Articles in Issues
Golden Jubilee Celebration of INS Hansa
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Sep , 2011
INS Hansa, Indian Navy’s premier Air station and fighter training squadron INAS 551 celebrate their Golden Jubilee on 05 Sep 11 on completion of 50 years of distinguished service to the...
INS Airavat Incident: What Does It Portend?
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 Sep , 2011
The “Financial Times” of London reported on September 1, 2011, that an unidentified Chinese warship had demanded that an Indian naval vessel identify itself and explain its presence in the...
Osama's Death: Affect on US Policy towards Pak & Afghan - III
By: Ramtanu Maitra | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 02 Sep , 2011
U.S.-Pakistan Relations: What to Expect It is likely that the killing of Osama bin Laden, which may trigger other developments within Pakistan and beyond, will allow Washington to set in place an...
Display of latest Defence Technologies at the Paris Air Show
By: Antonis Bosnakoudis | Issue: Vol. 26.3 July - Sept 2011 | Date: 02 Sep , 2011
The 49th International Paris Air Show between 20 and 26 June 2011 in the Le Bourget area of Paris completed one century of service and in two years it will enter its second century. In the...
Focus on Chinese role in Gilgit- Baltistan and Sino-Pak Maritime Cooperation
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Sep , 2011
Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari has been in Urumqi, the capital of the Chinese-controlled Xinjiang province, with a high-power ministerial and official delegation since August 30,2011. He...
French Aerospace Companies to attend Indo-French Technology Meet
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Sep , 2011
On the Occasion of the Indo-French Technology Meet 2011 organized by Ubifrance and the French Trade Commission in India, the ICT-Services and Aerospace Department of Ubifrance in collaboration...
Air Marshal Jagdish Chandra takes over as AOC-in-C, Maintenance Command, IAF
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Sep , 2011
Air Marshal Jagdish Chandra has taken over as Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief (AOC-in-C) of Maintenance Command at its Nagpur Headquarters today, i.e., on 01 Sep 11. Air Mshl J...
Osama's Death: Affect on US Policy towards Pak and Afghan - II
By: Ramtanu Maitra | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 01 Sep , 2011
Pakistan’s Response The U.S. lawmakers’ and population’s response to the Osama killing put both Islamabad and Rawalpindi—at least those who tacitly approved the operation, prior to it or...
Osama's Death: Affect on US Policy towards Pak & Afghan - I
By: Ramtanu Maitra | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 31 Aug , 2011
The 2 May killing by U.S. Navy Seals of the notorious al-Qaeda leader, Osama bin Laden, at his residence next door to Pakistan’s principal military academy, Pakistan Military Academy (PMA), in...
New French Base in the Gulf
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Vol 24.2 Apr-Jun 2009 | Date: 29 Aug , 2011
A small revolution is happening in the French defense establishment: Paris will soon open an inter-service base outside France, in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Though it is not...
The Price of Security
By: Lt Gen Vinay Shankar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Aug , 2011
The political and administrative elite of India has yet to assimilate a fundamental lesson in the management of the Country’s defense policy. Like in almost every other sphere the quality of...
US and Indian scientists share cutting-edge forensic expertise
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Aug , 2011
The United States’ Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Indian Ministry of Home Affairs on Friday, August 26, concluded a two-week seminar with 20 top Indian forensic scientists, with...
Boeing and Delta Air Lines Announce Order for 100 Next-Generation 737-900ERs
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Aug , 2011
Boeing and Delta Air Lines announced an order for 100 Next-Generation 737-900ER (extended range) airplanes. The order, with a list–price value of more than $8.5 billion, is part of Delta’s fleet...
Sino-Indian Border Dispute
By: Lt Gen (Dr) Mohan Bhandari, (Retd.) | Issue: Vol. 23.4 Oct-Dec 2008 | Date: 29 Aug , 2011
China launched full scale invasion on India in 1962. In fact, Chinese invasion had commenced way back in 1906 when it maneuvered and succeeded in concluding the 1906 Convention in Calcutta. In...
General Kayani and Future of Pakistan - II
By: Bhashyam Kasturi | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 27 Aug , 2011
The Army and Counter-Terrorism Pakistan’s counterterrorism strategy in Afghanistan is rife with inherent contradictions, caught between an inclination to fight militant forces and yet having to...
Maritime Rapid Reaction Force
By: Dr Vijay Sakhuja | Issue: Vol 21.4 Oct-Dec 2006 | Date: 26 Aug , 2011
Addressing the combined conference of Indian Military Commanders on October 26, 1999 Former Defence Minister George Fernandes had noted that the Indian Armed Forces should set up a Rapid Reaction...
General Kayani and Future of Pakistan - I
By: Bhashyam Kasturi | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 26 Aug , 2011
Recent events in Pakistan, including the special forces assault on the Abbottabad compound in which Osama bin Laden was hiding and living, the attack of PNS Mehran in Karachi and many more have...
Eurofighter Typhoon on QRA interception training with new Lufthansa A380
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Aug , 2011
After Vienna’s Mayor Dr. Häupl christened the new Lufthansa A380 “Wien” at the hub of Austrian Airlines, two Austrian Eurofighters conducted a QRA training interception of the new Airbus on its...
India in the Neighbourhood
By: Vikram Sood | Issue: Vol 22.1 Jan - Mar 2007 | Date: 19 Aug , 2011
Leo Tolstoy’s classic Anna Karenina begins with the famous sentence: “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” The Indian subcontinent is somewhat like...
Air Power & Irregular Warfare in the Indian context
By: Air Cmde Arjun Subramaniam | Issue: Vol 24.1 Jan-Mar 2009 | Date: 19 Aug , 2011
“This is another type of war, new in its intensity, ancient in its origin — war by guerrillas, subversives, insurgents, terrorists, war by ambush instead of by combat; by infiltration,...