Articles in Courtesy: The Telegraph
Build a stronger partnership with France and Britain
By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Courtesy: The Telegraph | Date: 06 Mar , 2013
The back-to-back visits of the president of France, Francois Hollande, and the prime minister of Britain, David Cameron, last month have put the spotlight on India’s relationship with Europe....
A Nation and it’s Toothless Nuclear Doctrine
By: Air Marshal B D Jayal | Issue: Courtesy: The Telegraph | Date: 05 Mar , 2013
Even as the celebrations at our joining the ‘nuclear club’ start to ebb, contrary information from across the Atlantic is getting shriller. The Ministry of External Affairs now accepts that...
Rules of the Nuclear Club
By: Air Marshal B D Jayal | Issue: Courtesy: The Telegraph | Date: 02 Mar , 2013
The India-United States of America cooperation in the nuclear field started in the fifties under President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Atoms for Peace programme. In the sixties, India and the US...
How to Resolve the Problem of Roles and Missions
By: Air Marshal B D Jayal | Issue: Courtesy: The Telegraph | Date: 21 Feb , 2013
A national daily recently reported that highly classified documents pertaining to weapon system requirements and acquisition plans of all the three services along with those of surveillance...
Friendly Handshake: Change is unlikely in India-US relations
By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Courtesy: The Telegraph | Date: 29 Jan , 2013
Looking ahead, what could President Barack Obama’s second term mean for relations between India and the United States of America? Will the relationship stay more or less at the level that it has...
Bedrock of Airpower: A Sound National Aerospace Policy
By: Air Marshal B D Jayal | Issue: Courtesy: The Telegraph | Date: 01 Jan , 2013
It is typical of the Indian security system, that only in times of security crises, does the nation wake up to gross weaknesses in re equipping of the armed forces. Recall the Kargil conflict,...
Waging a Different Kind of War
By: Air Marshal B D Jayal | Issue: Courtesy: The Telegraph | Date: 17 Dec , 2012
In 2009, the president of India, the supreme commander of its armed forces, created history by flying in an IAF Sukhoi combat aircraft. A gesture which, apart from being daring, communicated to...