Articles in Military & Aerospace
India's Network Centric Warfare Programme
By: Raveen Janu | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 19 Mar , 2013
If a perusal is done of the military doctrines of the major advanced powers, one aspect that has a common theme across the board is information dominance. Network centricity is the backbone...
RFID in Netcentric Warfare Logistics
By: Manoj Shergill | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 19 Mar , 2013
The emergence of Net Centric Warfare (NCW) in the modern day conflicts has impacted the way the combat forces are logistically supported with increasing dependence on Geographical Information...
Defence Budget far from Threat Perception
By: Col (Dr) PK Vasudeva | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Mar , 2013
There is an overall decrease in the defence outlay of almost all countries in the world including India except China and Pakistan. According to the Stockholm International Peace Research...
Why New Delhi wants to forget 1962?
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Mar , 2013
While the Indian National Congress is still able to remember the role of former prime ministers Lal Bahadur Shastri and Indira Gandhi in the India-Pakistan conflicts of 1965 and 1971, it has...
A single person cannot subvert the defence procurement system
By: Air Marshal B D Jayal | Issue: Courtesy: The Telegraph | Date: 15 Mar , 2013
A report by prosecutors filed in Italy in connection with the arrest of the chief executive officer of Finmeccanica, Giuseppe Orsi, has alleged that the then Indian air force chief was...
India’s Defence Budget: Inadequate Outlay
By: Brig. Gurmeet Kanwal | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Mar , 2013
The funds allotted for defence expenditure by Finance Minister P. Chidambaram for the Financial Year (FY) 2013-14 are inadequate to meet the growing threats and challenges facing the country,...
India to raise 30 Infantry Battalions
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Mar , 2013
Modernization of Army including Infantry is a continuous process, based on threat perception, operational necessity, technological changes and available resources. Combat capacity and mobility of...
Air Marshal Daljit Singh takes over as Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief HQ...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 Mar , 2013
Air Marshal Daljit Singh AVSM VM took over as Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief, of South Western Air Command (SWAC) Gandhi Nagar 01 Mar 13. On taking over, the Air Mshl inspected a ceremonial...
Special Forces in India
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Vol. 28.1 Jan-Mar 2013 | Date: 02 Mar , 2013
Historically, Indian Special Forces have been used for direct action type of roles during conventional wars. The hierarchal understanding of trans-border employment of Special Forces in India is...
Rules of the Nuclear Club
By: Air Marshal B D Jayal | Issue: Courtesy: The Telegraph | Date: 02 Mar , 2013
The India-United States of America cooperation in the nuclear field started in the fifties under President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Atoms for Peace programme. In the sixties, India and the US...
Air Marshal SB Deo takes over as DG AIR (Ops) at Air Headquarters
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Mar , 2013
Air Marshal Shirish Baban Deo, AVSM VM VSM takes over as Director General Air (Operations) today at Air Headquarters (Vayu Bhavan) New Delhi. He was commissioned in the fighter stream on 15 Jun 79...
RAW Operations in Pakistan
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 Feb , 2013
‘The Hindu” of February 26, 2013, has carried an article titled “ No Solace In This Quantum of Accountability” written by Samir Saran, Vice-President, and Abhijit Iyer-Mitra, Programme...
Whither Jointmanship in India?
By: Air Marshal Raghu Rajan | Issue: Vol. 28.1 Jan-Mar 2013 | Date: 23 Feb , 2013
‘Jointmanship’ in the history of warfare reached its maturity in World War II, especially during Operation Overlord involving landing by the allied forces on the beaches of Normandy. The other...
How to Resolve the Problem of Roles and Missions
By: Air Marshal B D Jayal | Issue: Courtesy: The Telegraph | Date: 21 Feb , 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...
China's String of Pearls vs India's Iron Curtain
By: Cmde Ranjit B Rai | Issue: Vol 24.4 Oct-Dec 2009 | Date: 19 Feb , 2013
“India’s growing international stature gives it strategic relevance in the area ranging from the Persian Gulf to the Straits of Malacca…India has exploited the fluidities of the emerging...
Who is the biggest enemy – China, Pakistan or Babus?
By: Maj Gen Satbir Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Feb , 2013
The Ministry of Defence had itself accepted through affidavits and submissions before the SC that implementation of the judgement in rank and pay would involve re-fixation of not only the Fourth...
The toothless Armed Forces Tribunal?
By: Navdeep Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Feb , 2013
The concept of Armed Forces Tribunal (AFT) needs redemption, and urgently so, by all stakeholders. In 2009, just about three and a half years ago, the AFT became functional with much fanfare as an...