Interviews/Spotlights
China's state sponsored tweeters and their paid tweets
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Dec , 2011
On December 9,2011, Radio Free Asia, funded by the US State Department, disseminated a report attributed to the Agence France Presse (AFP) regarding how China has been trying to counter...
SHIVALIK: India's New Generation Warship
By: Vice Adm Rajeshwer Nath | Issue: Vol 25.2 Apr-Jun 2010 | Date: 09 Dec , 2011
Shivalik is the first ship of the Project 17 Frigates designed by the Indian Navy and built by Mazagon Docks Limited Mumbai. This project was conceived to incorporate stealth features and in the...
Speculation Regarding Zardari
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Dec , 2011
The “Dawn News” of Karachi has reported as follows: “President Asif Ali Zardari on Tuesday (December 6,2011) arrived in Dubai for a medical check-up. According to presidential spokesperson...
The Revolt in East Pakistan
By: Maj Gen Sukhwant Singh | Issue: Book Excerpt: India's War since Independence | Date: 07 Dec , 2011
When I reported on posting to Major General (later Lieutenant General) K.K. Singh, then Director of Military operations, on 12 March 1971, as his deputy, he said in his characteristic...
Possible Misuse of New TECHINT Capabilities
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Dec , 2011
Since the Indo-Pakistan conflict in the Kargil heights in 1999, there has been a major increase in the Technical Intelligence (TECHINT) capabilities of the Indian security community, which...
Relief for the War Disabled
By: Lt Gen Vijay Oberoi | Issue: Vol 22.2 Apr-Jun 2007 | Date: 02 Dec , 2011
Compensation for disability incurred in war or war-like-situations is at present paltry and highly inadequate. Although slightly higher in some respects than what is given to those disabled due...
1971 War: The Air Force in War-I
By: Maj Gen Sukhwant Singh | Issue: Book Excerpt: India's War since Independence | Date: 01 Dec , 2011
The public clamour for Indianisation of the armed forces in the early 1930s led to the establishment of the Indian Sandhurst Committee. Along with other recommendations the committee insisted...
1971 War: The Navy in War-I
By: Maj Gen Sukhwant Singh | Issue: Book Excerpt: India's War since Independence | Date: 01 Dec , 2011
In their heyday of empire building the British consolidated their possessions by the gun power of the Royal Navy. Being essentially a trading nation, they shipped raw materials from the colonies...
Threat from China
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Vol 23.2 Apr-Jul 2008 | Date: 27 Nov , 2011
New Delhi’s portrayal of the humiliating defeat at the hands of Chinese in 1962 as ‘betrayal’ and ‘surprise’ is untrue. The pacifist Indian leadership that was crying hoarse from...
Alleged Memo from Zardari to Admiral Mullen
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Nov , 2011
Briefing for Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff During the past 72 hours since a meeting was held between the president, the prime minister and the chief of army staff, there has...
China-India Maritime Rivalry
By: Cdr Gurpreet S Khurana | Issue: Vol. 23.4 Oct-Dec 2008 | Date: 22 Nov , 2011
In the Post-Cold War Era re-distribution of power, the balance is clearly shifting to Asia. This is primarily due to the increasing comprehensive National Power (CNP) of China and India. But as...
Turbulence in South Asia
By: Maj Gen Afsir Karim | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 17 Nov , 2011
The main reason for the growing influence of fundamentalists in the Af-Pak region is the continued presence of U.S.-NATO troops in this region. The Islamists in both countries have a common...
India Lags Behind in Shipbuilding
By: Vice Adm Rajeshwer Nath | Issue: Vol 22.3 Jul-Sep 2007 | Date: 16 Nov , 2011
There has been consistent boom in shipbuilding since 1990s. The main reason for this has been the rise in the volume of International trade due to healthy long range economic and energy demands....
Investigations in Malegaon blasts go for a six!
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Nov , 2011
The politicisation and communalisation of the investigation process since 2006 in terrorism-related cases has led to a paralysis of the investigation machinery in the States and the Government of...
Punjab's Pakistan
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Vol 22.4 Oct-Dec 2007 | Date: 13 Nov , 2011
The part that constitutes the Punjab province in Pakistan, like other provinces of Sindh, NWFP and Balochistan, were not enthusiastic about the concept of Pakistan. It was much later, in the early...
Tibet and British India - I
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Book Excerpt: Tibet - The Lost Frontier | Date: 11 Nov , 2011
Started in 1600 as a company with shareholders to peacefully and profitably develop trade with the Asian continent, the East India Company was no longer a trading concern by the beginning of the...
Jihadis will capture the Pak Military - IV
By: Ramtanu Maitra | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 11 Nov , 2011
Ilyas Kashmiri, whose death in a 2011 U.S. missile attack still remains to be confirmed, founded Brigade 313, later an operational arm of al-Qaeda, within his jihadist organisation Harkat...
China takes over Nepal
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Nov , 2011
What is going on in Nepal? If one goes by the latest news, nothing good for India. Why did Mr. Shyam Saran, the Prime Minister’s Special Envoy had to pay a quick visit to the former Himalayan...
Jihadis will capture the Pak Military - III
By: Ramtanu Maitra | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 10 Nov , 2011
Bringing the Taliban to Power By conducting a proxy-war on behalf of the Western nations and Saudi Arabia against the Soviet military, Pakistan morphed into a central hub that attracted a...
Jihadis will capture the Pak Military - II
By: Ramtanu Maitra | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 08 Nov , 2011
Encouraging Sunni Militants: The Rise of Shia Iran There were still other factors in and around Pakistan that contributed to the transformations that Gartenstein-Ross addressed. For instance,...