Spotlights
IAF shifting from 'bullock cart' technology to 'Mercedez Benz' expertise
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Feb , 2012
Primary key to India’s emergence as a successful global power lies on the ability to acquire and imbibe superior defence technologies in the knowledge-based society of the 21st century. It is...
Selection of the Army Chief
By: Maj Gen Mrinal Suman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Feb , 2012
The recent debate about the date of birth of the Army Chief has been highly skewed, ill-informed and subjective in nature. It is being said that the order of ‘succession’ would get changed in...
India's Offset Policy in the Shipbuilding Sector
By: Prof (Dr) SN Misra | Issue: Vol. 26.4 Oct-Dec 2011 | Date: 10 Feb , 2012
India is the third largest arms importer and 10th in terms of global military expenditure.1 Capital acquisition of naval ship and platforms account for 25 percent of India’s capital acquisition...
Mutiny in Maldives Leads to Replacement of President Nasheed by his...
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Feb , 2012
The Maldives saw dramatic developments on February 7,2012, when President Mohammed Nasheed was forced to step down from office following a mutiny by about 100 officers of the Police and the...
Civil Aviation: Component of Aerospace Power
By: Gp Capt AK Sachdev | Issue: Vol 26.2 Apr-Jun 2011 | Date: 06 Feb , 2012
“Air power is indivisible. If you split it up into compartments, you merely pull it to pieces and destroy its greatest asset – its flexibility” – Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery. Since...
Indian shipbuilding: key to maritime and economic security
By: Vice Adm BS Randhawa | Issue: Vol 25.1 Jan-Mar 2010 | Date: 03 Feb , 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...
Indo-French Friendship to Partnership-I
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Vol 23.1 Jan-Mar 2008 | Date: 31 Jan , 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...
Legal warfare: The neglected dimension
By: Ali Ahmed | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 Jan , 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...
Future Wars Require Strong Army Aviation
By: Maj Gen Dhruv C Katoch | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 27 Jan , 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...
Curfew in Western Sichuan
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Jan , 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...
Shaping of the Indian Military
By: Air Chief Marshal S Krishnaswamy | Issue: Vol 22.2 Apr-Jun 2007 | Date: 21 Jan , 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...
Time for Solidarity with Balochs
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Jan , 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...
Is Memogate Scandal planted by ISI?
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Jan , 2012
Pakistan is known NATO ally of United States. The Ambassador of Pakistan therefore is a very important player in Washington. He has full access to the top people both in the State Department and...
Unfolding US foreign policy attempts to contain China
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Jan , 2012
As President Obama nears the end of his first term and gets ready to seek a second term, he has sought to give a new focus to the US foreign policy towards Asia. This new focus is marked by two...
Army: Management of Human Capital - III
By: Lt Gen Mukesh Sabharwal | Issue: Vol. 26.4 Oct-Dec 2011 | Date: 24 Dec , 2011
Maintaining the Image of the Army. The image that the Army has built up over the years of being the ‘Last Bastion’ has given it a place of reverence in the society. Being a part of this...
Pak Army : Back from the Barracks
By: B Raman | Date: 24 Dec , 2011
Gen.Ashfaq Pervez Kayani, Pakistan’s Chief of the Army Staff (COAS), who had taken the Army back into the barracks after succeeding Gen.Pervez Musharraf as the COAS and announced that the Army...
Army: Management of Human Capital - II
By: Lt Gen Mukesh Sabharwal | Issue: Vol. 26.4 Oct-Dec 2011 | Date: 23 Dec , 2011
Human Capital Management: Management at the Induction Stage Manpower in the Army comprises all ranks including civilians manning its establishments. Manpower planning involves issues related to...
Army: Management of Human Capital - I
By: Lt Gen Mukesh Sabharwal | Issue: Vol. 26.4 Oct-Dec 2011 | Date: 22 Dec , 2011
“Human Resource Development is an essential command function and, in this context, it needs to be understood that the soldier of tomorrow has to be an innovator who can combine imagination and...
WARSHIPS: Cost Reductions and Longevity
By: Cdr Douglas C Deans | Issue: Vol 26.2 Apr-Jun 2011 | Date: 17 Dec , 2011
Rising costs of Hydro-carbons, technology innovations and general inflation are an intrinsic and unavoidable part of the life cycle costs of a warship. It is evident that maritime nations will...
Asian Security Environment: India's options
By: Anand K Verma | Issue: Vol 25.1 Jan-Mar 2010 | Date: 16 Dec , 2011
Asian security environment is in a state of deep turmoil. The single event which has occasioned it, is the giant rise of China during the past couple of decades, reaching higher and higher levels...