Articles in Issues
AgustaWestland competes for US Air Force Programs
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Apr , 2011
AW139M and HH-71 offers lowest cost and optimal performance for the missions AgustaWestland North America, an AgustaWestland company, is pleased that the U.S. Air Force has announced it is...
Incriminating spotlight on ISI in the US
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Apr , 2011
Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Directorate has come under incriminating spotlight in the US as a result of the ongoing judicial proceedings in a Chicago court against Tahawwur...
US Ambassador comments on Indian Defense Procurement
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Apr , 2011
The U.S. Embassy in New Delhi was informed yesterday that two aircraft offered by the U.S. Government through the Foreign Military Sales process were not selected for procurement by the Indian...
Boeing Statement on India's MMRCA Decision
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Apr , 2011
Boeing released the following statement on the government of India’s Medium Multi-Role Combat Aircraft (MMRCA) decision: “Boeing today was notified that our Super Hornet proposal for India’s...
1971: The Rajasthan Campaign - I
By: Maj Gen Sukhwant Singh | Issue: Book Excerpt: India's War since Independence | Date: 28 Apr , 2011
After commanding an artillery brigade in Ladakh, I was selected to take over an infantry brigade, quite a feat in those prejudice-ridden days of early 1969. My General asked me: “Where do you...
Insurgencies & Terrorism in India
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 Apr , 2011
India has been confronted with periodic eruptions of insurgencies and terrorism in different parts of the country since it became independent. These have had different causes—- feelings of...
Third Jihadi Attack on Pak Navy since Lal Masjid Raid
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 Apr , 2011
Two Pakistani naval personnel— a commissioned officer of the rank of Sub-Lieutenant and a sailor— were among four persons killed in two separate but coordinated explosions in Karachi on April...
Boeing Vigilare System Completes Operational Testing in Australia
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 Apr , 2011
Network centric command and control system participates in RAAF combat exercise Boeing Vigilare network centric command and control system has passed its last formal operational test. Testing...
China starts demonisation of Kirti Monastery Monks
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 Apr , 2011
The authorities of the Aba County in the Aba Tibetan-Qiang Autonomous Prefecture of the Sichuan province where the Kirti monastery is located, have started a demonisation campaign against the...
Pak gimmicks deprive Baloch of a real solution
By: Nidhi Bhardwaj | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Apr , 2011
In what is being portrayed as yet another attempt by the Pakistani government to appease Balochistan, Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff General Parvez Ashfaq Kayani has announced to replace...
Boeing-built GPS Operational Control Segment Enters Service with US Air Force
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Apr , 2011
Boeing today announced that its GPS Operational Control Segment (OCS) has gained full operational status with the U.S. Air Force 50th Space Wing, Schriever Air Force Base, Colo. OCS keeps the...
US and Indian Law Enforcement officials build partnership
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Apr , 2011
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), in partnership with the Indian Ministry of Home Affairs, on April 22 concluded a five-day Law Enforcement Executive Development Seminar focusing...
Suppression of monks in Sichuan
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Apr , 2011
Reports received from the Sichuan province of China speak of the arrest of about 300 Buddhist monks belonging to the Kirti monastery in the Ngaba Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of the province...
Pakistan Armed Forces: The Other Pillar
By: Anand K Verma | Issue: Book Excerpt: Reassessing Pakistan | Date: 25 Apr , 2011
The Muslim League whose campaign led to the birth of Pakistan could hardly be called a grass roots party until after 1940 when the Pakistan Resolution was adopted. The League might have operated...
Worsening Violence in Syria
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Apr , 2011
” Good Friday” on April 22,2011, saw violent protests against the rule of President Bashar al-Assad all over Syria. For the first time since the protest movement started in the southern city...
Waziristan: Fedayeen-e-Islam Training 1000 suicide bombers
By: Nidhi Bhardwaj | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Apr , 2011
A fourteen year old boy, a suicide bomber in the making was captured after he failed to detonate his vest in an attack at the Sakhi Sarwar shrine in the district of Dera Ghazi Khan in Punjab...
Boeing, US Navy mark delivery of 500th Super Hornet
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Apr , 2011
All aircraft delivered on budget and ahead of schedule F/A-18E/F and EA-18G will operate through 2035 and beyond Boeing and the U.S. Navy celebrated a milestone delivery on April 20 in St....
China uses bloggers to announce J-20 Stealth progress
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Apr , 2011
China has once again used its bloggers—possibly belonging to the People’s Liberation Army (PLA)—to indicate to the world in general and to the US in particular that it successfully carried out...
'Pak army wants Imran as next PM'
By: Tejas Patel | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Apr , 2011
The man who led the 1992 World Cup winning Pakistan cricket team, Imran Khan, is the choice of the Pakistan military establishment to take over as the next prime minister of the...
Sympathy grows for LTTE internationally
By: Nidhi Bhardwaj | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Apr , 2011
A United Nations report leaked recently, estimates thousands of civilians were killed during the fighting between Sri Lankan forces and the LTTE – known as the Tamil Tigers in 2009. The...