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European Defence Agency launches e-Quip, the on-line defence market

European Defence Agency launches e-Quip, the on-line defence market

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 Jun , 2013

The European Defence Agency (EDA) today officially launched e-Quip, its government to government electronic market place for surplus defence equipment. Through e-Quip national governments can...

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Why Maoist Insurgency Will Flourish in India

Why Maoist Insurgency Will Flourish in India

By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Jun , 2013

It was amusing to view the Singh Duo RPN Singh, Minister of State for Home Affairs and RK Singh,  Home Secretary describing the Maoist attack on a train in Bihar as “Frustration” on the part...

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The way to Regional Power status

The way to Regional Power status

By: Gp Capt AG Bewoor | Issue: Vol 25.1 Jan-Mar 2010 | Date: 13 Jun , 2013

The Sin that is Committed by Killing One, Who Does Not Deserve to Be Killed, Is As Great as the Sin, of Not Killing One Who Deserves to Be Killed. Mahabharat Udyoga Parva. Chapter 72, Verse...

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Boeing Transfers 1st C-17 to Indian Air Force

Boeing Transfers 1st C-17 to Indian Air Force

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Jun , 2013

The Indian Air Force (IAF) flew its first Boeing C-17 Globemaster III to India today, becoming the newest operator of the leading airlifter. “The C-17 will equip the Indian Air Force with amongst...

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Make most of Japan’s overtures

Make most of Japan’s overtures

By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Courtesy: Mail Today | Date: 12 Jun , 2013

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s visit to Japan from May 27 to 30 was opportune as the circumstances today are more propitious than ever for India and Japan to forge a solid strategic...

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Time To Walk A Thin Line

Time To Walk A Thin Line

By: Air Marshal B D Jayal | Issue: Courtesy: The Telegraph | Date: 12 Jun , 2013

In a season where scams are tumbling out of Lutyens’ Bhavans with an embarrassing regularity, it may appear that the AgustaWestland helicopter graft case has receded from public memory. Rather...

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Surreal China - Lessons from Myanmar

Surreal China - Lessons from Myanmar

By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 09 Jun , 2013

Myanmar helped China seize the opportunity to integrate more with Myanmar militarily, politically and economically, Chinese strategists having visualised the long-term need for reaching out to...

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Peace with Pakistan: an idea whose time has passed

Peace with Pakistan: an idea whose time has passed

By: Dr Prem Mahadevan | Issue: Vol 25.1 Jan-Mar 2010 | Date: 09 Jun , 2013

A leading Indian english language newspaper has chosen to begin 2010 by stirring up controversy. It has run a series of editorials advocating peace initiatives with Pakistan, despite the manifest...

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Defence production- a battle between free market and state control

Defence production- a battle between free market and state control

By: Air Marshal B D Jayal | Issue: Courtesy: The Telegraph | Date: 08 Jun , 2013

In a season where scams are tumbling out of Lutyens’ Bhavans with an embarrassing regularity, it may appear that the AgustaWestland helicopter graft case has receded from public memory. Rather...

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Terrorism as an Instrument of Power Projection

Terrorism as an Instrument of Power Projection

By: Maj Gen Afsir Karim | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 08 Jun , 2013

It seems there is no change in the policy of the Pakistan army in matters related to Kashmir. The top brass, along with a crop of retired generals, still believes that India should not be allowed...

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Chinese Longue Duree: PLA Modernisation

Chinese Longue Duree: PLA Modernisation

By: Pinaki Bhattacharya | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 05 Jun , 2013

An impressionable Henry Kissinger, the then U.S. national security adviser, was clearly awed by the presence of his Chinese interlocutor, Zhou Enlai, steeped in revolutionary history and the...

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First Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner Begins Final Assembly

First Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner Begins Final Assembly

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Jun , 2013

Newest 787 complements, extends the super-efficient family Boeing has begun final assembly of the first 787-9 Dreamliner. The newest member of the 787 family began taking shape on schedule May 30...

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Fight Maoist strategy and not the forces...

Fight Maoist strategy and not the forces...

By: Danvir Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 Jun , 2013

The ‘Gandhians with Guns’  as they may be referred by the people like Arundhiti Roy, however the fact is that they are armed rebels working against the interestsof the union of India and its...

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A Turning Point in History

A Turning Point in History

By: Air Marshal B D Jayal | Issue: Courtesy: The Telegraph | Date: 01 Jun , 2013

Even as the full scale of the tragedy that struck the United States on September 11 is unfolding, it is worth pondering its strategic implications. A leading American daily has termed it as war...

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Route-Out aur Route-In Alag Hoga

Route-Out aur Route-In Alag Hoga

By: Rahul Chutani | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 01 Jun , 2013

“Route-Out aur Route-In Alag Hoga” said the Ustad at the Indian Military Academy.  This phrase sounded too basic and too simplistic at that time to the young boys sitting there, imbibing...

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Combating Left-Wing Extremism

Combating Left-Wing Extremism

By: Lt Gen Kamal Davar (Retd) | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 01 Jun , 2013

Among the security perils that afflict India internally, the gravest and most alarmingly burgeoning is left-wing extremism (LWE), commonly dubbed as the Naxal-Maoist threat. Alluded to as being...

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Mr. Li and the Three Idiots

Mr. Li and the Three Idiots

By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 May , 2013

Li came, Li saw (the Indian confusion) and Li won. It was not difficult. He spoke of the Three Idiots, a film that his daughter ‘forced’ him to see, and the Indian establishment (and media)...

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India’s China Syndrome

India’s China Syndrome

By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Courtesy: Mail Today | Date: 29 May , 2013

India-China relations are complex enough not to be seen in black and white terms. Amidst all the good reasons for India to mistrust China and deal with it as an adversary, it makes sense to work...

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Senior leadership and ‘any peg in any hole’ syndrome

Senior leadership and ‘any peg in any hole’ syndrome

By: Maj Gen Mrinal Suman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 May , 2013

The news of the posting of General David Petraeus as Commander of the US and NATO forces in Afghanistan must have been received with a certain degree of disbelief by the status-conscious Indian...

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Maoists ambush Congress Leaders Convoy

Maoists ambush Congress Leaders Convoy

By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 May , 2013

The last Saturday (25th May) Maoist ambush of the convoy of Congressmen in Chhattisgarh is being described as a wakeup call in view of forthcoming elections, the term of the present State...

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