Articles in Vol 23.2 Apr-Jul 2008
Shortage of Officers in the Services
By: Maj Gen Mrinal Suman | Issue: Vol 23.2 Apr-Jul 2008 | Date: 02 Jul , 2014
Currently, the Indian Army is facing a shortage of 11,238 officers, a huge 24.1 percent of its authorization of 46,615 officers. The other two services face similar problems. The situation seems...
The Tibetan Factor
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Vol 23.2 Apr-Jul 2008 | Date: 29 Sep , 2012
An important factor which has been ignored by most students of history of the 1962 India-China War, is the ‘Tibetan factor’. It greatly hampered the PLA in scoring a more decisive victory...
Threat from China
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Vol 23.2 Apr-Jul 2008 | Date: 27 Nov , 2011
New Delhi’s portrayal of the humiliating defeat at the hands of Chinese in 1962 as ‘betrayal’ and ‘surprise’ is untrue. The pacifist Indian leadership that was crying hoarse from...
The Jihadi War - II
By: Col Harjeet Singh | Issue: Vol 23.2 Apr-Jul 2008 | Date: 01 Nov , 2011
Operation Enduring Freedom Operation Enduring Freedom is the official name used by the US government for its military response to the 11 September 2001 attacks on the country. Holding the Taliban...
The Jihadi War - I
By: Col Harjeet Singh | Issue: Vol 23.2 Apr-Jul 2008 | Date: 31 Oct , 2011
The lack of success in operation enduring Freedom in Afghanistan results from the US-led coalition’s failure to develop and implement, jointly, a coherent strategy for its conduct that...
Terrorism and Indian Ambivalence
By: Raunaq Rathore | Issue: Vol 23.2 Apr-Jul 2008 | Date: 14 Oct , 2011
Well over five decades, India has been combating insurgencies, militancy, and terrorism. Its security forces have been extensively employed to firefight such situations- erupting after years of...
Militarization of Space
By: Gp Capt Ajey Lele (Retd.) | Issue: Vol 23.2 Apr-Jul 2008 | Date: 02 Jun , 2011
Use of ‘outer space’ (also referred as ‘space’) to fight wars is not a new idea. Rockets reaching high into the atmosphere was talked about since World War II. The investments made by the...
Himalayan Rivers: Geopolitics and Strategic Perspectives
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Vol 23.2 Apr-Jul 2008 | Date: 17 Feb , 2011
On October 7, 1950 the PLA’s Second Field Army marched into Eastern Tibet to ‘liberate’ the Roof of the World. Several factors can explain this move. A few days after the beginning of the...
Security threats facing India
By: Anand K Verma | Issue: Vol 23.2 Apr-Jul 2008 | Date: 20 Nov , 2010
Threats are a matter of perception. Their assessments take into account capacities, not so much intentions, of a potential adversary. For an accurate reading, the short term and long term...