Homeland Security
Spilling Own Blood on Own Land is Absence of Strategy
By: Brig Narender Kumar (Retd.) | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Jan , 2016
After having signed the Indus Water Treaty, Nehru made a forceful assertion in the Lok Sabha on 30 November 1960 that “we purchased a settlement, if you like; we purchased peace to that extent...
Guts and Glory: All that went wrong with the Pathankot Operation
By: Brig Deepak Sinha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Jan , 2016
As the operations at the Pathankot Airbase wind down, it is but natural that they will now come under intense and thorough scrutiny, given the manner in which it played out and the...
Its War – And India has to fight it as such
By: Navneet Bhushan | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Jan , 2016
{The following article I wrote in December 2014 after the Gurdaspur attack} The house where Gunner Manpreet Singh was born near the border town of Gurdaspur in Punjab is called “fauzian da...
Occupy Chumbi Valley: A Top Secret Cable from Harishwar Dayal
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Courtesy: http://claudearpi.blogspot.in/ | Date: 13 Dec , 2015
On November 21, 1950, hardly a month after the People's Liberation Army had invaded Tibet and occupied the town of Chamdo, the Political Officer in Sikkim, Harishwar Dayal send a Top Secret cable...
Climate Change in the Himalayas: A Ticking Time-Bomb?
By: Col CP Muthanna | Issue: Vol. 30.3 Jul-Sep 2015 | Date: 29 Nov , 2015
There is a large and permanent military presence in the Himalayan region. The overall emissions are a result of both the troop deployment and the movement of maintenance and administrative...
Terrorist Attacks: Is the world really helpless?
By: NS Venkatraman | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 27 Nov , 2015
The massacre of more than 120 innocent people in Paris is not the first incident of horror in recent times. The massacre of school children in Pakistan, the September 11 attack in 2001 when...
The 26/11 Mumbai Attack: Was it a Preventable Tragedy?
By: Mahendra L Kumawat | Issue: Book Excerpts: Public Security in Federal Systems | Date: 26 Nov , 2015
The audacious and diabolic attack by the sea-borne terrorists on the iconic targets of Mumbai on 26 November 2008 stunned the nation like it had never been before. The sixty-hour-long tragic...
After Paris Attacks: Will Middle East again burn Western hands?
By: Divya Kumar Soti | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 23 Nov , 2015
As the horrors and plot of 13/11 Paris Attack unfold, its comparison with 26/11 Mumbai carnage becomes unavoidable given the striking similarities in the nature of soft targets chosen by the...
Are Tibetan terrorists? Yes, says China
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Courtesy: http://claudearpi.blogspot.in/ | Date: 19 Nov , 2015
A 26-member delegation of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) headed by General Fan Changlong, Vice-Chairman of China's powerful Central Military Commission (CMC) visited in New Delhi this week....
Attack on Paris: Some thoughts
By: Dr Sudhir Hindwan | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Nov , 2015
Serial blasts in Paris killing more than 120 people recently is a clear indication that post modern societies are likely to face more such terrorist attacks based on religious fundamentalists. As...
New Jihadi Threats to India: Changing Dynamics of Proxy War
By: Maj Gen Afsir Karim | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 16 Nov , 2015
The advent of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Af-Pak has added a new, dangerous threat to Kashmir and contiguous areas. The continuous aggression witnessed at the LOC and...
Soldiers: Waste of highly skilled national asset
By: Lt Gen Harwant Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Nov , 2015
More than 80 percent soldiers retire at the age of 36/37 years and their yearly number is almost fifty thousand. They do not even get up to the midway point of their pay band, miss out on...
Navy’s Long Range Maritime Patrol Aircraft- Boeing P 8I- Dedicated to the...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Nov , 2015
Giving a boost to the firepower and arsenal of the Indian Armed Forces, the Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar dedicated the Boeing P 8 I (Poseidon Eight India) Long Range Maritime Patrol...
J&K is much more than the Valley
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Nov , 2015
The deceit of Kashmiri leaders and separatists in the Kashmir Valley, rooting for Pakistan, has acquired outrageous proportions. These elements largely belong to five districts in Kashmir Valley...
Clarification by Indian Air Force on Chattisgarh Naxal issue
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 Oct , 2015
The IAF has been at the helm of affairs in executing air operations in support of Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) in Chattisgarh for many years and has prided itself in carrying out the same...
BRO must maintain Transparency and Accountability in quality road...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Oct , 2015
The Minister of State for Defence Rao Inderjit Singh has emphasized on the need for maintaining transparency and accountability in the execution of road projects by the Border Roads Organisation...
27 October 1947: The Spectacular Rescue of Kashmir
By: Brig Amar Cheema | Issue: Book Excerpts: The Crimson Chinar | Date: 27 Oct , 2015
Celebrated as the Infantry Day by the Indian Army, 27th October, 1947, was truly spectacular in the annals of Indian History – Not only did the Post-Independence Indian Army come into its own,...
Indigenous Component in Fight Category of Ship Building needs to be...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Oct , 2015
The biannual Naval Commanders’ Conference of 2015 commenced in New Delhi today. This conference is held to discuss issues of operational relevance, identify capability gaps and to review the...
Malabar 2015
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Oct , 2015
Initiated in 1992, as a bilateral exercise between the Indian and US Navies, the scope, complexity of operations and level of participation has increased steadily in successive editions of the...
Is India Preparing to Lose?
By: E Rajan | Issue: Vol 25.1 Jan-Mar 2010 | Date: 10 Oct , 2015
If one has to summarise the characteristics of an Indian, the least is being aggressive. We are happy to attribute a lot of reasons for this: the feudal society, subjugations by foreign powers,...