Articles in Net Edition
Assam in the Cross-Fire
By: Brig Deepak Sinha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Jan , 2015
The world watched with horror and utter disgust as a radical element of the Pakistani Taliban (TTP), in what they termed as retribution, attacked the Army Public School in Peshawar, targeted the...
Defence Minister visits Hindan Air Base
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Jan , 2015
The Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar, familiarised himself today at Air Force Station Hindan, with the operations being carried out by the C-17 ‘Globemaster III’ and the C-130 J ‘Super...
Turkey with Presidential Pardons
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 Jan , 2015
On 27 November of last year, President Obama stepped outside the White House for pardoning a lucky turkey named Popcorn saving it from slaughter during the upcoming Thanksgiving festivities,...
Boko Haram: Beginning of a New Crusade
By: Anant Mishra | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Jan , 2015
Boko Haram is an Islamists militant group located in the Northern region of Nigeria. The name “Boko Haram” in regional Nigerian dialect means “Western Education is forbidden” which...
Bargaining with the defence services
By: Lt Gen Harwant Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Jan , 2015
First it was the then officiating defence minister shri Jaitley, who, during his meeting with a delegation of veterans, told them to lower their demand for One Rank One Pension, (OROP) Now the...
The myths on Pakistan
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 31 Dec , 2014
Indians have been spoon-fed for decades that stable Pakistan alone is necessary for India’s growth. Or that united Pakistan poses less threat than fragmented Pakistan. The myth propagated is...
What Type of War did the US Fight in Afghanistan?
By: Dr Amarjit Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 Dec , 2014
It is confusing that the US fought in Afghanistan the strange type of war it fought. For years, they had nothing more than the equivalent of one division in the whole of Afghanistan – hardly...
LCA (Navy) Successfully Ski Jumps on an Aircraft Carrier Simulated Deck
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Dec , 2014
It was a defining moment when LCA (Navy) Prototype 1 (NP1), the first indigenously designed and developed 4th plus generation combat aircraft designed to operate from the decks of air-craft...
The Rise and fall of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks
By: Anant Mishra | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Dec , 2014
The late Palestinian president Yasser Arafat famously said “Palestine is the cement that holds the Arab world together, or it is the explosive that blows it apart”. This quote illustrates the...
Virtual Terrorism
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Dec , 2014
While no definition of terrorism has been still not been accepted, the US had come up with the term “violent terrorism”. Even within the US hate crimes have been brought into the ambit of...
How to Make Proxy War Succeed in Baluchistan
By: Dr Amarjit Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Dec , 2014
For decades, Pakistan has engaged in a proxy war against India. Much of that proxy war has been secretive, while many of those secrets have been exposed. At other times, Pakistan has made...
Crystal Gazing the Future from Peshawar
By: Danvir Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Dec , 2014
Pakistan was created on religious lines in 1947 by partitioning of India. Today it stands at the cross roads even after 67 years of its creation completely confused and chaotic. One side is the...
The Power of Media
By: Brig Deepak Sinha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Dec , 2014
It is ironic that television channels and print media, the world over, have taken, what can only be described as vicarious pleasure, at providing live coverage of the recent hostage crisis in...
Macabre Irony – Peshawar massacre
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Dec , 2014
In the wildest of macabre irony to the ‘good’ and ‘bad’ Taliban theory that Pakistan successfully sold to the US, comes the ghastliest of terrorist attack at the Army Public School,...
Now at Sydney: Is India Prepared
By: Danvir Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Dec , 2014
Indians woke up to the news of a hostage crisis at Sydney’s busy Martin Place in the central business district. Around 40 hostages were held up at Lindt Chocolate Shop and Café by a likely IS...
Dealing with China
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Dec , 2014
How to deal with China has been a problem for the Indian diplomacy from the day the People’s Liberation Army entered Eastern Tibet in October 1950. South Block (both the Ministry of External...
Fighting the Proxy War on Social Media
By: Danvir Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Dec , 2014
On one side Modi in his Srinagar rally literally snatched the moral high ground from the army that it had assumed by a series of path breaking stances. And on the other our top military brass was...
Why Russia still matters
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Dec , 2014
Russian President Vladimir Putin is visiting India in the second week of December for what will be the 15th annual summit between the two countries. He is scheduled to address, during his stay at...
The Legacy of Peshawar
By: Dr Amarjit Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Dec , 2014
If the United States had been sincere and provided aid to the Afghan Mujahidin after the Russians were ousted from Afghanistan, Afghanistan might have not gotten into its current situation. ...
Crimea – The War That Didn’t Boil
By: Anant Mishra | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Dec , 2014
The Crimean crisis was an international crisis in 2014 principally involving Russia and Ukraine over the control of the Crimean Peninsula, until its annexation by Russia. Crimea is populated by...