Spotlights
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...
Lost opportunities in Operation Parakram
By: Brig. Gurmeet Kanwal | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Dec , 2011
Today marks the tenth anniversary of the horrific attack on Parliament which sparked off India’s attempt at military coercion vis-a-vis Pakistan. But the lessons learnt seem to have been...
China's state sponsored tweeters and their paid tweets
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Dec , 2011
On December 9,2011, Radio Free Asia, funded by the US State Department, disseminated a report attributed to the Agence France Presse (AFP) regarding how China has been trying to counter...
SHIVALIK: India's New Generation Warship
By: Vice Adm Rajeshwer Nath | Issue: Vol 25.2 Apr-Jun 2010 | Date: 09 Dec , 2011
Shivalik is the first ship of the Project 17 Frigates designed by the Indian Navy and built by Mazagon Docks Limited Mumbai. This project was conceived to incorporate stealth features and in the...
Speculation Regarding Zardari
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Dec , 2011
The “Dawn News” of Karachi has reported as follows: “President Asif Ali Zardari on Tuesday (December 6,2011) arrived in Dubai for a medical check-up. According to presidential spokesperson...
Possible Misuse of New TECHINT Capabilities
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Dec , 2011
Since the Indo-Pakistan conflict in the Kargil heights in 1999, there has been a major increase in the Technical Intelligence (TECHINT) capabilities of the Indian security community, which...
Relief for the War Disabled
By: Lt Gen Vijay Oberoi | Issue: Vol 22.2 Apr-Jun 2007 | Date: 02 Dec , 2011
Compensation for disability incurred in war or war-like-situations is at present paltry and highly inadequate. Although slightly higher in some respects than what is given to those disabled due...
Threat from China
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Vol 23.2 Apr-Jul 2008 | Date: 27 Nov , 2011
New Delhi’s portrayal of the humiliating defeat at the hands of Chinese in 1962 as ‘betrayal’ and ‘surprise’ is untrue. The pacifist Indian leadership that was crying hoarse from...
Alleged Memo from Zardari to Admiral Mullen
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Nov , 2011
Briefing for Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff During the past 72 hours since a meeting was held between the president, the prime minister and the chief of army staff, there has...
China-India Maritime Rivalry
By: Cdr Gurpreet S Khurana | Issue: Vol. 23.4 Oct-Dec 2008 | Date: 22 Nov , 2011
In the Post-Cold War Era re-distribution of power, the balance is clearly shifting to Asia. This is primarily due to the increasing comprehensive National Power (CNP) of China and India. But as...
Turbulence in South Asia
By: Maj Gen Afsir Karim | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 17 Nov , 2011
The main reason for the growing influence of fundamentalists in the Af-Pak region is the continued presence of U.S.-NATO troops in this region. The Islamists in both countries have a common...
Investigations in Malegaon blasts go for a six!
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Nov , 2011
The politicisation and communalisation of the investigation process since 2006 in terrorism-related cases has led to a paralysis of the investigation machinery in the States and the Government of...
Punjab's Pakistan
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Vol 22.4 Oct-Dec 2007 | Date: 13 Nov , 2011
The part that constitutes the Punjab province in Pakistan, like other provinces of Sindh, NWFP and Balochistan, were not enthusiastic about the concept of Pakistan. It was much later, in the early...
Jihadis will capture the Pak Military - IV
By: Ramtanu Maitra | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 11 Nov , 2011
Ilyas Kashmiri, whose death in a 2011 U.S. missile attack still remains to be confirmed, founded Brigade 313, later an operational arm of al-Qaeda, within his jihadist organisation Harkat...
Tibet and British India - I
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Book Excerpt: Tibet - The Lost Frontier | Date: 11 Nov , 2011
Started in 1600 as a company with shareholders to peacefully and profitably develop trade with the Asian continent, the East India Company was no longer a trading concern by the beginning of the...