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  • C4I2SR – is this getting adequate attention?
    By Lt. General P.C. Katoch (Retd)

    The increasing importance C4I2SR is unquestionable. Battlefield requirements have changed with long range precision weapons...

  • Technology Vision 2035 – what about defence?
    By Lt. General P.C. Katoch (Retd)

    The Technology Information, Forecasting and Assessment Council (TIFAC) under the Ministry of Science & Technology has come out...

  • Pakistan – no change in terror proliferation
    By Lt. General P.C. Katoch (Retd)

    With reference to Pakistani involvement in the terrorist strike on Pathankot IAF base on January 1, Home Minister Rajnath Singh had stated that there is no reason to doubt Pakistani cooperation in the probe.

  • DPP 2016 – Big changes, big expectations
    By Air Marshal B.K. Pandey (Retd.)

    The most important takeaway of the new Defence Procurement Policy is the increase in the offset baseline from Rs. 300 crore to Rs. 2,000 crore, besides the focus on reducing delays in procurements.

  • S-400 Triumf for India's air defence
    By Lt. General P.C. Katoch

    India has cleared the acquisition of five S-400 Triumf air defence missile...

  • Chinks in border fencing: But what about facilitators
    By Air Marshal B.K. Pandey (Retd.)

    The bottom line is that while India should go for the latest technology, it should also eliminate the mafia within its border areas, besides establishing credible deterrence to Pakistan’s proxy war.

  • Hypersonic weapons to missile on rails – China readies for global war
    By Lt. General P.C. Katoch

    China is among three nations that are developing hypersonic weapons...

  • Hype vs reality
    By Air Marshal B.K. Pandey (Retd.)

    Will the Tejas be able to make an impact in the discerning global market where the platform will be subjected to intense scrutiny by aerospace professionals from across the world?

  • Terrorist Attack at Pathankot
    By Air Marshal B.K. Pandey (Retd.)

    For Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the latest terrorist attack at Pathankot has emerged as a major challenge to his initiative to revive dialogue with Pakistan.

  • Modi’s Lahore Surprise – future portends?
    By Lt. General P.C. Katoch (Retd)

    The surprise sprung by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his hitherto unannounced visit to Lahore was received with shock an awe at home – first reports coming in that Modi will be hosted by Nawaz Sharif...

  • MoD – “bad” is putting it mildly
    By Lt. General P.C. Katoch (Retd)

    Media recently ran a headline titled ‘The ministry of defence is a bad organization with no accountability’: Gen V P Malik’, publishing an interview with the former Army Chief.

  • Critical Skies – anyone bothered?
    By Lt. General P.C. Katoch (Retd)

    Close on the warning last year by the BJP MP Maj Gen BC Khanduri...

  • Abe’s Visit – special strategic partnership goes more special
    By Lt. General P.C. Katoch (Retd)

    The strategic significance of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s visit to India comes not because it is in the following year...

  • Heart of Asia – will Pakistan withdraw the knife?
    By Lt. General P.C. Katoch (Retd)

    The ‘Heart of Asia’ conference in Islamabad was the fifth in the series of ministerial level meetings that have been ongoing since 2011...

  • Indo-Russian Bonds – remain strong
    By Lt. General P.C. Katoch (Retd)

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to visit Russia later in the month to attend the annual India-Russia Summit.

  • Indo-Pak Dialogue – is Pakistani military on board?
    By Lt. General P.C. Katoch (Retd)

    The breakthrough in Indo-Pak relations in Islamabad recently is a welcome step close on the heels of the NSAs of the two countries in Bangkok.

  • PLA focus versus Indian intransigence
    By Air Marshal B.K. Pandey (Retd.)

    Media is abuzz with news of Chinese announcement of a major military overhaul by putting her armed forces under a joint operational military command to build it into “an elite combat force” by 2020, as put by President Xi Jinping.

  • Boeing and TASL to form a Joint Venture
    By Air Marshal B.K. Pandey (Retd.)

    Joint ventures (JV) between foreign and Indian companies are not a new phenomenon for the industrial sector in India. Despite its insular nature, the Indian defence and aerospace industry entered into agreements for licensed production of military aircraft and weapons systems...

  • Lessons from 26/11 – what have we learned?
    By Lt. General P.C. Katoch (Retd)

    Many would question what have we learned from the 26/11 Mumbai terrorist attacks that created Mayhem and created national uproar in 2008?

  • Airstrikes on ISIS
    By Lt. General P.C. Katoch (Retd)

    The world must acknowledge that ISIS may have 14th century ideology but it has access to technology and weaponry of the current century.

  • Nishant Dumped Finally – when will we privatise?
    By Lt. General P.C. Katoch (Retd)

    Yet another failed crash landing of DRDO’s Nishant UAV shows the dismal state of the governmental defence-industrial complex.

  • Myanmar turns a new leaf
    By Lt. General P.C. Katoch

    Myanmar’s main opposition party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), led by Aung San Suu Kyi, has won a resounding victory, sweeping through Myanmar’s elections with 37 additional seats...

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