Articles in Issues
Selection of the Army Chief
By: Maj Gen Mrinal Suman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Feb , 2012
The recent debate about the date of birth of the Army Chief has been highly skewed, ill-informed and subjective in nature. It is being said that the order of ‘succession’ would get changed in...
Washington's Views of Sino-Pakistan Relations - I
By: Ramtanu Maitra | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 10 Feb , 2012
In the recent period, relations between Washington and Islamabad have developed into a full-blown crisis. According to some analysts, the trust gap between these erstwhile allies has put a damper...
India's Offset Policy in the Shipbuilding Sector
By: Prof (Dr) SN Misra | Issue: Vol. 26.4 Oct-Dec 2011 | Date: 10 Feb , 2012
India is the third largest arms importer and 10th in terms of global military expenditure.1 Capital acquisition of naval ship and platforms account for 25 percent of India’s capital acquisition...
China preaches non-violence ...to others
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Feb , 2012
The Chinese are apparently unhappy with the selection of the multipurpose combat plane Rafalefor the Indian Air Force. It is what appears from an article in the People’s Daily (French...
Mutiny in Maldives Leads to Replacement of President Nasheed by his...
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Feb , 2012
The Maldives saw dramatic developments on February 7,2012, when President Mohammed Nasheed was forced to step down from office following a mutiny by about 100 officers of the Police and the...
Opening-Up of Myanmar
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Feb , 2012
The three-day (Nov.30—Dec 2, 2011) visit of Hillary Clinton, US Secretary of State, to Myanmar— the first by a US Secretary of State since the visit of Johan Foster Dulles in 1955—...
It is time to wake up to Chinese incursions
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Book Excerpt: Tibet - The Lost Frontier | Date: 07 Feb , 2012
Kiren Rijiju, the 36-year-old firebrand Member of Parliament representing Arunachal Pradesh (West), does not share the government’s and Indian Army’s perceptions about Chinese incursions in...
Indian Navy: challenges beyond the horizon
By: Vice Adm RN Ganesh | Issue: Vol 23.1 Jan-Mar 2008 | Date: 06 Feb , 2012
The Currency of Power: In the mid-1980s many commentators predicted the end of the role of military force as the “currency of power”. Subsequent decades were however marked by global changes...
Howe and Howe Technologies: Pushing the limits of extreme vehicle design...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Feb , 2012
Twin brothers Geoff and Mike Howe were already working as engineers before they knew what engineering was. At age six, they took a toaster apart to figure out how it worked. At eight, they built...
Civil Aviation: Component of Aerospace Power
By: Gp Capt AK Sachdev | Issue: Vol 26.2 Apr-Jun 2011 | Date: 06 Feb , 2012
“Air power is indivisible. If you split it up into compartments, you merely pull it to pieces and destroy its greatest asset – its flexibility” – Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery. Since...
Russian-Chinese nervousness influences their vote on Syria
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Feb , 2012
The veto by Russia and China on February 4,2012, of a resolution in the UN Security Council that called upon Syrian President Bashar Assad to step down in the face of the persisting movement...
India: Back to France
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 Feb , 2012
< !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> The Government of India must press ahead with its last-lap negotiations with Dassault Aviation of France for the finalisation of the definitive contract for the acquisition of 126 Rafale...
Indian shipbuilding: key to maritime and economic security
By: Vice Adm BS Randhawa | Issue: Vol 25.1 Jan-Mar 2010 | Date: 03 Feb , 2012
The first anniversary of 26/11 brings to mind the profound statement of Jawaharlal Nehru ‘To be secure on land we must be supreme at sea’. While Pandit Nehru’s views would have been formed...
Japan Maritime Self-Defence Force Orders Northrop Grumman's ALMDS
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Feb , 2012
The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force has purchased four helicopter-mountable, laser mine detection systems to help protect its coastline and the daily maritime traffic coming in and out of the...
Pakistan at War with Itself
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Vol. 27.1 -Mar 2012 | Date: 02 Feb , 2012
In the coming years, Islamabad will remain pre-occupied with internal strife without respite due to multiple contradictions arising out of the use of terrorism primarily against New Delhi as a...
Indian Air Force - Quo Vadis?
By: Air Marshal BK Pandey | Issue: Vol 26.2 Apr-Jun 2011 | Date: 01 Feb , 2012
Even as the IAF prepares for the great leap into the next generation it must be realised that to erect an edifice there is the imperative of foundation. Visions of a powerful modern Air Force are...
India's space endeavour
By: Gp Capt Joseph Noronha | Issue: Vol. 26.3 July - Sept 2011 | Date: 01 Feb , 2012
Space exploration has its moments of sheer ecstasy but it can be terribly unforgiving as well. Just 63 seconds into the launch of India’s most advanced rocket, the Geosynchronous Satellite...
Indo-French Friendship to Partnership-I
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Vol 23.1 Jan-Mar 2008 | Date: 31 Jan , 2012
Historical Background: To grasp the intricacies of Indo-French relations in the field of defence and security, it is necessary to first have a look at some issues which may seem unrelated, but...
Design Considerations for Indigenous Aircraft Carrier-2
By: Vice Adm BS Randhawa | Issue: Vol 25.4 Oct-Dec 2010 | Date: 30 Jan , 2012
The keel of India’s first Indigenous Aircraft Carrier (IAC) was laid by the Raksha Mantri at Cochin Shipyard on the 28th of February 2009. This major milestone of the IAC project underlined the...
Indian Air Force: Looking into the future
By: Gp Capt Joseph Noronha | Issue: Vol. 26.4 Oct-Dec 2011 | Date: 30 Jan , 2012
When everything arrives together it may easily result in wastage of time and money. There may be sophisticated equipment lying unpacked in a corner because no one knows how to use it. There could...