Articles in Issues
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...
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...
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...
Police cannot take on Maoists
By: VK Shashikumar | Issue: Vol 25.4 Oct-Dec 2010 | Date: 25 May , 2013
The latest flash-point between The People’s Liberation Guerrilla Army or naxals in the Lakhisarai forests of Bihar is a tell-tale indicator of the state of preparedness of the Indian police and...
Tackling Maoists : the Andhra paradigm
By: Col JK Achuthan (Retd.) | Issue: Vol 25.2 Apr-Jun 2010 | Date: 25 May , 2013
“The armed Threat from within is more dangerous than any external Threats.” -Leon Trotsky Introduction Today the greatest danger to India’s independence and flourishing democracy is the...
Spreading Naxalism - Napping Government
By: PV Ramana | Issue: Vol 22.1 Jan - Mar 2007 | Date: 24 May , 2013
Naxalites owing allegiance to the Communist Party of India (Maoist) have been waging a bloody insurrection against the Indian state with the ultimate objective of capturing political power...
Cassidian launches Claricor 3: A new secure communications solution
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 May , 2013
Cassidian has introduced a new version of its professional radio system solution for small to medium-sized networks, called Claricor. Made for up to 5,000 users, it offers a cost-effective set-up...
Honeywell’s new HTF7350 engine to power Bombardier Challenger 350
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 May , 2013
Honeywell has announced that its HTF7350, the latest engine to join its successful HTF7000 series, will power Bombardier’s new Challenger 350* supermidsize business jet. In addition to the...
Looking beyond the DBO face off
By: Maj Gen Dhruv C Katoch | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 21 May , 2013
With the Chinese removing the four tents pitched in Indian Territory at an altitude of 17,500 feet, a few kilometers South of Daulat Beg Oldi(DBO) in the Depsang Plains in Eastern Ladakh a...
Solution to J & K problem lies in New Delhi...
By: Lt Gen NS Malik | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 May , 2013
J&K is an integral part of India. The only problem that can be called J&K Problem is the non- comprehension by India, its people and the government to this ultimate truth of its being the...
China’s Foreign Policy: Biang Biang Noodles!
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 May , 2013
Tavleen Singh narrates in her book ‘Durbar’ that having personally witnessed grisly scenes of children dying of starvation in presence of their hapless parents themselves surviving on grass...
India-China: Border Defence Cooperation Agreement
By: Brig Pillalmarri Subramanyam | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 May , 2013
The events of the past week and half are gradually clearing the fog over why China did what she did at DBO on 15th April 2013. Though a surfeit of motives were assigned, a careful review of the...
Aggressive Chinese designs and India's utter timidity...
By: Maj Gen Mrinal Suman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 May , 2013
External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid, after holding talks with his counterpart Wang Yi in Beijing on 09 May 2013, told reporters that there was still no clarity on the reasons behind the...
Bowing down to the dragon
By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Courtesy: Mail Today | Date: 14 May , 2013
Our statements on the recent India-China face-off in Ladakh continue to confound. One would have thought that we would have analysed the incident in depth, tried to figure out China’s...
Inter-Services Synergy: need of the hour
By: Cmde Ranjit B Rai | Issue: Vol. 28.1 Jan-Mar 2013 | Date: 11 May , 2013
The Indian Armed Forces have 13 geographically separated commands, five each for the Army and Air Force and three for the Navy and one joint command for the Andaman Nicobar Islands. The A&N, the...
New Jihadi Magazine in English focuses on South Asia, Including Afghanistan...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 May , 2013
SITE, an Internet monitoring group, has drawn attention to a new web-based jihadi magazine in English called “Azan”. According to SITE, the magazine is believed to have been started by...
Gilgit Baltistan National Congress held event in Baltimore, Maryland
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 May , 2013
Gilgit Baltistan National Congress held an event in Baltimore, Maryland. Senge Sering, Director of Gilgit Baltistan National Congress, moderated the event. Abdul Hamid Khan, Chairperson of...
DBO: India’s Response and Defence Preparedness
By: Brig Pillalmarri Subramanyam | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 May , 2013
The Chinese intrusion into the area of Daulat Beg Oldi (DBO) on 15th April 2013, reportedly about 15 to 18 KMs South of the Line of Actual Control (LAC), once again brought into public debate the...
More intrusions in Indian Territory by China to follow...
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 03 May , 2013
The Defence Secretary has reportedly informed the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Defence that the Chinese intrusion at Daulat Beg Oldi (DBO) in Ladakh region is actually 19 kilometers deep...
Illiteracy of War Drums
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 May , 2013
In a recent TV debate on the Chinese intrusion in Ladakh, to a suggestion by a veteran Army General that India should be resolute in response, a Member Parliament from the ruling party said,...