Articles in Vol 25.1
Kargil Controversy: An IAF Response
By: Air Marshal RS Bedi | Issue: Vol 25.1 Jan-Mar 2010 | Date: 09 Jul , 2023
Lt Gen Harwant’s article “Kargil Controversy : Sorry State of Higher Defence Management”, published in October-December 2009 issue of the Indian Defence Review is laudable for its...
Is India Preparing to Lose?
By: E Rajan | Issue: Vol 25.1 Jan-Mar 2010 | Date: 10 Oct , 2015
If one has to summarise the characteristics of an Indian, the least is being aggressive. We are happy to attribute a lot of reasons for this: the feudal society, subjugations by foreign powers,...
Women in the Armed Forces: Misconceptions and Facts
By: Maj Gen Mrinal Suman | Issue: Vol 25.1 Jan-Mar 2010 | Date: 09 Mar , 2015
The recent debate about the entry of women officers in the armed forces has been highly ill- informed and subjective in nature. People have taken stands and expressed opinion without analysing...
Evolution of the Indian Submarine Arm
By: Lt Cdr Kalesh Mohanan | Issue: Vol 25.1 Jan-Mar 2010 | Date: 14 Aug , 2013
“Of all the branches of men in the forces there is none which shows more devotion and faces grimmer perils than the submariners.” — Sir Winston S. Churchill The development of...
The way to Regional Power status
By: Gp Capt AG Bewoor | Issue: Vol 25.1 Jan-Mar 2010 | Date: 13 Jun , 2013
The Sin that is Committed by Killing One, Who Does Not Deserve to Be Killed, Is As Great as the Sin, of Not Killing One Who Deserves to Be Killed. Mahabharat Udyoga Parva. Chapter 72, Verse...
Peace with Pakistan: an idea whose time has passed
By: Dr Prem Mahadevan | Issue: Vol 25.1 Jan-Mar 2010 | Date: 09 Jun , 2013
A leading Indian english language newspaper has chosen to begin 2010 by stirring up controversy. It has run a series of editorials advocating peace initiatives with Pakistan, despite the manifest...
India-Iran Defence Cooperation
By: Dr Monika Chansoria | Issue: Vol 25.1 Jan-Mar 2010 | Date: 17 Feb , 2012
As Asian Nations work towards integrating familiar areas of mutual interests, defence cooperation by and large, serves as a significant tool that complements diplomatic enterprise. Collaboration...
India and its neighbours
By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Vol 25.1 Jan-Mar 2010 | Date: 16 Feb , 2012
< !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> It is considered almost axiomatic that management of relations with neighbours should be the first priority of any countrys foreign policy. The stakes are always high as conditions in its...
Indian shipbuilding: key to maritime and economic security
By: Vice Adm BS Randhawa | Issue: Vol 25.1 Jan-Mar 2010 | Date: 03 Feb , 2012
The first anniversary of 26/11 brings to mind the profound statement of Jawaharlal Nehru ‘To be secure on land we must be supreme at sea’. While Pandit Nehru’s views would have been formed...
Asian Security Environment: India's options
By: Anand K Verma | Issue: Vol 25.1 Jan-Mar 2010 | Date: 16 Dec , 2011
Asian security environment is in a state of deep turmoil. The single event which has occasioned it, is the giant rise of China during the past couple of decades, reaching higher and higher levels...
Design Review of Naval Platforms
By: Vice Adm Rajeshwer Nath | Issue: Vol 25.1 Jan-Mar 2010 | Date: 04 Mar , 2011
The existing system of naval platform (ship or submarine) design involves various iterations and stages with comprehensive inbuilt checks and balances in the entire design process. The...
India 2025: A Global Defence Exports Hub?
By: Rahul K Bhonsle | Issue: Vol 25.1 Jan-Mar 2010 | Date: 04 Feb , 2011
The inflection point to the evolution of a collaborative defence industry model in India through a public-private partnership appears around the corner as we go into Defexpo 2010 with over 500...
Offset Contracts: under defence procurement procedures
By: Sandeep Verma | Issue: Vol 25.1 Jan-Mar 2010 | Date: 31 Jan , 2011
The practice of countries demanding discharge of offset obligations as a prerequisite to foreign firms’ participation in major defense contracts is not new. While there is substantial...
Army's Capability Accretion
By: Lt Gen Vinay Shankar | Issue: Vol 25.1 Jan-Mar 2010 | Date: 31 Jan , 2011
The challenges that the Army is expected to face in the next decade are not likely to be any less formidable. An appraisal of the emerging threats in fact indicates an increasing complexity of...
Maoist Threat and Politics
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Vol 25.1 Jan-Mar 2010 | Date: 13 Dec , 2010
The previous issue of the Indian Defence Review carried a letter from a serving air force officer Group Captain RK Prasad to the Home Minister of India. The officer and his family had been...
Defence Offsets: proving detrimental to the services
By: Maj Gen Mrinal Suman | Issue: Vol 25.1 Jan-Mar 2010 | Date: 13 Dec , 2010
Post Kargil, Indian defence imports had been ranging between three to six billion dollars annually whereas defence exports had been stagnating at meagre 50 million dollars an year. Despite...
US Military Surge in Afghanistan
By: Rohit Singh | Issue: Vol 25.1 Jan-Mar 2010 | Date: 13 Dec , 2010
After months of agonizing, the decades most long awaited decision has finally been made. It is a military surge of 30,000 additional troops to chart out a dignified exit for the United States,...
Navy to build blue-water capability with a balanced force structure, says...
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Vol 25.1 Jan-Mar 2010 | Date: 01 Dec , 2010
Admiral Nirmal Verma interviewed by IDR One of the most significant events in the recent times has been the commissioning of India’s nuclear submarine in July this year, even if she has a way...
Pitfalls in Arms Procurement Process
By: Maj Gen AK Mehra | Issue: Vol 25.1 Jan-Mar 2010 | Date: 05 Nov , 2010
Modernization of armed forces is a very capital intensive and long drawn process wherein the armed forces first identify their needs and then acquire the same through some rather complex...
Combating 'Red Terror'
By: Col Rajinder Singh | Issue: Vol 25.1 Jan-Mar 2010 | Date: 19 Oct , 2010
The Indian ‘Red Brigade’ is the Indian brand of Taliban. It assumes different aliases, the current favourite being ‘Maoists’. In the modern context, they stand for ‘insurgency,...