IDR Updates
Surreal China – Lessons from Myanmar
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 09 Jun , 2013
Myanmar helped China seize the opportunity to integrate more with Myanmar militarily, politically and economically, Chinese strategists having visualised the long-term need for reaching out to...
Defence production- a battle between free market and state control
By: Air Marshal B D Jayal | Issue: Courtesy: The Telegraph | Date: 08 Jun , 2013
In a season where scams are tumbling out of Lutyens’ Bhavans with an embarrassing regularity, it may appear that the AgustaWestland helicopter graft case has receded from public memory. Rather...
Terrorism as an Instrument of Power Projection
By: Maj Gen Afsir Karim | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 08 Jun , 2013
It seems there is no change in the policy of the Pakistan army in matters related to Kashmir. The top brass, along with a crop of retired generals, still believes that India should not be allowed...
First Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner Begins Final Assembly
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Jun , 2013
Newest 787 complements, extends the super-efficient family Boeing has begun final assembly of the first 787-9 Dreamliner. The newest member of the 787 family began taking shape on schedule May 30...
Fight Maoist strategy and not the forces…
By: Danvir Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 Jun , 2013
The ‘Gandhians with Guns’ as they may be referred by the people like Arundhiti Roy, however the fact is that they are armed rebels working against the interestsof the union of India and its...
A Turning Point in History
By: Air Marshal B D Jayal | Issue: Courtesy: The Telegraph | Date: 01 Jun , 2013
Even as the full scale of the tragedy that struck the United States on September 11 is unfolding, it is worth pondering its strategic implications. A leading American daily has termed it as war...
Combating Left-Wing Extremism
By: Lt Gen Kamal Davar (Retd) | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 01 Jun , 2013
Among the security perils that afflict India internally, the gravest and most alarmingly burgeoning is left-wing extremism (LWE), commonly dubbed as the Naxal-Maoist threat. Alluded to as being...
Mr. Li and the Three Idiots
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 May , 2013
Li came, Li saw (the Indian confusion) and Li won. It was not difficult. He spoke of the Three Idiots, a film that his daughter ‘forced’ him to see, and the Indian establishment (and media)...
India’s China Syndrome
By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Courtesy: Mail Today | Date: 29 May , 2013
India-China relations are complex enough not to be seen in black and white terms. Amidst all the good reasons for India to mistrust China and deal with it as an adversary, it makes sense to work...
Maoists ambush Congress Leaders Convoy
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 May , 2013
The last Saturday (25th May) Maoist ambush of the convoy of Congressmen in Chhattisgarh is being described as a wakeup call in view of forthcoming elections, the term of the present State...
Police cannot take on Maoists
By: VK Shashikumar | Issue: Vol 25.4 Oct-Dec 2010 | Date: 25 May , 2013
The latest flash-point between The People’s Liberation Guerrilla Army or naxals in the Lakhisarai forests of Bihar is a tell-tale indicator of the state of preparedness of the Indian police...
Tackling Maoists : the Andhra paradigm
By: Col JK Achuthan (Retd.) | Issue: Vol 25.2 Apr-Jun 2010 | Date: 25 May , 2013
“The armed Threat from within is more dangerous than any external Threats.” -Leon Trotsky Introduction Today the greatest danger to India’s independence and flourishing democracy is the...
Spreading Naxalism – Napping Government
By: PV Ramana | Issue: Vol 22.1 Jan - Mar 2007 | Date: 24 May , 2013
Naxalites owing allegiance to the Communist Party of India (Maoist) have been waging a bloody insurrection against the Indian state with the ultimate objective of capturing political power...
Cassidian launches Claricor 3: A new secure communications solution
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 May , 2013
Cassidian has introduced a new version of its professional radio system solution for small to medium-sized networks, called Claricor. Made for up to 5,000 users, it offers a cost-effective set-up...
Honeywell’s new HTF7350 engine to power Bombardier Challenger 350
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 May , 2013
Honeywell has announced that its HTF7350, the latest engine to join its successful HTF7000 series, will power Bombardier’s new Challenger 350* supermidsize business jet. In addition to the...
Solution to J & K problem lies in New Delhi…
By: Lt Gen NS Malik | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 May , 2013
J&K is an integral part of India. The only problem that can be called J&K Problem is the non- comprehension by India, its people and the government to this ultimate truth of its being the...
China’s Foreign Policy: Biang Biang Noodles!
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 May , 2013
Tavleen Singh narrates in her book ‘Durbar’ that having personally witnessed grisly scenes of children dying of starvation in presence of their hapless parents themselves surviving on grass...
India-China: Border Defence Cooperation Agreement
By: Brig Pillalmarri Subramanyam | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 May , 2013
The events of the past week and half are gradually clearing the fog over why China did what she did at DBO on 15th April 2013. Though a surfeit of motives were assigned, a careful review of the...
Aggressive Chinese designs and India’s utter timidity…
By: Maj Gen Mrinal Suman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 May , 2013
External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid, after holding talks with his counterpart Wang Yi in Beijing on 09 May 2013, told reporters that there was still no clarity on the reasons behind the...
Bowing down to the dragon
By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Courtesy: Mail Today | Date: 14 May , 2013
Our statements on the recent India-China face-off in Ladakh continue to confound. One would have thought that we would have analysed the incident in depth, tried to figure out China’s...