Articles in Issues
Combating 'Red Terror'
By: Col Rajinder Singh | Issue: Vol 25.1 Jan-Mar 2010 | Date: 19 Oct , 2010
The Indian ‘Red Brigade’ is the Indian brand of Taliban. It assumes different aliases, the current favourite being ‘Maoists’. In the modern context, they stand for ‘insurgency,...
DCNS wins EU funding for maritime safety R&D
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Oct , 2010
Improved maritime surveillance is a major challenge for European Union member states. In support of research in this important area, the European Commission has selected the I2C project led by...
India and France share common objectives in Indian Ocean and Afghanistan
By: Admiral Edouard Guillaud | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Oct , 2010
Admiral Edouard Guillaud, Chief of Defence Staff, France in a press conference at New Delhi said that his first assessment is that the world is currently undergoing a tremendous change, at a fast...
Facing the Dragon : is India prepared?
By: Maj Gen Dhruv C Katoch | Issue: Vol 25.1 Jan-Mar 2010 | Date: 18 Oct , 2010
The contours of India’s relationship with China have been tumultuous over the last six decades. From periods of great bonhomie in the mid fifties – the ‘Hindi-Chini Bhai Bhai’ years to...
Defence Procurements : Time for Radical Reforms
By: Maj Gen Mrinal Suman | Issue: Vol 25.3 Jul-Sep 2010 | Date: 18 Oct , 2010
Defence Procurement Procedure – 2008 (DPP-2008) came into effect on 01 September 2008 and is due for biennial review in Sep 2010, under the aegis of the Defence Procurement Board. DPP has...
'Mission Action 2010' Commencing
By: PLA Daily | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Oct , 2010
Exercise participating troops of Beijing MAC unfolds three-dimensional transportation (Source: PLA Daily) 2010-10-15 Since October 12, a group army of the Beijing Military Area Command (MAC) of...
Headley's Case : Indian Distrust of FBI will increase International Terrorism
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Oct , 2010
More disclosures relating to David Coleman Headley of the Chicago cell of the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LET) embarrassing to the USA’s Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have been brought out in two...
Chinese Attitude to US : Trust - Distrust Syndrome
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Oct , 2010
President Barack Obama has made another overture of likely strategic significance to China, which could be a new landmark in moves to strengthen the strategic partnership between the two...
Rheinmetall and Timoney's Advanced Chassis Technology for all-terrain vehicles
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Oct , 2010
Rheinmetall MAN Military Vehicles GmbH (RRMV) of Munich has entered a farreaching agreement with Timoney Technology Ltd. of Gibbstown, Ireland, to cooperate in the military logistic and tactical...
INS Kalpeni Commissioned into the Indian Navy
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Oct , 2010
The Latest Fast Attack Craft of the Indian Navy, INS Kalpeni was commissioned into the Indian Navy today by Hon’ble Mr Justice Jasti Chelameswar, Chief Justice, High Court of Kerala at Naval...
The African Talibans
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Oct , 2010
The visit to India of Mr. Jean-David Levitte, the ‘sherpa’ of President Sarkozy, during the second week of October was hardly noticed. Monsieur Levitte is a very powerful man. In France, each...
Indian defence private industry should move from fringes to mainstream: Air...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Oct , 2010
“Indian private industry should move from fringes to mainstream,” observes Air Chief Marshall, PV Naik, Chief of Air Staff while speaking at the brochure release ceremony of the 5th...
Politics at the Cost of India's Security
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Oct , 2010
The indifference and lack of understanding amongst the country’s political leadership on matters relating to national security has been a part of our national culture. Several reasons could be...
The Danger Signals from Pakistan
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Oct , 2010
More people were killed and more material damage was caused by the quake in Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir (POK) and some parts of the North-West Frontier Province ( now called Khyber Pakhtunkwa ) in...
The train in Tibet and the Clouds over Himalayas
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Oct , 2010
NEW China has no money problem. When Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao visited debt-laden Greece last week he promised to double trade in five years and buy Greek bonds when Athens returns to...
U.S. Military places $68 Million Contract with Elbit America
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Oct , 2010
Elbit Systems of America was awarded a 5-year, $68 million Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (ID/IQ) contract from the US Army Contracting Command in Huntsville, Alabama, to supply the...
Obama's Gesture to China on Eve of Indian visit
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Oct , 2010
On the eve of his forthcoming visit to India next month, President Barack Obama has made an important gesture to China. Even while supporting the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to Chinese...
No stability in Tibet-Xinjiang without Pakistan, says Chinese Writer
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Oct , 2010
An article published on October 12, 2010, by the Chinese Communist Party-controlled “Global Times” has questioned the reported description of Pakistan as a cancer by President Barack Obama. It...
MBDA's New Bunker Buster Warhead
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Oct , 2010
The second test firing of the Hard and Deeply Buried Target (HARDBUT) Next Generation Multiple Warhead System (NGMWS) was carried out successfully at the Biscarrosse test range of DGA Essais de...
Elbit America RPDA Computer and Tacter for U.S. Army
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Oct , 2010
Elbit Systems of America, announced it was awarded follow-on orders from the United States Army PM Battle Command and PM Mortars for Rugged Personal Digital Assistant Computers (RPDA) and...