Spotlights
Osama's Death: Affect on US Policy towards Pak & Afghan - I
By: Ramtanu Maitra | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 31 Aug , 2011
The 2 May killing by U.S. Navy Seals of the notorious al-Qaeda leader, Osama bin Laden, at his residence next door to Pakistan’s principal military academy, Pakistan Military Academy (PMA), in...
Sino-Indian Border Dispute
By: Lt Gen (Dr) Mohan Bhandari, (Retd.) | Issue: Vol. 23.4 Oct-Dec 2008 | Date: 29 Aug , 2011
China launched full scale invasion on India in 1962. In fact, Chinese invasion had commenced way back in 1906 when it maneuvered and succeeded in concluding the 1906 Convention in Calcutta. In...
Maritime Rapid Reaction Force
By: Dr Vijay Sakhuja | Issue: Vol 21.4 Oct-Dec 2006 | Date: 26 Aug , 2011
Addressing the combined conference of Indian Military Commanders on October 26, 1999 Former Defence Minister George Fernandes had noted that the Indian Armed Forces should set up a Rapid Reaction...
India in the Neighbourhood
By: Vikram Sood | Issue: Vol 22.1 Jan - Mar 2007 | Date: 19 Aug , 2011
Leo Tolstoy’s classic Anna Karenina begins with the famous sentence: “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” The Indian subcontinent is somewhat like...
Maoist terror, governance failures and the keyboard terrorist
By: Maj Gen Dhruv C Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Aug , 2011
The growth of Left Wing Extremism in India from an obscure village in the Naxalbari Block of West Bengal in 1967 to 235 districts across its length and breadth in 2011 does not bode well for the...
The Indian Army: The first challenge - VII
By: Major K.C. Praval | Issue: Book Excerpt: Indian Army After Independence | Date: 08 Aug , 2011
Pir Saiyid Fazal Shah was a towering mass of rock. The Punjabis stormed it around 1700 hours after 25-pounders, howitzers and aircraft had pounded it. The enemy used every weapon with it to stop...
The Indian Army: The first challenge - VI
By: Major K.C. Praval | Issue: Book Excerpt: Indian Army After Independence | Date: 05 Aug , 2011
Throughout the winter of 1947-48, and the summer that followed, the Punch garrison had remained cut off. Under Brigadier Pritam Singh it continued to wage its lonely battles against the besieging...
Indian Army: The first challenge - V
By: Major K.C. Praval | Issue: Book Excerpt: Indian Army After Independence | Date: 02 Aug , 2011
An unsuccessful attempt was made in April-May 1948 to relieve Skardu. A battalion of the Jammu and Kashmir Infantry was sent from Srinagar together with a small party of regular troops. Due to...
1965 War:True Story of 2/Lt Baljit Singh- III
By: Colonel Baljit Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 Aug , 2011
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...
Indian Army: The first challenge - IV
By: Major K.C. Praval | Issue: Book Excerpt: Indian Army After Independence | Date: 30 Jul , 2011
The beginning of December brought the first snowfall to Uri. About this time, enemy troops in uniform appeared for the first time in this sector. On 11 December, all traffic to Uri stopped...
The Indian Army: The first challenge - III
By: Major K.C. Praval | Issue: Book Excerpt: Indian Army After Independence | Date: 28 Jul , 2011
During a discussion of these recommendations by the Defence Committee, Prime Minister Nehru urged that the occupation of Domel was important and told the Army Chief to consider sending a force to...
How Pakistan's Proxy War Began - VIII
By: B Raman | Issue: Book Excerpts: A Terrorist State as a Frontline Ally | Date: 27 Jul , 2011
Wanted: A Counter Proxy War Doctrine In the absence of a meaningful and effective response from our side, it is India, which has been bleeding at the hands of this Army of Islam, with the...
The Indian Army: The first challenge - II
By: Major K.C. Praval | Issue: Book Excerpt: Indian Army After Independence | Date: 26 Jul , 2011
A battle is the testing ground for a soldier. All the training that he receives from the day he enlists is for this supreme test, when he stakes his dearest possession — his life — against...
Explosion in Oslo
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Jul , 2011
According to the British Broadcasting Corporation, a large bomb blast has hit near government headquarters in the Norwegian capital Oslo, killing at least one person. The offices of Norwegian...
Naxalism: Revisiting the Principles of Fourth-Generation Warfare
By: Vinita Priyedarshi | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 18 Jul , 2011
All warfare is guided by certain principles and established rules, and asymmetrical conflicts like Naxalism are no exception. A critical analysis of the tactics and strategy pursued by the...
Indo-Pak Relations - II
By: Nilofar Suhrawardy | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 17 Jul , 2011
Communication Revolution: Undeniably, communication revolution has added a new chapter to the field of diplomacy. Irrespective of whether their bilateral ties are tense or not, whether the...
Indo-Pak Relations - I
By: Nilofar Suhrawardy | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 15 Jul , 2011
Ironically, though India and Pakistan still entertain differences over Kashmir and several other issues, prospects of their being engaged in an open and full-fledged conflict over the same may be...
The Attitude of the Obama Administration
By: B Raman | Issue: Book Excerpt: Mumbai 26/11 | Date: 13 Jul , 2011
Despite differences over strategies and tactics in the fight against global jihadi terrorism, there has been a convergence of views between the previous administration of George Bush and the...
Indian Nuclear Command and Control - II
By: Ali Ahmed | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 13 Jul , 2011
The Indian system at the political level comprises the National Security Council and the Political Council of the Nuclear Command Authority. The change from the Draft was in a Council authorising...
Indian Nuclear Command and Control - I
By: Ali Ahmed | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 12 Jul , 2011
Little is known of India’s nuclear command and control (C2) systems. It cannot, therefore, be assumed that these only exist in a rudimentary form. However, from what is in the open domain, it is...