Spotlights
Xi in India: a thorny route at home?
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Courtesy: http://claudearpi.blogspot.in/ | Date: 27 Sep , 2014
There are two ways to look at an event, especially a State visit by a foreign dignitary: it can be described as a resounding success, a game-changer, or it can be seen as a missed opportunity, a...
Israel Palestine and the divine intervention
By: Anant Mishra | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Sep , 2014
In the 7th Century, the Arab conquest of Palestine assimilated its inhabitants (who are today known as the Palestinians). In the year 1516, the land was conquered by the Ottoman Turks. In 1831,...
Where was India’s Tibet Policy?
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Book Excerpt: 1962 and the McMahon Line Saga | Date: 22 Sep , 2014
China Invades Tibet: ‘The Gods are on Our Side!’ Before studying a non-existent India’s Tibet Policy, it is necessary to go back to the Fall of 1950. Before this, the Indian Government had...
Tiered Border Defence against China
By: Special Correspondent | Issue: Vol. 29.2 Apr-Jun 2014 | Date: 18 Sep , 2014
On balance, the prospects of Sino-Indian conflict remain. What appears certain is that China’s aggressive stance and the initiation of conflict will be aimed at undermining India’s status as...
China's Threat Perception
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Book Excerpt: Asian Strategy and Military Perspective | Date: 17 Sep , 2014
Ancient China, was unparalleled in matters of strategic thinking, defence technology and organisation of Armed Forces, but became extremely inward looking by the 16th century, and was thus...
Nepal is the new Chinese colony
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Sep , 2014
The Chinese are slowly invading Nepal. Last month, AFP reported that ‘China eyes India trade by boosting spending in Nepal’. The news agency stated that China’s ambassador to Kathmandu was...
Elusive Peace in West Africa and Sahel
By: Anant Mishra | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Sep , 2014
The Sahel is a word derived from the Arabic word ‘Sahil’ meaning shore. The region, characterized as a semi-arid belt of barren, sandy and rock-strewn land, stretches approximately 3860 km...
Israel's Threat Perception
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Book Excerpt: Asian Strategy and Military Perspective | Date: 10 Sep , 2014
Israel’s geo-political location is a security nightmare for Israeli defence planners, given the hostile or potentially belligerent neighbourhood on each of its flanks. Nevertheless, for the US...
The WhatsApp Soldier
By: Ganapathy Vanchinathan | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 06 Sep , 2014
The army has been in the news over the last fortnight, and again for all the wrong reasons. These include an incident regarding the functioning of the Army Wives Welfare Association, and a...
Defence Industry of Pakistan
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Book Excerpt: Asian Strategy and Military Perspective | Date: 30 Aug , 2014
After partition, Pakistan did not inherit any military production facilities. In 1951, the Pakistan Ordnance Factory was established at Wah cantonment to produce small arms, ammunition and...
The Great Upsurge of 1857: Historical sites in Meerut Cantonment
By: Dr Amit Pathak | Issue: Vol 25.3 Jul-Sep 2010 | Date: 26 Aug , 2014
Meerut Cantonment The British formally arrived in Meerut in 1803, through a treaty with the Marathas. The cantonment of Meerut was established in 1806 with specific strategic interests including...
The situation in Syria: Then and Now
By: Anant Mishra | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Aug , 2014
The wave of Arab unrest that began with the Tunisian revolution reached Syria on March 15, 2011, when residents of a small southern city took to the streets to protest the torture of students who...
Indian Army and Management of Stress
By: Maj Gen Mrinal Suman | Issue: Vol 24.2 Apr-Jun 2009 | Date: 23 Aug , 2014
Military’s Paraplegic Rehabilitation Centre (PRC) at Pune provides rehabilitation support to paraplegic and tetraplegic soldiers. Most of the inmates are victims of bullet or other injuries...
Pakistan does not want ‘Aman’ with India
By: Sunil Garodia | Issue: Courtesy: www.theindianrepublic.com | Date: 19 Aug , 2014
The Pakistan foreign ministry has issued a statement displaying injured innocence as a result of India’s cancelling the Foreign Secretary level talks in Islamabad on Aug 25. The statement says...
Pakistan Army’s official take on 1948 invasion of Kashmir
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 Aug , 2014
“By November 1947 Auchinleck, Supreme Commander based in New Delhi, being convinced that Indian Cabinet was seeking to destroy and undo Pakistan by economic and military means, was forced to...
Planning for Tomorrow's Navy
By: Admiral Arun Prakash (Retd.) | Issue: Book Excerpt: From the Crow\'s Nest | Date: 07 Aug , 2014
Our racial memory has, with good reason, always been obsessed by the perpetual threat of invasion from the Himalayan passes; the Pakistani marauders who came across Uri in 1947 and the Peoples...
Future of Manned Combat Aircraft
By: Gp Capt Joseph Noronha | Issue: Vol. 28.2 Apr-Jun 2013 | Date: 31 Jul , 2014
It has long been known that the forte of an unmanned device is to undertake “dull, dirty and dangerous” missions. No pilot can ever hope to equal the staying power of a UAV while orbiting a...
Maoists Through the Prism of their Victims
By: Lt Gen Baljit Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 Jul , 2014
What can be surmised from an understanding of the history of warfare in general is that in any form of armed conflict, collateral damage (loss of limb and life) to the populace at large as also of...
Islamic Terror and India: What are We Doing?
By: Shaumik Samar Ghosh | Issue: Courtesy: www.theindianrepublic.com | Date: 16 Jul , 2014
Islamic terror is something that is causing more damage than that caused by many natural disasters together. Al Qaeda, ISIS, Boko Haram and so many more, their groups are only adding more...
Impeccable appearance of a Military Officer is half the battle!
By: Maj Gen Mrinal Suman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Jul , 2014
Declining standard of officers’ conduct has been a cause for concern for the past few years. Occurrence of numerous incidents of un-officer like behaviour has caused considerable...