Articles in Issues
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...
Predator Demonstrates Electronic Attack Capabilities
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 May , 2014
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI) and Northrop Grumman demonstrated the Predator B/MQ-9 Reaper Unmanned Aircraft System’s (UAS) electronic attack capability during a US Marine Corps...
Demilitarizing Siachen: Trading Strategic Advantage for Brownie Points
By: Maj Gen S G Vombatkere | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 May , 2014
The troubled India-Pakistan relationship has been punctuated by four military conflicts and decades-long military face-off across the IB and LOC, the most recent starting in 1984 on Siachen...
The Saga of Subedar Major (Honorary Captain) Bidhi Chand, Sardar Bahadur, ADC
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Book Excerpt: The Gallant Dogras | Date: 22 May , 2014
The first Subedar Major of 38 Dogras retired on 1 April 1909 after 33½ years service. He had held the post of SM from 2 February 1891. He belonged to the Katoch clan and claimed aristocratic...
Pratt & Whitney Ships Initial PurePower Engines To Airbus
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 May , 2014
Pratt & Whitney has delivered its first ship set of PurePower® PW1100G-JM engines on schedule to Airbus for its A320neo aircraft family. The PurePower engines were assembled and tested at the...
Nexter purchases lightweight composite armour from TenCate Advanced Armour
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 May , 2014
Yesterday the French Ambassador in Denmark, François Zimeray, has visited TenCate Advanced Armour’s facilities in Vissenbjerg, following a significant order from Nexter Systems. TenCate, a...
Cooperation between Air Forces of Japan and India
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 May , 2014
During Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s recent visit to India, both countries agreed to boost security ties in the face of China’s growing assertiveness. This move is significant...
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for India
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 May , 2014
With the Indian Cabinet Committee on Security clearing a deal for 15 additional IAI-Malat Heron-I Medium-Altitude Long-Endurance Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), the MoD is likely to sign a contract...
Air Defence Missiles from MBDA for the IAF
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 May , 2014
The IAF is close to inking a deal with European missile company MBDA for 384 ASRAAM imaging infrared homing Air-to-Air Missile as the new close combat missile for the Jaguar replacing the now...
Foreign ties will blossom under the new Modi government
By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Courtesy: Mail Today | Date: 20 May , 2014
The BJP’s massive electoral victory brings us foreign policy gains. The prospect of a strong and stable government in India makes our external image more positive. Modi’s personality gives us...
Rebalancing the Strategic Affairs Post 16 May 2014
By: Danvir Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 May , 2014
Narendra Modi has won a landslide victory in the general elections of 2014. The political pundits call it a titanic shift in Indian politics. The verdict of May 16, 2014 is overwhelmingly in...
Demographic Fault Lines in Assam
By: Ashwani Gupta | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 19 May , 2014
The ethnic killings in the first week of May 2014 once again exposed the demographic fault lines in Assam. 45 persons lost their lives in violence perpetrated by suspected insurgents of National...
Why China and Pakistan want demilitarization of Siachen
By: Karan Kharb | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 May , 2014
Siachen and Sir Creek are back on the menu again. The Track II diplomacy to bring about a rapprochement between India and Pakistan is interesting in many ways. Official bilateral conclaves having...
Chief of Defence Staff: A Debilitating Dilemma
By: Lt Gen Gautam Banerjee | Issue: Vol. 29.1 Jan-Mar 2014 | Date: 18 May , 2014
It will take years to streamline the archaic system of higher defence management in India. Meanwhile, trapped in the complexities of the geo-political adversities, India’s compulsion of...
Leveraging India-China Strategic Partnership
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 May , 2014
Scientists have predicted that global weather would undergo 80 percent change due to El Nino. The effect is already visible through not only changed patterns of rain, heat and cold but the ice...
Indian Armed Forces: Challenges for Modi
By: Danvir Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 May , 2014
MODI, MOODI, MOOODI, is not one of the chants by the crowd which we all have heard in India during past six to eight months during the course of political campaign of 2014. This euphoria was not...