Spotlights
Route-Out aur Route-In Alag Hoga
By: Rahul Chutani | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 01 Jun , 2013
“Route-Out aur Route-In Alag Hoga” said the Ustad at the Indian Military Academy. This phrase sounded too basic and too simplistic at that time to the young boys sitting there, imbibing...
Senior leadership and ‘any peg in any hole’ syndrome
By: Maj Gen Mrinal Suman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 May , 2013
The news of the posting of General David Petraeus as Commander of the US and NATO forces in Afghanistan must have been received with a certain degree of disbelief by the status-conscious Indian...
Looking beyond the DBO face off
By: Maj Gen Dhruv C Katoch | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 21 May , 2013
With the Chinese removing the four tents pitched in Indian Territory at an altitude of 17,500 feet, a few kilometers South of Daulat Beg Oldi(DBO) in the Depsang Plains in Eastern Ladakh a...
New Jihadi Magazine in English focuses on South Asia, Including Afghanistan...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 May , 2013
SITE, an Internet monitoring group, has drawn attention to a new web-based jihadi magazine in English called “Azan”. According to SITE, the magazine is believed to have been started by...
DBO: India’s Response and Defence Preparedness
By: Brig Pillalmarri Subramanyam | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 May , 2013
The Chinese intrusion into the area of Daulat Beg Oldi (DBO) on 15th April 2013, reportedly about 15 to 18 KMs South of the Line of Actual Control (LAC), once again brought into public debate the...
Illiteracy of War Drums
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 May , 2013
In a recent TV debate on the Chinese intrusion in Ladakh, to a suggestion by a veteran Army General that India should be resolute in response, a Member Parliament from the ruling party said,...
Guns, Helicopters and the Treaty
By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Courtesy: The Telegraph | Date: 27 Apr , 2013
The United Nations general assembly has approved the arms trade treaty on April 2, causing India some discomfiture. India participated actively in the negotiations but could not endorse the final...
Chinese Incursion in Ladakh exposes Indian Army war machinery's (Un)...
By: Col (Dr) PK Vasudeva | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Apr , 2013
Surprisingly, in a deep incursion, Chinese troops have entered the Indian Territory in Daulat Beg Oldi (DBO) sector in eastern Ladakh and erected a tented post without digging any trenches,...
Let’s not get too relaxed on China
By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Courtesy: Mail Today | Date: 24 Apr , 2013
Reports of Chinese soldiers intruding 10 kilometres into Ladakh challenge once again our assumptions about the stability of the situation on the unsettled India-China border. Our expanding...
1965 War:True Story of 2/Lt Baljit Singh- I
By: Colonel Baljit Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Apr , 2013
The incidents narrated ahead are based on the experience of 2nd Lieutenant Baljit Singh, 3rd Madras Infantry Battalion, 69th Infantry Brigade, who had participated in the legendary 1965 Indo-Pak...
Reigniting Kashmir
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Courtesy: fairobserver.com | Date: 19 Apr , 2013
John Quinton, American writer once wrote, “Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.” Appears happening in Kashmir, at least on...
How to Resolve the Problem of Roles and Missions
By: Air Marshal B D Jayal | Issue: Courtesy: The Telegraph | Date: 11 Apr , 2013
A national daily recently reported that highly classified documents pertaining to weapon system requirements and acquisition plans of all the three services along with those of surveillance...
India: Strategic Challenges and Responses
By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 Apr , 2013
At the outset let me clarify that I will discuss the subject primarily from the foreign policy and security point of view. Many believe that strategic challenges should now include those...
Impact of Pakistan's TNWs
By: Maj Gen PK Chakravorty | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 02 Apr , 2013
Pakistan’s nuclear programme is Indo centric and is based on offensive usage of nuclear weapons. On 19 April 2011, Pakistan successfully tested the Hatf IX, named NASR a solid fuelled...
Hurdles in Defence Industrial Growth
By: Karanpreet Kaur | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 30 Mar , 2013
The policies of the Government of India, the desire of armed forces and expectations of the indigenous industry for establishing a defence industrial base have yet to be fulfilled despite efforts...
Anti-Lanka vote was a bad idea
By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Mar , 2013
India has ended up looking opportunistic and unprincipled, a victim of its internal political wrangling, with a government in New Delhi not fully in control of foreign policy. India has once...
AFSPA cannot be revoked as of now: Gen Bikram Singh
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Mar , 2013
Chief of Army Staff, General Bikram Singh, said that AFSPA is an enabling Act and should not be taken away at the moment. It is important to remain on guard.
RFID in Netcentric Warfare Logistics
By: Manoj Shergill | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 19 Mar , 2013
The emergence of Net Centric Warfare (NCW) in the modern day conflicts has impacted the way the combat forces are logistically supported with increasing dependence on Geographical Information...
Could Iran be Obama's legacy?
By: Vikram Sood | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Mar , 2013
Various battles rage in the region from Pakistan to the Maghreb and where once civilisations flourished in the Indus Valley, in Persia, Mesopotamia and Egypt we today see intolerance and violence...
A single person cannot subvert the defence procurement system
By: Air Marshal B D Jayal | Issue: Courtesy: The Telegraph | Date: 15 Mar , 2013
A report by prosecutors filed in Italy in connection with the arrest of the chief executive officer of Finmeccanica, Giuseppe Orsi, has alleged that the then Indian air force chief was...