Military & Aerospace
National War Memorial: A question of honour
By: Air Marshal B D Jayal | Issue: Courtesy: The Telegraph | Date: 22 Aug , 2014
Before the flicker of the last candle to commemorate those who laid down their lives for their motherland during the Kargil conflict dies out and memories of this 15th anniversary of Kargil Diwas...
The CIA’s reconnaissance operations in India
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Aug , 2014
The CIA recently declassified a new series of documents on the history of the U-2 surveillance planes. In their “The Central Intelligence Agency and Overhead Reconnaissance: The U-2 and OXCART...
Let Private Aerospace Manufacturing Flourish
By: Gp Capt Joseph Noronha | Issue: Vol. 29.2 Apr-Jun 2014 | Date: 10 Aug , 2014
Clearly the aerospace needs of India, civilian as well as defence, are growing. The public sector which has so far been tasked to meet these needs has failed to deliver. What’s more, as...
Turning India into an Arms Exporter
By: Radhakrishna Rao | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 04 Aug , 2014
While dedicating the formidable Indian warship INS Virkamaditya, the retrofitted Russian aircraft carrier to the nation at an impressive ceremony held in June, Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a...
Force Projection and Rapid Deployment Forces: Need for Reassessment
By: Brig Deepak Sinha | Issue: Vol. 29.2 Apr-Jun 2014 | Date: 03 Aug , 2014
As India’s regional and global aspirations grow with its increasing economic clout, it will be forced to build up its capacity to project power in its national interest to ensure that the...
A Two-Two as Army Chief
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Aug , 2014
General Dalbir Singh Suhag, has yesterday taken over as the 26th Indian Chief of the Army Staff (COAS), following the retirement of General Bikram Singh. General Dalbir Singh Suhag is from the...
Managing Perceptions for Maoists
By: Shashank Ranjan | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 01 Aug , 2014
The militant groups have tendency to show inclination to address the civil society, rather than the state – as an endeavour on their part to strike at the very thought process of the society....
Political – Civil – Military Participation in National Security
By: Vice Admiral Venkat Bharathan | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 31 Jul , 2014
Analysis of India's approach towards its National Security reveals an unacceptable hiatus between the Political -Civil- Military systems. We perhaps were lucky enough to get away thus far even...
Defence Preparedness: An unforgiving opportunity
By: Col Anil Athale | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 Jul , 2014
At Rs. 2.29 lakh crore, Defence expenditure is the largest component of the national budget. But true to Parkinson Law, when the figures are astronomical and beyond the grasp of human mind, the...
Employment of Helicopters in Counter Insurgency Roles
By: Gp Capt B Menon | Issue: Vol. 29.2 Apr-Jun 2014 | Date: 29 Jul , 2014
Experts estimate that about 80 different insurgencies are active around the world. Malaya, French Indochina, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Indonesia, South Africa, Algeria, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka,...
Strategies for Defence Modernisation and Self-Reliance
By: Bikramdeep Singh | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 28 Jul , 2014
In defence parlance, modernisation may be defined as relevant upgrades or improvement of existing military capabilities through the acquisition of new (imported or indigenously developed) weapon...
Indian Army: Reminiscences of a Soldier
By: Danvir Singh | Issue: Vol. 29.1 Jan-Mar 2014 | Date: 26 Jul , 2014
No matter how hi-tech the modern battlefield gets. No matter how powerful the Drones and the Robots become. The mission of the Infantry will continue to close-in and destroy the enemy, through...
Kargil Controversy: Army pinpoints IAF failures
By: Lt Gen Harwant Singh | Issue: Vol 25.2 Apr-Jun 2010 | Date: 24 Jul , 2014
Every military operation carries many lessons. The receptive imbibe some while the obstinate simply ignore. To be in a state of denial or finding alibis for mistakes rather than learn from...
Defence Budget: A Perspective on self Reliance and Modernisation
By: Maj Gen Rajesh Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Jul , 2014
India’s Defence Budget for 2014-15 has an allocation of Rs.2,29,000 crores ($38 billion) which is an increase of 12% over the previous year’s allocation. The capital outlay which is for...
Why not have ‘Technical Support Division’ at the Army Corps Level?
By: Col JK Achuthan (Retd.) | Issue: Vol. 29.2 Apr-Jun 2014 | Date: 18 Jul , 2014
The essence of successful conventional defensive battle is in maintaining elasticity and cohesion; thereafter debilitating the enemy’s combat power to the danger zone of exhaustion and...
Raising FDI in Defence is not enough
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Jul , 2014
FDI in the Defence Sector has been hiked from erstwhile 26 percent to 49 percent when the Finance-cum-Defence Minister recently announced the Defence Budget amounting to 2.29 Lakh Crores ($38.5...
Critical Deficiencies in the Indian Army
By: Sanjay Sethi | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 17 Jul , 2014
The Prime Minister was briefed by the Army Chief in the War Room of Military Operations Directorate on critical hollowness afflicting the army on June 13, 2014. As per media reports, the...
The Future of Military Helicopters
By: Gp Capt AK Sachdev | Issue: Vol. 28.1 Jan-Mar 2013 | Date: 16 Jul , 2014
Regrettably, advances in helicopter design have not been as impressive as for fighter aircraft. This is despite the fact that helicopters have been utilised in every conflict situation and...
Lessons from the Henderson Brooks Report
By: Lt Gen (Dr) JS Bajwa | Issue: Vol. 29.2 Apr-Jun 2014 | Date: 16 Jul , 2014
The Government’s ‘White Paper’ relating to India-China Boundary issue, published between 1951 and 1960, clearly indicated the adversarial bilateral relations between India and China. The...
1971: Surrender of Pakistani Troops
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Jul , 2014
In 1971, Lt Gen Jagjit Singh Aurora, PVSM, then GOC-in-C, Eastern Command, accepted history’s greatest surrender since the end of World War-II. In the above video, Brigadier Baqir Siddiqui,...