Interviews/Spotlights
Reigniting Kashmir
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Courtesy: fairobserver.com | Date: 19 Apr , 2013
John Quinton, American writer once wrote, “Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.” Appears happening in Kashmir, at least on...
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...
India: Strategic Challenges and Responses
By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 Apr , 2013
At the outset let me clarify that I will discuss the subject primarily from the foreign policy and security point of view. Many believe that strategic challenges should now include those...
Impact of Pakistan's TNWs
By: Maj Gen PK Chakravorty | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 02 Apr , 2013
Pakistan’s nuclear programme is Indo centric and is based on offensive usage of nuclear weapons. On 19 April 2011, Pakistan successfully tested the Hatf IX, named NASR a solid fuelled...
Hurdles in Defence Industrial Growth
By: Karanpreet Kaur | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 30 Mar , 2013
The policies of the Government of India, the desire of armed forces and expectations of the indigenous industry for establishing a defence industrial base have yet to be fulfilled despite efforts...
Anti-Lanka vote was a bad idea
By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Mar , 2013
India has ended up looking opportunistic and unprincipled, a victim of its internal political wrangling, with a government in New Delhi not fully in control of foreign policy. India has once...
AFSPA cannot be revoked as of now: Gen Bikram Singh
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Mar , 2013
Chief of Army Staff, General Bikram Singh, said that AFSPA is an enabling Act and should not be taken away at the moment. It is important to remain on guard.
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...
Could Iran be Obama's legacy?
By: Vikram Sood | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Mar , 2013
Various battles rage in the region from Pakistan to the Maghreb and where once civilisations flourished in the Indus Valley, in Persia, Mesopotamia and Egypt we today see intolerance and violence...
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...
Countering IEDs: Training remains the Key
By: Maj Gen Dhruv C Katoch | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 13 Mar , 2013
On 22 February, eight persons, including six policemen, were killed in a landmine blast triggered by Maoists at Majhauliya village in Bihar’s Gaya district. This marked the first major land mine...
Impact of Information Warfare on Aerospace Operations
By: Air Marshal Raghu Rajan | Issue: Vol 26.2 Apr-Jun 2011 | Date: 13 Mar , 2013
What is Information Warfare? : Information Warfare (IW) in its most fundamental sense is the emerging “theater” in which future nation-against-nation conflict at the strategic level is most...
Adrift Without A Strategic Culture
By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Courtesy: Mail Today | Date: 12 Mar , 2013
Does India have a strategic culture? If strategic culture is defined narrowly in the context of the nuclear age alone, then India, as a recent entrant to the nuclear club and still in the process...
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,...
The Challenge Posed by China’s Military Posture in Tibet
By: Brig Vijai K Nair | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 09 Mar , 2013
China is in forceful occupation of approximately 38,000 square kilometres of Indian territory in Aksai Chin in the west and claims a further 90,000 square kilometres of Indian territories in the...
Pakistan’s Korean link
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Mar , 2013
North Korea, arguably the world’s most dangerous totalitarian country, has recommended a range of 28 hairstyles for its citizens, claiming that they are “the most comfortable” styles and capable...
Build a stronger partnership with France and Britain
By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Courtesy: The Telegraph | Date: 06 Mar , 2013
The back-to-back visits of the president of France, Francois Hollande, and the prime minister of Britain, David Cameron, last month have put the spotlight on India’s relationship with Europe....
The Malala Moment and Reforming Pakistan’s Education System
By: Pratibha Singh | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 03 Mar , 2013
Malala Yousufzai has emerged as an icon for countless girls in repressed societies. On 10 October 2012, she survived a brutal attack in the Swat Valley by pro-Taliban elements who perceive...
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...
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...