Articles in Military & Aerospace
'Jawaharlal, do you want Kashmir, or do you want to give it away?'
By: admin | Date: 02 Apr , 2014
Special Operations Forces: Understanding the Dynamics of Change
By: Brig Deepak Sinha | Issue: Vol. 29.1 Jan-Mar 2014 | Date: 02 Apr , 2014
The need for a unified headquarters for our SOF is an inescapable requirement as it will enable us to ensure optimum utilisation of resources. Not only will we be able to avoid duplication of...
Strategic Importance of Siachen
By: Maj Gen Sheru Thapliyal, PhD | Issue: Vol 21.1 Jan-Mar 2006 | Date: 30 Mar , 2014
“I took over as Corps Commander in 03 Aug 1983. In Sep-Oct, I briefed Prime Minister Indira Gandhi about the strategic importance of Siachen and Pak design to capture Khardungla and dominate Leh...
An Increasingly Unmanned Future
By: Gp Capt Joseph Noronha | Issue: Vol. 29.1 Jan-Mar 2014 | Date: 30 Mar , 2014
The main attraction of military UAVs stems from the fact that their acquisition and training costs are far lower than those of combat jets. They can also be operated or stored at a fraction of the...
Military Coup an Impossibility and Unthinkable in India
By: Maj Gen Rajesh Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Mar , 2014
A front page news story published by one of the major national dailies two years ago in April 2012 regarding movement of two army units towards Delhi, the national capital, caused a nation wide...
1962 War: Why keep Henderson Brooks report secret?
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Vol 26.1 Jan-Mar 2011 | Date: 18 Mar , 2014
“Even if the founder of the post-independence dynasty, Jawaharlal Nehru may have emerged in bad light in the Henderson Brooks Report, why put a blanket on the entire archives? Are we living in...
How Antony's incompetence has left India's defences in a mess
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Courtesy: Rediff.com | Date: 12 Mar , 2014
In the past seven years Defence Minister A K Antony’s incompetence has ensured that India’s military capability rapidly shrinks. Primarily, the tax-payer spends money on appointing the defence...
Managing the nation's defence, somehow
By: Vikram Sood | Issue: Courtesy: MidDay Mumbai | Date: 11 Mar , 2014
Nine officers and men dead in the last six months in two submarine accidents with one submarine written off and another grounded. Who is responsible for the death of these persons and the loss of...
Implications of a Mountain Strike Corps
By: Special Correspondent | Issue: Vol. 29.1 Jan-Mar 2014 | Date: 11 Mar , 2014
China’s past history is laced with aggression and blatant disregard to world opinion. The PLA is well ahead of the Indian Army and this ever-widening gap, if not checked and bridged, will...
New game plan to deny soldier’s right to cast the ballot
By: Lt Gen Harwant Singh | Issue: Courtesy: HT (Chd edition) | Date: 05 Mar , 2014
Earlier soldiers (which includes sailors and airmen too) were required to cast their vote by postal ballot. The procedure devised for this was so convoluted, that it was simply inoperative. Less...
Remembered Only at Election Time
By: Air Marshal B D Jayal | Issue: Courtesy: The Telegraph | Date: 05 Mar , 2014
It is no secret that the armed forces of the Union have, to an extent, been viewed by our ruling elite as a necessary burden. Reportedly at one time our first prime minister even wondered if they...
Righting India’s Defence Priority for Next Government
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Mar , 2014
The recent tragedy of INS Sindhurakshak preceded by a spate of similar incidents in the Navy has once again highlighted the utter mess in which India’s defence modernization has been neglected....
Naval Chief proving too tough on the Babus?
By: Danvir Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 Feb , 2014
The resignation of the Chief Of The Naval Staff comes at a time when India has just concluded the Naval exercise Millan in the Bay of Bengal recently on Feb 10 this year, showcasing to the...
Incident Onboard INS Sindhuratna
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 Feb , 2014
Indian Naval Submarine Sindhuratna was at sea off Mumbai for routine training and workup (inspection). While at sea in the early hours of 26 Feb 2014, smoke was reported in the sailors...
Why Centre's 'one rank, one pension' sop fails to woo the armed forces
By: admin | Date: 26 Feb , 2014
The Fake Military Coup
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Feb , 2014
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh should order investigations by a retired Supreme Court Judge into the fake military coup propagated by former Defence Secretary Shashi Kant Sharma maligning and...
One Rank One Pension: an obligation to be fulfilled
By: Gp Capt AG Bewoor | Issue: Vol 26.1 Jan-Mar 2011 | Date: 19 Feb , 2014
In democracies, bureaucrats with their political masters run the show, and it matters little to them that the nation’s Armed Forces creates conditions to run that show in a secure environment....
OROP: Spoofing Soldiers and Veterans
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Feb , 2014
Anyone who saw AK Anthony thumping the desk in Parliament with both hands when Chidambaram announced OROP was sanctioned, would have also noticed the cynical mirth with which Anthony was bursting...