Spotlights
Countering IEDs: Training remains the Key
By: Maj Gen Dhruv C Katoch | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 13 Mar , 2013
On 22 February, eight persons, including six policemen, were killed in a landmine blast triggered by Maoists at Majhauliya village in Bihar’s Gaya district. This marked the first major land mine...
Impact of Information Warfare on Aerospace Operations
By: Air Marshal Raghu Rajan | Issue: Vol 26.2 Apr-Jun 2011 | Date: 13 Mar , 2013
What is Information Warfare? : Information Warfare (IW) in its most fundamental sense is the emerging “theater” in which future nation-against-nation conflict at the strategic level is most...
Adrift Without A Strategic Culture
By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Courtesy: Mail Today | Date: 12 Mar , 2013
Does India have a strategic culture? If strategic culture is defined narrowly in the context of the nuclear age alone, then India, as a recent entrant to the nuclear club and still in the process...
India’s Defence Budget: Inadequate Outlay
By: Brig. Gurmeet Kanwal | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Mar , 2013
The funds allotted for defence expenditure by Finance Minister P. Chidambaram for the Financial Year (FY) 2013-14 are inadequate to meet the growing threats and challenges facing the country,...
The Challenge Posed by China’s Military Posture in Tibet
By: Brig Vijai K Nair | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 09 Mar , 2013
China is in forceful occupation of approximately 38,000 square kilometres of Indian territory in Aksai Chin in the west and claims a further 90,000 square kilometres of Indian territories in the...
Pakistan’s Korean link
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Mar , 2013
North Korea, arguably the world’s most dangerous totalitarian country, has recommended a range of 28 hairstyles for its citizens, claiming that they are “the most comfortable” styles and capable...
Build a stronger partnership with France and Britain
By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Courtesy: The Telegraph | Date: 06 Mar , 2013
The back-to-back visits of the president of France, Francois Hollande, and the prime minister of Britain, David Cameron, last month have put the spotlight on India’s relationship with Europe....
The Malala Moment and Reforming Pakistan’s Education System
By: Pratibha Singh | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 03 Mar , 2013
Malala Yousufzai has emerged as an icon for countless girls in repressed societies. On 10 October 2012, she survived a brutal attack in the Swat Valley by pro-Taliban elements who perceive...
Rules of the Nuclear Club
By: Air Marshal B D Jayal | Issue: Courtesy: The Telegraph | Date: 02 Mar , 2013
The India-United States of America cooperation in the nuclear field started in the fifties under President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Atoms for Peace programme. In the sixties, India and the US...
How to Resolve the Problem of Roles and Missions
By: Air Marshal B D Jayal | Issue: Courtesy: The Telegraph | Date: 21 Feb , 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...
China’s Cyber Capabilities
By: Alok Vijayanth | Issue: Book Excerpt: Rise of China | Date: 21 Feb , 2013
This paper deals with Chinese Cyber Capabilities, their assessment of the global cyber eco-system and the gradual evolution of their dominant position in this emerging realm. The historical...
Giving Delhi Some Parisian Delight
By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Feb , 2013
The French President’s visit will further strengthen the strategic relationship between both countries France was first to offer a strategic dialogue after our 1998 nuclear tests, forswear...
Indo-French Relations under President Francois Hollande
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Vol 27.3 Jul-Sep 2012 | Date: 12 Feb , 2013
One may ask, “Will the election of Francois Hollande as President of the French Republic change Indo-French relations?” The answer is, certainly not. It is true that the word ‘India’ did...
The inside story of SLBM K-15
By: Cmde Ranjit B Rai | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Feb , 2013
On January 27, 2013 somewhere in the East Coast of India the 10.22-metre long K-15/B-05 solid-fuelled SLBM with a 750km-range and under water missile hit a predetermined target at sea successfully...
Operation Geronimo: Lessons for India
By: Air Commodore KB Menon | Issue: Vol. 26.3 July - Sept 2011 | Date: 09 Feb , 2013
The Pakistani town of Abbottabad is named after a Major James Abbot who established the district of Hazara in 1853. Known for its salubrious weather, Abbottabad is a quiet army cantonment town 50...
How Pakistan's Proxy War Began - I
By: B Raman | Issue: Book Excerpts: A Terrorist State as a Frontline Ally | Date: 09 Feb , 2013
Pakistani assistance for the anti-Government of India activities of alienated sections of the Indian society was not due to only its revanchist spirit following its loss of the then East Pakistan...
Indian Army: Infantry Beyond 2030
By: Danvir Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Feb , 2013
As India surges ahead in underscoring its strides into the Asian age. It is steadily strengthening the fundamentals of strong Armed Forces, swinging into a modernizing overdrive. The Navy and the...
Air Chief Marshal Browne answers the Media at Aero India 2013
By: Gp Capt B Menon | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Feb , 2013
The press conference by the CAS, Air Chief Marshal NAK Browne, on 07 Feb 2013 was a question & answer session. Highlights is short are given below. Procurement 2013-14. The planned procurements...
‘Only a credible & demonstrable Aerospace capability can be a true...
By: Ramananda Sengupta | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Feb , 2013
Air Chief Marshal Fali Homi Major, PVSM, was the first helicopter pilot to become the Chief of Air Staff, in April 2007. During his 40 years of distinguished service, he held several critical...
French defence industrial base: looking beyond the budget
By: Thomas Withington | Issue: Vol. 28.1 Jan-Mar 2013 | Date: 07 Feb , 2013
Several aspects regarding the long-term future of the French defence industrial base remain unknown, and are unlikely to become evident until the government publishes its anticipated Livre Blanc...