Articles in Vol 25.4 Oct-Dec 2010
Women in the Indian Army
By: Col MN Gopakumar | Issue: Vol 25.4 Oct-Dec 2010 | Date: 29 Oct , 2015
The Profession of Arms The soldier is not a civilian with a different job; the former is held to higher standards than most outside the Army can ever comprehend. “An army exists to advance by...
Limitations of Technical Intelligence
By: Air Vice Marshal AK Tiwary | Issue: Vol 25.4 Oct-Dec 2010 | Date: 10 Jan , 2013
Intelligence gathering is as old as human civilization. Good Intelligence generally leads to success, whereas failure to gather timely Intelligence has invariably resulted in defeat and ruin....
Defence Procurement: Shrinking Competitor Pool
By: Vulcan | Issue: Vol 25.4 Oct-Dec 2010 | Date: 09 Jan , 2013
Someone recently observed that “doing serious defence business in India is like religion; it’s an act of faith”. A droll statement but the point was a serious one. A corporation assesses...
Defence Procurement: A procedure sans policy
By: Air Marshal BK Pandey | Issue: Vol 25.4 Oct-Dec 2010 | Date: 08 Aug , 2012
“There is an imperative need to rationalise the Defence Procurement Procedure so that it serves the purpose of a facilitator, and not an impediment to the acquisition of defence...
India's Defence Procurement Procedure (DPP) prevents procurement
By: Lt Gen Vinay Shankar | Issue: Vol 25.4 Oct-Dec 2010 | Date: 13 Jul , 2012
“A comparison with other defense industries would be in order to draw some relevant deductions. Take China, Turkey, South Africa, South Korea, Israel and closer home even Pakistan. We began at...
Modular design and construction of warships
By: Cdr Douglas C Deans | Issue: Vol 25.4 Oct-Dec 2010 | Date: 13 Jul , 2012
Ships are built in the shortest time when a series of specific pre-planned Modules are assembled like a Lego set. A Module is an engineered assembly of a portion of the ship Platform that...
China-Pak spy web in Northeast
By: VK Shashikumar | Issue: Vol 25.4 Oct-Dec 2010 | Date: 12 Jun , 2012
India’s Defence Minister, circumspect at most times, surprised senior army officers by publicly admitting that China was demonstrating “increasing assertiveness”. He was addressing the...
Shipbuilders dilemma and the way ahead
By: Vice Adm Rajeshwer Nath | Issue: Vol 25.4 Oct-Dec 2010 | Date: 14 Mar , 2011
The global economic crisis has brought steepest decline in the shipbuilding industry across the world. The shipbuilding industry is facing tremendous head winds with no significant relief in...
Commercial evaluation is the weakest link
By: Maj Gen Mrinal Suman | Issue: Vol 25.4 Oct-Dec 2010 | Date: 11 Mar , 2011
The Indian defence procurement process consists of two distinct phases – technical and commercial. In the first phase, detailed technical evaluation is carried out of all competing systems to...
Meeting Maoist Challenge
By: Lt Gen Harwant Singh | Issue: Vol 25.4 Oct-Dec 2010 | Date: 05 Jan , 2011
While Maoists have been slowly but surely spreading their hold over district after district, scoring a total of over 200 districts, the Indian state slept through this phase spanning over couple...
France & Nuclear Disarmament between vision & realism-III
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Vol 25.4 Oct-Dec 2010 | Date: 24 Dec , 2010
The second part of the speech is consecrated to disarmament. It is probably the most detailed account by a French President When international security improves, France draws the consequences....
France & Nuclear Disarmament between vision & realism-II
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Vol 25.4 Oct-Dec 2010 | Date: 23 Dec , 2010
People are ‘reproducible’ the Great Helmsman is said to have stated. That day, Nehru understood that India and China were not brothers, though Mao was at his charming best, when Nehru left...
Countering Sino-Pak Axis
By: Maj Gen Pushpendra Singh | Issue: Vol 25.4 Oct-Dec 2010 | Date: 22 Dec , 2010
Harsh V Pant who teaches at King’s College, London describes Obama’s foreign policy as ‘courting America’s adversaries while ignoring friends and potential allies.’ India, which has...
France & Nuclear Disarmament between vision & realism-I
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Vol 25.4 Oct-Dec 2010 | Date: 22 Dec , 2010
The question of nuclear disarmament has always given rise to diverse, if not opposite reactions. Commentators have described the positions of different nations (and sometimes within the same...
India and the US-China Great Game
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Vol 25.4 Oct-Dec 2010 | Date: 20 Dec , 2010
Recently most of the flash points in the Western Pacific region witnessed activation, leading to belligerent posturing by China and its allies like North Korea; and the US and its allies, like...