Spotlights
In pursuit of elusive 'Peace'
By: KN Pandita | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 May , 2016
In its recently held meeting, the State Cabinet welcomed resumption of talks with Pakistan. Was this endorsement necessary and in consonance with State practice, and what was the prompting?...
Pakistan: A Country Obsessed with Conspiracy Theories
By: Sumit Walia | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 May , 2016
Can anyone imagine that Bollywood film director Kabir khan is on the panel of National Security Advisor Ajit Doval and his anti- Pakistan movies like `Phantom` are RAW funded? And Kabir’s visit...
Hope for Sino-Indian Multilateral Progress Evident, But Major Concerns Remain
By: Sumantra Maitra | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 05 May , 2016
It has been an interesting couple of weeks between India and China. The Chinese finance minister Lou Jiwei met with Indian finance minister Arun Jaitley in Washington at the sidelines of the...
Inserting PoK into the Kashmir Conundrum
By: Dr Priyanka Singh | Issue: Courtesy: IDSA | Date: 04 May , 2016
Enwrapped in the conventional atmospherics of cautious optimism at one level and politico-diplomatic acrimony at another, the recent meeting between the Foreign Secretaries of India and Pakistan...
How to Encounter Social Terrorism
By: Dr Sudhir Hindwan | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 May , 2016
While the country is still trying to comprehend the security dimension of the problem, terrorists have off late started hitting where it matters the most (the social fabric) and it is the...
Buy (IDDM) or Buy (Indian): Horns of a Dilemma
By: Amit Cowshish | Issue: Courtesy: IDSA | Date: 02 May , 2016
All defence acquisition proposals were required to be classified under one of five categories until the incomplete version of the Defence Procurement Procedure (DPP) 2016, released on 28 March...
No Use of Combat Air Power in 1962
By: Air Vice Marshal AK Tiwary | Issue: Vol 21.3 Jul-Sep 2006 | Date: 02 May , 2016
In 1962 as the war clouds gathered over the Himalayan mountains, Indian Army beefed up its defences. As a result IAF was asked to undertake tremendous surge in air maintenance – nearly thrice...
Society and politicians must respond to the sacrifices
By: Air Marshal B D Jayal | Issue: Courtesy: The Telegraph | Date: 01 May , 2016
Of late the Indian armed forces have more often than not been in the news for reasons that appear to reflect a lowering of both personal and institutional moral and ethical standards. The reasons...
India-Pakistan: A dialogue process or failed diplomacy?
By: Sabah Ishtiaq | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 Apr , 2016
The on-and-off resumption of dialogue process has become more of a pattern between the strained India-Pakistan relations. The recent example being the brief meeting between the foreign...
Nuclear security and terrorism
By: Maj Gen Harsha Kakar | Issue: Courtesy: www.dailyexcelsior.com | Date: 29 Apr , 2016
Terrorists have always desired to obtain weapons of mass destruction or raw material enabling them to manufacture a dirty bomb, which though crude, would however cause high casualties....
Kashmir on the edge: Peace is far from sight
By: Gaurav Dixit | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 28 Apr , 2016
Four persons were killed and nine others were injured as personnel from the Rashtriya Rifles and Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) Police allegedly opened fired on the protesters in the Handwara town of...
Pakistan's Game Plan to Check Expanding Indian Footprints in Chabahar
By: Brig NK Bhatia, SM (Retd) | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 27 Apr , 2016
India has been making the right moves with a view to enhance its interests in Persian Gulf, latest being the India –Iran –Afghanistan Trilateral Agreement on Transport and Transit Corridors...
The IS challenge: Europe needs to get its act together
By: Jai Kumar Verma | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 26 Apr , 2016
Islamic State (IS) which has already overtaken Al-Qaeda is currently the most treacherous, wealthiest and better organized terrorist organization in the international arena. While the continuous...
Factors Affecting Outcome of War
By: Air Marshal RK Nehra | Issue: Book Excerpt: Hinduism & its Military Ethos | Date: 25 Apr , 2016
What were the causes for Hindu defeats? The simple and short answer is ‘Military non-performance of the Hindus’. To examine the reasons of that non-performance, we have first to understand the...
Values in the Army
By: Maj Gen S G Vombatkere | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Apr , 2016
Wars, the product of forces in the international political stratosphere, are prosecuted by generals who are usually far from the battle-front. Battles are fought by middle-rank and junior...
Japan-China Spat and the G-7 meeting at Hiroshima
By: Prof K.V. Kesavan | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Apr , 2016
This year Japan is hosting the Group-7 meeting on 26-27 May at Ise Shima. Successive Japanese governments have always considered holding the high profile meeting as a significant diplomatic...
Making the Future ICV in India
By: Lt Gen Philip Campose | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 21 Apr , 2016
The induction of the Soviet origin Infantry Combat Vehicle ICV BMP1 and concurrent creation of the Mechanised Infantry Arm of the Indian Army in 1979, as a result of the recommendations of the...
Expanding Footprints of European Defence Industries in India
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: EDR Vol. Jan-Feb 2013 | Date: 20 Apr , 2016
The European Union (EU) today faces practically no real military threat. Downsizing of the armed forces, shrinking budgets and the prevailing economic recession at home, make it necessary for the...
Finally India Decides to Join Hands with US against China-Pak Military Alliance
By: Brig Arun Bajpai | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Apr , 2016
India may have firmly rejected the US proposal some time back of jointly patrolling South China sea saying that it does so only under the auspices of UN, however with China vetoing the Indian...
Will ISIS get a foot-hold in India?
By: Abhinav Pandya | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Apr , 2016
With the world’s second largest Muslim population and flourishing fundamentalist Islamic schools like Deobandis, surprisingly, India has not sent more than 25 fighters to ISIS, so far. In my...