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Air Marshal S Harpal Singh takes over as Senior Air Staff Officer of HQ...

Air Marshal S Harpal Singh takes over as Senior Air Staff Officer of HQ...

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Sep , 2015

Air Marshal S Harpal Singh, AVSM, VM assumed office of Senior Air Staff Officer of Headquarters South Western Air Command, IAF on 01 Sep 15. Air Marshal S Harpal Singh was commissioned in the...

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Air Marshal SB Deo, AVSM, VM, VSM takes over Command of Western Air Command

Air Marshal SB Deo, AVSM, VM, VSM takes over Command of Western Air Command

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Sep , 2015

Air Marshal SB Deo, AVSM, VM, VSM took over the command of Western Air Command on 01st September 2015. Commissioned into the Fighter stream on 15 Jun 1979, the Air Marshal has more than 4000 hours...

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Stories on 1965 War should be included in School Curriculum: Manohar Parrikar

Stories on 1965 War should be included in School Curriculum: Manohar Parrikar

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Sep , 2015

The Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar has stressed the need to include the stories of gallantry and sacrifices of our brave soldiers in 1965 Indo-Pak War in the school curriculum. He said, this is...

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Boeing Receives $1.49 Billion Contract for 13 P-8A Poseidon Aircraft

Boeing Receives $1.49 Billion Contract for 13 P-8A Poseidon Aircraft

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 31 Aug , 2015

Boeing will provide the first P-8A Poseidon maritime surveillance aircraft for Australia and additional P-8As for the U.S. Navy following a $1.49 billion contract award from the Navy for 13...

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Ignorance of military matters in modern India

Ignorance of military matters in modern India

By: Col Gopal Karunakaran | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Aug , 2015

I Love the Indian Army – but I must leave Now! I stumbled into the Indian Army in the late seventies. The School which admitted us mid-session, when we returned from Singapore, where my father...

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GSLV successfully launches India’s latest communication Satellite GSAT-6

GSLV successfully launches India’s latest communication Satellite GSAT-6

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 Aug , 2015

In its ninth flight (GSLV-D6) conducted today, (August 27, 2015), India’s Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle, equipped with the indigenous Cryogenic Upper Stage (CUS), successfully launched...

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Exposé: How Hafiz and Hurriyat killed NSA talks

Exposé: How Hafiz and Hurriyat killed NSA talks

By: RSN Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Aug , 2015

It is not the military-intelligence establishment of Pakistan, which was solely responsible for the sabotage of NSA level talks between India and Pakistan, the pre-dominant role was that of Hafiz...

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Fifteen Officers join the Aviation Arm

Fifteen Officers join the Aviation Arm

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Aug , 2015

Twelve Officers of the Indian Navy and three officers of the Indian Coast Guard of the 81st Permanent Commission and 12th Short Service Commission courses graduated as Observers of the ‘Air’...

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Inauguration of Jaisalmer War Museum and Laungewala War Memorial

Inauguration of Jaisalmer War Museum and Laungewala War Memorial

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Aug , 2015

‘Jaisalmer War Museum’ has been established in the Military Station of Jaisalmer to commemorate the sacrifice of war heroes. The museum was inaugurated by Lieutenant General Ashok Singh,...

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New Tri-Service Commands

New Tri-Service Commands

By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Aug , 2015

Newspapers on August 20 blared headlines ‘Govt gets cracking on three new Tri-Service Commands’. The “cracking” part was amusing for in 2004-2005 the same hype was created about the...

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Strategic Airlift Capability for India

Strategic Airlift Capability for India

By: Danvir Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Aug , 2015

India’s security challenges along with the growing economic needs and interests thereon will result in a continuous shift and changing profiles of threat and power equations. Its area of...

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Maldives – in path of Chinese squall

Maldives – in path of Chinese squall

By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Aug , 2015

As per media reports, Maldives president Abdulla Yameen has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to assure him that there will be no militarization in the Indian Ocean. This was obviously in...

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The Futility of Talks between India and Pakistan

The Futility of Talks between India and Pakistan

By: Neha Kumar Tiwari | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Aug , 2015

The National-Security Advisers of both India and Pakistan decide to meet each other in the midst of Gurudaspur attacks, which were later followed by several ceasefire violations across LOC. ...

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A Nation Shamed - and the mafia marches on

A Nation Shamed - and the mafia marches on

By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Aug , 2015

Early last year, the former COAS, Gen VK Singh (now MoS in the Modi government) went to lay a wreath at the Amar Jawan Jyoti at India Gate accompanied by 7-8 veteran General Officers – all...

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The price of ignoring military mind

The price of ignoring military mind

By: RSN Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Aug , 2015

In his book the ‘Himalayan Blunder’ Brig JP Dalvi mentions an episode, which clearly reflects the lack of strategic thinking in the 50s and 60s in the ruling class barring some exceptions...

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Talking to Taliban – Af-Pak honeymoon that never was

Talking to Taliban – Af-Pak honeymoon that never was

By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Aug , 2015

By nailing Pakistan for engineering the recent terrorist attack on Kabul airport, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has signaled that the much touted Afghanistan-Pakistan honeymoon that never was, is...

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Expose Pakistan terror while strengthening internal security

Expose Pakistan terror while strengthening internal security

By: Dr Simrit Kahlon | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Aug , 2015

The national outrage towards  the terror attack on a BSF convoy on the Jammu-Srinagar Highway in District Udhampur been expressed in ample measure in the electronic media. The evening of 05...

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The Growing Influence of Private Military Companies

The Growing Influence of Private Military Companies

By: Anant Mishra | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Aug , 2015

For decades it was a matter of fact for the public that the right to fight was solely based on the decision of the government. The concept of mercenaries were certainly not new in the modern...

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Talks, No Talks again Talks, What Pakistan Policy we have?

Talks, No Talks again Talks, What Pakistan Policy we have?

By: Brig Arun Bajpai | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Aug , 2015

Before 26 May 2014 when Modi Government took over the reins of power in Delhi, in last fifteen years we have been following the Pakistan policy of talks at any cost a gesture which Pakistan took...

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Expanding Chinese Naval Power

Expanding Chinese Naval Power

By: Lt Col Avinash Chandra | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Aug , 2015

After American withdrawal from Philippines a void was created in South-China sea region which gave opportunity to China to seize it and slowly increase and strengthen its naval presence. China...

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