Articles in Issues
India needs independent defence think tanks
By: Maj Gen Mrinal Suman | Issue: Vol 23.3 Jul-Sep 2008 | Date: 07 Feb , 2011
During his address at the 42nd Foundation Day function of the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA), the Vice President of India, Mr M Hamid Ansari stressed the need for structured...
The Fragile Af-Pak Policy
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Vol 24.4 Oct-Dec 2009 | Date: 07 Feb , 2011
With each passing day, it is becoming increasingly obvious that the Obama administration’s so-called Af–Pak policy is simply not working. The fraudulent Presidential elections in Afghanistan,...
C-130J's induction testimony to India's role as a global leader: US Ambassador
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Feb , 2011
The Indian Air Force inducted the first of six Lockheed Martin C-130J ‘Super Hercules’ aircraft into its transportation fleet today at a ceremony at Air Force Station Hindan. This historic...
Coastal and maritime security: two sides of the same coin
By: Vice Admiral PS Das | Issue: Vol 24.1 Jan-Mar 2009 | Date: 04 Feb , 2011
The Mumbai terrorist attack of 26th November 2008 has, correctly, focused on issues concerning the security of India’s vast coastline. Earlier, in 1993, the Maharashtra coast had been used to...
India 2025: A Global Defence Exports Hub?
By: Rahul K Bhonsle | Issue: Vol 25.1 Jan-Mar 2010 | Date: 04 Feb , 2011
The inflection point to the evolution of a collaborative defence industry model in India through a public-private partnership appears around the corner as we go into Defexpo 2010 with over 500...
Nexter is aboard ALH and LCH
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 Feb , 2011
Nexter is an European leader in defense systems. Nexter is a major supplier of the air forces and army light aviations for high performances weaponery and protection systems. It provides also...
Pak nuclear card limits Indian anti-terror options
By: Lt Gen Harwant Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 Feb , 2011
ITS three decades since Pakistan has been fermenting trouble in India. It started with Punjab and later in Jammu and Kashmir, followed by sporadic terrorist attacks in rest of India. While it is...
The Arab lessons
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 Feb , 2011
While it will be little premature to suggest that a democratic revolution is sweeping across the Arab world at the moment, the Arabs are no doubt undergoing a great period of turmoil. It started...
BAE Systems supports the Typhoon bid for MMRCA
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 Feb , 2011
Underlining its commitment to Typhoon, BAE Systems will continue its vigorous support of the Typhoon bid for the Medium Multi Role Combat Aircraft (MMRCA) programme at Aero India that starts...
Eurofighter Typhoons land in Bengaluru
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 Feb , 2011
Two Eurofighter Typhoons of the Italian Air Force arrived safely in Bengaluru to showcase their outstanding operational capabilities at Aero India 2011. The air show will be held at the Air...
Aero India 2011 to surpass all previous edition statistics
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Feb , 2011
The 8th edition of Aero India, being held in Bengaluru from February 9 to 13, 2011, is expected to surpass all previous editions of the premiere air show in terms of participation and volume....
ALH Dhruv Simulator Cockpit at HATSOFF
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Feb , 2011
The Helicopter Academy to Train by Simulation of Flying (HATSOFF) is a Rs 300 crore joint venture enterprise with 50:50 partnership between Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) and CAE of Canada....
Egypt: The Modified Script
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Feb , 2011
The contagion of protests spreading from one country to another in the Arab world has made the ruling dispensations edgy and nervous. The general feeling in India and many other parts of the...
The Jihadi Barbarity
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 Feb , 2011
In our excitement over the revolution from nowhere sweeping across the Arab world and in our preoccupation with trying to understand what has been happening in Egypt, we should not fail to...
The Basic Military Laws!
By: Anonymous | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 Feb , 2011
Try to look unimportant; the enemy may be low on ammo and not want to waste a bullet on you. • Never share a foxhole with anyone braver than yourself. • Never forget that your weapon was...
'invisible Violence' that consumes India
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Feb , 2011
On Monday, LeT militants dragged two teenaged sisters from their house in the Kashmir Valley and killed them in the most brutal manner. It served as reminder that the situation in the valley has...
The Karmapa Controversy
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Feb , 2011
The Karmapa is the head of what is known as the Karma Kagyu sect of Tibetan Buddhism.It is claimed that the institution of Karmapa is more than 200 years older than the institution of Dalai Lama,...
The Chinese Conundrum: Friends and Foes
By: Air Marshal Narayan Menon | Issue: Vol 24.1 Jan-Mar 2009 | Date: 31 Jan , 2011
Indian Navy and its Chinese counterpart conducted a joint exercise for the first time in the seas off the Shanghai coast in November, 2003. The latest naval exercise between the two navies was...
Army's Capability Accretion
By: Lt Gen Vinay Shankar | Issue: Vol 25.1 Jan-Mar 2010 | Date: 31 Jan , 2011
The challenges that the Army is expected to face in the next decade are not likely to be any less formidable. An appraisal of the emerging threats in fact indicates an increasing complexity of...
Offset Contracts: under defence procurement procedures
By: Sandeep Verma | Issue: Vol 25.1 Jan-Mar 2010 | Date: 31 Jan , 2011
The practice of countries demanding discharge of offset obligations as a prerequisite to foreign firms’ participation in major defense contracts is not new. While there is substantial...