Spotlights
Cold Start: General KV Krishna Rao’s Greatest Legacy
By: Rakesh Krishnan Simha | Issue: Courtesy: www.swarajyamag.com | Date: 27 Feb , 2016
General KV Krishna Rao, who passed away recently, was the progenitor of the Indian Army’s ‘Cold Start’ doctrine. Rakesh Krishnan Simha reviews the good General’s path breaking idea and...
Northern Areas in the Eye of a Storm
By: Radhakrishna Rao | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Feb , 2016
The proposed Foreign Secretary level talks between India and Pakistan has been widely perceived to be linked to Pakistan acting fast on the probe into the attack on Pathankot base of the Indian...
Siachen Dilemma
By: Brig Pillalmarri Subramanyam | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Feb , 2016
In the wake of the recent tragedy in Siachen Glacier which had taken the lives of ten brave soldiers of the Indian Army, the voices for demilitarization of Glacier have once again grown in...
Sharif 2.0
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Feb , 2016
As reported in the media “Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has accepted that the occupation of Kargil by Pakistani troops in the year 1999 was a misadventure and a stab in the back for the then...
Pathankot Attack: Oil, Globalization & Terror
By: Shelley Kasli | Issue: Courtesy: www.greatgameindia.com/ | Date: 23 Feb , 2016
Punjab, for many years, has been a transit point for drugs from Afghanistan. The drug money has become a major source of funding of elections in Punjab and over the time a well-organized drug...
Assessing ISIS’s Emergence as a Prime Threat in SAARC Countries
By: Ramtanu Maitra | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 22 Feb , 2016
In recent days, the South Asian news media has been inundated with reports suggesting that terrorists aligned with the socalled Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) are emerging in some member...
Evolution of Air Power Thought in India
By: Air Vice Marshal AK Tiwary | Issue: Book Excerpt: Indian Air Force in Wars | Date: 20 Feb , 2016
Strength reinforced by stratagem will surely do much. What, indeed, cannot be accomplished by a combination of my physical strength, Krishna’s wisdom and Arjun’s dexterity? — Bhima in...
India's Dilemma: A Maritime or Continental Power - II
By: Daanish Inder Singh Gill | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Feb , 2016
In his article ‘India needs to augment it’s Maritime power‘ , Himanil Raina hopes to counter my assertion as presented in ‘India’s dilemmas- A Maritime or Continental power?‘, where I argued...
Improving Management of Defence
By: Maj Gen Harsha Kakar | Issue: Courtesy: www.dailyexcelsior.com | Date: 18 Feb , 2016
Recent reports that the Ministry of Defence (MOD) has been unable to spend almost 40% of its allocated amount for capital procurements once again brings forth the hollowness in the functioning of...
India needs to augment its Maritime Power
By: Himanil Raina | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Feb , 2016
Daanish Gill in his piece – “India’s Dilemma – A Maritime or Continental Power‘[1] frames his argument wishing to drive home one idea. Rather than framing his arguments in a manner that takes...
Rocking the Boat: South China Sea Imbroglio
By: Radhakrishna Rao | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Feb , 2016
It is in the fitness of things that the US State Department has denied plans for Indo-US joint naval patrols in South China Sea over which China has claimed total sovereignty. But then the US...
Pakistan’s Militant Genie may not go back into the Lamp
By: Brig Atul Nagpal (Retd) | Issue: Courtesy: www.defenceinfo.com | Date: 15 Feb , 2016
As Pakistan and the world come to terms with the Bachha Khan University (BKU) carnage, there is a realisation, now more than ever, of the persisting gaps and vulnerabilities in Pakistan’s...
Northeast: The Threat Posed by External Actors
By: Brig (Dr) SP Sinha | Issue: Book Excerpt: Lost Opportunities | Date: 14 Feb , 2016
The extent of moral and material support by an external power(s) is one of the crucial factors for the success of any insurgency. The North-east insurgents have been particularly fortunate in...
The Strategic Importance of the Siachen Glacier for India
By: Zainab Akhter | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Feb , 2016
The death of nine army jawans belonging to the Madras regiment on the Indian side and the miraculous survival of one of the brave Indian soldier (who unfortunately died in hospital in Delhi) has...
How long will India tolerate habitual snubbing?
By: Sudip Talukdar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Feb , 2016
The denial of visa to one of our most accomplished and iconic artistes Anupam Kher, out of the 17 who had applied and subsequent shenanigans on the part of Islamabad evokes a sense of déjà vu....
Sonam a Legend whose Legacy will Go On: A Tribute to Legends of Siachen
By: Brig Narender Kumar (Retd.) | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Feb , 2016
I vividly remember during one of the interaction Brig (then Col) Pushkar Chand Deputy Commandant HAWS telling us how he and his team set out to accomplish the assigned task to occupy Siachen...
Monumental Challenges for Taiwan’s New President
By: You-te Howard Liao | Issue: Courtesy: IPCS | Date: 10 Feb , 2016
Dr Tsai Ing-wen won Taiwan’s presidential election on 16 January 2016 – her pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) defeated the ruling Nationalist Party/Kuomintang (KMT) and...
“Yemen on its Knees”: Viewing Houthi Insurgency through a Terror Prism
By: Anant Mishra | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Feb , 2016
Introduction In the past couple of months, a coalition led by Saudi Arabia, the richest country in the Arabian Peninsula, has been bombing major cities of Yemen, the poorest Gulf country. There is...
What Ails our Internal Security?
By: Brig Anil Gupta | Issue: Courtesy: www.dailyexcelsior.com | Date: 08 Feb , 2016
India has been victim of cross-border jihadi terrorism for more than a decade. Jammu & Kashmir continues to be a boiling pot kind courtesy the proxy war launched by Pakistan and due to spread of...
Saviour of Kashmir
By: Col JP Singh, Retd | Issue: Courtesy: www.dailyexcelsior.com | Date: 07 Feb , 2016
Military history is written by the victor. But the history made with supreme sacrifice of men and women defending their motherland and written in blood, even if defeated, is never allowed to die....