IDR Updates
Dark Clouds over Pakistan
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Mar , 2011
It all began in June 2009. Asia Bibi, a farm hand from the village of Ittan Wali in Sheikhupura District of the Punjab province in Pakistan, was asked to fetch water. Bibi, whose is the only...
Winds of hatred continue to sweep across Pakistan
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Mar , 2011
At a time when winds of change have been sweeping across many Islamic countries with calls for greater freedom and democracy, winds of hatred continue to sweep across Pakistan. Pakistan, which...
To overlook reality would be stupid
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 Mar , 2011
While China is free to believe that it has done nothing to raise hackles around the world, more so in its neighbourhood, that is far from the truth. It makes little sense for Beijing to feign...
Repeated Calls for Jasmine Strolls in China
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Mar , 2011
Repeated calls for “Jasmine Strolls” in Chinese cities, including Beijing, emanating from overseas Chinese web sites have added to the nervousness of the Chinese authorities. A Jasmine Stroll is...
Defence Budget: Tinkering with commas and full stops
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Feb , 2011
The presentation of annual defence budget is an exercise in futility. The increase in defence budget from Rs.147,344 crores in fiscal 2010-11 to 164,415 crores in fiscal 2011-12, reflects a gain...
Orissa: Surrender to Insurgents
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Feb , 2011
The Orissa Government’s handling of the situation arising from the kidnapping on February 16,2011, of Shri Ravella Vineel Krishna, the popular District Collector of Malkangiri District, and a...
India and the Indian Ocean
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Feb , 2011
The main security threats to Indian interests in the Indian Ocean area arise from three factors—firstly, the gradual erosion of the Indian political influence in the area; secondly, the increase...
India positions Dornier in Seychelles to support Maritime Surveillance...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Feb , 2011
Indian Navy has deployed one Dornier to Seychelles under a government to government memorandum of undertaking. The Dornier is stationed at Victoria, capital of Seychelles and will be operated...
Export potential in naval sector
By: Vice Adm Rajeshwer Nath | Issue: Vol 23.3 Jul-Sep 2008 | Date: 25 Feb , 2011
The defence systems are country-specific so as to meet the nation’s security requirements in most efficient manner and at economical terms. All the countries would like to have the defence...
J&K: The complete surrender?
By: Maj Gen GD Bakshi, (Retd) | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Feb , 2011
The recent spate of scams has so exhausted the fund of public outrage, that the die-hard votaries of peace with Pakistan (at any cost) have found the time opportune to shamelessly resile from...
Will China cross the Rubicon of its history?
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Feb , 2011
The seriousness with which China has been viewing the dangers of a new revolution in China inspired by the people’s uprising in Egypt would be evident from the number of high-level...
The critical battles of Helmand and Kandhar
By: Maj Gen GD Bakshi, (Retd) | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Feb , 2011
The year 2010 was crucial for the final outcome in Afghanistan. There were two major changes in the military leadership. The highly regarded, Special Forces Commander, Lt Gen Stanley McChrystal...
Offsets: an Indian perspective
By: Maj Gen Anil Kumar Mehra | Issue: Vol. 23.4 Oct-Dec 2008 | Date: 23 Feb , 2011
J. Brauer and J.P. Dunne in their article “Arms Trade Offsets and Development.” Africanus [South Africa] Vol. 35, No. 1 (June 2005), pp. 14-24,opine: “Arms importing countries’ offset...
Private Military Companies
By: Al J. Venter | Issue: Book Excerpt: War Dog: Fighting Other People's Wars | Date: 23 Feb , 2011
The term “private military companies” or, as some prefer, “private security companies,” has only recently entered the lexicon. The issue became pertinent to a lot of Americans when the...
Don’t throw India to the wolves
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Feb , 2011
The abduction of an IAS officer RV Krishna in Orissa and the seeming capitulation of the state has made the people of India feel vulnerable and insecure. If the swap of terrorists with the...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...