Articles in Vol. 23.4
Pakistan's export of fake currency via Nepal
By: VK Shashikumar | Issue: Vol. 23.4 Oct-Dec 2008 | Date: 13 Jan , 2012
At most places along the 751 km Bihar-Terai contiguous no-man’s land on the India-Nepal border are dirt tracks. Solitary signpost marks the international boundary here. On one side is Bihar, on...
Tactical Shifts in the Terror Profile
By: Maj Gen GD Bakshi, (Retd) | Issue: Vol. 23.4 Oct-Dec 2008 | Date: 08 Oct , 2011
From June 08, India has been victim of a new phase of terrorism and enhanced ISI activities. This spurt in ISI sponsored terrorism was presumably initiated by Lt Gen Nadeem Taj to divert...
Offsets: an Indian perspective
By: Maj Gen Anil Kumar Mehra | Issue: Vol. 23.4 Oct-Dec 2008 | Date: 23 Feb , 2011
J. Brauer and J.P. Dunne in their article “Arms Trade Offsets and Development.” Africanus [South Africa] Vol. 35, No. 1 (June 2005), pp. 14-24,opine: “Arms importing countries’ offset...
Trends in Military Leadership
By: Lt Gen SC Sardeshpande | Issue: Vol. 23.4 Oct-Dec 2008 | Date: 19 Feb , 2011
“The sense of grievance among armed forces that the civilian bureaucracy has short-changed it and this is reflected in the hierarchy laid down in the pay commission is both sad and dangerous....
Sino-Indian border imbroglio
By: Lt Gen MC Bhandari | Issue: Vol. 23.4 Oct-Dec 2008 | Date: 19 Feb , 2011
China launched full scale invasion on India in 1962. In fact, Chinese invasion had commenced way back in 1906 when it maneuvered and succeeded in concluding the 1906 Convention in Calcutta. In...
When Commanders Become Bureaucrats
By: Maj Gen Mrinal Suman | Issue: Vol. 23.4 Oct-Dec 2008 | Date: 20 Dec , 2010
In late 1980s, an Engineer Regiment was asked to move to high altitude area as part of normal turn over of units. The regiment put in its demand for high altitude clothing for the troops well in...
The Indian Jihadi Net
By: B Raman | Issue: Vol. 23.4 Oct-Dec 2008 | Date: 20 Dec , 2010
If one carefully analyses the various serial blasts which have taken place in different parts of India since November,2007, one could notice an organic, mushroom-like growth of jihadi terrorist...
Pakistan: The Anti-India Identity
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Vol. 23.4 Oct-Dec 2008 | Date: 25 Nov , 2010
Jinnah’s full encouragement to the vicious anti-Hindu rhetoric in the campaign for Pakistan raises serious doubts about his much -touted stature as a visionary. More importantly, it reveals a...
Radical Islam : Terror is the tool
By: Anand K Verma | Issue: Vol. 23.4 Oct-Dec 2008 | Date: 13 Nov , 2010
Time has arrived for the unspoken to be spoken i.e. Radical Islam is at war with India. The objectives of the war are to destroy India as a nation, with a composite culture and multi-ethnic...
The Sethusamudram Ship Canal Project
By: Vice Adm (Retd) GM Hiranandani | Issue: Vol. 23.4 Oct-Dec 2008 | Date: 03 Feb , 2009
At present, ships transiting between the coasts of India have to go all the way around Sri Lanka because of a reef called Adam’s Bridge at Pamban, near Rameswaram Island. At Pamban, the depth...