Military & Aerospace
Securing the Eagle’s Nest: Airfield and Infrastructure Security
By: Gp Capt B Menon | Issue: Vol. 28.1 Jan-Mar 2013 | Date: 06 Apr , 2013
Foolproof security of an operational base has been a vital prerequisite for the successful conduct of war. History of warfare reveals that neglect of this vital aspect has invariably led to...
High-Tech Naval Base to counter Chinese Expanding Navys
By: Col (Dr) PK Vasudeva | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Apr , 2013
The strategic ambitions of China in the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Sea have received a giant boost with its assuming charge of the Gwadar Port from Pakistan after taking charge of port...
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in China
By: Air Vice Marshal AK Tiwary | Issue: Vol. 28.1 Jan-Mar 2013 | Date: 28 Mar , 2013
China’s massive UAV developmental work has unhealthy implications for India. Soon Chinese capability will be of the latest standard and massive in size. If and when integrated in a manner...
India’s Network Centric Warfare Programme
By: Raveen Janu | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 19 Mar , 2013
If a perusal is done of the military doctrines of the major advanced powers, one aspect that has a common theme across the board is information dominance. Network centricity is the backbone...
Defence Budget far from Threat Perception
By: Col (Dr) PK Vasudeva | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Mar , 2013
There is an overall decrease in the defence outlay of almost all countries in the world including India except China and Pakistan. According to the Stockholm International Peace Research...
Why New Delhi wants to forget 1962?
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Mar , 2013
While the Indian National Congress is still able to remember the role of former prime ministers Lal Bahadur Shastri and Indira Gandhi in the India-Pakistan conflicts of 1965 and 1971, it has...
India to raise 30 Infantry Battalions
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Mar , 2013
Modernization of Army including Infantry is a continuous process, based on threat perception, operational necessity, technological changes and available resources. Combat capacity and mobility of...
Air Marshal Daljit Singh takes over as Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief HQ...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 Mar , 2013
Air Marshal Daljit Singh AVSM VM took over as Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief, of South Western Air Command (SWAC) Gandhi Nagar 01 Mar 13. On taking over, the Air Mshl inspected a...
Special Forces in India
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Vol. 28.1 Jan-Mar 2013 | Date: 02 Mar , 2013
Historically, Indian Special Forces have been used for direct action type of roles during conventional wars. The hierarchal understanding of trans-border employment of Special Forces in India is...
Air Marshal SB Deo takes over as DG AIR (Ops) at Air Headquarters
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Mar , 2013
Air Marshal Shirish Baban Deo, AVSM VM VSM takes over as Director General Air (Operations) today at Air Headquarters (Vayu Bhavan) New Delhi. He was commissioned in the fighter stream on 15 Jun 79...
RAW Operations in Pakistan
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 Feb , 2013
‘The Hindu” of February 26, 2013, has carried an article titled “ No Solace In This Quantum of Accountability” written by Samir Saran, Vice-President, and Abhijit Iyer-Mitra, Programme...
Whither Jointmanship in India?
By: Air Marshal Raghu Rajan | Issue: Vol. 28.1 Jan-Mar 2013 | Date: 23 Feb , 2013
‘Jointmanship’ in the history of warfare reached its maturity in World War II, especially during Operation Overlord involving landing by the allied forces on the beaches of Normandy. The...
China’s String of Pearls vs India’s Iron Curtain
By: Cmde Ranjit B Rai | Issue: Vol 24.4 Oct-Dec 2009 | Date: 19 Feb , 2013
“India’s growing international stature gives it strategic relevance in the area ranging from the Persian Gulf to the Straits of Malacca…India has exploited the fluidities of the emerging...
Who is the biggest enemy – China, Pakistan or Babus?
By: Maj Gen Satbir Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Feb , 2013
The Ministry of Defence had itself accepted through affidavits and submissions before the SC that implementation of the judgement in rank and pay would involve re-fixation of not only the Fourth...
The toothless Armed Forces Tribunal?
By: Navdeep Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Feb , 2013
The concept of Armed Forces Tribunal (AFT) needs redemption, and urgently so, by all stakeholders. In 2009, just about three and a half years ago, the AFT became functional with much fanfare as...
Modernisation of the Aviation Arm
By: Brig TS Gill | Issue: Vol. 28.1 Jan-Mar 2013 | Date: 08 Feb , 2013
As perceived by strategists, future wars are going to be short and intense. This fact is well accepted by military commanders as well. The Corps today has to match up with number of specialised...
UAVs: Dilemmas in the application of air power
By: Air Commodore KB Menon | Issue: Vol. 28.1 Jan-Mar 2013 | Date: 08 Feb , 2013
The use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is not new and dates back to World War II, when the Germans used a remotely controlled 2300-lb flying bomb steered by a pilot from a mother ship. Since...
‘Optimal employment of sophisticated equipment needs high quality...
By: Ramananda Sengupta | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Feb , 2013
Group Captain Balakrishna Menon, VM, was commissioned in the old General Duties branch of the Indian Air Force (now known as the Flying Branch) in 1967 as a fighter pilot. He flew Hunters and...
Making Offsets Work for India
By: Robert S Metzger | Issue: Vol. 28.1 Jan-Mar 2013 | Date: 07 Feb , 2013
Foreign companies invest a great deal in capital and management attention to form Joint Ventures and other business relationships with India partners so that they can be part of the aerospace...
Boeing C-17 adds Strategic Airlift Capability
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Vol. 28.1 Jan-Mar 2013 | Date: 07 Feb , 2013
On a clear, cold day in June 2010, a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III flew over the mighty Himalayas and touched down at an airfield in Leh, at an elevation of 11,562 ft, to take part in...