Is India Scared of China?

By Prakash Nanda | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 February 2012

Ms Annette Lu, the Vice President of the Republic of China, better known as Taiwan, is still finding it hard to believe that the Vajpayee government did not allow her to visit the earthquake victims in Gujarat with relief material worth more...

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Indian Air Force of the future

By Air Marshal BK Pandey | Issue: Vol 24.1 Jan-Mar 2009 | Date: 21 February 2012

Planning for the future has always been a daunting task, especially when it concerns the military of a nation. As the military is a vital component and in fact the ultimate instrument of national security, improper assessment or gross...

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Indian Military Leadership needs a relook?

By Maj Gen Sukhwant Singh | Issue: Book Excerpt: Indias War since Independence | Date: 21 February 2012

Till the liberation of Bangladesh, India never had a military victory in the previous ten centuries. Indian history is replete with repeated defeats, humiliations and subjugation by more enterprising invaders. Invariably, the Indian forces...

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Ignorance of military matters in modern India

By Col Gopal Karuna Karan | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 February 2012

I Love the Indian Army – but I must leave Now!

I stumbled into the Indian Army in the late seventies. The School which admitted us mid-session, when we returned from Singapore, where my father had a brief teaching stint at the...

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Technologies and National Security

By Ajey Lele | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 February 2012

The world has witnessed two significant events during last three decades which has changed the contours of global strategic thought. The first being the end of the Cold War and second is the September 11, 2001 World Trade Center (WTC) terrorist...

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1971 War: The First Missile Attack on Karachi

By Vice Adm (Retd) GM Hiranandani | Issue: Book Excerpt: Transition to Triumph | Date: 16 February 2012

Events before the Attack

Vice Admiral (later Admiral) Kohli, was the Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Western Naval Command (FOCINCWEST). In his book "We Dared", he states:

"After Pakistan...

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When a Soldier Cries

By Maj Gen Mrinal Suman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 February 2012

The profession of arms is all about management of violence, destruction and death. As it is not easy to muster courage and nerve to kill other human beings, soldiers are trained to acquire a streak of raw ruthlessness and brutality....

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Terrorist Attack on Israeli Diplomat

By B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 February 2012

The wife of the Israeli Defence Attache in New Delhi, her Indian driver and two bystanders on the road were injured on February 13, 2012, when what was believed to be an explosive-cum-incendiary device attached to the rear of her car as it...

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The Pakistani Conundrum

By B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 February 2012

After having fairly successfully defied the Army over the so-called Memogate affair, the elected Pakistani Executive headed by President Asif Ali Zardari has now chosen to defy the judiciary on the question of its refusal to write to the Swiss...

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India Losing War Against Terrorism

By RSN Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 February 2012

The desperation to equate Pakistan sponsored terror with so-called ‘Hindu Terror’ or ‘Saffron Terror’ is largely motivated by selfish considerations of very few at the cost of the nation. There can be nothing more...

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