Articles in Military & Aerospace
Pakistan Army’s official take on 1971 War
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Sep , 2012
With 1971 commenced the most tragic year of our history. Failing to resolve a political problem by political means, a Martial Law regime, manipulated by some megalomaniac politicians, resorted to...
Pakistan : The Next Battlefield
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Vol 17.2 Jul-Sep 2002 | Date: 01 Sep , 2012
Ten years later, the forecast made in 2002 by the writer appears to be coming true-Editor. War on Terrorism will zero in on Pakistan as the next battlefield on two counts. First,...
Hyderabad Operations - 1948
By: Maj Gen VK Srivastava & Col GD Bakshi | Issue: Book Excerpt: Infantry: A Glint of the Bayonet | Date: 01 Sep , 2012
Hyderabad – one of the largest and richest princely states had a greater number of Hindus as subjects than Muslims. By 15 August 1947, the Government of Hydrabad had not reached any settlement...
Vice Admiral Sinha appointed C-in-C West
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Aug , 2012
The Government has appointed Vice Admiral Shekhar Sinha, presently Chief of Integrated Defence Staff to Chairman, Chiefs of Staff Committee (CISC) as the next Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief...
The Tejas Fleet for the IAF - to be or not to be?
By: Air Commodore KB Menon | Issue: Vol 27.3 Jul-Sep 2012 | Date: 27 Aug , 2012
An ambitious project like the LCA is fraught with risks, more so when the design and development teams are venturing into uncharted waters driven by an insistence to forego any external help....
The pitfalls in evolution of Indian Army-I
By: Maj Gen Sukhwant Singh | Issue: Book Excerpt: India's War since Independence | Date: 27 Aug , 2012
The foundation of the Indian Army was laid by the British by combining in 1748 the “watch and ward” elements the East India Company employed to protect its trading centres. Initially, these...
India's Maritime Threats
By: Admiral VS Shekhawat | Issue: Vol 22.2 Apr-Jun 2007 | Date: 26 Aug , 2012
History is seldom a true chronicle of past events. Nations generally interpret history to make their own appear nobler, grander, more glorious or altogether different from current...
The jinx against women secret agents in R&AW
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Aug , 2012
Till 1972, under the long-time Director of the USA’s Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) J. Edgar Hoover, only men could be FBI agents. After his death in May 1972, partly under the pressure...
Next Generation Defence Reforms
By: Lt Gen Kamal Davar (Retd) | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Aug , 2012
The noted American strategic analyst George Tanham succinctly expressed some years back that “Indian elites show little evidence of having thought coherently and systematically about...
Nuclear Powered Submarine for Indian Navy
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Vol 27.3 Jul-Sep 2012 | Date: 21 Aug , 2012
Early April this year, most recent and most potent submarine, the nuclear-powered INS Chakra was formally inducted into the Indian Navy by Defence Minister A K Antony. The Indian Navy acquired the...
Risat-1 'Spy Satellite' Launched
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Vol 27.3 Jul-Sep 2012 | Date: 21 Aug , 2012
In 2009, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) had launched the RISAT-2, a spy satellite acquired from Israel for $110 million. In the last week of April this year, ISRO successfully...
Air Marshal Dipankar Ganguly takes over as DGMS (AIR)
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Aug , 2012
Air Marshal Dipankar Ganguly VSM & Bar took over as Director General Medical Services (Air) recently. Commissioned on 22 May 1973, Air Marshal Ganguly did his MBBS from Armed Forces Medical...
Preparing India for a Protracted War
By: Col JK Achuthan (Retd.) | Issue: Vol 27.3 Jul-Sep 2012 | Date: 15 Aug , 2012
To sustain the capability to fight a protracted war, it is essential that a significant portion of India’s defence production gets exported. This requires dedicated support from the Ministry of...
Navy's online Financial Management System to be launched by the Defence Minister
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Aug , 2012
The Defence Minister Mr AK Antony will, tomorrow, dedicate the Indian Navy’s Financial Information System (FIS) to the nation in a ceremony at New Delhi. The Indian Navy,in a first amongst all...
Lt Gen MMS Rai takes over as GOC Desert Corps
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Aug , 2012
Lt Gen Man Mohan Singh Rai, took over as GOC Desert Corps on 09 August 2012. Lt Gen Rai succeeds Lt Gen Philip Campose, who has proceeded on posting to Army Headquarters. General Rai is an...
An incredible story of indiscipline
By: Gp. Capt. U.G. Kartha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Aug , 2012
Eastern Air Force 1976. A Tale Of What Not To Do The dark, ominous, thunder heads had been rising from the depths of Subansary valley all morning. The orographic winds pushed them up the slopes...
INS Baaz commissioned as first Naval Air Station in Nicobar Islands
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Aug , 2012
The Naval Air Station at Campbell Bay on Great Nicobar Island, was today commissioned as Indian Naval Ship ‘Baaz’ by Admiral Nirmal Verma, Chairman Chiefs of Staff Committee and the Chief of...