Articles in Military & Aerospace
One Rank One Pension - a big joke on ex-servicemen?
By: Col RP Chaturvedi | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Sep , 2012
As expected, the OROP story turned out to be a GOI joke. Not for the first time, has GOI spread canards, to slow down the Veteran momentum of demands, and package implementation of court orders...
An Integrated Approach to Defence Procurement
By: Air Marshal Raghu Rajan | Issue: Vol 27.3 Jul-Sep 2012 | Date: 25 Sep , 2012
It is evident that the services need to be more proactive in the process of procurement. It is also obvious that the optimum and cost-effective utilisation of the defence budget must be the basis...
Lateral Induction of the Military into Civil Administration
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Vol 20.4 Oct-Dec 2005 | Date: 21 Sep , 2012
The map of Asia is dotted with small and medium sized Islamic countries that overtly or covertly tend to lean towards religious extremism in a variety of disguises. Many plant ridiculous ideas...
Time to say Good Bye to Prithvi Missiles?
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 21 Sep , 2012
Recently I attended a round-table symposium on how “Missile transparency” could be an important confidence building measure (CBM) between India and Pakistan. It was organised by the New...
Kargil was a poor test of India's air warfare capability: US thinktank
By: admin | Date: 21 Sep , 2012
India’s Indigenous Submarine Design Dilemma
By: Rear Adm AP Revi | Issue: Vol 27.3 Jul-Sep 2012 | Date: 17 Sep , 2012
The defence shipyards have not as yet come up to Navy’s expectations, particularly in respect of productivity standards. Time and cost overruns have become a perpetual problem. Some of these...
Bows, Arrows and Nuclear Weapons
By: Gp Capt Ajey Lele (Retd.) | Issue: Vol 24.4 Oct-Dec 2009 | Date: 14 Sep , 2012
Just few years before India got its independence an unhealthy collision took place between the worlds of physics and politics. In 1945 the Americans nuked Japan. Since then in some parts of the...
Reflection on Conflict Duration
By: Ali Ahmed | Issue: Vol 24.3 Jul-Sep 2009 | Date: 14 Sep , 2012
The new Indian Army doctrine dilating on the nature of future wars reads: ‘Emerging at short notice, being of short duration and being fought at high tempo and intensity.’ These are valid...
China's Emerging Cyberwar Doctrine
By: Brig. Gurmeet Kanwal | Issue: Vol 24.2 Apr-Jun 2009 | Date: 13 Sep , 2012
“Chinese cyber spies hack Indian embassy in US,” screamed a bold headline splashed across the front page of a leading national daily on March 30, 2009.1 Based on a research brief issued by the...
India incapable of conducting Op Geronimo
By: Lt Gen Harwant Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Sep , 2012
Consequent to American operation ‘Geronimo,’ at Abbottabad in Pakistan to eliminate Osama bin Laden, many in civil society have been asking whether India can go ahead with a similar...
'No Easy Day': six top revelations from book on the bin Laden mission
By: admin | Date: 11 Sep , 2012
India’s emerging defence doctrine
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Vol 13.3 Jul-Sep 1998 | Date: 02 Sep , 2012
India is a unique country, with all the favourable geographical attributes of an offensive orientation. It is separated from the rest of the Asian landmass by the formidable chain of mountains...