Articles By Radhakrishna Rao
Changing Contours of Electronic Warfare
By: Radhakrishna Rao | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Mar , 2016
In recent years, Electronic Warfare (EW) has emerged as a “game changer” and “force multiplier” in providing a wholly new edge and a novel dimension to the ancient art of warfare. Not...
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...
Anatomy of US Plan to Sell F-16s to Pakistan
By: Radhakrishna Rao | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Feb , 2016
The short sighted US foreign policy initiative and flawed diplomatic strategy have proved to be instrumental in creating Frankenstein. Beginning from the covert intervention in Afghanistan in...
North Korean Rocket Test Sparks International Revulsion
By: Radhakrishna Rao | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Feb , 2016
North Korea, described as a “rouge state” and “reclusive kingdom”, has done it once again. Defying the UN sanction and sparking widespread global revulsion, North Korea claimed that on...
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...
Tough, Tortuous Road Ahead of Clinching Rafale Deal
By: Radhakrishna Rao | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Feb , 2016
With a view to meet the immediate, critical needs of the Indian Air Force (IAF) ,which is up against the problem of “squadron depletion” and coinciding with the Indian Prime...
Balochistan - a Boiling Cauldron
By: Radhakrishna Rao | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Feb , 2016
Baloch separatists who are rightly disturbed over the widespread human rights abuse in the province ask why the Federal Government in Islamabad which supports the demand for self determination of...
Boosting the Prospects of the Indian Aerospace Sector
By: Radhakrishna Rao | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Feb , 2016
At the “Invest Karnataka 2016” event held in Bengaluru in early February this year with a view to promote the South Indian state of Karnataka, known for its IT industries and aerospace...
China aims to Bolster Strategic Supremacy through Space
By: Radhakrishna Rao | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 Feb , 2016
For well over two decades now, China’s pragmatic political leadership, as part of the long term vision of positioning this most populous nation on the earth, as the global military supremo, has...
Is It the Swan Song for Saras?
By: Radhakrishna Rao | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Feb , 2016
India’s long cherished and much anticipated dream of building a fully home grown, multi role, civilian transport aircraft seems to have crashed with the reports of Saras aircraft project...
India’s Satellite Monitoring Facility in Vietnam Upsets China
By: Radhakrishna Rao | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 Jan , 2016
As part of its space diplomacy and “Look East” policy, Indian political leadership may not be averse to the idea of making available services of India’s home grown satellite information...
Turning India into an Arms Exporter
By: Radhakrishna Rao | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 04 Aug , 2014
While dedicating the formidable Indian warship INS Virkamaditya, the retrofitted Russian aircraft carrier to the nation at an impressive ceremony held in June, Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a...