Articles in Military & Aerospace
The way to Regional Power status
By: Gp Capt AG Bewoor | Issue: Vol 25.1 Jan-Mar 2010 | Date: 13 Jun , 2013
The Sin that is Committed by Killing One, Who Does Not Deserve to Be Killed, Is As Great as the Sin, of Not Killing One Who Deserves to Be Killed. Mahabharat Udyoga Parva. Chapter 72, Verse...
Time To Walk A Thin Line
By: Air Marshal B D Jayal | Issue: Courtesy: The Telegraph | Date: 12 Jun , 2013
In a season where scams are tumbling out of Lutyens’ Bhavans with an embarrassing regularity, it may appear that the AgustaWestland helicopter graft case has receded from public memory. Rather...
Chinese Longue Duree: PLA Modernisation
By: Pinaki Bhattacharya | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 05 Jun , 2013
An impressionable Henry Kissinger, the then U.S. national security adviser, was clearly awed by the presence of his Chinese interlocutor, Zhou Enlai, steeped in revolutionary history and the...
A Turning Point in History
By: Air Marshal B D Jayal | Issue: Courtesy: The Telegraph | Date: 01 Jun , 2013
Even as the full scale of the tragedy that struck the United States on September 11 is unfolding, it is worth pondering its strategic implications. A leading American daily has termed it as war...
Senior leadership and ‘any peg in any hole’ syndrome
By: Maj Gen Mrinal Suman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 May , 2013
The news of the posting of General David Petraeus as Commander of the US and NATO forces in Afghanistan must have been received with a certain degree of disbelief by the status-conscious Indian...
Inter-Services Synergy: need of the hour
By: Cmde Ranjit B Rai | Issue: Vol. 28.1 Jan-Mar 2013 | Date: 11 May , 2013
The Indian Armed Forces have 13 geographically separated commands, five each for the Army and Air Force and three for the Navy and one joint command for the Andaman Nicobar Islands. The A&N, the...
Illiteracy of War Drums
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 May , 2013
In a recent TV debate on the Chinese intrusion in Ladakh, to a suggestion by a veteran Army General that India should be resolute in response, a Member Parliament from the ruling party said,...
Indian Prisoner in Pakistan discovered in Oman Jail
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 May , 2013
An eyewitness Sukhdev Singh claims Prisoner of 1971 War Sep Jaspal Singh of Punjab Regiment is still alive in OMAN (Masira Island, jail). It appears that Pakistan had shifted all POWs to...
1965 War:True Story of 2/Lt Baljit Singh- I
By: Colonel Baljit Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Apr , 2013
The incidents narrated ahead are based on the experience of 2nd Lieutenant Baljit Singh, 3rd Madras Infantry Battalion, 69th Infantry Brigade, who had participated in the legendary 1965 Indo-Pak...
Aero-Engines for Future Military Aircraft
By: Air Marshal Sumit Mukherjee | Issue: Vol. 28.1 Jan-Mar 2013 | Date: 18 Apr , 2013
The development of aero-engines over the years has followed a path of rising propulsive and thermal efficiency. The design innovation of the ‘by-pass’ concept to enhance performance and...
Cyber War: A grave cause of concern
By: Col (Dr) PK Vasudeva | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Apr , 2013
Cyber warfare refers to politically motivated hacking to conduct sabotage and espionage. It is a form of information warfare sometimes seen as analogous to conventional warfare although this...
Army: Wings Must Grow
By: Lt Gen Vinay Shankar | Issue: Vol. 28.1 Jan-Mar 2013 | Date: 13 Apr , 2013
The government approval for the Aviation arm of the Indian Army to acquire attack helicopters is the outcome of decades of dialogue, representations, haggling and persistence. The resistance by...
How to Resolve the Problem of Roles and Missions
By: Air Marshal B D Jayal | Issue: Courtesy: The Telegraph | Date: 11 Apr , 2013
A national daily recently reported that highly classified documents pertaining to weapon system requirements and acquisition plans of all the three services along with those of surveillance...
Airlift Capability of the Indian Air Force
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Vol. 28.1 Jan-Mar 2013 | Date: 09 Apr , 2013
In the context of a resurgent and globalised economy, India’s security interests in the future would no longer be confined to its national boundaries or be limited to the region between the Gulf...