Articles in Military & Aerospace
Politics and the Military
By: Lt Gen NS Brar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Sep , 2019
History bears witness that a strong, sovereign and independent state has always been backed by a strong army, in today’s context military, yet paradoxically, the military is a threat in being...
Creating the CDS – Not the What but the How
By: Lt Gen NS Brar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 Sep , 2019
Two recent announcements by the government – creation of a Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) for the armed forces and merger of public sector banks – though diametrically opposite in context, have...
Indian Air Force inducts eight Boeing AH-64E Apache helicopters
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Sep , 2019
Boeing formally handed over eight of 22 AH-64E Apache helicopters to the Indian Air Force at the Air Force Station, Pathankhot. Air Chief Marshal B.S. Dhanoa, Chief of Air Staff, officers from the...
Drone Swarms: The Emerging Air Threat
By: Col Mandeep Singh | Issue: Vol. 33.4 Oct-Dec 2018 | Date: 01 Sep , 2019
The threat posed by drones has been acknowledged from the time the first drone took to the air. Efforts have been made ever since to counter the slow, low flying objects, if not to shoot them...
Uniformity in Uniform
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 31 Aug , 2019
Recent media reports indicate that the Army has decided to do away with differences in the attires of officers above the rank of Colonel. The move is being hailed to usher in uniformity in...
CDS – will it include comprehensive reform?
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Aug , 2019
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s announcement on August 15 that India will have a CDS to head the Army, Navy and Air Force was in his characteristic style of springing surprises, be it...
CDS – A Long Way to Tipperary
By: Lt Gen NS Brar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Aug , 2019
Irish soldiers marching off to the Western Front in World War I sang It’s a long way to Tipperary, it’s a long, long way to go; a longing for home but underlying the near certainty of death or...
The Uncertain Terrain of Chief of Defence Staff
By: S.N. Misra | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Aug , 2019
John F. Kennedy had said “Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion, without the discomfort of thought”. In voicing an opinion on the recently announced creation of a CDS by the PM on the...
Future Military Helicopters — Design & Development
By: Lt Gen BS Pawar | Issue: Vol. 33.3 Jul-Sep 2018 | Date: 11 Aug , 2019
Military Aviation today is looking at the next generation of military helicopters and the strategy to modernise vertical lift capability with improved avionics, electronics, range, speed,...
Making of a General
By: Col Bhaskar Sarkar | Issue: Book Excerpt: Outstanding Victories of the Indian Army | Date: 11 Aug , 2019
“The personality of the general is indispensable. He is the head, he is the all of an army. The Gaul’s were not conquered by the Roman Legions but by Caesar. It was not before the...
An Indian Philosophy of A Soldier
By: Dr Krishna S Dhir, PhD | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Aug , 2019
Members of the Indian Armed Forces swear to observe and obey all the commands, not only of their Supreme Commander, the President of India, but of any officer set above them. Significantly, when...
First Param Vir Chakra
By: Sumit Walia | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Aug , 2019
The Independence of India came with the pain of partition and the 1947-48 Indo-Pak war. Soon after independence, Pakistan attacked Kashmir with tribals from the North West Frontier Province (NWFP)...
Military Integration – Much Rhetoric, Zero Will
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 Aug , 2019
Speaking during the Kargil Diwas celebrations, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on July 27 called upon the Army, Navy and Air Force to better integrate themselves as they modernize their capabilities,...
Modi 2.0: Road Ahead for Defence
By: Prof (Dr) SN Misra & Sanjaya Kumar Ghadai | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 Aug , 2019
The report card of Modi 2.0 government’s 50 days that has been issued echo the optimism of the General Budget of 7th July. It plans to transform India into a 5 trillion dollar economy by 2024 by...
Two Decades after Kargil
By: Martand Jha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Aug , 2019
History is better viewed in a rear view mirror. This saying becomes ever more relevant when one looks back into the history of Indo-Pak rivalry. This month marks the 20th anniversary of Kargil...
Impending Demise of INF Treaty on 02 Aug 2019: Implications and Opportunities
By: Col RN Ghosh Dastidar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 31 Jul , 2019
On 02 August 2019, the Intermediate Range Nuclear Force (INF) Treaty between USA and erstwhile USSR is set to terminate. INF Treaty bans land based missiles with a range between 500 km and...
Military and Politics
By: Brig Deepak Sinha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Jul , 2019
If a student of military history were to focus on the Sino-Indian Conflict of 1962, he would be hard pressed to avoid concluding that the result of the confrontation was actually decided in less...
Pakistani Kargil Planners – How could they be so naïve !!!
By: Sumit Walia | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Jul , 2019
“Sir based on the wisdom and experience of my entire professional career, I could guarantee the success of the operation“. This is what Gen Musharraf said to his PM Nawaz Sharif in a meeting...