Articles in Net Edition
Crass politicization of terrorism in India
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Aug , 2015
Ever since India began to be subjected to unremitting terrorism from Pakistan, mostly in direct collusion with the authorities in that country, there have been unmistakable signs on part of...
Games Nations Play: The Middle East Conflict — A Game of Gas Pipelines
By: Brig Amar Cheema | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Aug , 2015
A decade may appear to be a microcosm compared to the infinity of time, however, when measured on the scale of geo-politics, a decade can often become an eternity. Viewed in the context of the...
Indian Air Force (IAF) Contingent Set to Return Home on Completion of...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 31 Jul , 2015
Having ‘touched the sky with glory’ in consonance with the motto of the Indian Air Force (IAF) “Nabhah Sparsham Deeptam”, the air warriors of IAF are now set to return home after...
Lt Gen Philip Campose, Vice Chief of the Army Staff Superannuates on 31 Jul 15
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 31 Jul , 2015
Lt Gen Philip Campose superannuates today after 40 years and seven months of distinguished service in the Indian Army. The General Officer took over as the Vice Chief of Army Staff on 01 August...
An effort to Imortalise Yakub Abdul Razak Memon
By: Danvir Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 Jul , 2015
Yakub Abdul Razak Memon was executed by hanging on 30 July 2015 at 0630 IST in Nagpur jail. About 257 people were killed and over 700 injured in a series of explosions that rocked Mumbai on...
Why there is an attack in Dinanagar?
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 Jul , 2015
The foregoing eighteen months have witnessed three major jihadi attacks along the Pathankot-Jammu highway. This highway, NH1 (A), which serves as the lifeline of J&K runs parallel to the...
Pakistan’s Terror Attack in Gurdaspur
By: Danvir Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Jul , 2015
Yet again the Pakistani terrorists struck at dawn on July, 27 this time in Gurdaspur. They were eliminated in a twelve hours long gunfight which left eight persons dead including a Superintendent...
Canards of Military Coup – another James Bond
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Jul , 2015
As if the lies of a purported army coup by a journalist in 2013 were not enough, not prosecuting him had the obvious fallout for inviting more such acts. So, now we have a former IB officer,...
Retaliation against Pakistan is warranted
By: Dr Amarjit Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 Jul , 2015
The time window to retaliate against the Pakistani castration and beheading of three Indian soldiers earlier this year or killing of five brave soldiers in Poonch this week does not elapse if a...
No CDS only a Four Star General No1 Babus Win Again
By: Brig Arun Bajpai | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Jul , 2015
An IIT graduate, the new Defence minister of India Mr Manohar Parrikar within months of his taking over as RM made a public statement that Chief of Defence Staff system is a must for India and he...
Kargil: Pakistan’s dastardly misadventure
By: Col Jaibans Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Jul , 2015
Sixteen years have elapsed since the fateful day, 26 July 1999, when India emerged victorious in the Kargil war. The ignominious designs of a belligerent neighbour (Pakistan) to violate the...
Permanent Chairman COSC – cementing Parkinson’s in defence
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Jul , 2015
Media reports that the proposal to create the new post of a Permanent Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff Committee (COSC) is at “an advanced stage of planning” now, albeit this has to be ultimately...
Nawaz Sharif has no authority to change the Indo-Pak narrative
By: Mehtab Karan Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Jul , 2015
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has literally put his reputation at stake in pursuit of achieving peace with Pakistan. He is motivated by a firm belief that lasting peace will open the doors of...
Military Diplomacy - An Underutilised National Resource
By: Col Arjun Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Jul , 2015
In India diplomacy has so far been the domain solely of diplomats. A diplomat in India is a generalist who learns on the job, if so inclined. Modern international relations are such that...
Iraninan Breakthrough A Win Win Situation For India
By: Brig Arun Bajpai | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Jul , 2015
Let there be no doubt that Tuesday the 14 July will go down in the world history as one of the most epoch making day on which the Axis of Evil as Iran is termed by America and the Great Satan...
Expanding the EU: Changed Variables, Same Equations
By: Anant Mishra | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Jul , 2015
Since the foundation of European Union and the treaty of Rome in 1958, the question of expansion of the EU has always been a hot topic. Beginning with the “first Six”, the membership has...
Diagnosing War on Terrorism: Some Thoughts
By: Col Anil Athale | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Jul , 2015
The term Global Terrorism or more correctly ‘war against terrorism’ came in vogue only after 9/11 when the US suffered terrorist attack on its homeland as a blow back to its misguided Afghan...
Boeing and Tata announce Strategic Aerospace Partnership to Make in India
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Jul , 2015
Boeing and Tata Advanced Systems Limited (TASL) today signed a framework agreement to collaborate in aerospace and defense manufacturing and potential integrated systems development opportunities,...
The Track II Googly – crafty or naïve ?
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 Jul , 2015
Something is amazing about the propensity with which Sartaj Aziz, the Pakistani NSA can lie. Witness his statement post the Modi-Nawaz meeting in Russia that both leaders had agreed to address...
Indian Air Force formally inducts the Akash Missile
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Jul , 2015
History was created at Air Force Station Gwalior on 10 Jul 15 when Hon’ble Raksha Mantri Shri Manohar Parrikar formally handed over to the Indian Air Force (IAF) the indigenously designed,...