Articles in Vol 25.4 Oct-Dec 2010
Water Availability in Pakistan
By: Col Harjeet Singh | Issue: Vol 25.4 Oct-Dec 2010 | Date: 23 Sep , 2016
There appears to be a growing perception of Indian wrongdoing on water in Pakistani minds. While India–Pakistan relations are not on even keel, another canard can only add to the already...
Specialised Force for Internal Unrests
By: Maj Gen Mrinal Suman | Issue: Vol 25.4 Oct-Dec 2010 | Date: 24 Oct , 2014
Policy and methodology to counter the Naxalite threat have been subjects of intense debate recently. Army’s reluctance to get embroiled has been questioned in some government quarters. Sadly,...
Lengthening Malevolent Chinese Shadow
By: Maj Gen Sheru Thapliyal, PhD | Issue: Vol 25.4 Oct-Dec 2010 | Date: 07 Jun , 2014
“It is astonishing that we have never till date asked China to vacate our territory occupied by it in Aksai Chin. We go out of our way, even today, to explain away every Chinese intrusion into...
China's 'New Cold War' puts democracies in danger
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Vol 25.4 Oct-Dec 2010 | Date: 06 Jul , 2013
The spread of two authoritarian streams, Chinese communism and the Islamic fundamentalism, in combination or otherwise, threaten the survival of democracies in Asia. First, Beijing deftly sucked...
Police cannot take on Maoists
By: VK Shashikumar | Issue: Vol 25.4 Oct-Dec 2010 | Date: 25 May , 2013
The latest flash-point between The People’s Liberation Guerrilla Army or naxals in the Lakhisarai forests of Bihar is a tell-tale indicator of the state of preparedness of the Indian police and...
China's arms sales to Pakistan unsettling South Asian security
By: Dr Monika Chansoria | Issue: Vol 25.4 Oct-Dec 2010 | Date: 19 Apr , 2013
Underscoring its primacy as Pakistan’s primary benefactor in the realm of arms transfers, China’s recent upward swing in conventional arms sales to Islamabad has ruffled feathers as far as...
China: a new kind of superpower in the making
By: Bhaskar Roy | Issue: Vol 25.4 Oct-Dec 2010 | Date: 28 Aug , 2012
“The USA can defend its close allies in the Asia-Pacific region. But India cannot depend on the USA to bail it out. Washington has its complex foreign policy objectives whether correct or...
Design Considerations for Indigenous Aircraft Carrier-2
By: Vice Adm BS Randhawa | Issue: Vol 25.4 Oct-Dec 2010 | Date: 30 Jan , 2012
The keel of India’s first Indigenous Aircraft Carrier (IAC) was laid by the Raksha Mantri at Cochin Shipyard on the 28th of February 2009. This major milestone of the IAC project underlined the...
Internal Security and the Military
By: Lt Gen SC Sardeshpande | Issue: Vol 25.4 Oct-Dec 2010 | Date: 11 Mar , 2011
After a century of peace since 1857, we entered an era of independence — a totally new era of representational democracy, secularism of our brand, social equality, economic equity, uplift of...
The deluge: will Pakistan submerge or survive?
By: Col Ajay Singh | Issue: Vol 25.4 Oct-Dec 2010 | Date: 08 Dec , 2010
Nature has a strange way of altering the destiny of men and nations. The great biblical floods gave rise to the Jewish Nation, the terrible famine of Bengal in the 1850s helped provoke the first...
France pitches for India to join military operations overseas
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Vol 25.4 Oct-Dec 2010 | Date: 20 Oct , 2010
“I earnestly hope that the modernisation of India’s Mirage 2000 fleet will be executed by Dassault, Thales and MBDA.” Mr. Hervé Morin was born on 17 August 1961 in Pont-Audemer, Eure...