Articles in Issues
M-346 Trainer Aircraft from Alenia Aermacchi
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Jun , 2014
In March this year, at its plant in Venegono Superiore in Italy, Alenia Aermacchi rolled out the first M-346 advanced trainer aircraft out for the Israeli Air and Space Force. The M-346 is...
Marketing of Combat Jets
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Jun , 2014
Emerging countries in need of modernising their weaponry are rushing to buy state-of-the-art fighter jets, sparking a fierce marketing battle among the global aerospace majors. French Defense...
SAR Helicopters from AgustaWestland
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Jun , 2014
AgustaWestland, a Finmeccanica company, has been awarded a contract for 16 AW101 helicopters as also support and training, valued at approximately €1.15 billion, to meet the Norwegian All...
USAF B-1 Bomber Contract for Boeing
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Jun , 2014
As per an announcement by the Pentagon, Boeing has been selected for the award of the $750 million five-year contract for work on the US Air Force fleet of B-1 bombers. The contract includes...
Indo-French bilateral exercise Ex Garuda V commences at Jodhpur
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 Jun , 2014
With the aim of enhancing Operational Co-operation and to validate capabilities, the Indian Air Force & French Air Force commenced the bilateral exercise “Ex Garuda V” at Jodhpur Air...
हमारा नहीं पाकिस्तान का हित...
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Courtesy: www.jagran.com | Date: 02 Jun , 2014
प्रधानमंत्री नरेंद्र मोदी ने दक्षेस सदस्य देशों को अपने शपथ ग्रहण समारोह...
Ajit Doval – the Chanakya in the Team
By: Karan Kharb | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 Jun , 2014
Just as Prime Minister Narendra Modi assumes office after a blitzkrieg electoral offensive that saw Congress and its allies vanquished as never before, the dishonest and inefficient bureaucrats in...
Article 370 and Nation-Building: A Reality Check
By: Brig Amar Cheema | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 31 May , 2014
“Nothing is as admirable in politics as a short memory’’ –John Galbraith Nation building is an ‘ongoing’ phenomenon and in the case of India’s quest for nationhood, it is definitely...
J&K: Theatre of the Next War
By: Maj Gen GD Bakshi, (Retd) | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 30 May , 2014
Significance of the Gilgit–Gwadar Corridor The ominously rising strategic salience of the Gilgit–Baltistan region was made sharply apparent by Selig Harrison’s startling disclosure in 2010...
Pakistan Occupied Kashmir and Northern Areas
By: Bhashyam Kasturi | Issue: Vol 14.3 Jul-Sep 1999 | Date: 30 May , 2014
The Northern Areas form a large chunk of territory annexed by Pakistan in 1947. It provided the bulk of the manpower for the intrusions in Kargil, consisting of the Northern Light Infantry of the...
Diplomatic engagement in a post nuclear use environment
By: Ali Ahmed | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 May , 2014
Strike corps exercises are usually well covered by the media. Inevitably mentioned in write ups from reporters over the past decade since Exercise Poorna Vijay has been the nuclear backdrop. The...
Will the wind blow from the East?
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 May , 2014
The tides are changing. As Narendra Modi takes oath as the new Prime Minister of India, Asia is fast becoming the center of the world. Agence France-Presse reported that China and Russia signed...
Exercise Sagar Kavach conducted successfully
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 May , 2014
The bi-annual maritime coastal security exercise introduced post 26/11 was conducted on 21-22 May 2014 across the State of Gujarat and Union Territory of Daman & Diu coastline. The maritime...
Boeing Delivers 4th P-8I Maritime Patrol Aircraft to India
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 May , 2014
Boeing has delivered the fourth P-8I maritime patrol aircraft to India on schedule, fulfilling the first half of a contract for eight aircraft. The aircraft departed from Boeing Field in Seattle...
The Insoluble Equation: Indo-Pak Relations
By: Anand K Verma | Issue: Book Excerpt: Reassessing Pakistan | Date: 25 May , 2014
The two-nation theory has mired Indo-Pak relationship into an intractable problem in Kashmir. More than a half-century has gone by after independence and four wars fought during this period but...
Misreading India's Strategic Culture
By: Brig K Kuldip Singh | Issue: Book Excerpts: Kurukshetra to Kargil | Date: 24 May , 2014
Use of military terms in non-military fields, particularly after the Second World War, has been quite in vogue. The usage of military expressions like art of war, strategy, leadership, battlefield...
Government should give due consideration to selection of defence minister
By: Lt Gen Harwant Singh | Issue: Courtesy: HT (Chd edition) | Date: 23 May , 2014
There are many contenders for ministerial berths in the new government at the centre. Prime minister has the onerous task of putting the right man in the right job. There will be pressure on him...
Military Diplomacy – time to bridge the void
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 May , 2014
Questioned ‘why do we need military officers to engage in diplomacy, Nitin Pai, founder and fellow for geopolitics at the Takshila Institute, had replied, “Not only does the nature of...
Foreign Policy and Power Projection under Modi
By: Col R Hariharan | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 May , 2014
Narendra Modi, the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate, has been given massive mandate by the people in the just concluded general elections to the parliament. The BJP is poised to get a...
Boeing KC-46A Readies for Testing
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 May , 2014
Boeing has begun assembling the fourth and final KC-46A flight-testing aircraft, the manufacturer’s next-generation aerial refuelling tanker replacement for the current fleet of KC-135 with the...