IDR Updates
Boeing to Build More Wideband Global SATCOM Satellites for US Air Force
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Jan , 2012
Boeing has received authorization from the U.S. Air Force to produce and launch the eighth and ninth Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) satellites. The WGS-9 authorization and the WGS-8 production...
Can Pakistan’s Army be Restrained?
By: Bhaskar Roy | Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 18 Jan , 2012
In an interview with the BBC last December, Pakistan’s Foreign Minister, Ms Hina Rabbani Khar admitted that the Pakistan army’s overwhelming power and influence over the civilian government...
Assertive Dragon
By: Dr Pushpa Adhikari | Issue: Book Excerpt: China Threat in South Asia | Date: 16 Jan , 2012
Ahead of offering an Indian perspective on rising China, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh (in Washington) said lately, “there is but a certain amount of assertiveness on the Chinese...
Will China threat last beyond two years?
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Jan , 2012
A strange and amazing question to stall military expansion programme has been raised by the Finance Ministry to the Defence Ministry today: Will China threat last beyond two years? What it...
China bolsters Pak Army’s image
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Jan , 2012
As the Pakistan Army confronts the US on the one hand and the civilian leadership headed by President Asif Ali Zardari on the other in a triangular re-assertion of its primacy in strategic...
Navy needs more Aircraft Carrier Battle Groups
By: Dr Amarjit Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 Jan , 2012
Since a few years now, India has been working towards procuring three aircraft carriers, commensurate with the mission and request of the Indian Navy to defend India’s sea coast and sea...
MoD extends battle winning advantage to the enemy!
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Jan , 2012
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) with its superfluous layers of bureaucracy and the complicated defence procurement procedures, has not only delayed the modernization of armed forces but its...
The War of Nerves in Pakistan: Q & A
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 Jan , 2012
Q: What is the likelihood of Gen.Ashfaq Pervez Kayani, Pakistan’s Chief of the Army Staff (COAS), staging a coup, seizing political power and imposing the rule of the Army till fresh elections...
Younger Fighting Forces for Greater Combat Effectiveness
By: Air Commodore Jasjit Singh | Issue: Vol 18.1 Jan-Mar 2003 | Date: 02 Jan , 2012
There are old pilots, and there are bold pilots, but there are no old-bold pilots —- Anonymous One of the most important lessons of the Gulf War II, even though not so easily visible on a casual...
POW in China: Humiliations Galore
By: Lt Col KN Bakshi, VSM | Issue: Book Excerpt: I Was A Prisoner of War in China | Date: 30 Dec , 2011
Though we stared long and hard, we could not see anyone. It seemed that no one had come to receive us. The usual compliment of military personnel was there, with their glum faces and their...
National Security: Decision Making
By: Anand K Verma | Issue: Vol 14.4 Oct-Dec 1999 | Date: 28 Dec , 2011
The Indian State as it exists today is a consequence of the British presence in India. Prior to that, throughout history, the sub continental land mass was hardly ever a State in geographical...
PLA: Thrust on Integrated Joint War-Fighting
By: Lt Gen Gautam Banerjee | Issue: Vol. 26.4 Oct-Dec 2011 | Date: 26 Dec , 2011
“Therefore, soldiers do not have a constant position, water does not have a constant shape, and to be able to attain victory in response to the change of the enemy is called miraculous”,...
Boeing South Carolina Site Achieves 787 Weight on Wheels Milestone
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Dec , 2011
Production achievement marks continued momentum on first 787 built at site Boeing announced that its first South Carolina-built 787 put weight on wheels for the first time on Dec. 18. “Our...
Japanese Ministry of Defense Announces Plans to Purchase F-35 Aircraft
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Dec , 2011
The Japanese Defense Minister Yasuo Ichikawa has announced the selection of the F-35 Lightning II aircraft for the F-X program. The F-35 is produced by Lockheed Martin and powered by Pratt &...
Air Chief Flies SU-30MKI as he visits Pune Air Base
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Dec , 2011
Air Chief Marshal NAK Browne, Chief of the Air Staff flew a one hour sortie in a SU-30 MKI at Pune airbase. Addressing the station, he said, “I wanted to be here to not only fly the SU-30...
Rajya Sabha recommends one rank one pension
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Dec , 2011
The Rajya Sabha Committee on Petition in its report tabled on 19 Dec 2011 strongly recommended the grant of One Rank One Pension (OROP) to the Defence Personnel. It found the Govt contention for...
Kim Jong-Un: Little Known Ruler of an Unpredictable State
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Dec , 2011
One need not be surprised by the regional and global nervousness over the death of Kim Jong-Il, the ruler of North Korea, following a heart attack reportedly suffered by him on board a train on...
Bangladeshi miscreants pelt stones at BSF Jawan
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Dec , 2011
Dr. Manoj Kumar Mohapatra, First Secretary, High Commission of India in Dhaka said that Reports have been received of the deaths of three Bangladesh nationals as a result of firing on the Indian...
India-US Relations: Future Trajectory
By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Vol 24.4 Oct-Dec 2009 | Date: 16 Dec , 2011
The confidence of the Indian establishment that India–US relations were set on a steep upward trajectory has eroded noticeably with President Obama replacing President Bush. Even though...
Liberation of Bangladesh: War in Northern Sector – I
By: Maj Gen Sukhwant Singh | Issue: Book Excerpt: India's War since Independence | Date: 15 Dec , 2011
The northern sector comprised the U-shaped territory between the mighty Jamuna in the west and Meghna in the east, with the Ganga forming the base. The Brahmaputra ran diagonally from northwest...