Articles in Issues
Demographic drivers of India's national security
By: Maj Gen GD Bakshi, (Retd) | Issue: Vol 23.3 Jul-Sep 2008 | Date: 22 Dec , 2010
The scientific process of Net Assessment is characterised by a study of trends and triggers. Evolutionary change in the geo-strategic environment can be described in the form of trends. Trends...
Countering Sino-Pak Axis
By: Maj Gen Pushpendra Singh | Issue: Vol 25.4 Oct-Dec 2010 | Date: 22 Dec , 2010
Harsh V Pant who teaches at King’s College, London describes Obama’s foreign policy as ‘courting America’s adversaries while ignoring friends and potential allies.’ India, which has...
France & Nuclear Disarmament between vision & realism-I
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Vol 25.4 Oct-Dec 2010 | Date: 22 Dec , 2010
The question of nuclear disarmament has always given rise to diverse, if not opposite reactions. Commentators have described the positions of different nations (and sometimes within the same...
India's Mission to Moon
By: G Madhavan Nair | Issue: Vol 24.1 Jan-Mar 2009 | Date: 21 Dec , 2010
November 14, 2008, 20:31 hours, India created history in its march towards technological prowess. Indian tricolour was placed on the lunar surface and India announced to the world its arrival on...
Pakistan, a valuable asset for China
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Dec , 2010
Prime Minister Wen Jiabao of China visited Pakistan from December 17 to 19,2010, after having completed a three-day visit to India from December 15 to 17. During his stay in Pakistan, he...
Fourth Airbus Military A400M makes first flight
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Dec , 2010
The fourth Airbus Military A400M military airlifter has made its first flight – the culmination of a highly successful 2010 which also saw the fleet of Grizzly development aircraft complete just...
Rheinmetall transferred Multi A4 FSA Vehicles to German military
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Dec , 2010
Made by Rheinmetall MAN Military Vehicles GmbH (RMMV), the first Multi A4 FSA protected military transport vehicle has been formally transferred to the Bundeswehr at an official rollout ceremony...
China seeks to bring in Pakistan as an interested party
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Dec , 2010
In my previous article (China supports Pakistan’s claim on Kashmir!), I had stated as follows: “By questioning the legitimacy of India’s sovereignty over J&K, the Chinese may be creating a...
Elbit will supply Multi-Sensor Monitoring and Surveillance Systems
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Dec , 2010
Elbit Systems Ltd. announced that it was awarded a contract valued at approximately $16 million from the Polish Ministry of National Defense to supply mobile multi-sensor monitoring and...
When Commanders Become Bureaucrats
By: Maj Gen Mrinal Suman | Issue: Vol. 23.4 Oct-Dec 2008 | Date: 20 Dec , 2010
In late 1980s, an Engineer Regiment was asked to move to high altitude area as part of normal turn over of units. The regiment put in its demand for high altitude clothing for the troops well in...
The Indian Jihadi Net
By: B Raman | Issue: Vol. 23.4 Oct-Dec 2008 | Date: 20 Dec , 2010
If one carefully analyses the various serial blasts which have taken place in different parts of India since November,2007, one could notice an organic, mushroom-like growth of jihadi terrorist...
India and the US-China Great Game
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Vol 25.4 Oct-Dec 2010 | Date: 20 Dec , 2010
Recently most of the flash points in the Western Pacific region witnessed activation, leading to belligerent posturing by China and its allies like North Korea; and the US and its allies, like...
Burma to Japan with Azad Hind-III
By: Air Commodore Ramesh S Benegal | Issue: Book Excerpt: Burma to Japan with Azad Hind | Date: 19 Dec , 2010
The story goes that the aircraft managed to land on the runway that night amidst the confusion that existed at the base with aircraft landing and taking off in streams. The commandos managed to...
Eurocopter's Tiger HAD support and attack helicopter for France
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Dec , 2010
The first pre-serial Tiger HAD (fire support and destruction) for France made its maiden flight from Eurocopter’s Marignane, France facility. It marks an important step towards the Block I...
Rheinmetall will modernize Leopard tanks and weapon systems for Canada
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Dec , 2010
Rheinmetall has just booked two important orders for equipping the Canadian armed forces, worth a total of €87 million. Rheinmetall Canada Inc. of Saint-Jean-Sur-Richelieu, Québec, has been...
Burma to Japan with Azad Hind-II
By: Air Commodore Ramesh S Benegal | Issue: Book Excerpt: Burma to Japan with Azad Hind | Date: 18 Dec , 2010
The first two months of our training were devoted to toughening us up and putting us through ground subjects such as the principles of flight, meteorology, aero-engines and some Japanese military...
New Delhi's political incompetence creates a valley of discontent
By: Lt Gen Harwant Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Dec , 2010
It was winter- of 1963 when the holy relic at the Hazratbal Shrine in Srinagar went missing. News spread like wild fire and a crowd of more than quarter of a million assembled in Srinagar town. A...
China wins in New Delhi
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Dec , 2010
What are the concrete results flowing from the just concluded high profile visit of Chinese premier Wen Jiabao to India? The answer depends on whether one is seeking it from the Indian point of...
Indian Air Force takes delivery of first C-130J Super Hercules
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Dec , 2010
Lockheed Martin delivered the first of six C-130Js to the Indian Air Force. The new fleet was ordered under a $1.2 billion U.S. Foreign Military Sale (India’s first) in late 2008. “There are...
The Great Game: 21st Century Version-III
By: Vikram Sood | Issue: Vol 22.3 Jul-Sep 2007 | Date: 16 Dec , 2010
Both China and Pakistan are getting ready for an economic boom that will include transit trade to Central Asia. The Pakistan Army’s National Logistics Cell, which has a near monopoly, will...