Articles in Net Edition
AW101 helicopter flies UK Prime Minister David Cameron during NATO Summit
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Sep , 2014
The Finmeccanica – AgustaWestland AW101 helicopter will transport the UK Prime Minister David Cameron and the UK delegation during the two day NATO Summit, which will be attended by more...
VULCANO Guided Long Range ammunition family enters the joint Italian-German...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Sep , 2014
The German Federal Procurement Agency BAAINBw informed the Italian Ministry of Defense about the decision to proceed with the joint qualification program of the VULCANO Guided Long Range (GLR)...
ISIS Threat: Dance of Barbarians
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Sep , 2014
The fact that Al Qaeda has been bamboozled by the ISIS in the Middle East is no secret. Pressured by US-NATO, Al Qaeda was in the mode of shifting its major base from Pakistan to Africa when...
Fight alienation and not AFSPA
By: Lt Gen Harwant Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Sep , 2014
Periodically Omar Abdullah demands abrogation of AFSPA from certain areas of the state of J and K. He claims that there is complete peace in these areas and therefore there is little justification...
Tibet: PLA’s frequent trainings with live ammunitions
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Sep , 2014
In March, The Times of India reported that the Indian Army is “fast running out of ammunition”. The daily affirmed: “Tanks and air defence units, artillery batteries and infantry soldiers...
Standards of Intervention
By: Anant Mishra | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 31 Aug , 2014
Formed in the wake of the horrors of World War II and the Holocaust, the United Nations took as its primary mission the maintenance of international peace and security. Since the end of the Cold...
India's hollowness and Pak’s perpetual war path
By: Lt Gen Gautam Banerjee | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Aug , 2014
“Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from defeat” – Jean-Paul Sartre After many years, the nation’s retrieval of some lost territory astride the Kargil...
The situation in Syria: Then and Now
By: Anant Mishra | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Aug , 2014
The wave of Arab unrest that began with the Tunisian revolution reached Syria on March 15, 2011, when residents of a small southern city took to the streets to protest the torture of students who...
The China Factor: India’s Tryst with the Dragon
By: Jayadeva Ranade | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Aug , 2014
Beijing’s accelerated push in recent years for recognition as the dominant power in the Asia-Pacific has accentuated the implicit contest for strategic space between Japan, the US, India and...
Pakistan Army’s official take on 1948 invasion of Kashmir
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 Aug , 2014
“By November 1947 Auchinleck, Supreme Commander based in New Delhi, being convinced that Indian Cabinet was seeking to destroy and undo Pakistan by economic and military means, was forced to...
Pakistan is a rogue country and should be treated accordingly
By: Maj Gen Mrinal Suman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 Aug , 2014
Pakistan is at it again. Five soldiers have lost their lives. Indian leadership appears unfazed and wants to continue dialogue with Pakistan. One of the greatest misfortunes for India is the fact...
The CIA's reconnaissance operations in India
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Aug , 2014
The CIA recently declassified a new series of documents on the history of the U-2 surveillance planes. In their “The Central Intelligence Agency and Overhead Reconnaissance: The U-2 and OXCART...
At the Conventional-Nuclear Interface
By: Ali Ahmed | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Aug , 2014
Conventional backdrop to nuclear foreground Accustomed to the phrase ‘nuclear backdrop’ as the army has been over the past two decades, the title may require explaining. The assumption is...
India, China and Sri Lanka: the uneasy triangle
By: Col R Hariharan | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Aug , 2014
China’s President Xi Jinping has accepted a long-standing invitation from President Mahinda Rajapaksa to visit Sri Lanka sometime this year. The first-ever visit by a Chinese President to Sri...
Kerry’s Visit: India and America need each other
By: Vice Admiral Venkat Bharathan | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 Aug , 2014
The Potomac and the Ganges are nature’s bountiful gifts. The former is witness to the evolution of modern America just around 240 years. The latter is holy, mystical and emotional to India for...
A Two-Two as Army Chief
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Aug , 2014
General Dalbir Singh Suhag, has yesterday taken over as the 26th Indian Chief of the Army Staff (COAS), following the retirement of General Bikram Singh. General Dalbir Singh Suhag is from the...
Political – Civil – Military Participation in National Security
By: Vice Admiral Venkat Bharathan | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 31 Jul , 2014
Analysis of India’s approach towards its National Security reveals an unacceptable hiatus between the Political -Civil- Military systems. We perhaps were lucky enough to get away thus far even...
Defence Preparedness: An unforgiving opportunity
By: Col Anil Athale | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 Jul , 2014
At Rs. 2.29 lakh crore, Defence expenditure is the largest component of the national budget. But true to Parkinson Law, when the figures are astronomical and beyond the grasp of human mind, the...
Maoists Through the Prism of their Victims
By: Lt Gen Baljit Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 Jul , 2014
What can be surmised from an understanding of the history of warfare in general is that in any form of armed conflict, collateral damage (loss of limb and life) to the populace at large as also of...
The ‘Why’ of Rethinking Indian Nuclear Deterrence!
By: Col Anil Athale | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Jul , 2014
Indian nuclear decision making was always in the global political context. These were almost exclusively political decisions with the armed forces not in the loop. The 1974 Pokhran I tests were...