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Chinese and Korean companies attacked by Libyan protesters

Chinese and Korean companies attacked by Libyan protesters

By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Feb , 2011

Resentment over the comfortable life-style of foreigners working in Libyan projects as compared to the poverty of Libyan workers seems to be playing a role in the current turmoil in Libya. This...

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 Uncle Red adds to China’s nervousness

Uncle Red adds to China’s nervousness

By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Feb , 2011

“Go, go, go! Forge on ahead. “The awakened lion is roaring. “It will smash corruption, and bury the dictatorship. “Mighty Egypt has no room for clowns. “With no equality or human rights,...

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India-China Relations: Some Reflections

India-China Relations: Some Reflections

By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Vol 23.1 Jan-Mar 2008 | Date: 21 Feb , 2011

  India’s China policy has been marked by friendship, sentimentalism, fear, diffidence, brinksmanship, wishful thinking and engagement. This mixture of attitudes reflects the complexity of the...

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Net-Spawn Campaign Unnerves Beijing

Net-Spawn Campaign Unnerves Beijing

By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Feb , 2011

Anti-Chinese Communist Party dissidents based abroad have unleashed a web campaign against the dictatorship of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). In hundreds of messages directed to the Chinese...

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Modernisation of Defence Forces

Modernisation of Defence Forces

By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Vol 21.4 Oct-Dec 2006 | Date: 21 Feb , 2011

India will pay heavy price in the long run, if it continues to compromise its superiority in military power balance vis-à-vis China and Pakistan. Both, China and Pakistan have a diabolical plan...

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Civil War in Libya: Gaddafi uses Pak & BD Mercenaries?

Civil War in Libya: Gaddafi uses Pak & BD Mercenaries?

By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Feb , 2011

Basic Data (From Bbc) Colonel Muammar Gaddafi has led since 1969 Population 6.5m; land area 1.77m sq km Population with median age of 24.2, and a literacy rate of 88% Gross national income per...

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Bahrain: A Nervous Watch

Bahrain: A Nervous Watch

By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Feb , 2011

  BASIC DATA (From BBC) King Hamad, 61, a Sunni, has been in power since 1999 Population 800,000 (70 per cent Shias); land area 717 sq km, or 100 times smaller than the Irish Republic Ranks 48...

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Sino-Indian border imbroglio

Sino-Indian border imbroglio

By: Lt Gen MC Bhandari | Issue: Vol. 23.4 Oct-Dec 2008 | Date: 19 Feb , 2011

  China launched full scale invasion on India in 1962. In fact, Chinese invasion had commenced way back in 1906 when it maneuvered and succeeded in concluding the 1906 Convention in Calcutta. In...

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Trends in Military Leadership

Trends in Military Leadership

By: Lt Gen SC Sardeshpande | Issue: Vol. 23.4 Oct-Dec 2008 | Date: 19 Feb , 2011

  “The sense of grievance among armed forces that the civilian bureaucracy has short-changed it and this is reflected in the hierarchy laid down in the pay commission is both sad and dangerous....

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Probity in Defence Procurements

Probity in Defence Procurements

By: Maj Gen Mrinal Suman | Issue: Vol 22.3 Jul-Sep 2007 | Date: 18 Feb , 2011

  Defence deals the world over are regularly subjected to intense scrutiny and investigations. Aspersions are often cast about lack of probity and underhand dealings. In Transparency...

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Pakistan’s Offensive-Defence Strategy

Pakistan’s Offensive-Defence Strategy

By: RSN Singh | Issue: Book Excerpt: The Military Factor in Pakistan | Date: 18 Feb , 2011

Speaking at the launch ceremony of the Agosta 90 B submarine (PNS Hamza) in November 2006, Musharraf said that Pakistan follows a strategy of ‘defensive deterrence’, which, he clarified,...

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Antony Asks Forces to gear up to Fight Cyber Wars

Antony Asks Forces to gear up to Fight Cyber Wars

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Feb , 2011

The Defence Minister Shri AK Antony has called upon the Armed Forces to be vigilant against emerging cyber threats. Addressing the centenary celebrations of the Corps of Signals here today, he...

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China ‘outsources’ its war against India

China ‘outsources’ its war against India

By: Col Rajinder Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Feb , 2011

  While India keeps dithering in her resolve to tackle China firmly, her Northern neighbor has been steadfastly moving towards making India a non-entity in global affairs. China has adopted a no...

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Himalayan Rivers: Geopolitics and Strategic Perspectives

Himalayan Rivers: Geopolitics and Strategic Perspectives

By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Vol 23.2 Apr-Jul 2008 | Date: 17 Feb , 2011

  On October 7, 1950 the PLA’s Second Field Army marched into Eastern Tibet to ‘liberate’ the Roof of the World. Several factors can explain this move. A few days after the beginning of the...

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Victory in Modern War?

Victory in Modern War?

By: RSN Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Feb , 2011

Before the Second World War, wars were fought for territory, resources, or both. In these wars, victory was easy to be defined and discerned. There were distinct symbolisms like hoisting of...

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Egypt: As seen from nervous Beijing

Egypt: As seen from nervous Beijing

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 Feb , 2011

In its issue of February 14, 2011, the “Global Times” of Beijing, which is controlled by the Chinese Communist Party, has come out with a commentary on the success of the Revolution in Egypt. It...

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Aerospace: USD 41.99 billion deals are in process of getting signed

Aerospace: USD 41.99 billion deals are in process of getting signed

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 Feb , 2011

CII-KPMG at the back of the Aero India Show 2011 released a report titled ‘Unlocking the potential of the Indian Aerospace and Defence Industry”. The report was released by Minister of State for...

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Revolt in the New Dominion

Revolt in the New Dominion

By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Vol 24.3 Jul-Sep 2009 | Date: 14 Feb , 2011

It was a few days only after I had written an article on the instability of the situation in China that the news flashed that in Urumqi, capital of Xinjiang (The New Dominion in Chinese),...

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Obama’s next big problem is Pakistan

Obama’s next big problem is Pakistan

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Feb , 2011

After Egypt, things are rapidly getting out of control for the United States in Pakistan, where , after the Raymond Davis Incident the US has threatened to end Diplomatic Relations with...

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Microlight and Powered Hang Glider Aircraft Criss-Cross at Hindan

Microlight and Powered Hang Glider Aircraft Criss-Cross at Hindan

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Feb , 2011

The IAF ‘X-India 2011’ expedition comprising one micro light aircraft and a powered hang glider crossed path at Hindan airbase on 11 February 2011. The Micro light aircraft started the journey...

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