Articles in Vol. 28.4 Oct-Dec 2013
Rise of the PLAAF: Implications for India
By: Gp Capt AK Sachdev | Issue: Vol. 28.4 Oct-Dec 2013 | Date: 06 Oct , 2015
The ‘inscrutable’ sobriquet for the Chinese is not so much because of their unsmiling faces but on account of their unpredictable actions. Military action against India may not come in the...
Empowerment of a Power House: The Infantry Battalion
By: Lt Gen Gautam Banerjee | Issue: Vol. 28.4 Oct-Dec 2013 | Date: 31 Jan , 2014
By age-old convention, most wars have various forms of tactical operations undertaken under one overall plan – set-piece, irregular and Special Operations, for example. Indeed, the so called...
Network Centric Warfare
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Vol. 28.4 Oct-Dec 2013 | Date: 27 Jan , 2014
No matter the advancements in robotics, the importance of the ‘man behind the machine’ will remain relevant. This is equally applicable to Network Centric Warfare (NCW). The success of NCW...
Evolution of Ground-Based Air Defence Weapons
By: Air Marshal Narayan Menon | Issue: Vol. 28.4 Oct-Dec 2013 | Date: 18 Jan , 2014
In the not too distant past, the world’s most powerful military of the US was poised to mount a short duration campaign to punish Syria for allegedly crossing some undefined ‘red line’ of...
Infrastructure in the IAF: A Force Multiplier
By: Air Marshal Raghu Rajan | Issue: Vol. 28.4 Oct-Dec 2013 | Date: 04 Jan , 2014
Due to its long gestation period, infrastructure needs advance and integrated planning amongst the three services and civil agencies to ensure that the end result is cost-effective without...
Challenges Facing Civil Aviation in India
By: Robert S Metzger | Issue: Vol. 28.4 Oct-Dec 2013 | Date: 01 Jan , 2014
Civil aviation in India may be taken as a study in contrasts. Despite extraordinary growth in traffic, most of India’s airlines are in a precarious condition. Despite forecasts that India will...
Games Nations Play: Chinese Assertiveness & America’s Re-balancing
By: Brig Amar Cheema | Issue: Vol. 28.4 Oct-Dec 2013 | Date: 28 Dec , 2013
Realpolitik dictates a policy of ‘congagement’ of China and explains America’s reasons for accommodating the former at the grand table. Thus, while the US-Chinese relationship is expected...
The Ray of Death: Directed-Energy Weapons
By: Gp Capt Joseph Noronha | Issue: Vol. 28.4 Oct-Dec 2013 | Date: 25 Dec , 2013
Why do laser guns and other DEW devices seem so much more attractive than conventional projectile weapons such as guns and missiles? For one thing, DEWs can be precisely targeted. It is claimed of...
Chinese Innovations
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Vol. 28.4 Oct-Dec 2013 | Date: 20 Dec , 2013
When Steve Jobs passed away, experts debated as to why China did not produce its own Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, or Mark Zuckerberg? One contributor to Forbes explained that the emergence of such...
Equipping Cutting Edge Infantry
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Vol. 28.4 Oct-Dec 2013 | Date: 17 Dec , 2013
Infantry modernisation has not received due importance in past decades. This must be treated as an ‘emergent’ requirement in consideration of the emerging threats from within and outside the...
Eastern Ladakh: Can India Afford the Luxury of Inaction?
By: Lt Gen (Dr) JS Bajwa | Issue: Vol. 28.4 Oct-Dec 2013 | Date: 14 Dec , 2013
The Armed Forces are India’s “hard-power” assets and not a tool for diplomacy on the borders. Deployment of an armed force to support a diplomatic effort is axiomatic as it lends strength to...
No Human Occupant: The Growing Challenges of UAS Pilot Training
By: David Oliver | Issue: Vol. 28.4 Oct-Dec 2013 | Date: 19 Nov , 2013
As UAS technology matures and prices start to drop with from Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) components, more agencies are becoming interested in adopting UAS platforms and the market is on the...
Military: The Grid of Violence
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Vol. 28.4 Oct-Dec 2013 | Date: 11 Nov , 2013
Violence unleashed upon a nation can only be met by developing the capability to counter the violence. In the twenty-first century, unless societies with deep-rooted beliefs in non-violence and...