Articles in Military & Aerospace

The way to Regional Power status

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...

More

Time To Walk A Thin Line

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...

More

Chinese Longue Duree: PLA Modernisation

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...

More

A Turning Point in History

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...

More

Senior leadership and ‘any peg in any hole’ syndrome

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...

More

Inter-Services Synergy: need of the hour

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...

More

Illiteracy of War Drums

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,...

More

Indian Prisoner in Pakistan discovered in Oman Jail

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...

More

By: admin | Date: 29 Apr , 2013

More

1965 War:True Story of 2/Lt Baljit Singh- I

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...

More

The Defence White Paper on Tibet

The Defence White Paper on Tibet

By: admin | Date: 19 Apr , 2013

More

Aero-Engines for Future Military Aircraft

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...

More

Cyber War: A grave cause of concern

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...

More

Army: Wings Must Grow

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...

More

How to Resolve the Problem of Roles and Missions

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...

More

Airlift Capability of the Indian Air Force

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...

More