Articles in Net Edition
Chinese military official meets Maldives defence minister
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Dec , 2012
BEIJING, Dec. 11 (Xinhua) — Xu Qiliang, vice chairman of the Central Military Commission of Communist Party of China (CPC), met with Mohamed Nazim, the Maldives’ minister of defence and national...
Bested by China’s Strategy
By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Dec , 2012
China’s two-track policy towards India, that of targetting our territory as well as our market is proving effective. The Chinese calculate that they can periodically rile India politically...
Airbus Military A400M completes critical flight-test phase
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Dec , 2012
Airbus Military has successfully completed the 300 hours of Function & Reliability (F&R) flight-testing of the A400M new generation airlifter which is a key requirement prior to full...
Pratt & Whitney Singapore Engine Center Celebrates 7,000th Engine Delivery
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Dec , 2012
Pratt & Whitney announced its Singapore engine center celebrated more than 30 years of operations with the milestone delivery of its 7000th overhauled engine. Pratt & Whitney is a division of...
First Eurofighter Typhoon Meteor firing trial a success
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Dec , 2012
The Meteor Beyond Visual Range Air-to-Air Missile has been successfully launched from a Eurofighter Typhoon as part of the Future Enhancements Flight Test Programme. The missile was eject launched...
Indian Foreign Policy: Future Challenges
By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Dec , 2012
I feel honoured at being asked to speak today to such a distinguished audience on a subject that is of great interest to foreign policy practitioners and commentators alike. What are the...
AFSPA: Who wants the military for internal security?
By: Maj Gen S G Vombatkere | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 Dec , 2012
Parliament and Government Government can function in the interest of people only when there is peace and order in society, persons in power use people-oriented politics, and the rule of law is...
'Navy plans to induct 5 to 6 ships and submarines every year': Navy Chief
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Dec , 2012
On the occasion of Navy Day on December 4, 2012, the Naval Chief Admiral D.K. Joshi announced the following in the press conference held at New Delhi: The world has acknowledged India’s economic...
Airbus Military delivers final A330 MRTT to Royal Australian Air Force
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Dec , 2012
Airbus Military has formally delivered the fifth and final new generation A330 MRTT multi-role tanker transport ordered by the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF).The handover of the aircraft, the...
India’s youth power serious liability if it takes wrong turn!
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Dec , 2012
In 1947, our population was 350 million. As per the 2011 census it stood at 1.02 billion. Today we already are 1.21 billion constituting 17.3 percent of world population, implying every sixth...
Action plan to deal with Maoist Insurgency
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Nov , 2012
Start a crash programme for the development of road and telecommunications infrastructure in the entire tribal belt of Central India. The Chinese realised that without effective road and rail...
The Maldivian Shock
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Nov , 2012
While writing the history of Indian diplomacy 25 years hence, any dispassionate historian will agree that the Manmohan Singh government’s neighbourhood policy has been a monumental failure. It...
Expanding the Idea of Asia
By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Nov , 2012
As economic power shifts increasingly to Asia and affects global political equations, adddressing security issues in the region becomes more pressing. Can the often discussed pan-Asian security...
Army’s most critical deficiency: Good Generals?
By: Lt Gen KK Khanna, PVSM, AVSM** (Retd) | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 Nov , 2012
A lot has been written about Generals in the recent past. Not because of in-house introspection or internal check but because misdeeds were exposed in the Media. Lack of internal audit is a cause...
Saab appoints Niklas Nieminen as Saab India Managing Director
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Nov , 2012
Defence and security company Saab announces the appointment of Niklas Nieminen as Managing Director of Saab India Technologies Pvt Ltd from November 1. The appointment has come on the back of a...
Cassidian unveils the portable DXT3p TETRA switch
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Nov , 2012
DXT3p brings full set of TETRA features and high capacity for temporary and mobile networks Suitcase size and lightweight: one person can carry it if necessary Lower power consumption of only...
AFSPA : Soldiers clear, but is everyone else ?
By: Maj Gen Rajendra Prakash | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Nov , 2012
With Kashmir Valley on the boil, the prolific public debate on the ‘Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act’ (AFSPA) has taken on an unusual stridency. But a debate which is swayed by emotion,...
Syria: Clear and present danger
By: Col Amar Ramdasani | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Nov , 2012
Syria has remained in the clutches of a repressive minority dominated regime led by the Al Asad family since 1970. Though, the Asad regime had violently suppressed an armed uprising led by the...
Obama in Myanmar: The Reality and the Mirage
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Nov , 2012
US President Barack Obama has just completed an eight-hour flying visit to Yangon (Rangoon), the former capital of Myanmar, from Thailand and flown to Phnom-Penh, the Cambodian capital, to attend...
There are no 'Menial' jobs in the army
By: Lt Gen Harwant Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Nov , 2012
Some time ago, a newspaper of considerable standing put out on its front page a story that around a dozen soldiers from a unit at Patiala deserted because they were made to do some ‘menial’...