Interviews/Spotlights
Sri Lanka: Key to Indian strategy in South Asia
By: Aniket Bhavthankar | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 02 Oct , 2015
Sri Lanka’s new Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe came to India for his maiden overseas tour after his election from September 14-17, 2015. Since the appointment of Maithripala Sirisena as...
RMA in the Indian Context
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Vol. 29.4 Oct-Dec 2014 | Date: 30 Sep , 2015
Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA) can be defined as “A major change in the nature of warfare brought about by the innovative application of technologies, which combined with dramatic changes...
India and Nepal: Review of policies likely
By: KV Rajan | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 28 Sep , 2015
Nepal has a constitution at last. On September 20, 2015, an overwhelming majority of an elected Constituent Assembly voted in favour of a constitution ushering in a federal, democratic, secular...
UNSC Reforms: India must make most of the momentum
By: Chayanika Saxena | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 24 Sep , 2015
With the baggage of a moribund predecessor to tow around, the inception of United Nations was seen as a moment when initiatives geared at creating and sustaining international security could be...
The Making of a Field Marshal
By: Lt Gen SK Sinha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Sep , 2015
It was on New Year’s Day of 1973 that the nation got to know that the architect of India ’s greatest military victory in centuries had been elevated to the rank of field marshal. This came as...
Refugee crisis in EU - Militarisation of response
By: Monish Gulati | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 22 Sep , 2015
Even as divisions deepen amongst EU member states on how to respond to the rising refugee influx, three narratives have dominated the refugee crisis in Europe. One, that Europe has been part of...
Indo-Pak War 1965: Stalemate?
By: DP Ramachandran | Issue: Book Excerpt: Empire's First Soldiers | Date: 21 Sep , 2015
To begin with Pakistan had codenamed it ‘Operation Gibraltar’, after the Arab invasion of Spain which began with the capture of the Rock of Gibraltar. It was an ambitious plan conceived by...
Civil Power and the Army
By: Lt Gen SK Sinha | Issue: Vol. 2.1 Jan-Mar 1987 | Date: 20 Sep , 2015
Introduction Civil Power is the ultimate authority charged with the governance of the State. The executive; the legislature and the judiciary, functioning in their respective spheres and in the...
Confrontation with Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose
By: Maj Gen Gurbakhsh Singh | Issue: Book Excerpt: Indelible Reminiscences: Memoirs of Maj Gen Gurbakhsh Singh | Date: 19 Sep , 2015
On the third day after the fall of Singapore, the Japanese were to take possession of the city on 17th February 1942. A day earlier, all white troops had gathered at Changi Camp in order to...
1965 War: Op Gibraltar and How the War Started
By: Brig D S Sarao | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Sep , 2015
Who started the war or to put it more palatably – how did the war start? Just as it would be naïve for the Indians to keep repeating that the ‘71 war was started by Pakistan it would be...
The Battle of "Dual Control"
By: Gp Capt DC Bakshi | Issue: Vol. 13.1 Jan-Mar 1998 | Date: 14 Sep , 2015
Public memory is very short. For the majority of us “mulki laat-jungi laat” would sound like a queer jumble of words. But just a hundred years ago, a mock battle was fought between the two-it was...
Deficit or Direction?: Prudence in Defence Expenditure
By: Prof (Dr) SN Misra | Issue: Vol. 29.4 Oct-Dec 2014 | Date: 12 Sep , 2015
Richard Musgrave, an acknowledged authority in public finance, had said that every Finance Minister must grapple with the three issues of Allocation, Distribution and Stabilisation. Arun Jaitley,...
A Strategic Dilemma: Fast Depleting Submarine Force Levels
By: Rear Adm AP Revi | Issue: Vol. 29.4 Oct-Dec 2014 | Date: 09 Sep , 2015
As far as submarine design expertise is concerned – India is at present at the initiation point of the learning curve. The submarine design capability curves of others like USA, Russia, UK and...
Mountbatten on CDS
By: viewpoint | Issue: Vol 16.2 Apr-Jun 2001 | Date: 07 Sep , 2015
Letter from Lord Mountbatten of Burma to Lt Gen (then Major General) ML Chibber, (Retd) PVSM, AVSM, PhD. Broadlands, Ramsey Hampshire, S05 9ZD 27th September 1977 Dear Chib, Thank you so much...
Indo-Pak War 1965: Major Actions
By: Brig K Kuldip Singh | Issue: Book Excerpts: Kurukshetra to Kargil | Date: 02 Sep , 2015
The Chhamb Offensive With Operation Gibraltar having miscarried, Pakistan undertook the bold Chhamb Offensive on September 01, 1965, by using a division-sized force of tanks and infantry, with the...
PoW in Tibet
By: Maj Gen KK Tewari | Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 31 Aug , 2015
In 1962, Maj. Gen. K.K. Tewari was Commander Signals of the 4 Infantry Division based in Tezpur, Assam. On October 20, 1962, as he was visiting his forward troops, the Chinese attacked India. He...
India’s Sub-Conventional Warfare Deficit
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Vol. 30.1 Jan-Mar 2015 | Date: 28 Aug , 2015
National security strategies should aim at the creation of national and international political conditions favourable to the protection or extension of vital national values against existing and...
The Quest for a Solution to the Kashmir Problem
By: Lt Gen (Dr) Mohan Bhandari, (Retd.) | Issue: Book Excerpt: Solving Kashmir | Date: 21 Aug , 2015
A Colonial Legacy The Kashmir problem continues to vex the two nations created out of a colonial exit which devoted limited thought on the future of such populous entities. Pakistan feels...
The border is fixed: The Simla Conference
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Book Excerpt: 1962 and the McMahon Line Saga | Date: 17 Aug , 2015
In 1913, war in Europe appeared imminent for the British; they finally realized that the treaties regarding Tibet signed with China (and Russia) had no relevance as they could not be implemented...
Indian Hypocrisy and Security
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Vol 23.1 Jan-Mar 2008 | Date: 15 Aug , 2015
For any cogent action against a potential or a festering problem, the rudimentary requirement for decision makers is to be convinced that there is a problem, and then define its import. This...