Articles in Military & Aerospace
The pitfalls in evolution of Indian Army-III
By: Maj Gen Sukhwant Singh | Issue: Book Excerpt: India's War since Independence | Date: 28 Jan , 2011
The Indian opening of a second front in Punjab on 6 September forced Ayub Khan to pull troops out of the Chhamb-Jaurian sector to reinforce the Lahore and Sialkot sectors. Despite thinning out,...
The pitfalls in evolution of Indian Army-II
By: Maj Gen Sukhwant Singh | Issue: Book Excerpt: India's War since Independence | Date: 27 Jan , 2011
Chaudhuri set about his task energetically and with dispatch, bringing to his job as Chief a wealth of experience of well-handled assignments both in command and staff, including his tenure as...
Awards for Gallant Air Force Pilots
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Jan , 2011
On May 8, 2010, Wg Cdr Chaturvedi saved the life of one J&K police personnel who was evacuated out of deep jungles of Lar in the Mahore-gulabgarh area at 9500 ft density altitude. Considering...
Military Power: key to India's future
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Vol 15.3 Jul-Sep 2000 | Date: 26 Jan , 2011
Despite the possible dawn of a democratic world order with the advent of the 21st Century, India continues to be saddled with a contradictory strategic environment. By virtue of the demographic...
Army: A Need for Introspection
By: Maj Gen Sheru Thapliyal, PhD | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Jan , 2011
The recent surge in incidents that bring bad name to the Army must result in an introspection in the Army, more so in the senior ranks – Army being a hierarchical organization. What all ranks...
Is this how we treat our military?
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Vol 24.1 Jan-Mar 2009 | Date: 17 Jan , 2011
At this critical juncture, India needs to demonstrate its resolve, and ensure the strength and morale of its armed forces. Instead, however, the self-pride of the armed forces is being subverted...
Army Chief willing to appear before the PAC
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Jan , 2011
New Delhi, Jan 6 (PTI) With the PAC calling the three Services heads to question them in connection with the alleged irregularities in CSD, Army Chief General V K Singh today said he had “no...
Air Marshal NAK Browne: The new VCAS
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Jan , 2011
Air Marshal NAK Browne PVSM, AVSM, VM assumed the charge as the new Vice Chief of the Air Staff (VCAS) at Air Headquarters, today. He was formerly the Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief (AOC-in-C)...
Military Power: The Task Ahead
By: Lt Gen SC Sardeshpande | Issue: Vol 23.1 Jan-Mar 2008 | Date: 29 Dec , 2010
Power means the sum total of capabilities, with the help of which things can be manipulated to one’s own advantage, be it individual or nation. Along the strands of capabilities is the power...
France & Nuclear Disarmament between vision & realism-III
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Vol 25.4 Oct-Dec 2010 | Date: 24 Dec , 2010
The second part of the speech is consecrated to disarmament. It is probably the most detailed account by a French President When international security improves, France draws the consequences....
Seven new radars to be set up in Lakshadweep to boost coastal security: Antony
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Dec , 2010
Indian Defence Minister A K Antony says, seven new radars will be set up in different islands of Lakshadweep to prevent illegal entry into the country’s territorial waters. He said, the radars...
France & Nuclear Disarmament between vision & realism-II
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Vol 25.4 Oct-Dec 2010 | Date: 23 Dec , 2010
People are ‘reproducible’ the Great Helmsman is said to have stated. That day, Nehru understood that India and China were not brothers, though Mao was at his charming best, when Nehru left...
France & Nuclear Disarmament between vision & realism-I
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Vol 25.4 Oct-Dec 2010 | Date: 22 Dec , 2010
The question of nuclear disarmament has always given rise to diverse, if not opposite reactions. Commentators have described the positions of different nations (and sometimes within the same...
Strange priorities of the Indian media
By: Maj Gen Mrinal Suman | Issue: Vol 23.3 Jul-Sep 2008 | Date: 22 Dec , 2010
An extract of the tribute paid by Rajeev Issar to the Late Major Manish Pitambare dated November 28, 2006 and circulated by email On Tuesday (November 27, 2006), this news swept across all the...
India's Mission to Moon
By: G Madhavan Nair | Issue: Vol 24.1 Jan-Mar 2009 | Date: 21 Dec , 2010
November 14, 2008, 20:31 hours, India created history in its march towards technological prowess. Indian tricolour was placed on the lunar surface and India announced to the world its arrival on...
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...
Burma to Japan with Azad Hind-III
By: Air Commodore Ramesh S Benegal | Issue: Book Excerpt: Burma to Japan with Azad Hind | Date: 19 Dec , 2010
The story goes that the aircraft managed to land on the runway that night amidst the confusion that existed at the base with aircraft landing and taking off in streams. The commandos managed to...
Burma to Japan with Azad Hind-II
By: Air Commodore Ramesh S Benegal | Issue: Book Excerpt: Burma to Japan with Azad Hind | Date: 18 Dec , 2010
The first two months of our training were devoted to toughening us up and putting us through ground subjects such as the principles of flight, meteorology, aero-engines and some Japanese military...
The Great Game: 21st Century Version-III
By: Vikram Sood | Issue: Vol 22.3 Jul-Sep 2007 | Date: 16 Dec , 2010
Both China and Pakistan are getting ready for an economic boom that will include transit trade to Central Asia. The Pakistan Army’s National Logistics Cell, which has a near monopoly, will...
The Great Game: 21st Century Version-II
By: Vikram Sood | Issue: Vol 22.3 Jul-Sep 2007 | Date: 15 Dec , 2010
The new US foreign policy of “transformational diplomacy” is not merely about just reporting the world as it is but about replicating nation-states into US clones. Post conflict multinational...