Interviews/Spotlights
Balochistan: Shia anger against Gen Kayani
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Jan , 2013
The genocide of the Shias continues unabated in different parts of Pakistan— particularly in Balochistan, Gilgit, the Kurram Agency and Karachi. The security forces and the intelligence agencies...
Limitations of Technical Intelligence
By: Air Vice Marshal AK Tiwary | Issue: Vol 25.4 Oct-Dec 2010 | Date: 10 Jan , 2013
Intelligence gathering is as old as human civilization. Good Intelligence generally leads to success, whereas failure to gather timely Intelligence has invariably resulted in defeat and ruin....
Pakistan eyes Afghanistan once again
By: Vikram Sood | Issue: Courtesy: MidDay Mumbai | Date: 10 Jan , 2013
Pakistan and the Taliban have their eyes fixed on 2014 when the US packs its bags and leaves Afghanistan. The US now seems disillusioned with Hamid Karzai but have not yet found an obvious...
Afghanistan: The return of the warlords
By: Vikram Sood | Issue: Courtesy: MidDay Mumbai | Date: 07 Jan , 2013
So President Obama retains the White House and the power but the Party General Secretary Hu Jintao leaves his throne in March 2013. Nevertheless, the rest of the world is going to see continuity...
Will Xi Junior have courage for return of Dalai Lama?
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 04 Jan , 2013
This is the stanza of a poem written by a 17-year-old Tibetan nun, Sangay Dolma before she took the fatal decision: Dolma set herself on fire in front of a Chinese government office at Tsekhog,...
America and Al-Qaeda: Unleashing Frankenstein II
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Jan , 2013
Is America inadvertently rearing another monster with its ‘covert’ support to al-Qaeda cadres in Syrian rebel ranks? During World War II, the US Office of Strategic Services (OSS), predecessor...
India and the South Asian Neighbourhood
By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Vol. 27.4 Oct-Dec 2012 | Date: 01 Jan , 2013
India’s relations with her neighbours need to be analysed frankly and unsentimentally, without recourse to the usual platitudes when pronouncing on the subject. It is fashionable to assume that...
Dead soldiers guard international border!
By: Shib Shankar Chatterjee | Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 21 Dec , 2012
Inmates of the Border Security Force (BSF) of Khalpara International Border Out Post (IBOP) have been facing a number of unwanted incidents for a long time. This came to light after an incident...
Waging a Different Kind of War
By: Air Marshal B D Jayal | Issue: Courtesy: The Telegraph | Date: 17 Dec , 2012
In 2009, the president of India, the supreme commander of its armed forces, created history by flying in an IAF Sukhoi combat aircraft. A gesture which, apart from being daring, communicated to...
Cyber Warfare: The New Threat
By: Air Vice Marshal AK Tiwary | Issue: Vol. 26.4 Oct-Dec 2011 | Date: 14 Dec , 2012
The cyber warriors will identify own networks weakness which will be followed up by regular patch up of vulnerabilities. In addition their actual target could include blowing up electric...
Indigenous Warship Building
By: Lt Cdr Kalesh Mohanan | Issue: Vol. 27.2 Apr-Jun 2012 | Date: 14 Dec , 2012
A major objective of the 1969 – 1974 Defence Plan was self reliance in the field of warship design and warship production. The aim was to meet the Navy’s requirements through indigenous efforts...
NORTHROP: Achieving Partnership and Growth
By: Commodore G Sharma | Issue: Vol 26.1 Jan-Mar 2011 | Date: 14 Dec , 2012
When Leroy Grumman founded the Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation on Long Island, New York, in 1929, little did he realize that the company would still be going strong more than 80 years...
Military and the CAG audit reports
By: Lt Gen Harwant Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Dec , 2012
Military expenditure is subject to audit, similar to that of any other government department. Such checks are essential to guard against wasteful expenditure. CAG has generally done a good job...
The March to Dacca - I
By: Maj Gen Sukhwant Singh | Issue: Book Excerpt: India's War since Independence | Date: 12 Dec , 2012
On 9 December, Sagat Singh had secured the waterline of the Meghna in the general area of Ashuganj and was poised for an advance to Dacca. All the approaches to Dacca lay across the Meghna, which...
Ethnic Violence in Myanmar: Impact on India
By: Maj Gen Dhruv C Katoch | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 11 Dec , 2012
Ethnic violence has once again flared up in Myanmar’s Rakhine state which due to the communal overtones of the conflict could have potential security implications for India. Myanmar has a small...
India’s youth power serious liability if it takes wrong turn!
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Dec , 2012
In 1947, our population was 350 million. As per the 2011 census it stood at 1.02 billion. Today we already are 1.21 billion constituting 17.3 percent of world population, implying every sixth...
The Maldivian Shock
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Nov , 2012
While writing the history of Indian diplomacy 25 years hence, any dispassionate historian will agree that the Manmohan Singh government’s neighbourhood policy has been a monumental failure. It...
AFSPA : Soldiers clear, but is everyone else ?
By: Maj Gen Rajendra Prakash | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Nov , 2012
With Kashmir Valley on the boil, the prolific public debate on the ‘Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act’ (AFSPA) has taken on an unusual stridency. But a debate which is swayed by emotion,...
Syria: Clear and present danger
By: Col Amar Ramdasani | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Nov , 2012
Syria has remained in the clutches of a repressive minority dominated regime led by the Al Asad family since 1970. Though, the Asad regime had violently suppressed an armed uprising led by the...
Obama in Myanmar: The Reality and the Mirage
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Nov , 2012
US President Barack Obama has just completed an eight-hour flying visit to Yangon (Rangoon), the former capital of Myanmar, from Thailand and flown to Phnom-Penh, the Cambodian capital, to attend...