Interviews
Limited War : A Flawed Concept
By: Lt Gen Harwant Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Oct , 2011
It is not clear as to when the idea or perhaps the concept of a limited war was first evolved and articulated in the Indian military. May be it was the fallout from the procrastination, dithering...
Develop Cutting Edge Defense Industries
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Vol 24.2 Apr-Jun 2009 | Date: 18 Sep , 2011
< !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> To develop cutting edge defense industries, New Delhi must eschew the inherent divisive tendencies. Instead of consolidating Aero India 2009 as the foremost Asian aerospace show, we reduced its...
Air Power & Irregular Warfare in the Indian context
By: Air Cmde Arjun Subramaniam | Issue: Vol 24.1 Jan-Mar 2009 | Date: 19 Aug , 2011
“This is another type of war, new in its intensity, ancient in its origin — war by guerrillas, subversives, insurgents, terrorists, war by ambush instead of by combat; by infiltration,...
The New Fundamentalist Challenges
By: Maj Gen Afsir Karim | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 14 Aug , 2011
The vulnerability of the Indian coastal areas and islands of the Western Indian Ocean to the activities of al-Qaeda and Pakistan based terrorist groups became apparent following the terrorist...
Maoists and the Armed Forces
By: Gp Capt RK Prasad | Issue: Vol 24.4 Oct-Dec 2009 | Date: 06 Aug , 2011
Armed forces personnel hailing from the Red Corridor are being subjected to intimidation and extortion by the Maoists for at least two decades now. The families of the servicemen residing in their...
Gaps in Maritime Security-III
By: VK Shashikumar | Issue: Vol 24.1 Jan-Mar 2009 | Date: 02 Aug , 2011
The Customs Department: There is a Customs office at every major fishing centre. Strictly in accordance with the rules and regulations and in accordance with its charter of activities, every...
Gaps in Maritime Security-II
By: VK Shashikumar | Issue: Vol 24.1 Jan-Mar 2009 | Date: 02 Aug , 2011
Revamping Coastal Security Apparatus: Considering the inadequate coastal security infrastructure along the vast and porous Indian coastline the issues relating to registration of boats,...
Evolving Maritime Challenges
By: Vice Adm RN Ganesh | Issue: Vol 24.3 Jul-Sep 2009 | Date: 25 Jul , 2011
The naval strategy of the Western powers led by the USA during the Cold War was centred on the location and tracking of Soviet ballistic missile-firing nuclear submarines (SSBNs). When the Cold...
Rain of terror on India
By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Vol 23.3 Jul-Sep 2008 | Date: 07 Jul , 2011
The terrorists are carrying out a murderous war against India, but India is unable to declare a war on terrorism. We are among the biggest victims of terrorism, but we seem to be making the...
Import of Key Technologies: Need to revisit policy
By: Maj Gen Mrinal Suman | Issue: Vol 26.2 Apr-Jun 2011 | Date: 02 Jul , 2011
Inaugurating a three-day international seminar on aerospace technologies in Bengaluru on 07 February 2011, Defence Minister Antony admitted that India had not benefitted much from the...
The Winnable War
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Vol 21.3 Jul-Sep 2006 | Date: 01 Jul , 2011
On a scale of 1 to 10, an American editor of a defence newspaper told me that his threat perception on terror attacks inside the United States would merit an eight. A German minister rated it...
US may fret & and fume but its options are limited with Pakistan
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 Jun , 2011
The “New York Times” (June 15,2011) has claimed that the Pakistani authorities have detained a Major and four other Pakistani nationals during the course of their in-house enquiry into the...
The Navy in War-II
By: Maj Gen Sukhwant Singh | Issue: Book Excerpt: India's War since Independence | Date: 02 Jun , 2011
After 1965 Pakistan tried to keep pace with the Indian naval program, but the stoppage of US military aid and lack of foreign exchange prevented matching progress. But three Daphne class...
The Chinese vision of Sino-Pak strategic partnership : III
By: Prof. Priyadarshi Mukherji | Issue: Vol 25.3 Jul-Sep 2010 | Date: 30 May , 2011
Chinese Projects in PoK :On 14 October 2009, in a report titled “India objects to proposed Chinese projects in PoK”, it was stated that “the Chinese President Hu Jintao had also said that...