Articles in Military & Aerospace
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...
The Great Game: 21st Century Version-I
By: Vikram Sood | Issue: Vol 22.3 Jul-Sep 2007 | Date: 14 Dec , 2010
The Rules of the Game:The current century began in an intensely violent manner and there are no signs of a let up. Two and a half deadly wars are being fought in our neighbourhood and threaten to...
US Military Surge in Afghanistan
By: Rohit Singh | Issue: Vol 25.1 Jan-Mar 2010 | Date: 13 Dec , 2010
After months of agonizing, the decades most long awaited decision has finally been made. It is a military surge of 30,000 additional troops to chart out a dignified exit for the United States,...
Navy Officers Cadets complete training
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Dec , 2010
169 Officer Cadets of the Indian Navy including 32 Assistant Commandants of Indian Coast Guard successfully completed their afloat training onboard the First Training Squadron today, at Kochi....
Low Intensity Conflict Revisited
By: Vice Adm (Retd) GM Hiranandani | Issue: Vol 22.3 Jul-Sep 2007 | Date: 10 Dec , 2010
Insurgencies have existed for centuries. In recent decades however, the easy availability of machineguns, rocket-propelled grenades, RDX explosive with hi-tech remote-triggering devices have made...
Indo-French Friendship to Partnership-III
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Vol 23.1 Jan-Mar 2008 | Date: 05 Dec , 2010
Obstacles to Indo-French Relations: At the outset, it is necessary to point out that today no major political differences darken the sky between Paris and Delhi except, of course, the unexpected...
Indo-French Friendship to Partnership-II
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Vol 23.1 Jan-Mar 2008 | Date: 04 Dec , 2010
Phase 2: 1971-1990: The Office of the Historian of the US State Department which has recently released the declassified documents of the Nixon Administration terms the policy of the US President...
Indian Navy to sanitize Eastern Arabian Sea
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Dec , 2010
A multi ship force of the Indian Navy has been tasked to undertake a comprehensive search in the Eastern parts of the Arabian Sea to locate and disable probable pirate (mother) vessels and...
French Forces in Indian Ocean
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Dec , 2010
Today, only two foreign navies maintain a permanent presence in the Indian Ocean i.e. the United States Navy and the French Navy. Bharat Verma interviewed Rear Admiral Jacques Launay, Joint...
Securing Maritime Lifelines
By: Cdr Gurpreet S Khurana | Issue: Vol 20.4 Oct-Dec 2005 | Date: 26 Nov , 2010
Characterised by globalisation, the present times bear a new flavour for international relations. The economic liberalization undertaken by states has led to a frenzy of commercial interactions...
Military Service Pay
By: Lt Gen Vijay Oberoi | Issue: Vol 22.4 Oct-Dec 2007 | Date: 24 Nov , 2010
The sixth pay commission is now about midway in their task of preparing their recommendations for the revision of wages of more than 33 lakh central government employees, including the personnel...
Selecting Military's Top Brass
By: Maj Gen Mrinal Suman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Nov , 2010
Indian armed forces have many unique organisational features. Most of them have been discussed frequently in public debates. One lesser known aspect is total lack of meritocracy in higher...
Kargil and the Decade Since
By: Rohit Singh | Issue: Vol 24.3 Jul-Sep 2009 | Date: 18 Nov , 2010
It has been ten years since valiant Indian soldiers achieved the impossible feat of evicting Pakistani intruders from the dizzy heights of Kargil. Frontally assaulting peaks over 15,000 feet in...
Intelligence: Need for Enhanced Focus on China
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Nov , 2010
Since 1947, India has had four reviews of its intelligence capabilities. The first was after the Sino-Indian military conflict of 1962 in which the Indian Army did badly. The review led to two...
Nuclear capability of India and China
By: Col R Hariharan | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Nov , 2010
A comparison of nuclear capability of India and China cannot be made in isolation. It has to be derived in the backdrop of their strategic vision, global ambitions and political and social ethos...
Does India have National Security
By: Lt Gen HC Dutta | Issue: Vol 24.2 Apr-Jun 2009 | Date: 05 Nov , 2010
Pakistan has been a volatile and turbulent neighbor to India. Since partition, India has had to resort to war on three occasions – 1947, 1965, 1971 plus two sizeable conflicts in Rann of Katchh...
India's sea-blindness
By: Cdr Gurpreet S Khurana | Issue: Vol 24.1 Jan-Mar 2009 | Date: 03 Nov , 2010
Despite lessons from the past when India was subjugated by major sea powers, modern India is not particularly known for a maritime outlook. Recent events go further to underscore the...
Need to Bridge Inter-Services Trust Deficit
By: Maj Gen Mrinal Suman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Nov , 2010
Existing trust deficit amongst the three services is adversely affecting national defence preparedness and is the primary impediment in achieving the goal of jointmanship. Lack of mutual trust...
Indian Air Force 2020
By: Air Marshal BK Pandey | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 Oct , 2010
Planning for Modernisation of the IAF Festivity during the 73rd anniversary of the Indian Air Force in October 2005 was overshadowed by the concern over its depleting combat power. Obsolescence...
Unpredictable China: are we prepared?
By: Col Narender Kumar | Issue: Vol 25.2 Apr-Jun 2010 | Date: 22 Oct , 2010
The rise of China’s military power and its reach and capabilities has surprised the world. China has moved beyond the doctrine of “local wars under conditions of high tech environment” to...