Articles in Vol. 31.1 Jan-Mar 2016
What S-400 will bring to the Indian Ground-Based Air Defence Capability?
By: Lt Gen (Dr) VK Saxena (Retd.) | Issue: Vol. 31.1 Jan-Mar 2016 | Date: 03 Jul , 2020
Good strides of progress, cutting across Service boundaries have taken place in automating the erstwhile manual/semi-automatic Control and Reporting (C&R) Nodes that exercise tactical, operational...
National Solidarity Within Ethnic Armed Movements: A Study of Nagalim Voice
By: Dr Samrat Sinha & Dr Upasana Mahanata | Issue: Vol. 31.1 Jan-Mar 2016 | Date: 15 Aug , 2017
The development of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Isaac Muivah (NSCN-IM) must be first viewed through the broader context of the changing nature of insurgency in Northeastern India....
Fighting In North-East Myanmar: What Lies Beyond
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Vol. 31.1 Jan-Mar 2016 | Date: 09 Aug , 2017
In recent years, the central government has made an effort to pacify its ethnic regions but the situation is still unstable in many places and the humanitarian toll that has resulted from...
Bull in the China Shop: The Indian Army vs The PLA
By: Brig Deepak Sinha | Issue: Vol. 31.1 Jan-Mar 2016 | Date: 22 Mar , 2017
One would expect that the Indian armed forces, more than fifty years of their confrontation with the PLA, would be pretty knowledgeable not only about their organisational table, capabilities and...
Restructuring the People’s Liberation Army (PLA)
By: NP Singh | Issue: Vol. 31.1 Jan-Mar 2016 | Date: 22 Aug , 2016
If we seize this moment, reform may be accomplished in one fell swoop: if we let it pass by, we will lose a great opportunity. — PLA Daily, March 12, 2014 The one thing that caught the world’s...
Visualised Indian Artillery Considering Threats from China and Pakistan
By: Maj Gen PK Chakravorty | Issue: Vol. 31.1 Jan-Mar 2016 | Date: 03 Aug , 2016
The Regiment of Artillery needs to expedite its modernisation process particularly with regard to guns and ammunition. All our guns are more than 25 years old and need to be replaced. The first...
Aviation: The Future is Unmanned
By: Air Marshal Anil Chopra | Issue: Vol. 31.1 Jan-Mar 2016 | Date: 28 Jul , 2016
The Indian Armed Forces operate nearly 150 mid-sized UAVs and many more handheld ones. India needs to push its ‘Make in India’ initiative for UAVs. Mumbai and New Delhi police are on the verge...
Modernisation of Army Air Defence
By: Maj Gen AK Mehra | Issue: Vol. 31.1 Jan-Mar 2016 | Date: 25 Jul , 2016
Students of matters military will vouch for the shape of the battlefield in the 21st century. All battles will be preceded by an intense air battle to attempt to destroy the war-waging potential...
Militarisation of the South China Sea: The Offence-Defense Paradigm
By: Dr Rajasimman Sundaram | Issue: Vol. 31.1 Jan-Mar 2016 | Date: 13 Jul , 2016
While war between US and China is ruled out for multiple reasons, the military balance of power dictated by military strategy chosen has direct bearings on the political choices made by...
Revamping the IAF’s Trainer Fleet
By: Gp Capt B Menon | Issue: Vol. 31.1 Jan-Mar 2016 | Date: 11 Jul , 2016
With the drawdown of numbers of operational squadrons likely to continue till at least 2025, it is imperative that those in the cockpits of a force with reduced numbers of platforms have the best...
Make in India: Problems and Prospects for the Aerospace Industry
By: Gp Capt AK Sachdev | Issue: Vol. 31.1 Jan-Mar 2016 | Date: 27 Jun , 2016
The Indian public sector aerospace industry, protected by successive governments, does not have much to show as results for all the money spent in the last seven decades. On the other hand, the...
India’s Air Defence: Is it Capable?
By: Maj Gen AK Mehra | Issue: Vol. 31.1 Jan-Mar 2016 | Date: 13 Jun , 2016
Modern technology has brought about two major changes in the air defence segment of the modern battle milieu. These changes described below, have transformed the very nature of the air defence...
The Eagle, The Dragon, The Elephant and The Bear
By: Col Anil Athale | Issue: Vol. 31.1 Jan-Mar 2016 | Date: 12 Jun , 2016
Indians indeed have never been more confident of their future in history and that is reflected in every field. The elephant is more sure-footed than the Chinese Dragon or the British Lion. This...
KAMOV: The Make in India Defence Deal
By: Prof (Dr) SN Misra | Issue: Vol. 31.1 Jan-Mar 2016 | Date: 08 Jun , 2016
HAL must not rest on its laurels and must take up this challenge in the right spirit. The government’s decision to go with an old agency like HAL, is driven by its head start in integration and...
China’s Reclamation of Islands in the South China Sea: Implications for India
By: Maj Gen PK Chakravorty | Issue: Vol. 31.1 Jan-Mar 2016 | Date: 07 Jun , 2016
Reclamation of lands in the South China Sea has been an ongoing process by various countries. China initiated the process by building a full-ledged air base on Woody Islands which forms a part of...
Spectre of ISIS Cyber Jihad Pandemic
By: Maj Gen AK Chadha | Issue: Vol. 31.1 Jan-Mar 2016 | Date: 29 May , 2016
The cyber domain is becoming a key part of offensive operations for any group, be it a government, criminal organisation or terrorist group. The cyber domain provides the group with a low-cost...
Ending the World’s Worst Atrocities DARFUR
By: Anant Mishra | Issue: Vol. 31.1 Jan-Mar 2016 | Date: 28 May , 2016
Darfur has been boiling in conflict since 2003 when the Sudan Liberation Movement Army (SLM) and the Justice and Equality Movement Army (JEM) took up arms against the then Government of Sudan....
Nurturing Military Institutions: For the Good of the Nation
By: Lt Gen Gautam Banerjee | Issue: Vol. 31.1 Jan-Mar 2016 | Date: 02 May , 2016
Over the following decades, while the nation’s military capability went through cycles of rise and fall depending upon the degree of the Government’s geo-strategic naivety, denigration of the...
Make in India in Defence Production: Challenges & Opportunities
By: DC Srivastava | Issue: Vol. 31.1 Jan-Mar 2016 | Date: 25 Apr , 2016
Collaboration and cooperation between the private sector and Public Sector Defence Units may create synergy in defence production. R&D needs to be taken to private firms and SMEs need to be...
Rafale Deal – Untying The Knots
By: Air Marshal Anil Chopra | Issue: Vol. 31.1 Jan-Mar 2016 | Date: 17 Apr , 2016
The IAF desperately needs to make good the numbers. Three squadrons of the ageing 1960s and 1970s vintage MiG-21 and MiG-27 fighter jets are being phased out in 2015. An additional squadron of...