Articles in Issues
China's Af-Pak Gameplans: Signals to incoming US Administration?
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 23 Nov , 2016
China’s President Xi Jinping is seeking an early meeting with US President-elect Donald Trump. In his congratulatory message to Trump, Xi mentioned China’s keenness to move forward on a ‘new...
Media and National Security
By: Air Marshal Dhiraj Kukreja | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Nov , 2016
Is there malaise that ails the Indian media today? Yes, and the disease is in both print and visual media, which have undergone a transformation for the worse! Is it the downgrading of the...
SU-30s and Mirage-2000s carry out trial landings on Lucknow- Agra Express...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Nov , 2016
03 x Mirage-2000 and 03 SU-30 Aircraft of the Indian Air Force carried out a ‘touch and go’ on a portion of the newly constructed Agra-Lucknow Expressway. The portion of the Expressway used for...
Guided Missile Destroyer INS Chennai Joins the Indian Navy
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Nov , 2016
INS Chennai, a P 15A Guided Missile Destroyer, was commissioned into the Indian Navy by the Hon’ble Raksha Mantri Shri Manohar Parrikar at an impressive ceremony held at the Naval Dockyard,...
General Raheel Sharif: Self Serving, Unscrupulous and Un-Gentlemanly
By: Col Jaibans Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Nov , 2016
How the mighty fall!! General Raheel Sharif, the larger than life chief of the Pakistan Army, has reduced himself to a mere Public Relations Officer (PRO) in his desperation to do something that...
Demonetisation and Beyond: Addressing the Finance of Terrorism
By: Col Vivek Chadha (Retd.) | Issue: Courtesy: IDSA | Date: 22 Nov , 2016
The impact of the demonetisation policy as related to curbing the finance of terrorism announced on November 08, 2016, is gradually emerging from the shadow of its surprise announcement. It is...
'Hot' visit in Ulaanbaatar: Why China is again upset?
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Courtesy: http://claudearpi.blogspot.in/ | Date: 21 Nov , 2016
Simply because the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan religious leader, has been invited for a four-day visit to Mongolia. According to China Radio International (CRI), Beijing has strongly urged Mongolia...
Demonization: Queuing up for Secure India
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Nov , 2016
The demonetization decision coupled with other measures is bound to have sobering impact on the arrogance that black money had acquired in politics. Inimical powers had begun to fund political...
The King of Guns Will Soon Be Home
By: Debalina Chatterjee | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 20 Nov , 2016
In mid-November 2016, the much delayed M-777A2 Ultra-Light Howitzers (ULH) also known as the “Triple Seven” has been approved for purchase by the Defence Acquisition Council (DAC). India...
East Pakistan: The Problem
By: Maj Gen Sukhwant Singh | Issue: Book Excerpt: India's War since Independence | Date: 19 Nov , 2016
Undoubtedly India’s national interest lay in having a friendly regime in neighbouring East Pakistan as the economic and cultural affinities of the two Bengals were linked indivisibly. Part of...
China – The New Aerospace Power
By: Gp Capt AK Sachdev | Issue: Vol. 31.3 Jul-Sep 2016 | Date: 18 Nov , 2016
Both India and China began their march towards progress almost at the same time and have had an unwholesome antagonism towards each other since the 1962 War. The boundary dispute between the two...
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar: A New Sinister Factor in the Afghan Imbroglio
By: Amitava Mukherjee | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 18 Nov , 2016
The peace agreement between the Ashraf Ghani government of Afghanistan and Gulbuddin Hekmatyar may further obfuscate the already confused Afghan scenario. There are reasons behind the suspicion...
The Indo-Pak Imbroglio: Retaliation and its Consequences
By: Brig Deepak Sinha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Nov , 2016
One cannot help but appreciate Mr. Modi’s sense of timing for the dramatic. Following the raids inside POK subsequent to Pakistan’s Uri misadventure, we have chaos heaped in big measure with...
It pays to be tough with China
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Courtesy: http://claudearpi.blogspot.in/ | Date: 17 Nov , 2016
The change in Chinese maps began with the objective to protect a new road linking Tibet to Xinjiang in Aksai Chin area in the mid-1950s. Interesting news has been coming in from the high plateau...
Xi Jinping “the Core” of CPC
By: VBN Ram | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Nov , 2016
One of dictionary meanings of the word “core“- is the tough central part of a fruit. Ideally, this is exactly how China’s General Secretary of the Communist Party (CPC)- President Xi Jinping...
The Assam Regiment Celebrates Platinum Jubilee
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Nov , 2016
Gen Dalbir Singh, the Chief of the Army Staff (COAS), presented the colours to the four young Battalions of the Assam Regiment; 16 & 17 ASSAM, 1 & 2 Arunachal Scouts in colour presentation...
Successful Maiden Flight of Rustom – II
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Nov , 2016
Heralding a new era in the indigenous development of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), DRDO today successfully carried out the maiden flight of TAPAS 201 (RUSTOM – II), a Medium Altitude Long...
Devised Leadership Crisis in Taliban: Takeover by Haqqanies
By: Shreyas Deshmukh | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 16 Nov , 2016
Since American offensive started in Afghanistan against Taliban regime in 2001, the entity remained homogeneous without any serious fractionalisation in exile till June 18, 2013 when Taliban...
India May gain a lot from the Trump Presidency
By: Brig Anil Gupta | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 15 Nov , 2016
The almost two-year-long process to elect the 45th President of the United States (POTUS) came to a dramatic end on 9/11. September 11 2001(popularly known as 9/11) is synonymous with the date...
Can India Create the Next Revolution in Military Affairs?
By: Navneet Bhushan | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 Nov , 2016
We have a window of opportunity for next 25 years when the young population percentage world over will be maximum in India. Further, our ability to understand the language of software – its...