Articles in Issues
Are We Prepared Against Hybrid Threats
By: Brig Anil Gupta | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 Dec , 2016
Samba, Gurdaspur, Pathankot, Pampore, Uri, Macchail , about 200 ceasefire violations targeting civilians and now Nagrota, the list is endless and increasing. After every incident strong statements...
Understand Pakistan’s Proxy War – and we could brag less
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 Dec , 2016
On November 25, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar told a rally in Panaji, Goa, “There is no doubt that the army is gallant, but for the first time, the country’s political leadership took a...
Jihadi Terrorist Attack on Strategic Nagrota Base
By: KN Pandita | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Dec , 2016
The terrorist attack on an Artillery Unit of the Army stationed just three kilometers from the Headquarter, resulting in the martyrdom of seven army personnel including two officers, raises many...
BAE welcomes signed letter of agreement and acceptance for Indian M777 Howitzers
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Dec , 2016
BAE Systems welcomes the news that the Governments of India and the U.S. have agreed on the Foreign Military Sale of 145 M777 Ultra Lightweight Howitzers. India will join the U.S., Canadian and...
Barbarism is Not a Tactical or Strategic Escalation Ladder
By: Prateek Kapil | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 30 Nov , 2016
“To know only one thing well is to have a barbaric mind: civilization implies the graceful relation of all varieties of experience to a central human system of thought.” ― Robert Graves It...
Pakistan’s new Army Chief: Old wine in new bottle
By: Col Jaibans Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 Nov , 2016
Pakistan has mastered the art of symbolism; of letting its actions do all the talking. As the country prepares for a change of Army Chiefs today (November, 29) two terror attacks in the Jammu...
In Context: Pakistan's New Army Chief Gen Bajwa
By: Rana Banerji | Issue: Courtesy: IPCS | Date: 29 Nov , 2016
Speculation over the appointment of Pakistan’s 16th Army Chief ended on 26 November 2016 when a comparative `dark horse’, Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa, was declared, with much media fanfare, as the...
Impact Analysis of the Indian Defence Offset Program
By: Vikram Bihani | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Nov , 2016
The India Defense Industry has grown from USD 21.9 billion in 2010-11 to USD 37.3 billion in 2016-17, at a CAGR of 9.25%. India ranks among the top 10 countries in the world in terms of its...
Heart of Asia Conference in Amritsar: Opportunity or Exercise in Futility?
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 28 Nov , 2016
The SAARC summit scheduled in Islamabad in November 2016 was shunned by all SAARC countries forcing Pakistan to sheepishly ‘postpone’ the meet but blame India for ‘influencing’ other member...
1971 War: Dhaka or Bust?
By: Sumit Walia | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Nov , 2016
1971 war was the finest hour of Indian Army. In a quick, decisive, well planned & well executed campaign, Indian Army carved out a new nation on the face of earth – Bangladesh. It was a...
It is Time Nepal Army Tookover!
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 Nov , 2016
The tragedy of Nepal’s second Constituent Assembly elected in end 2013 is signified by the outrageous proposition that the Maoists, who were comprehensively rejected by the people and managed...
CPEC: Corridor of Discontent
By: Dr Priyanka Singh | Issue: Courtesy: IDSA | Date: 27 Nov , 2016
The flagship project under the Belt and Road Initiative – the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), has been seen as a ‘game changer’ in the regional geopolitical discourse since its formal...
Asian Security’s Complex Strategic Quadrilateral
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 26 Nov , 2016
Asian security in 2016 stands dominated by the geopolitical dynamics that are at play in the complex ‘Strategic Quadrilateral’ comprising the United States, China, Japan and India. Of the...
Lessons that need to be learnt from Mumbai Mayhem
By: Col N N Bhatia | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Nov , 2016
At about 0800 hrs on 29 Nov 2008 after 60 long frightening and uncertain hours of the ‘fidayeen attacks’ on Mumbai, the commercial capital of India, the National Security Guards (NSG) commandos...
Immoral & Masochist leadership of Pakistan Army needs to be reined in
By: Col Jaibans Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Nov , 2016
The Pakistan Army is back to playing its dirty games along the Line of Control (LOC) and International Border (IB) with India yet again. In a parting gift to its outgoing Chief, Gen. Raheel...
Kashmir 1947-48: The First Round
By: Air Chief Marshal P C Lal | Issue: Book Excerpt: My Years with the I.A.F. | Date: 25 Nov , 2016
A part from the British Raj in India, there were 565 princely States varying in size from a few square miles to a few thousand square miles. They were ruled, or misruled, by petty chieftains or...
Various ways in which Beijing, Washington and Islamabad Impact India
By: VBN Ram | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Nov , 2016
Imagine a virtually inconceivable, yet an ideal scenario in which China dissuades Pakistan from indulging in acts detrimental to India, Pakistan, in such a situation will be completely at sea...
India-Nepal Relations
By: Sumit Kumar | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 24 Nov , 2016
President Pranab Mukherjee’s three day visit to Nepal in November 2016 was historic. He became the first Indian President in the last 18 years to visit Nepal. Nepalese President Bidhya Devi...
Not NSG only - China may block India at every opportunity
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Nov , 2016
Prior to the Vienna meet on November 11-12, media talked of “fresh hopes for India’s NSG dreams”. Not that we have got over the curse of short memory, considering what happened during the...
Upgraded Jaguar (DARIN III) Aircraft Gets Initial Operational Clearance
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Nov , 2016
Air Marshal RKS Bhadauria, AVSM, VM, Dy. Chief of the Air Staff, flew the upgraded Jaguar DARIN-III twin-seat aircraft at HAL airport recently and announced satisfactory completion of Initial...