Spotlights
Unending Threats to India’s Borders
By: Brig. Gurmeet Kanwal | Issue: Vol 23.1 Jan-Mar 2008 | Date: 22 Sep , 2012
With a landmass of sub-continental proportions, India occupies a predominant strategic position in Southern Asia and dominates the northern Indian Ocean with a coastline that is 7,683 km long,...
Lateral Induction of the Military into Civil Administration
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Vol 20.4 Oct-Dec 2005 | Date: 21 Sep , 2012
The map of Asia is dotted with small and medium sized Islamic countries that overtly or covertly tend to lean towards religious extremism in a variety of disguises. Many plant ridiculous ideas...
NBC Disasters: Prevention & Management
By: Lt Gen Shankar Prasad | Issue: Vol 22.4 Oct-Dec 2007 | Date: 19 Sep , 2012
Nuclear, Biological and Chemical weapons, fall in the category of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD). Each one of these is capable of causing major havoc, manifesting in unprecedented...
Classification of Warships: The French Experience
By: Yves Le Gas Emmanuel Descleves | Issue: Vol 22.3 Jul-Sep 2007 | Date: 17 Sep , 2012
International rules that have evolved from the main ‘IMO Conventions and Recommendations’ as well as the ‘EU National Rules’ are not mandatory for warships. Nonetheless, the French Navy...
Securing India’s Energy Needs
By: Brig. Gurmeet Kanwal | Issue: Vol 22.3 Jul-Sep 2007 | Date: 17 Sep , 2012
For India’s economic growth to sustain at eight per cent plus per annum, its energy supply must increase at more than six per cent per annum over 30 to 40 years’ time frame. As India is...
Nuclear Deal versus Nuclear Capability
By: Lt Gen Vinay Shankar | Issue: Vol 22.1 Jan - Mar 2007 | Date: 16 Sep , 2012
The proclaimed benefits of the Indo-US nuclear deal are unexceptionable. Firstly, we would become eligible to receive nuclear fuel from the Nuclear Suppliers Group. This would enable us to build...
Bows, Arrows and Nuclear Weapons
By: Gp Capt Ajey Lele (Retd.) | Issue: Vol 24.4 Oct-Dec 2009 | Date: 14 Sep , 2012
Just few years before India got its independence an unhealthy collision took place between the worlds of physics and politics. In 1945 the Americans nuked Japan. Since then in some parts of the...
Line of Actual Control or Contention?
By: Bhashyam Kasturi | Issue: Vol 24.4 Oct-Dec 2009 | Date: 14 Sep , 2012
India has three important lessons to learn from the recent war hysteria created in the media about Chinese incursions across the Line of Actual Control at several points. These reported incidents...
Reflection on Conflict Duration
By: Ali Ahmed | Issue: Vol 24.3 Jul-Sep 2009 | Date: 14 Sep , 2012
The new Indian Army doctrine dilating on the nature of future wars reads: ‘Emerging at short notice, being of short duration and being fought at high tempo and intensity.’ These are valid...
China's Emerging Cyberwar Doctrine
By: Brig. Gurmeet Kanwal | Issue: Vol 24.2 Apr-Jun 2009 | Date: 13 Sep , 2012
“Chinese cyber spies hack Indian embassy in US,” screamed a bold headline splashed across the front page of a leading national daily on March 30, 2009.1 Based on a research brief issued by the...
China’s Maritime Thrust in Africa
By: Dr Rajasimman Sundaram | Issue: Vol 24.2 Apr-Jun 2009 | Date: 13 Sep , 2012
Call it China’s new military diplomacy or birth traits of its emerging naval strategy, a Chinese naval fleet arrived in the Gulf of Aden off Somalia on 6 January, 2009 to carry out the first...
The Poonch Fiasco: A time To Ponder
By: Rohit Singh | Issue: Vol 24.1 Jan-Mar 2009 | Date: 13 Sep , 2012
26/11. The terrorists held sway and centrestage for four days as they basked in an electronic media blitzkreig. Another day, another time, this time in Poonch, the terrorists took on the might of...
Chinese defence minister’s visit to Sri Lanka: an Indian perspective
By: Col R Hariharan | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Sep , 2012
China’s Defence Minister General Liang Guanglie’s visited Sri Lanka for five days from August 29, 2012. The first-ever visit by a Chinese defence minister to Sri Lanka with an entourage of 23...
Operation Geronimo: A Critical Analysis
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Sep , 2012
This article sums up my observations based on a study of a detailed article titled “Getting Bin Laden:What happened that night in Abbottabad” written by Nicholas Schmidle and published by...
Osama killing: Lessons for India
By: Tejas Patel | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Sep , 2012
“Man is immortal, his salvation is thereafter, the State has no immortality; its salvation is now or never. States do not receive credit for doing what is right; they are only rewarded for being...
Democracy and Security
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Vol 22.4 Oct-Dec 2007 | Date: 10 Sep , 2012
We are constantly led to believe that since elections are held regularly, India is therefore one of the most successful democracies in the world. The truth unfortunately is different. The number...
Assessing the PLA’s mindset!
By: Rajinder Puri | Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 06 Sep , 2012
Three editors, Mr. Andrew Scobell, Mr. David Lai and Mr. Roy Kamphausen, have collaborated to produce a book, Chinese Lessons from Other Peoples’ Wars brought out in India by Lancer Publishers....
Hyderabad Operations - 1948
By: Maj Gen VK Srivastava & Col GD Bakshi | Issue: Book Excerpt: Infantry: A Glint of the Bayonet | Date: 01 Sep , 2012
Hyderabad – one of the largest and richest princely states had a greater number of Hindus as subjects than Muslims. By 15 August 1947, the Government of Hydrabad had not reached any settlement...
Flight of People of Northeast
By: Lt Gen Raj Kadyan | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 Aug , 2012
India has great cultural wealth. A multi-religion, multi-language population comprising several ethnic groups makes us rich. We can truly boast of enjoying the unity in diversity. However, this...
Is it time to 'junk' NAM?
By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Aug , 2012
The NAM Summit in Teheran (August 26 to 31) provides an occasion for some general reflections on the movement, its salience today and India’s role in it. For those who have always decried the...