Articles in Net Edition
President Awards Standards to 115 Helicopter Unit and 26 Sqn of IAF
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Nov , 2014
The Hon’ble President of India and Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, Shri Pranab Mukherjee, awarded the prestigious President’s Standard to 115 Helicopter Unit and 26 Squadron in a grand...
Airbus awarded 13 million Euro periscope maintenance facility for India
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Nov , 2014
Maintenance facility enhances operational readiness of Indian fleet Airbus Defence and Space’s Optronics business unit and the Indian Ministry of Defence have signed a 13 million Euro contract...
Al-Qaeda set to burn the Ganga Post 2014
By: Danvir Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Nov , 2014
The year 2014 is very important to many of us, in the Indian sub-continent for some reason or other. The importance of which is being discussed on the television, the radio and in the print media...
Bangladesh Military's Political Retreat: Sheikh Hasina's War on Yunus & the US
By: B.Z. Khasru | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Nov , 2014
When seemingly unending political street-battles gripped Bangladesh in late 2006, the United Nations pushed the country’s military in a circuitous way to take over the administration, brazenly...
Israel: The Legitimacy of Occupation
By: Brig Deepak Sinha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Nov , 2014
In an earlier article Gaza and the Israeli Intervention, I had written on the savage and brutal retaliation by Israel against the Palestinians in Gaza for the unfortunate and revolting murder of...
The Issue of Religious Extremism
By: Anant Mishra | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 Nov , 2014
Religion is an organized collection of beliefs, cultural systems and worldviews that relate mankind to the supernatural and spirituality. Most religions have numerous signs and symbols as well as...
Tackling the LWE Menace in India
By: Lt Gen Kamal Davar (Retd) | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Nov , 2014
“Of all kinds of dangers, internal dangers should be got rid of first, for it is internal troubles, like the fear from a lurking snake, that are more serious than external troubles.” —...
Myanmar: India’s security takes another knock
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Nov , 2014
Former Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar said that food worth Rupees 44,000 crores was wasted last year for lack of storage space in India including vegetables and fruits worth Rupees 13,000...
The Chinese Twin Silk Roads – Can India shake off its lethargy?
By: Navneet Bhushan | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Nov , 2014
If you have to see the future, look at the map of the future. Or better why not draw the map yourself. If you are the most populous, recently turned the largest economy and the emerging new type...
Boeing Completes Testing on New Anti-Jamming Technology
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Nov , 2014
Boeing has proven its new anti-jamming communications technology is capable of operating as either a ground-based user terminal or satellite-based networking hub, enabling the military to send and...
Not Easy to Understand Chinese Mind Set
By: Air Marshal RS Bedi | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Nov , 2014
China’s reaction to India’s plan to construct a strategic road from Vijay Nagar to Twang in Arunachal Pradesh was rather offensive. Ignoring all diplomatic niceties, it threatened India of...
Reforming the United Nations Security Council
By: Anant Mishra | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Nov , 2014
In an era where there is increasing inter dependence amongst nations, where a narcissistic approach is a thing of the past, where good diplomacy and smart foreign policies are a way to subdue your...
Mechanism against terror still missing
By: Jagdish N Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Nov , 2014
Terrorism is a crime against humanity. It threatens most the lives and rights of ordinary citizens, whom every modern state must serve best to justify its legitimacy. Given this, Prime Minister...
Needed, a new military doctrine to deter Pakistan permanently
By: Maj Gen Afsir Karim | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 Oct , 2014
Before the ceasefire agreement was signed in 2003 between India and Pakistan, ceasefire violations were a regular feature all along the Line of Control. During these engagements, heavy artillery...
Mating Frankensteins
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Oct , 2014
This is not about Musharraf who wasted his life trying to mate radical organizations in the vain hope of getting eulogized as Zia-ul-Haq II, killing more Pakistanis than Indians in the process...
Role of Intelligence Agencies in Modern Warfare
By: Anant Mishra | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Oct , 2014
Gathering intelligence and information by means of espionage has been a key element to the survival of nations ever since their existence. However, there has been a major change in the way...
Airbus Defence and Space and Tata Advanced Systems bid for the Indian Air...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Oct , 2014
Companies will offer Airbus C295 under new teaming arrangement. Airbus Defence and Space and Tata Advanced Systems (TASL) have submitted a joint bid to replace the Indian Air Force´s fleet of...
The case of the ‘All Weather Friends’
By: Lt Gen (Dr) JS Bajwa | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Oct , 2014
The Director General of the Inter Services Public Relations of the Pakistani military establishment, Major General Asim Saleem Bajwa, visited China from 14-18 October 2014. A statement made by...
Threat or Use of Force with Special Focus on Interventions and Invasions
By: Anant Mishra | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Oct , 2014
The international law realm has for some time struggled with two distinct and contrary legal principles: state sovereignty, and humanitarian justice. It had been almost a truism of international...
Colonel Commandants: An Archaic and Parochial Institution
By: Maj Gen Mrinal Suman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Oct , 2014
The concept of Colonel Commandants (Col Comdts) dates back to the 17th century when Colonels (both in rank and appointment) were the original owners and field commanders of their units...