Articles in Net Edition
Withdrawal from Siachen – a manifestation of Prithviraj Chauhan syndrome!
By: Maj Gen Mrinal Suman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 May , 2014
Siachen is in the news again.Having served at the glacier, one is aware of the ground realities. It is being suggested that ‘demilitarization’ of the glacier will act as a catalyst to foster...
SonAir takes delivery of a new EC225 from Airbus Helicopters
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 May , 2014
Airbus Helicopters’ EC225 presence in the African oil and gas heli-lift market will expand following delivery of an additional workhorse rotorcraft to SonAir, which is to deploy this long-range...
Royal Brunei Airlines selects the A320neo
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 May , 2014
Royal Brunei Airlines (RB) has signed a contract with Airbus covering the firm order of seven A320neo aircraft plus three options, under the latest phase of its fleet modernisation programme....
Boeing Delivers 100th EA-18G Growler to US Navy
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 May , 2014
Boeing delivered the 100th EA-18G Growler to the U.S. Navy, marking a major milestone in the program that has transformed airborne electronic warfare capability for the U.S. and its allies. A...
Creation of Bangladesh: Shining Moment or Strategic Blunder
By: Maj Gen Sheru Thapliyal, PhD | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 May , 2014
“DURGA ASTRIDE A TIGER”. This is how Atal Behari Vajpayee described Indira Gandhi immediately after India’s lightening victory in the 1971 war, which resulted in creation of Bangladesh. ...
China: LAC impasse and Army-ITBP spat
By: Lt Gen (Dr) JS Bajwa | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 May , 2014
First the facts – Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) has five battalions deployed in Eastern Ladakh including those on the Line of Actual Control (LAC). ITBP does not have its own integral...
Siachen is not low hanging fruit
By: Vikram Sood | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 May , 2014
History’s lessons, the immutability of geography and the politics of any region will determine how nations behave with each other. Nations cannot up and away and change location from a difficult...
Has NFU stumped the BJP manifesto?
By: Lt Gen Vinay Shankar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 May , 2014
It would be reasonably in order to assume that the BJP manifesto was drafted after much deliberation and debate involving all the intellectuals of the party and many outside. It would also be...
New Breed of Babus in the Indian Army
By: Danvir Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 May , 2014
The army in India was not a mere replica of the British army at home, in terms of higher organisation, staff and command arrangements. It was led by the C-in-C in India, who was, in turn,...
Nexter & MBDA showcase cutting edge European Armament Technology
By: Danvir Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 Apr , 2014
A Pre-Eurosatory press visit was organized by the Defence Industries of France from April 22 to 25, 2014. This visit was coordinated by the DGA and conducted by the Nexter Group. It gave an...
Siachen was accepted as Indian Territory in 1949!
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 Apr , 2014
The Boss of Pakistan says: “It’s time to resolve the Siachen issue”, but what General Kayani forgets is that the Siachen issue was ‘solved’ long ago, in fact, in July 1949. I reproduced here an...
Employment of INS Vikramaditya for Military Diplomacy and Power Projection
By: Maj Gen Rajesh Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Apr , 2014
INS Vikramaditya a $2.33 billion refurbished aircraft carrier was acquired recently from Russia in November 2013 and is based at Karwar Naval Base on India’s Western Sea Board. This 44,500 ton...
Keeping the Faith
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Apr , 2014
Invited to speak at the National Defence University (NDU) at Washington DC in 2012 on ‘Countering Violent Terrorism & the Role of Military Special Forces, of one’s own volition JS (America),...
Handling Red Terror: Chicken Egg Debate
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Apr , 2014
Any debate about handling the Maoist insurgency finally boils down to whether it is or isn’t a ‘Law and Order’ problem and whether it should or should not be handled by the Centre or the...
Foreign Funding of Indian NGOs
By: Sanjeev Nayyar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Apr , 2014
Introduction to FCRA From time to time there is a furor over receipt of donations from abroad. In December 2013 the Supreme Court gave the Central Bureau of Investigation a further period of...
What ails Indian Submarine Fleet?
By: Nabeel A Mancheri | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Apr , 2014
There been a spate of accidents in the recent past in Indian Navy’s fleet, particularly in the submarine arm of the Navy. One of the most unfortunate accidents of the Indian Navy, was the...
India’s Nuclear Doctrine: The storm in India’s nuclear teacup
By: Ali Ahmed | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Apr , 2014
The reference to India’s nuclear doctrine in the BJP’s manifesto has resulted in a virtual storm in the strategic community. While the manifesto only makes the point that the BJP will seek to...
Review of Indian nuclear doctrine?
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Apr , 2014
The Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo is anathema to the Chinese because they fail to see it as a war memorial that every country has. It is a different story that in India the war memorial in New Delhi...
Admiral RK Dhowan Appointed the New CNS
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Apr , 2014
The Government has appointed Admiral RK Dhowan as the Chief of the Naval Staff. Admiral RK Dhowan was commissioned in the Navy on 01 Jan 1975. He is a Navigation and Direction specialist who has...
Airbus Defence and Space presents the latest generation of electronic...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Apr , 2014
Previously unachievable security offered by new developments for troops operating in the world’s hot spots Airbus Defence and Space’s Business Line Electronics has presented a new generation...