Articles in Issues
The Tejas Fleet for the IAF - to be or not to be?
By: Air Commodore KB Menon | Issue: Vol 27.3 Jul-Sep 2012 | Date: 27 Aug , 2012
An ambitious project like the LCA is fraught with risks, more so when the design and development teams are venturing into uncharted waters driven by an insistence to forego any external help....
The pitfalls in evolution of Indian Army-I
By: Maj Gen Sukhwant Singh | Issue: Book Excerpt: India's War since Independence | Date: 27 Aug , 2012
The foundation of the Indian Army was laid by the British by combining in 1748 the “watch and ward” elements the East India Company employed to protect its trading centres. Initially, these...
India's Maritime Threats
By: Admiral VS Shekhawat | Issue: Vol 22.2 Apr-Jun 2007 | Date: 26 Aug , 2012
History is seldom a true chronicle of past events. Nations generally interpret history to make their own appear nobler, grander, more glorious or altogether different from current...
Is the new Defence Offset Policy bold enough?
By: Prof (Dr) SN Misra | Issue: Vol. 27.2 Apr-Jun 2012 | Date: 25 Aug , 2012
Defence industrialisation strategy must be made a part of the overall national manufacturing capability strategy. The social sector, through their social overheads and infrastructure improvement...
IT superpower India humbled by petty cyber criminals!
By: Col US Rathore | Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 24 Aug , 2012
People of the India’s Northeast, in the eyes of we hinterland Indians, share a common identity. With our limited knowledge about those seven States, we address them as Naga, Mizo or Manipuri....
Indian sailors and FBI bring to justice high ranking Somali pirates
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Aug , 2012
Mohammad Saaili Shibin, the Somali pirate responsible for negotiating the ransom of Indian seafarers and other seafarers and the sea vessels S/V Quest and M/V Marida Marguerite, was sentenced in...
India’s Foreign Policy: Right Choice of Friends
By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Aug , 2012
A new debate has started on the nature of a redefined Indian foreign policy that takes into account the country’s transformed relations with the United States of America. The latter is openly...
The jinx against women secret agents in R&AW
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Aug , 2012
Till 1972, under the long-time Director of the USA’s Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) J. Edgar Hoover, only men could be FBI agents. After his death in May 1972, partly under the pressure...
Dealing with Pakistan
By: Lt Gen HC Dutta | Issue: Vol 24.1 Jan-Mar 2009 | Date: 22 Aug , 2012
The terror attacks of 26/11 on Mumbai have left the nation traumatized. People are angry and confused and are awestruck by the sheer audacity and ferocity of a commando type raid at the very heart...
Next Generation Defence Reforms
By: Lt Gen Kamal Davar (Retd) | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Aug , 2012
The noted American strategic analyst George Tanham succinctly expressed some years back that “Indian elites show little evidence of having thought coherently and systematically about...
Nuclear Powered Submarine for Indian Navy
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Vol 27.3 Jul-Sep 2012 | Date: 21 Aug , 2012
Early April this year, most recent and most potent submarine, the nuclear-powered INS Chakra was formally inducted into the Indian Navy by Defence Minister A K Antony. The Indian Navy acquired the...
Risat-1 'Spy Satellite' Launched
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Vol 27.3 Jul-Sep 2012 | Date: 21 Aug , 2012
In 2009, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) had launched the RISAT-2, a spy satellite acquired from Israel for $110 million. In the last week of April this year, ISRO successfully...
15-Year Defence Purchase Plan Cleared
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Vol 27.3 Jul-Sep 2012 | Date: 21 Aug , 2012
The Ministry of Defence has finally cleared a 15-year Long-Term Integrated Perspective Plan (LTIPP), following the Army Chief, General V K Singh’s sensational leak of the letter to Prime...
Puma UAS Systems in Afghanistan
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Vol 27.3 Jul-Sep 2012 | Date: 21 Aug , 2012
California-based AeroVironment has received from the US Army an order for the immediate delivery of RQ-20A Puma AE small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) for intelligence, surveillance and...
Alenia Aeronautica C27J Spartan military transport aircraft
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Vol 27.3 Jul-Sep 2012 | Date: 21 Aug , 2012
The Alenia Aeronautica C27J Spartan twin-engine military transport aircraft has proved to be an ideal supply delivery platform in the ongoing war in Afghanistan. The C27J can operate in adverse...
Pakistan unleashes Cyber War on India
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Aug , 2012
The next generation of warfare, the cyber war can not only disrupt data-links, electronic devices and networks, but can also create panic by use of the social media as we witnessed in the mass...
The Chinese are coming!
By: Lt Gen JFR Jacob | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Aug , 2012
The Dragon has emerged from its lair with a vengeance. A senior Indian army officer was denied an official Chinese visa on the grounds that he was commanding in Jammu and Kashmir, a disputed...
Air Marshal Dipankar Ganguly takes over as DGMS (AIR)
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Aug , 2012
Air Marshal Dipankar Ganguly VSM & Bar took over as Director General Medical Services (Air) recently. Commissioned on 22 May 1973, Air Marshal Ganguly did his MBBS from Armed Forces Medical...
Psy-jihad against people from the Northeast
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Aug , 2012
What we have been seeing since May, 2012, is a proxy jihad through the Internet and modern means of communications such as the cell phone and I-pad being waged by a new generation of IT savvy...
Bangladesh: Let's think smart
By: Vikram Sood | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Aug , 2012
15 August 1975 was the 37th death anniversary of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Bangladesh’s first president. His assassination by army officers in 1975 was followed by years of dictatorial military rule...