Articles in Vol. 34.3 Jul-Sep 2019
Emerging Technologies for Sixth-Generation Combat Aircraft
By: Air Marshal Anil Chopra | Issue: Vol. 34.3 Jul-Sep 2019 | Date: 12 Dec , 2020
The air strike against Balakot by the Indian Air Force (IAF) and the air combat that followed in response to the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) riposte on February 27, 2019, rekindled interest in...
Capability Enhancement Programme: A Cost Effective Approach to Modernisation...
By: Lt Gen (Dr) NB Singh | Issue: Vol. 34.3 Jul-Sep 2019 | Date: 23 Nov , 2020
Military capability denotes an integrated and agile combination of trained personnel, mission capable equipment, infrastructure, information systems, organisational structures and processes that...
Surviving Stealth: Responding to Low Observable Combat Jet Threat
By: Gp Capt Joseph Noronha | Issue: Vol. 34.3 Jul-Sep 2019 | Date: 21 Nov , 2020
Since the radar was invented in the 1930s, it has been of major concern to aircraft engaged in offensive air operations. Radar was used extensively as a tool of warfare during the Second World War...
Securing the Indian Skies
By: Gp Capt AK Sachdev | Issue: Vol. 34.3 Jul-Sep 2019 | Date: 31 Oct , 2020
The face-saving reprisal by Pakistan Air Force (PAF) in response to the Indian Air Force (IAF) aerial strike on February 26, 2019, against a Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) training camp near Balakot in...
Air Defence of India: Evolving Options
By: Air Marshal Anil Chopra | Issue: Vol. 34.3 Jul-Sep 2019 | Date: 23 Oct , 2020
Pakistan Air Force’s (PAF) attempted a large force ‘reposte’ on February 27, 2019, in response to Indian Air Force’s (IAF) deep air strikes on targets in Balakot. The PAF launched a...
Aircraft Carriers and the Indian Maritime Calculas – Relevant and Essential
By: Cmde CP Srivastava | Issue: Vol. 34.3 Jul-Sep 2019 | Date: 04 Mar , 2020
The debate over the centrality of the aircraft carrier in fleet structure continues unabated over 70 years. The discourse has now picked up steam; the catalyst being the postulate that...
Disorientations of National Defence – I
By: Lt Gen Gautam Banerjee | Issue: Vol. 34.3 Jul-Sep 2019 | Date: 28 Jan , 2020
“Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.” — Norman Cousins Key Neighbours: Innately Animus Inter-state and regional level political, economic and hegemonic rivalries have ever...
Emerging Technologies in Contemporary Ocean Warfare
By: Abhinav Dutta | Issue: Vol. 34.3 Jul-Sep 2019 | Date: 18 Jan , 2020
It is being widely debated that the revolution in science and technology and its role in military strategy would prove to be game changers in international politics and in the dynamics of...
The Indian Navy as an Instrument of Foreign Policy
By: Vice Admiral MP Muralidharan | Issue: Vol. 34.3 Jul-Sep 2019 | Date: 25 Oct , 2019
The economic importance of oceans to nations is well known. Nearly 80 percent of the world trade by volume is carried out through ships and this includes the energy needs of the world such as...
Responding to War and Warfare in the Sixth Wave of Innovation (2020-2045)
By: Navneet Bhushan | Issue: Vol. 34.3 Jul-Sep 2019 | Date: 16 Oct , 2019
We are in a re-polarising world reflected in a strategic superpower competition between the US and China in an unfathomable cyberspace and digital-economy territory that will give rise to new type...
The Way Ahead: Making India Self Reliant in Defence
By: Danvir Singh | Issue: Vol. 34.3 Jul-Sep 2019 | Date: 13 Oct , 2019
On May 31, 2017, in a major policy reform intended to promote ‘Make in India’ in defence manufacturing, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) announced the much-anticipated Strategic Partnership model...
The Relevance of Geography and History in the Maritime Domain
By: Dr Rajasimman Sundaram | Issue: Vol. 34.3 Jul-Sep 2019 | Date: 06 Oct , 2019
Command Her! If you can’t command her, control her. If you can’t control her, dominate her. If you can’t dominate her, maintain presence and deny her to others. Oh! The sea is a wild child!...
Unveiling the ISI–Terrorist Nexus
By: Philip B. Haney & J. M. Phelps | Issue: Vol. 34.3 Jul-Sep 2019 | Date: 30 Sep , 2019
To unveil the ISI-terrorist nexus, intelligence agencies, counter-terrorism experts and foreign policy makers must acknowledge the ISI’s continued support of terrorist organisations, as...
As India Consolidates its Comprehensive Power
By: Lt Gen (Dr) JS Bajwa | Issue: Vol. 34.3 Jul-Sep 2019 | Date: 02 Sep , 2019
“If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there”, said the Cheshire Cat to Alice. — Alice in Wonderland, By Lewis Carrol August 5th 2019, fortunately Indian Government...