Articles in Issues
China Gets Its Flying Boats: Regional Waters Just Got Murkier
By: Cecil Victor | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 27 Aug , 2016
These were the mainstay of colonial empires east of Suez for many decades. With China announcing its “largest flying boat in the world” and India placing orders for 18 from Japan, the...
Potent Indigenous War Unfolding in Jammu & Kashmir
By: Brig Narender Kumar (Retd.) | Issue: Vol. 31.3 Jul-Sep 2016 | Date: 26 Aug , 2016
The real problem is not the terrorists or separatists, but the fragmented approach of the government. All stakeholders should ideally work in an integrated manner and not independent of each...
Socio Economic Transformation: Through Ex-Servicemen
By: Lt Gen SK Gadeock and Col Nishant Sharma | Issue: Vol. 31.2 Apr-Jun 2016 | Date: 26 Aug , 2016
Ex-servicemen are ‘role models’ of ethical leadership with ingrained morals and value systems focused on ‘Duty, Honour and Country’ contributing to society and nation building in...
Leakage of Sensitive Data about Scorpene Submarines
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Aug , 2016
Scorpene Submarines – Update on Documents Leak (25/08/2016) Press Information Bureau The Government of India is seized of the reported leak of documents related to the ongoing Indian...
Coup in Turkey Now in a Coop
By: Lt Gen (Dr) JS Bajwa | Issue: Vol. 31.3 Jul-Sep 2016 | Date: 25 Aug , 2016
The coup in Turkey ultimately ended in a coop. Turkey suffered a weekend of tanks, protests and uncertainty, as a military faction launched a coup to topple the Erdogan government. It was a...
China Maintains Quiet Pressure on India
By: Bhaskar Roy | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 25 Aug , 2016
China continued to exert quiet but sustained pressures on India on the South China Sea issue. Beijing wants New Delhi to endorse its position on UN the International Tribunal award on the South...
Pakistan’s Institutional Turf Wars
By: Lt Gen Bhopinder Singh (Retd) | Issue: Courtesy: www.dailyexcelsior.com | Date: 24 Aug , 2016
The recent spiral of violence and bloodshed in the Kashmir valley has a dark dimension beyond the linear and hyphenated Indo-Pak rivalry, it is also symptomatic of the intra-Pakistani slugfest...
Increasing Military Aid to Afghanistan
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Aug , 2016
In an article titled ‘A Proxy War Between India and Pakistan Is Underway In Afghanistan’ in Forbes, Charles Tiefler writes that the US command in Afghanistan has asked India to step up...
Union Territory Status for Ladakh?
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Courtesy: http://claudearpi.blogspot.in/ | Date: 23 Aug , 2016
Violence has again erupted in Kashmir. More than ever, Islamabad seems determined to create problems for India in the Valley. And it is not covert anymore! On the occasion of Pakistan’s...
Myanmar and India: A New Future
By: Maj Gen Nitin P Gadkari | Issue: Vol. 31.2 Apr-Jun 2016 | Date: 23 Aug , 2016
The Chinese have aggressively involved themselves in Myanmar yet they are unsure of their future relationship and their investments due to the oncoming democratically elected government. Chinese...
Delhi Poised to get New Air Force Aerospace Museum
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Aug , 2016
Delhi will soon have a sprawling new Aerospace Museum close to the international airport focused mainly on Nation’s rich aviation history. New Aerospace Museum is not only meant to preserve the...
Restructuring the People’s Liberation Army (PLA)
By: NP Singh | Issue: Vol. 31.1 Jan-Mar 2016 | Date: 22 Aug , 2016
If we seize this moment, reform may be accomplished in one fell swoop: if we let it pass by, we will lose a great opportunity. — PLA Daily, March 12, 2014 The one thing that caught the world’s...
Indian Army: Adopting ‘Deep Operations’ Doctrine
By: Col JK Achuthan (Retd.) | Issue: Vol. 31.2 Apr-Jun 2016 | Date: 22 Aug , 2016
In hostile interactions between nations, there are ‘no rules’ for the Victors till the status quo has been established. India is a continental country and should, therefore, have a realistic...
Kashmir: Historical Background
By: Col Anil Athale | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Aug , 2016
“Men do not make their history in isolation from the past. The memories of dead generations hang like a mill stone around the necks of present generations.” — Karl Marx Kashmiri aspiration for...
Women Officers in the Indian Army: A Reality Check
By: Lt Gen Mukesh Sabharwal | Issue: Vol. 31.2 Apr-Jun 2016 | Date: 21 Aug , 2016
Employment of women officers in the Indian Armed Forces is no longer an issue to be trifled with. Their track record in the areas of expertise that they have been employed in so far clearly...
Developments in PoK and the Kashmir Valley: An Analysis
By: SK Sharma and Ashish Shukla | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 20 Aug , 2016
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has made a statement on Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) and expressed his concerns about the state of human rights there. The government as well as the establishment...
Sukhoi-30MKI at the ALG is a 'Historic First' in the Predominantly Hilly...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Aug , 2016
The upgraded Advanced Landing Ground (ALG) at Pasighat in Arunachal Pradesh was inaugurated by Kiren Rijiju MoS for Home Affairs in the presence of Air Marshal C Hari Kumar, AVSM, VM, VSM, Air...
Mind the Gap
By: Lt Gen NS Brar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Aug , 2016
The recent attempted ‘coup’ by the Turkish military has brought back into focus the question of equation and balance between the legitimate government and its armed forces and reinforced the...
So Where’s the Daesh?
By: Brig Deepak Sinha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Aug , 2016
If some of those in the media, research and security establishment are to be believed Daesh or ISIS, as it is also known, is right here at our doorstep. As proof they point to reports on those...
Vietnam: The Rising Asian Tiger
By: Air Marshal Dhiraj Kukreja | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Aug , 2016
Vietnam can prove to be a good buffer to contain China in the South China Sea, if India plays its cards well. In the process of strengthening relations with neighbouring nations, India has...