Articles in Vol. 29.3 Jul-Sep 2014
Kargil: Ours must live, enemy must die!
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Vol. 29.3 Jul-Sep 2014 | Date: 25 Jul , 2022
Even as the nation readies itself to pay homage to the extraordinary bravery displayed by the young officers and the men of the Indian Army during the Kargil conflict, the lessons thrown up raise...
“...Rafale is the best fighter plane in the world” - Air Chief Marshal...
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Vol. 29.3 Jul-Sep 2014 | Date: 10 Sep , 2016
Appointed as the Air Force Chief of Staff (CEMAA) on September 17, 2012, at the age of 53, General Denis Mercier had joined the French Air Force academy in 1979 and qualified as a fighter pilot...
The Challenges of Global Terrorism
By: Maj Gen Sheru Thapliyal, PhD | Issue: Vol. 29.3 Jul-Sep 2014 | Date: 05 Oct , 2015
There should be no distinction between a good and a bad terrorist which is what some countries are trying to do. The scourge will consume all unless it is ruthlessly eliminated. Countries...
UAVs in the Neighbourhood
By: Air Commodore KB Menon | Issue: Vol. 29.3 Jul-Sep 2014 | Date: 30 Sep , 2015
Reports of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) being used for private and commercial use are a regular feature in the media. Does it mean that there is going to be sudden surge of UAVs flying in the...
Children of a Lesser God
By: Lt Gen Vijay Oberoi | Issue: Vol. 29.3 Jul-Sep 2014 | Date: 11 Feb , 2015
The Indian soldiers, on account of their faith in the officers who lead them, their innate goodness and the discipline that has been ingrained in them have a great capacity to accept and absorb...
The Himalayan Sentinel and a Strike Corps
By: Lt Gen Gautam Banerjee | Issue: Vol. 29.3 Jul-Sep 2014 | Date: 02 Feb , 2015
The Indian Army remains handicapped in terms of its war making potential and lack of military infrastructure along the ever-vulnerable Indo-Tibet Border. The military men’s cause was first...
Employment of Rotary Wing Platforms in Battle
By: Gp Capt B Menon | Issue: Vol. 29.3 Jul-Sep 2014 | Date: 07 Jan , 2015
Apart from other roles, insurgencies in Malaya, Kenya, Zimbabwe, French Indo-China and Algeria saw helicopters being used for troop induction into and extraction from combat zones, rudimentary...
Modernisation of Army Air Defence
By: Lt Gen Ram Pratap | Issue: Vol. 29.3 Jul-Sep 2014 | Date: 05 Jan , 2015
As threats from the air play a decisive role in war, there will always be a need to protect the vital static assets as well as retain the freedom to manoeuvre mobile combat forces with no or...
INS Vikramaditya and India’s Naval Security
By: Dr Anil Kumar Singh | Issue: Vol. 29.3 Jul-Sep 2014 | Date: 26 Dec , 2014
As far as naval-vessel-building facilities are concerned, China and India are not at the same industrial level. Over the past ten years, the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) has built 16...
Challenges in Restructuring the Combat Power of IAF
By: Air Marshal Raghu Rajan | Issue: Vol. 29.3 Jul-Sep 2014 | Date: 24 Dec , 2014
The IAF’s capability covers the IOR countries on the maritime side and its principal adversaries Pakistan and China on the landward side. The government needs to finalise the contract for the...
Modernising India’s Security Sector for Homeland Security
By: Special Correspondent | Issue: Vol. 29.3 Jul-Sep 2014 | Date: 04 Dec , 2014
Post 9/11, homeland security got fast tracked in the US and it is generally believed that the mainland has not suffered any terrorist incident since then aside from the Boston bombings of 2013...
Employment of Armed Forces Against the Naxals
By: Air Chief Marshal PV Naik | Issue: Vol. 29.3 Jul-Sep 2014 | Date: 19 Nov , 2014
The origin of the Naxal problem is attributable to socio-political and socio-economic repression. The poor and Scheduled Castes (SC) were downtrodden by the Zamindars. Land reforms were nowhere....
Exorcise the Ghosts of 1962
By: Air Marshal Dhiraj Kukreja | Issue: Vol. 29.3 Jul-Sep 2014 | Date: 14 Nov , 2014
To some, the India-China War, which started on October 20, 1962 with the Chinese Army walking across the contested and an undefined border, was not a war at all but an armed incursion across the...
Reorganising the Defence of India: The Task Ahead
By: Special Correspondent | Issue: Vol. 29.3 Jul-Sep 2014 | Date: 14 Nov , 2014
Changes would provide a boost to defence preparedness, usher in an RMA, evolve requisite strategies and policies including for national security, response to asymmetric war, defence procurements,...
Helicopters in Military Aviation in China
By: Gp Capt AK Sachdev | Issue: Vol. 29.3 Jul-Sep 2014 | Date: 07 Nov , 2014
China has the world’s second largest defence budget next only to the US and with the future looking upbeat for China’s economy and for its military spending, defence manufacturers and...
Developing Heavy Breakthrough Capability for the Indian Army
By: Col JK Achuthan (Retd.) | Issue: Vol. 29.3 Jul-Sep 2014 | Date: 20 Oct , 2014
A ‘heavy breakthrough capability’ in India’s context relates to having the capability to reach objectives up to 600km in depth, should the political circumstances impose war on our nation....
Making up Asymmetric Deficit vis-à-vis China
By: Special Correspondent | Issue: Vol. 29.3 Jul-Sep 2014 | Date: 13 Oct , 2014
China’s surging economic power has been matched by increasing military might including investments in an aircraft carrier, anti-ship ballistic missiles, satellites, modern weapon systems and...
Reorganising the Defence of India: The Task Ahead
By: Special Correspondent | Issue: Vol. 29.3 Jul-Sep 2014 | Date: 10 Sep , 2014
Changes would provide a boost to defence preparedness, usher in an RMA, evolve requisite strategies and policies including for national security, response to asymmetric war, defence procurements,...
Raising FDI Cap in Defence: Misplaced Euphoria?
By: Maj Gen Mrinal Suman | Issue: Vol. 29.3 Jul-Sep 2014 | Date: 04 Sep , 2014
It is time India makes up its mind whether it wants FDI in defence or not. If it is felt that FDI is not essential and India can achieve technological excellence through indigenous efforts; it...
Review of India’s Security Imperatives: Agenda for the New Government
By: Lt Gen (Dr) JS Bajwa | Issue: Vol. 29.3 Jul-Sep 2014 | Date: 25 Aug , 2014
The armed forces of a country are a manifestation of the Government’s commitment to the people it represents of its concern for the pursuing the country’s national interests, for providing...