral relations between India and China. The...
Islamic Terror and India: What are We Doing?
By: Shaumik Samar Ghosh | Issue: Courtesy: www.theindianrepublic.com | Date: 16 Jul , 2014
Islamic terror is something that is causing more damage than that caused by many natural disasters together. Al Qaeda, ISIS, Boko Haram and so many more, their groups are only adding more...
Drone Terrorism
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Jul , 2014
Media recently reported the arrest of four persons in Varanasi for filming the ‘Ganga Aarti’ using drone cameras at the Dashashwamedh Ghat without permission. The arrest was possible because...
1971: Surrender of Pakistani Troops
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Jul , 2014
In 1971, Lt Gen Jagjit Singh Aurora, PVSM, then GOC-in-C, Eastern Command, accepted history’s greatest surrender since the end of World War-II. In the above video, Brigadier Baqir Siddiqui,...
Impeccable appearance of a Military Officer is half the battle!
By: Maj Gen Mrinal Suman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Jul , 2014
Declining standard of officers’ conduct has been a cause for concern for the past few years. Occurrence of numerous incidents of un-officer like behaviour has caused considerable...
Defence Allotments Deficient in Threat Perception
By: Col (Dr) PK Vasudeva | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 Jul , 2014
India boosted defence spending by 12.5 percent in 2014-15 over the previous year in a budget presented on 10 July and further opened the domestic weapons industry to foreign investment to help...
Know Yourself and Your Enemies
By: Air Marshal B D Jayal | Issue: Courtesy: The Telegraph | Date: 12 Jul , 2014
Two books titled ‘Deception – Pakistan, The United States and the Global Nuclear Weapons Conspiracy’ by Adrian Levy and Catherine Scott- Clark and ‘Military Inc.- Inside Pakistan’s...
The Henderson-Brooks Report is out by Neville Maxwell
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Jul , 2014
The Henderson-Brooks/Bhagat Report of the 1962 is out! Neville Maxwell, the author of India’s China War has posted the famous Report on his website. Here are his explanations. Click to download...
Defence Budget 2014: Allocation Raised to Rs 2,29,000 crore
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Jul , 2014
Allocation for defence in this year’s General Budget has been raised to Rs 2,29,000 crore. Presenting the Union Budget in Lok Sabha today, the Union Finance Minister Shri Arun Jaitley also...
Impact of Talibanisation
By: Alok Bansal | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 10 Jul , 2014
The most serious implication of this onward march of the Taliban has been the radicalisation of Pakistan’s armed forces. As the armed forces draw their manpower from the same society, its...
FDI in Defence: Dispelling the Myths
By: Maj Gen Mrinal Suman | Issue: Vol. 28.3 Jul-Sep 2013 | Date: 08 Jul , 2014
India should adopt a flexible FDI policy to import much needed technologies which cannot be mastered through indigenous efforts in the acceptable time frame. Unfortunately, every time the issue...
Article-370: Why not discuss and not simply debate abrogation?
By: Daya Sagar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Jul , 2014
The subjects and jurisdictions of the Center (Union) and States have been classified under Article 246 of Indian Constitution (1950) as (1) UNION list, (2) State list and (3) Concurrent List...
DRDO Chief Calls for Indigenous Defence Production, Capability Development Plan
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Jul , 2014
Commitment to Indigenous defence production and creation of a Capability Development Plan, are the major prerequisite for creating Indigenous defence manufacturing capability in the country,...
Lenco announces successful Blast Test of BEAR Troop Transport Armored Vehicle
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Jul , 2014
Lenco Industries, Inc., the global leader in the design and manufacture of armored police vehicles, announces successful underbody and side blast testing of the BEAR® 17-man Troop Transport...
Pakistan must not be India’s neighbor
By: Dr Amarjit Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Jul , 2014
Does India want good neighborly relations with its neighbors? Yes, but not with Pakistan. Does India love its neighbors? Yes, but not Pakistan. Should India live on good terms with its...
Siachen Again!
By: Lt Gen Mukesh Sabharwal | Issue: Vol 27.3 Jul-Sep 2012 | Date: 07 Jul , 2014
De-militarisation is a process that consists of several logical steps: ceasefire, authentication, demarcation, withdrawal, re-deployment and verification. It is a concept that formal and informal...
Chinese Air Force way ahead of IAF
By: Air Marshal Narayan Menon | Issue: Vol. 26.4 Oct-Dec 2011 | Date: 05 Jul , 2014
The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 proved to be a boon to China and the PLAAF. Apart from a formidable enemy being neutralised, many displaced scientists, engineers and technicians from the...
Tawang is not part of China!
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Jul , 2014
The Dalai Lama took refuge in India on March 31, 1959. He crossed the Indian border at Khenzimane at the bottom of the famous Thagla ridge in West Kameng Frontier Division of the North-East...