Articles in Issues
Defence Procurements: Need for Accountability Audit
By: Maj Gen Mrinal Suman | Issue: Vol 25.2 Apr-Jun 2010 | Date: 10 Jan , 2011
Sluggish modernisation of the Indian armed forces has been a cause of serious concern to all who are concerned with national security. Whereas the process of modernisation is lagging behind by 10...
China dictates development on Indian territory
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Jan , 2011
As reported several times on Claude Arpi blog, during the past months, the Chinese have been constructing mega infrastructure projects (roads, airports, five-star hotels) on their side of the...
US should pay more attention to Balochistan
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Jan , 2011
There is a need for the US to pay more attention to Balochistan as part of its Af-Pak strategy in order to pacify the Pashtun militancy encouraged by Al Qaeda and the Talibans operating in the...
Focusing on a National Security Strategic Chain
By: NNL/HEM | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Jan , 2011
PLA Daily published an article that Qiushi Journal later republished stating that China should focus on its national security strategic chain, which is composed of strategic resources, strategic...
The Samjauta Express Explosion: The Follow-Up
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Jan , 2011
“According to American investigators, the LET (Lashkar-e-Toiba) and Al Qaeda were responsible for the Samjauta Express blast and the HUJI( Harkatul-Jihad-Al-Islami) for the Mecca Masjid blast...
LTTE'S Self-Destruction
By: Lt Gen SC Sardeshpande | Issue: Vol 24.2 Apr-Jun 2009 | Date: 07 Jan , 2011
Insurgency-guerilla war as a combination in the struggle of the weak against the strong has established itself as a strong and successful method of waging an armed struggle. It is said that the...
Pirates or Naval Al Qaeda or Both?
By: B Raman | Issue: Vol 24.2 Apr-Jun 2009 | Date: 07 Jan , 2011
I have been in receipt of the following message on April 8, 2009, from ECOTERRA International, which disseminates a periodic “Somali Marine & Coastal Monitor”: “Danish owned and US-American...
Public Sector: survival through circumventing competition
By: Maj Gen Mrinal Suman | Issue: Vol 24.2 Apr-Jun 2009 | Date: 07 Jan , 2011
The current equipment profile of the Indian Armed Forces has been a matter of serious disquiet to all those who are concerned with national security issues. Many wonder if India possesses the...
PLA's psywar against the US
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Jan , 2011
As Robert Gates, the US Defence Secretary, gets ready to visit China from January 9 to 12 and as President Hu Jintao’s State visit to Washington DC on January 19 approaches, the People’s...
The Dubious Deal with ULFA
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Jan , 2011
The Assam government, fully backed by New Delhi, has cleared the passage for release of the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) leaders from jail. On the New Year’s Day, the so-called...
Indo-French bilateral Naval Exercise 'VARUNA 10' gets underway with two...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Jan , 2011
‘VARUNA 10′ the bilateral naval exercise between the Indian Navy and the French Navy is scheduled to commence from 07 Jan 11 with aircraft carriers, destroyers/frigates, tankers and submarines...
Spreading roots of extremism in Pakistan
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Jan , 2011
The roots of extremism are spreading in Pakistan. This is obvious from the assassination of Salman Taseer, the Governor of Punjab, by a policeman belonging to the Elite Force of the Punjab Police...
Army Chief willing to appear before the PAC
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Jan , 2011
New Delhi, Jan 6 (PTI) With the PAC calling the three Services heads to question them in connection with the alleged irregularities in CSD, Army Chief General V K Singh today said he had “no...
Iran-US Confrontation
By: Vikram Sood | Issue: Vol 23.1 Jan-Mar 2008 | Date: 05 Jan , 2011
The world has watched most of the last year and the one preceding, the Iran-US confrontation, at times with baited breath as the two seemed to be on hair trigger alert from time to time. The...
Offsets in US Military Sales
By: Maj Gen Mrinal Suman | Issue: Vol 23.1 Jan-Mar 2008 | Date: 05 Jan , 2011
According to some estimates, India is likely to spend close to USD 100 billion on capital acquisitions during the current plan period of 2007-12. Presently, imports account for nearly 70 percent...
Pakistan's Punjab Governor Taseer's Assassination
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Jan , 2011
The assassination of Salman Taseer, the liberal Governor of Punjab, by one of his police security guards at an Islamabad shopping centre on January 4 because of the Governor’s criticism of the...
Meeting Maoist Challenge
By: Lt Gen Harwant Singh | Issue: Vol 25.4 Oct-Dec 2010 | Date: 05 Jan , 2011
While Maoists have been slowly but surely spreading their hold over district after district, scoring a total of over 200 districts, the Indian state slept through this phase spanning over couple...
Maritime Security: an Indian scenario
By: Commodore G Sharma | Issue: Vol 24.1 Jan-Mar 2009 | Date: 03 Jan , 2011
In the late 1930s, a famous radio program in the USA called War of the Worlds — a story line that proposed an attack on the earth from Mars — created a sensation and instilled fear into the...
Air Marshal NAK Browne: The new VCAS
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Jan , 2011
Air Marshal NAK Browne PVSM, AVSM, VM assumed the charge as the new Vice Chief of the Air Staff (VCAS) at Air Headquarters, today. He was formerly the Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief (AOC-in-C)...
The end of Shangrila
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 31 Dec , 2010
As the year comes to a close, one could ask: What was the most depressing news during 2010? There were so many contenders for this description — from the shoddy preparations for the...