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  • Chinese Naval Presence - A Threat to Indian Ocean Region?
    By Rear Admiral Sushil Ramsay (Retd.)

    PLA Navy's activities are minutely monitored by Indian Navy and our belief is that the responsibility of protecting Indian Ocean and our coastline lies...

  • Modi Government and the Armed Forces
    By General V.P. Malik (Retd)

    When the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) came into power in the Centre on 26th May 2014, the general perception and expectations in the armed forces were that it will follow a pro-active policy on the external security...

  • Taking Stock of Naval Acquisition Plan
    By Rear Admiral Sushil Ramsay (Retd.)

    Past one year has witnessed a positive push forward by the Government for the dormant schemes, especially for the sub-surface fleet where the capability gaps are widening, is indeed re-assuring.

  • The Year Gone By – Not in Vain!
    By Air Marshal B.K. Pandey (Retd)

    The government has the capability to deliver; but will need time.

  • One year of Defence under Modi Government
    By Lt. General P.C. Katoch (Retd)

    It is envisaged that under a new procurement policy, at least half of India’s total weapon and equipment needs in the next 10 to 12 years (worth more than $100 billion) could be produced domestically

  • Progress in the Defence Sector in the Past One year
    By Lt General V.K. Kapoor (Retd)

    The present NDA government was sworn in on 26 May 2014. Thus one year later there is an intense debate in the country about the progress...

  • Hunt on for Assault
    By Lt. General P.C. Katoch (Retd)

    Provision of a new generation assault rifles for the 382 infantry battalions had been termed “Priority I” project to address the festering neglect...

  • The Afghan Conundrum
    By Lt. General P.C. Katoch (Retd)

    Armed feuds have broken out after the government warned of a growing IS influence in the country, with the Afghan government...

  • Highways – A Force Multiplier for the IAF
    By Air Marshal B.K. Pandey

    During war, airbases would have to be specifically tasked to be prepared to activate the landing strip on the highway at practically a moment’s notice.

  • The End of a Dilemma
    By Air Marshal B.K. Pandey (Retd)

    The speed with which the DAC has cleared the “single vendor” Airbus-TASL proposal for the 56 C-295 aircraft is indicative of a welcome change...

  • Modi in dragon land
    By Lt. General P.C. Katoch (Retd)

    Hopefully, China would heed India-China relationship in the longterm strategic perspective and give up its territorial obduracy

  • China’s Silk Route and Belt – ignoring India
    By Lt. General P.C. Katoch (Retd)

    In March 2015, the Chinese Embassy in New Delhi put out a document titled “Vision and Actions on Jointly Building Silk Road Economic Belt...

  • Drone Terror
    By Lt. General P.C. Katoch (Retd)

    While in January this year, a drone crashed on the White House grounds, raising questions over how commercial and consumer drones...

  • Visit of President Ashraf Ghani – and beyond
    By Lt. General P.C. Katoch (Retd)

    The fact that President Ashraf Ghani had to delay his visit to India...

  • Pakistan – dragon swallows more
    By Lt. General P.C. Katoch (Retd)

    Pakistan scrambled eight JF 17 fighter jets to escort Chinese President Xi Jinping’s aircraft visiting Pakistan. And why not because Xi was to ink the mega infrastructure deal Pakistan...

  • Dealing with Separatists – confused approach?
    By Lt. General P.C. Katoch (Retd)

    Within a month plus of his release from jail after four years on March 7, Masarat Alam was back in the news chanting "Hafeez Saeed ka yehi paigham, Kashmir banega Pakistan"...

  • The China-Pakistan subconventional pincer
    By Lt. General P.C. Katoch (Retd)

    Maldives, with its over 1,000 uninhabited islands, has been systematically radicalised over the past decade through the LeT, which is a proxy of both China and Pakistan.

  • Military's woes of ammunition shortages – and more
    By Lt. General P.C. Katoch (Retd)

    The bottomline is that the defence of India cannot be righted without military professionals in higher defence organisations, MoD and the governmental defenceindustrial complex...

  • Higher Defence Organisation – Will the farce continue?
    By Lt. General P.C. Katoch (Retd)

    Parrikar must understand that the CDS is vital not only for providing single-point military advisory to the Cabinet but also to usher in synergy vertically and horizontally between the three services...

  • The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter – A Troubled Endeavour
    By Air Marshal B.K. Pandey (Retd)

    There is a need to improve the quality of project management to enable the US armed forces to realize the full potential of this new generation platform in a respectable time frame.

  • Defence procurement – bottleneck is DPP
    By Lt. General P.C. Katoch (Retd)

    Will the new DPP facilitate FDI in defence, smooth induction of new technology and speed up development?

  • Mother of All Deals Recedes into History
    By Air Marshal B.K. Pandey (Retd)

    The Indian Air Force should have good reason to believe that it will, in due course, get the number of Rafale combat jets it requires.

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