Military & Aerospace
Standing up to the Dragon
By: General V K Singh | Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 15 Nov , 2012
When we talk of China, I will talk of two things. One is how we look at China today and second thing is what it is that was in 1962 and whether it is something that we can put it in future from...
Lessons from 1962: Is 50 years not enough?
By: Maj Gen S G Vombatkere | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Nov , 2012
Institutions and nations rarely if ever learn from successes, but it is possible and necessary to learn from institutional or national failure. This is particularly true of military operations....
Can the soldiers be allowed to be murdered behind the cover of red tape?
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Nov , 2012
Media hysteria about army causing wasteful expenditure of rupees 100 crores needs analysis. If an Army Chief’s top secret letter to the Prime Minister can be leaked to the media, what is so...
Integration of Service Headquarters with Ministry of Defence
By: Air Marshal Dhiraj Kukreja | Issue: Vol 27.3 Jul-Sep 2012 | Date: 11 Nov , 2012
Except for the debacle of the Sino-Indian War of 1962, India has managed to perform quite well in the various military conflicts. However, each of these did leave behind unmistakeable signs of...
Do we need the Indian Army?
By: Lt Gen KK Khanna, PVSM, AVSM** (Retd) | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Nov , 2012
Pandit Nehru believed that the Indian Army was quite unnecessary, in fact dangerous, because generals seized power. Having struggled to gain power, even accepting partition of the Country in the...
Rational National Security
By: Maj Gen S G Vombatkere | Issue: Vol 27.3 Jul-Sep 2012 | Date: 05 Nov , 2012
Specifically, defence preparedness is the direct responsibility of the Prime Minister and the National Security Council (NSC), which need to receive accurate advice from the country’s military...
UAVs gaining currency with Indian Armed Forces
By: Guilem Monsonis | Issue: EDR Vol. March/April 2012 | Date: 30 Oct , 2012
Drones are on the rise in the Indian armed forces. Identified as an essential tool for modernization, in recent years UAVs have become a staple of Indian border surveillance. Constrained for a...
India, Tibet, China: The contending triumvirate
By: Lt Gen Gautam Banerjee | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Oct , 2012
“When there is everything to fear, be unafraid. When without resources, depend on resourcefulness”, - Sun Tsu. The territorial dispute in the Trans-Himalayan Region is a legacy of the eternal...
A Vision of Maritime India 2020
By: Admiral Arun Prakash (Retd.) | Issue: Vol 22.1 Jan - Mar 2007 | Date: 13 Oct , 2012
“What ship? Where bound?” is the traditional nautical query that goes out on the air when a warship encounters a stranger on the high seas. Recently an Indian Navy frigate on passage to the...
1962: Celebrating the Golden Jubilee of a National Blunder!
By: Lt Gen Gautam Banerjee | Issue: Vol 27.3 Jul-Sep 2012 | Date: 03 Oct , 2012
Our narrative of the 1962 border conflict is but a list of self-deprecating ‘never dos’. A force of just three weak Brigades in the Eastern and two in the Western Sectors out of forty odd in...
1962 War: Chinese claim they fought in self defence
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 Sep , 2012
In continuation with my yesterday's posting about the Sleeping Burgerade, I am today posting five links to Chinese propaganda videos showing Beijing's version of the War. Most of these videos are...
An Integrated Approach to Defence Procurement
By: Air Marshal Raghu Rajan | Issue: Vol 27.3 Jul-Sep 2012 | Date: 25 Sep , 2012
It is evident that the services need to be more proactive in the process of procurement. It is also obvious that the optimum and cost-effective utilisation of the defence budget must be the basis...
Time to say Good Bye to Prithvi Missiles?
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 21 Sep , 2012
Recently I attended a round-table symposium on how “Missile transparency” could be an important confidence building measure (CBM) between India and Pakistan. It was organised by the New...
India’s Indigenous Submarine Design Dilemma
By: Rear Adm AP Revi | Issue: Vol 27.3 Jul-Sep 2012 | Date: 17 Sep , 2012
The defence shipyards have not as yet come up to Navy’s expectations, particularly in respect of productivity standards. Time and cost overruns have become a perpetual problem. Some of these...
India incapable of conducting Op Geronimo
By: Lt Gen Harwant Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Sep , 2012
Consequent to American operation ‘Geronimo,’ at Abbottabad in Pakistan to eliminate Osama bin Laden, many in civil society have been asking whether India can go ahead with a similar...
India’s emerging defence doctrine
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Vol 13.3 Jul-Sep 1998 | Date: 02 Sep , 2012
India is a unique country, with all the favourable geographical attributes of an offensive orientation. It is separated from the rest of the Asian landmass by the formidable chain of mountains...
Pakistan Army’s official take on 1971 War
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Sep , 2012
With 1971 commenced the most tragic year of our history. Failing to resolve a political problem by political means, a Martial Law regime, manipulated by some megalomaniac politicians, resorted to...
Pakistan : The Next Battlefield
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Vol 17.2 Jul-Sep 2002 | Date: 01 Sep , 2012
Ten years later, the forecast made in 2002 by the writer appears to be coming true-Editor. War on Terrorism will zero in on Pakistan as the next battlefield on two counts. First,...
Vice Admiral Sinha appointed C-in-C West
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Aug , 2012
The Government has appointed Vice Admiral Shekhar Sinha, presently Chief of Integrated Defence Staff to Chairman, Chiefs of Staff Committee (CISC) as the next Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief...
The Tejas Fleet for the IAF – to be or not to be?
By: Air Commodore KB Menon | Issue: Vol 27.3 Jul-Sep 2012 | Date: 27 Aug , 2012
An ambitious project like the LCA is fraught with risks, more so when the design and development teams are venturing into uncharted waters driven by an insistence to forego any external help....