Articles in Military & Aerospace
The silent use of hard power
By: Dr Prem Mahadevan | Issue: Vol 26.1 Jan-Mar 2011 | Date: 04 Jun , 2011
“Hard power yields obedience, while soft power yields acquiescence. The former is the foundation of state strength, but the latter helps consolidate that strength. History suggests that...
Arudhra Medium Power Radar inducted in the IAF
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Jun , 2011
Air Chief Marshal PV Naik, Chief of the Air Staff today inducted the first Medium Power Radar (MPR), named Arudhra by the IAF at Air Force Station Naliya in Gujrat. At Naliya, an airbase which...
The Navy in War-II
By: Maj Gen Sukhwant Singh | Issue: Book Excerpt: India's War since Independence | Date: 02 Jun , 2011
After 1965 Pakistan tried to keep pace with the Indian naval program, but the stoppage of US military aid and lack of foreign exchange prevented matching progress. But three Daphne class...
India's Losses and Gains in Post-Independence Wars - II
By: Maj Gen Sukhwant Singh | Issue: Book Excerpt: India's War since Independence | Date: 02 Jun , 2011
India captured many outposts along the Punjab border in Ajnala, Amritsar, Khemkaran, Mamdot and Fazilka sectors with minimal tactical and economic advantage. On the other hand, in this very...
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...
Medium Power Radar Arudhra to be inducted in the IAF
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Jun , 2011
Towards enhancing its Air Defence capabilities, the IAF would be inducting the first Medium Power Radar on 03 Jun 2011.In the background of the South Western Air Command’s Commanders’...
Indian Military Needs to Reorganize Itself In Theatre Commands
By: Gp Capt AS Bahal | Issue: Vol 21.2 Apr-Jun 2006 | Date: 01 Jun , 2011
The Kargil war identified certain inadequacies in the functioning of our Higher Defence Organisation. Subsequently, the Kargil Review Committee enumerated the need for a thorough review of the...
How Pakistan's Proxy War Began - IX
By: B Raman | Issue: Book Excerpts: A Terrorist State as a Frontline Ally | Date: 26 May , 2011
Wake-up call The Day of Infamy in New York and Washington DC on September 11 is a wake-up call for all nations grappling with the menace of externally-directed terrorism. More so for India. Also...
1971: The blitzkrieg in East Pakistan - II
By: Maj Gen Sukhwant Singh | Issue: Book Excerpt: India's War since Independence | Date: 22 May , 2011
Eastern Sector :The eastern sector comprised the area east of the Meghna in the destricts of Sylhet, Brahmanbaria, Comilla and Chittagong, and Chittagong Hill Tracts. The approach to Dacca lay...
Air Marshal NAK Browne will be the next Chief of Air Staff
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 May , 2011
Vice Chief of Air Staff Air Marshal NAK Browne will be the next Chief of Air Staff on the retirement of Air Chief Marshal PV Naik from government service on July 31, 2011. Born in Allahabad on...
1971: The Gradual Escalation - IV
By: Maj Gen Sukhwant Singh | Issue: Book Excerpt: India's War since Independence | Date: 08 May , 2011
Kashmir defied a political decision despite prolonged negotiations between representatives of India and Pakistan countries. Frustrated by its inabiltiy to find a solution of the problem to its...
1971: The Gradual Escalation - III
By: Maj Gen Sukhwant Singh | Issue: Book Excerpt: India's War since Independence | Date: 07 May , 2011
Yahya Khan asserted that the genuine refugees from East Pakistan numbered only 2 million, and he was prepared to accept back only this number and no more. This would have left about 8 million as...
Indian Navy Rescues Chinese Merchant Ship from Pirates
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 May , 2011
On the morning of 05 May an Indian Navy’s TU 142 aircraft’s persistant efforts lead to pirates evacuating a Chinese merchant vessel MV Full City. At about 0845 hrs on 05 May 11, the Indian Navy...
1971: The Gradual Escalation - II
By: Maj Gen Sukhwant Singh | Issue: Book Excerpt: India's War since Independence | Date: 06 May , 2011
When news trickled in of the revolt of the Bengali elements in units of the Pakistani Army stationed in East Pakistan and of Tikka Khan’s crackdown on the nationalistic civil population, voices...
1971: The Gradual Escalation - I
By: Maj Gen Sukhwant Singh | Issue: Book Excerpt: India's War since Independence | Date: 04 May , 2011
When news trickled in of the revolt of the Bengali elements in units of the Pakistani Army stationed in East Pakistan and of Tikka Khan’s crackdown on the nationalistic civil population, voices...
1971: The Rajasthan Campaign - IV
By: Maj Gen Sukhwant Singh | Issue: Book Excerpt: India's War since Independence | Date: 01 May , 2011
16 December: After suffering a few casualties in the probing mission in Barmer and believing that the enemy had reinforced his defences in the Nayachor and Umarkot areas, bewoor’s fears once...
1971: The Rajasthan Campaign - III
By: Maj Gen Sukhwant Singh | Issue: Book Excerpt: India's War since Independence | Date: 30 Apr , 2011
5 December: The camel battalion secured Rotak, Kelnor and Mankor in the Barmer sector by the end of the day in the north. Khokhrapar and satellite localities in the central sub-sector were...
1971: The Rajasthan Campaign - II
By: Maj Gen Sukhwant Singh | Issue: Book Excerpt: India's War since Independence | Date: 29 Apr , 2011
Air Force units located in Gujarat and at Nal did not come under AOC Jodhpur, air support for Bikaner and Kutch sectors had to be dealt with directly with Headquarters Western Air Command....
1971: The Rajasthan Campaign - I
By: Maj Gen Sukhwant Singh | Issue: Book Excerpt: India's War since Independence | Date: 28 Apr , 2011
After commanding an artillery brigade in Ladakh, I was selected to take over an infantry brigade, quite a feat in those prejudice-ridden days of early 1969. My General asked me: “Where do you...
1971: India's Military Plan - II
By: Maj Gen Sukhwant Singh | Issue: Book Excerpt: India's War since Independence | Date: 19 Apr , 2011
A comparison of the relative strength of India and Pakistan worked out at a ratio of 7:4, and this did not appear to the planners as such a preponderant superiority in numbers as to go for the...