Misreading India's Strategic Culture

By Brig K Kuldip Singh | Issue: Book Excerpts: Kurukshetra to Kargil | Date: 04 February 2012

Use of military terms in non-military fields, particularly after the Second World War, has been quite in vogue. The usage of military expressions like art of war, strategy, leadership, battlefield motivation and so on, is not a matter of...

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Indian shipbuilding: key to maritime and economic security

By Vice Adm BS Randhawa | Issue: Vol 25.1 Jan-Mar 2010 | Date: 03 February 2012

The first anniversary of 26/11 brings to mind the profound statement of Jawaharlal Nehru ‘To be secure on land we must be supreme at sea’. While Pandit Nehru’s views would have been formed in the wake of the colonization of...

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MMRCA and the Indian Air Force

By Air Marshal Raghu Rajan | Issue: Vol. 26.4 Oct-Dec 2011 | Date: 02 February 2012

The MMRCA as a first step, will enable the IAF to hold its own against the PAF, and when it reaches its authorised strength, to face the PLAAF. The technical evaluation process has been transparent and gone on without...

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Is India Scared of China?

By Prakash Nanda | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 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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Indo French Friendship to Partnership I

By Claude Arpi | Issue: Vol 23.1 Jan-Mar 2008 | Date: 31 January 2012

Historical Background: To grasp the intricacies of Indo-French relations in the field of defence and security, it is necessary to first have a look at some issues which may seem unrelated, but which will help us to understand the historical...

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Future Wars Require Strong Army Aviation

By Maj Gen Dhruv C Katoch | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 27 January 2012

The Raksha Mantri, while speaking at a seminar organised by the Centre for Land Warfare Studies last year, said that the government was aware of the pace of military modernisation by countries in the neighbourhood and stressed the point that...

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Legal warfare: The neglected dimension

By Ali Ahmed | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 January 2012

The legal dimension is usually taken as an after thought, coming to fore post conflict. This is no longer the case. The legal arena is now very much where the conflict plays out, even as the contest continues across the spectrum, in diplomacy,...

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Curfew in Western Sichuan

By B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 January 2012

11 Tibetans Die in Police Firing

A curfew has been imposed and a shoot-at-sight order has been given to the police following two days of violent protests by Tibetans in certain parts of Western Sichuan, which has seen 14 instances of...

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Shaping of the Indian Military

By Air Chief Marshal S Krishnaswamy | Issue: Vol 22.2 Apr-Jun 2007 | Date: 21 January 2012

On 3 Apr, 1989 Ross Munro published an article on India – as the Superpower Rising, primarily focusing on its military might. It talked about India quietly transforming itself into regional superpower with a dominant military. The...

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Time for Solidarity with Balochs

By B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 January 2012

The Killing Fields of Balochistan have started shocking the conscience of the international community. Not only non-governmental human rights organisations, but even Governmental spokesmen of other countries---including a spokesperson of the US...

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