IDR Updates
Hawking India
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Jul , 2013
As per an exclusive report in the DNA today, Indian officials claim that Chinese are making repeated intrusions into Indian Territory because of an internal tussle between the Chinese PLA and...
Optimising the Potential of Special Forces
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Vol. 28.2 Apr-Jun 2013 | Date: 08 Jul , 2013
In India, the lack of strategic culture, more on account of keeping the military out from strategic military decision making, has led the hierarchy to believe that conventional forces coupled...
China’s ‘New Cold War’ puts democracies in danger
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Vol 25.4 Oct-Dec 2010 | Date: 06 Jul , 2013
The spread of two authoritarian streams, Chinese communism and the Islamic fundamentalism, in combination or otherwise, threaten the survival of democracies in Asia. First, Beijing deftly sucked...
China: Another Cross Border Squeak
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Jul , 2013
Why are we getting so worked about uttering by Comrade Luo Yuan working ‘under’ the Director General of the world military research department at a People’s Liberation Army academy...
Mounting threat from China, lackluster Indian response
By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Courtesy: The Telegraph | Date: 05 Jul , 2013
India will have to manage its relationships with China and Japan with greater finesse. China constitutes by far our most difficult diplomatic challenge as its rise impacts us directly in view of...
Boeing Awards Chinook Parts Contract to Dynamatic
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 Jul , 2013
1st supplier contract placed in India for CH-47 helicopter expands partnership with local industry Boeing and Dynamatic Technologies Limited have increased India’s global presence in aerospace...
Fabrication of a Deadly Triangle: India, Pakistan and Afghanistan
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Jul , 2013
With all the historian accolades to William Dalrymple, his Brookings Essay titled ‘A Deadly Triangle: Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India’ insinuating that “The hostility between India and...
New Combat Aircraft from China
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 Jul , 2013
China has claimed that its new J-15 combat jet nicknamed the ‘Flying Shark’ will operate from the aircraft carrier acquired in the recent past. It will have an operational radius of action of...
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles from China
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 Jul , 2013
China is developing strategic and tactical Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) capable of supporting ground, sea and air forces and are also capable of undertaking satellite communications in case...
Follow-On Contract to BEL by Boeing
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 Jul , 2013
Boeing awarded contract to Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) in 2011 to manufacture components for the F/A18 E/F Super Hornet and the P-8I maritime reconnaissance aircraft. Components for the...
Rafale Jets for Malaysia
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 Jul , 2013
Malaysia is considering purchase of 18 combat jets to replace its ageing fleet of Russian Mig-29 combat aircraft. It is understood that the contenders for the contract are Dassault Rafale,...
The Psychological Warfare in J & K
By: Lt Gen Raj Kadyan | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 Jul , 2013
The militancy in J&K is a mix of violence and clever use of psychological warfare. Having failed to succeed in their designs to defeat the security forces, the militants have been trying to...
Vice Admiral Jaywant Korde takes over Chief of Logistics of the Indian Navy
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Jul , 2013
Vice Admiral Jaywant Korde today took over as the Chief of Logistics on promotion to the rank of Vice Admiral. He took over on the retirement of Vice Admiral Paras Nath. Commissioned on 01 Jul...
IAF’s C17s maiden flight to Portblair
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Jul , 2013
Having touched down on Indian soil on 18 Jun 2013, the IAF’s latest acquisition C-17 Globemaster-III made its maiden flight to the Andaman & Nicobar Islands on 30 Jun 2013. Climbing an...
Air Marshal Arup Raha take over as Vice Chief of Air Staff
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Jul , 2013
Air Marshal Arup Raha PVSM AVSM VM ADC, Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Western Air Command took over charge as the Vice Chief of Air Staff (VCAS) at Air Headquarters on 01 July 13. Having done...
Lt Gen Rajan Bakhshi takes over as GOC-in-C, Central Command
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Jul , 2013
Lieutenant General Rajan Bakhshi takes over as GOC-in-C, Central Command on 01 July 2013. The Army Commander said on his arrival that Army rescue and relief operations in Uttarakhand would...
ISI infiltrates Indian think tanks and the media?
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 Jun , 2013
It took a gutsy lady like Ayesha Siddiqa to pen down what has been known for many years now – that the ISI has successfully infiltrated foreign think tanks. In the instant case, she mentions...
Disaster Management: A nation’s Litmus Test
By: Danvir Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 Jun , 2013
A nation is not only the territory, its natural resources or the amassed wealth but it is all about the great people that work towards making it a great entity. These people carry humanity in...
Stealth Frigate ‘INS Trikand’ joins Indian Navy
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 Jun , 2013
INS Trikand, the last of the three “Follow On Talwar Class” frigates built in the Russian Federation, was commissioned into the Indian Navy today at Kaliningrad, Russia by Vice Admiral R K...
How India can acquire great power status?
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Vol 23.1 Jan-Mar 2008 | Date: 29 Jun , 2013
Due to New Delhi’s slavish use of ‘carrot’ since Independence, without any equilibrium with the ‘stick’, the great power potential of India lies in tatters. In fact it threatens to...