Articles in Issues
Jihadis Refocusing on Kashmir
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Mar , 2013
Defence expert Bharat Verma says 12th March attack on the Srinagar CRPF camp is a sign that jihadi forces are now again focusing on Kashmir as they are freed from the Afghan conflict, thanks to...
Need a Muscular Indian Strategy in Afghanistan
By: Pinaki Bhattacharya | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 19 Mar , 2013
Even at the cost of sounding bellicose with that expressed need in the title of this paper, this writer will argue that Afghanistan stands as a shining example of the success of the country’s...
India's Network Centric Warfare Programme
By: Raveen Janu | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 19 Mar , 2013
If a perusal is done of the military doctrines of the major advanced powers, one aspect that has a common theme across the board is information dominance. Network centricity is the backbone...
RFID in Netcentric Warfare Logistics
By: Manoj Shergill | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 19 Mar , 2013
The emergence of Net Centric Warfare (NCW) in the modern day conflicts has impacted the way the combat forces are logistically supported with increasing dependence on Geographical Information...
Defence Budget far from Threat Perception
By: Col (Dr) PK Vasudeva | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Mar , 2013
There is an overall decrease in the defence outlay of almost all countries in the world including India except China and Pakistan. According to the Stockholm International Peace Research...
Why New Delhi wants to forget 1962?
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Mar , 2013
While the Indian National Congress is still able to remember the role of former prime ministers Lal Bahadur Shastri and Indira Gandhi in the India-Pakistan conflicts of 1965 and 1971, it has...
Could Iran be Obama's legacy?
By: Vikram Sood | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Mar , 2013
Various battles rage in the region from Pakistan to the Maghreb and where once civilisations flourished in the Indus Valley, in Persia, Mesopotamia and Egypt we today see intolerance and violence...
HAL- Rolls-Royce Production Facility Inaugurated
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Mar , 2013
International Aerospace Manufacturing Limited’s (IAMPL) production facility was formally inaugurated in Bangalore today by Mr. K. Naresh Babu, Managing Director, HAL (Bangalore Complex)....
A single person cannot subvert the defence procurement system
By: Air Marshal B D Jayal | Issue: Courtesy: The Telegraph | Date: 15 Mar , 2013
A report by prosecutors filed in Italy in connection with the arrest of the chief executive officer of Finmeccanica, Giuseppe Orsi, has alleged that the then Indian air force chief was...
Uncomfortable questions on land-swapping with Bangladesh
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 Mar , 2013
Pakistan has done it again. In its continuing hybrid war against India(about which I have already written in this column), two terrorists belonging to Hizbul Mujahedeen, which is based in...
Boeing Ships 5th WGS Satellite to Cape Canaveral for 2013 Launch
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Mar , 2013
Block II series transmits airborne ISR imagery 3 times faster Boeing recently shipped its fifth Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) satellite, which will provide the U.S. Air Force with faster...
Countering IEDs: Training remains the Key
By: Maj Gen Dhruv C Katoch | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 13 Mar , 2013
On 22 February, eight persons, including six policemen, were killed in a landmine blast triggered by Maoists at Majhauliya village in Bihar’s Gaya district. This marked the first major land mine...
Impact of Information Warfare on Aerospace Operations
By: Air Marshal Raghu Rajan | Issue: Vol 26.2 Apr-Jun 2011 | Date: 13 Mar , 2013
What is Information Warfare? : Information Warfare (IW) in its most fundamental sense is the emerging “theater” in which future nation-against-nation conflict at the strategic level is most...
Marines: An Over-anxiety to oblige the Italian Government
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Mar , 2013
An over-anxiety on the part of the Government of India to oblige the Italian Government on the issue of the two Italian Marines, who have been charged with killing two Kerala fishermen wrongly...
The killers' mace of the dark visitors
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Vol 24.1 Jan-Mar 2009 | Date: 12 Mar , 2013
In February 1999, the PLA Literature and Arts Publishing House in Beijing released a fascinating book written by Qiao Liang and Wang Xiangsui, two Senior Colonels of the People’s Liberation...
First F-35 with Marietta-Built Center Wing Flown
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Mar , 2013
The first Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II with a Center Wing Assembly (CWA) built at the Lockheed Martin facility in Marietta, Ga., was flown for the first time this week. The aircraft, known as...
Rheinmetall: Future Soldier on the march
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Mar , 2013
Rheinmetall formally transferred its new IdZ-ES future soldier system to the German Bundeswehr on 7 March 2013. Short for “Infanterist der Zukunft – Erweitertes System” or “Future Soldier...
Adrift Without A Strategic Culture
By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Courtesy: Mail Today | Date: 12 Mar , 2013
Does India have a strategic culture? If strategic culture is defined narrowly in the context of the nuclear age alone, then India, as a recent entrant to the nuclear club and still in the process...
AFSPA: Misconceptions and Ground Realities
By: Maj Gen S G Vombatkere | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Mar , 2013
Sanjoy Hazarika1 and Walter Fernandes2 bring out the justifiable opposition to AFSPA felt by people from our northeastern states where it was first imposed in 1958. The provocation for both...
India’s Defence Budget: Inadequate Outlay
By: Brig. Gurmeet Kanwal | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Mar , 2013
The funds allotted for defence expenditure by Finance Minister P. Chidambaram for the Financial Year (FY) 2013-14 are inadequate to meet the growing threats and challenges facing the country,...