Articles in Issues
Rajya Sabha recommends one rank one pension
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Dec , 2011
The Rajya Sabha Committee on Petition in its report tabled on 19 Dec 2011 strongly recommended the grant of One Rank One Pension (OROP) to the Defence Personnel. It found the Govt contention for...
Intelligence Reform
By: Vikram Sood | Issue: Vol 24.1 Jan-Mar 2009 | Date: 17 Dec , 2011
‘Nothing should be as favourably regarded as intelligence; nothing should be as generously rewarded as intelligence; nothing should be as confidential as the work of intelligence.’ Sun Tzu, The...
WARSHIPS: Cost Reductions and Longevity
By: Cdr Douglas C Deans | Issue: Vol 26.2 Apr-Jun 2011 | Date: 17 Dec , 2011
Rising costs of Hydro-carbons, technology innovations and general inflation are an intrinsic and unavoidable part of the life cycle costs of a warship. It is evident that maritime nations will...
India-US Relations: Future Trajectory
By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Vol 24.4 Oct-Dec 2009 | Date: 16 Dec , 2011
The confidence of the Indian establishment that India–US relations were set on a steep upward trajectory has eroded noticeably with President Obama replacing President Bush. Even though...
Asian Security Environment: India's options
By: Anand K Verma | Issue: Vol 25.1 Jan-Mar 2010 | Date: 16 Dec , 2011
Asian security environment is in a state of deep turmoil. The single event which has occasioned it, is the giant rise of China during the past couple of decades, reaching higher and higher levels...
Liberation of Bangladesh: War in Northern Sector - I
By: Maj Gen Sukhwant Singh | Issue: Book Excerpt: India's War since Independence | Date: 15 Dec , 2011
The northern sector comprised the U-shaped territory between the mighty Jamuna in the west and Meghna in the east, with the Ganga forming the base. The Brahmaputra ran diagonally from northwest...
MBDA Incorporated Purchases Northrop Grumman's Viper Strike Munitions Business
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Dec , 2011
International guided weapons leader MBDA expands its footprint in the United States MBDA Inc., the wholly owned U.S. subsidiary of missile manufacturer MBDA, has purchased Northrop Grumman...
Mexican Air Force takes delivery of Airbus Military C295
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Dec , 2011
The Mexican Air Force has taken delivery of a new C295 aircraft that it ordered from Airbus Military. This order is in addition to the five C295s delivered last year and that the Mexican...
EADS & DolphiTech are cooperating in the development of non-destructive...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Dec , 2011
EADS Innovation Works, the corporate Research and Technology network of EADS, and the Norwegian SME DolphiTech AS have signed a cooperation agreement for the development of a new non-destructive...
Lost opportunities in Operation Parakram
By: Brig. Gurmeet Kanwal | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Dec , 2011
Today marks the tenth anniversary of the horrific attack on Parliament which sparked off India’s attempt at military coercion vis-a-vis Pakistan. But the lessons learnt seem to have been...
Liberation of Bangladesh: War in Northern Sector - II
By: Maj Gen Sukhwant Singh | Issue: Book Excerpt: India's War since Independence | Date: 12 Dec , 2011
Lt Col Sultan Mahmood, Commanding Officer 31 Baluch Battalion, who was responsible for the area, explained when questioned after surrender that he withdrew his troops from Bakhshiganj to build up...
China's state sponsored tweeters and their paid tweets
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Dec , 2011
On December 9,2011, Radio Free Asia, funded by the US State Department, disseminated a report attributed to the Agence France Presse (AFP) regarding how China has been trying to counter...
SHIVALIK: India's New Generation Warship
By: Vice Adm Rajeshwer Nath | Issue: Vol 25.2 Apr-Jun 2010 | Date: 09 Dec , 2011
Shivalik is the first ship of the Project 17 Frigates designed by the Indian Navy and built by Mazagon Docks Limited Mumbai. This project was conceived to incorporate stealth features and in the...
Boeing Receives US Air Force Reusable Booster System Contract
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Dec , 2011
The Boeing Company has received a $2 million contract from the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to define requirements and design concepts for the Reusable Booster System (RBS) Flight...
DCNS launches programme to build two BPCs for Russia
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Dec , 2011
The design for the BPC-type force projection and command vessels ordered by the Russian Federation is now underway. DCNS, prime contractor for the programme, has begun studies to tailor the...
Speculation Regarding Zardari
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Dec , 2011
The “Dawn News” of Karachi has reported as follows: “President Asif Ali Zardari on Tuesday (December 6,2011) arrived in Dubai for a medical check-up. According to presidential spokesperson...
The Revolt in East Pakistan
By: Maj Gen Sukhwant Singh | Issue: Book Excerpt: India's War since Independence | Date: 07 Dec , 2011
When I reported on posting to Major General (later Lieutenant General) K.K. Singh, then Director of Military operations, on 12 March 1971, as his deputy, he said in his characteristic...
Parliament Delegation Witnesses the Might of Indian Army at Exercise...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Dec , 2011
A delegation of Parliamentarians of India, visited Rajasthan and witnessed the Southern Army along with South western air command(SWAC) in action as part of one of the largest exercise of Indian...
Possible Misuse of New TECHINT Capabilities
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Dec , 2011
Since the Indo-Pakistan conflict in the Kargil heights in 1999, there has been a major increase in the Technical Intelligence (TECHINT) capabilities of the Indian security community, which...
The Military Must Find Its Voice
By: Col Harjeet Singh | Issue: Vol. 26.4 Oct-Dec 2011 | Date: 05 Dec , 2011
…military professionals must speak out; they must counsel political leaders and alert the public that there is no such thing as a war fought on the cheap. The Army must make the price of...