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  • Naval Commanders’ Conference - 01/2016
    By Rear Admiral Sushil Ramsay (Retd)

    “Indian Navy’s role is not only vital for national security, but also for national prosperity and development”. - Admiral R.K. Dhowan, Chief of the Naval Staff

  • Army conducts Exercise Shatrujeet to validate strike capability
    By Lt General V.K. Kapoor (Retd)

    Exercise Shatrujeet is an operational oriented exercise which is focused...

  • A Gust of Wind!
    By Air Chief Marshal Fali H Major (Retd)

    The gust of wind (Rafale) is going to kick start the exercise to augment the depleting Squadron strength of the Indian Air Force soon.

  • A welcome breakthrough!
    By Air Marshal B.K. Pandey (Retd)

    With the breakthrough in the deal of the 36 Rafale jets, finally, there is the proverbial ‘light at the end of the tunnel’!

  • Super Hornet or the Fighting Falcon
    By Air Marshal B.K. Pandey (Retd)

    The requirement of the IAF is not for a light-weight fighter but for a medium to heavy weight combat aircraft capable of operating over long range without in-flight refuelling, preferably, powered by two engines...

  • DPP 2016 – the long and short of it
    By Lt. General P.C. Katoch (Retd)

    DPP 2016 was released by Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar on 28 March 2016 coinciding with the inauguration of DefExpo 2016 in Goa...

  • Internet of Things: will LiFi replace WiFi?
    By Lt. General P.C. Katoch (Retd)

    Some 40% of the world population has an internet connection presently. In 1995, this figure was less than 1% but the dramatic increase commenced from 1999 with tenfold increase between 1999 and 2013.

  • Mini Air Vehicles – will army get them soon?
    By Lt. General P.C. Katoch (Retd)

    In August last year the Army had issued a request for information (RFI) for 600 mini aerial vehicles (MAVs).

  • South China Sea – Dragon laying eggs
    By Lt. General P.C. Katoch (Retd)

    India has never claimed the Indian Ocean but China has been saying periodically that Indian Ocean does not belong to India...

  • Nuclear Security Summit – and the ground realities
    By Lt. General P.C. Katoch (Retd)

    While President Obama talked of “one of the greatest threats to global security — terrorists getting their hands on a weapon of mass destruction” at the two-day Nuclear Security Summit (NSS) held in Washington recently...

  • Protecting Masood Azhar – China bares fangs
    By Lt. General P.C. Katoch (Retd)

    By blocking the move by the United Nations to act against Masood Azhar, JeM chief, for his terrorist activities and masterminding the terrorist attack on the IAF base at Patahnkot on January 2, China has unambiguously declared that it sides with Pakistan in latter’s anti-India terrorist activities.

  • Modi’s Saudi Arabia Visit – countering terrorism and more
    By Lt. General P.C. Katoch (Retd)

    What perhaps went unnoticed was that as a prelude to Prime Minister Modi’s visit to Saudi Arabia, the US treasury department announced...

  • Indo-US Defence Ties
    By Air Marshal B.K. Pandey (Retd)

    India and the US share strategic objectives and one area in which in there is positive convergence between the two nations is the rising threat from China.

  • Indo-US Military Ties Deepening – but so are US-Pakistan
    By Lt. General P.C. Katoch (Retd)

    Writing in the Washington Post on March 3, Dan Lamothe in an article titled ‘The US And India Are Deepening Military Ties - And China Is Watching’ has referred to Admiral Harry B Harris Jr, US Pacific Command urging India...

  • Defence Budget 2016-2017
    By Lt. General P.C. Katoch (Retd)

    Defence Minister Mohan Parrikar chaired a Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) meeting on February 22, holding that arms acquisition proposals...

  • Visit of PM Oli – restoring goodwill
    By Lt. General P.C. Katoch (Retd)

    Nepal’s Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli’s six-day visit to India, first foreign visit after becoming PM has ushered in the much needed uptick in bilateral relations after the Madhesi agitation in Nepal blockading...

  • Big Ticket Make in India - in defence
    By Lt. General P.C. Katoch (Retd)

    Make in India is in the air including in the defence sector, with big ticket projects on the anvil. Senior defence officials of foreign countries are making a beeline for India, with US Defence Secretary too slated...

  • Special Operations Command – needed urgently
    By Lt. General P.C. Katoch (Retd)

    Amidst numerous recommendation of the Naresh Chandra Committee, one was establishment of a Special Operations Command. India has been combating proxy wars for over past three decades.

  • Pathankot, Pampore – and Indo-Pak talks
    By Lt. General P.C. Katoch (Retd)

    Just as Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar accused Pakistan of “pretending to sleep” and not being serious about the probe into the Pathankot airbase terror attack, came the terrorist attack in Pampore where this time...

  • Passenger Drone – new platform for terror?
    By Lt. General P.C. Katoch (Retd)

    Intelligence reports of Pakistani terrorists using drones for terrorist attacks against India have been on for past two years.

  • Spectrum Woes – ignoring military requirements
    By Lt. General P.C. Katoch (Retd)

    Developing India requires loads of money and spectrum sure is lot of money.

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