Experts Speak
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Change of guard in Sri Lanka
By Lt. General P.C. Katoch (Retd)China’s investments in Sri Lanka are part of her plan to establish port facilities in the IOR in garb of commercial activity, where Chinese Navy vessels can start berthing for ‘rest and recoup’.
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Stealth in the skies
By Lt. General P.C. Katoch (Retd)Fifth-generation fighter aircraft is an improvement over the...
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Modi-Obama – Strategic Agenda
By General V.P. Malik (Retd)On India’s part, increasing public awareness in India of the US support to our national security concerns in our region and beyond should help in balancing deep-rooted perceptions of the unreliability of the US as a defence supplier
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Obama – The Chief Guest
By Air Marshal B.K. Pandey (Retd)After the high profile and immensely successful visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the US in September last year, acceptance of his invitation by the American President to be the Chief Guest at the Republic Day...
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Expectations from Obama’s Visit
By Lt. General P.C. Katoch (Retd)There is excitement in the air about the impending visit of President Obama later this month.
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Defence Budget
By Lt. General P.C. Katoch (Retd)In the next two months, the second defence budget is to be announced by the present government, which will also be the first defence budget under the present Defence Minister.
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Japan's Defence Budget enhanced
By Air Marshal B.K. Pandey (Retd)The enhanced budget, which is meant to counter the rise of the inimical neighbour and its growing military activity in the region, is the largest ever in the last seven decades.
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Sacking of DRDO Chief – is it a sign?
By Lt. General P.C. Katoch (Retd)Sacking of Avinash Chander, the DRDO Chief 16 months prior to completion of his tenure has made headlines.
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Terror by the sea
By Lt. General P.C. Katoch (Retd)What is relevant for India is that while the Pakistani society may want peace, what matters in Pakistan is not civil society, but the army and the ISI and their band of so-called ‘good’ terrorists.
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Need to Revamp Coastal Security
By Air Marshal B.K. Pandey (Retd)This episode has uncanny similarity with the one on November 26, 2008, sponsored by the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) of Pakistan.
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Facilitating defence procurement
By Air Marshal B.K. Pandey (Retd)The move to restructure the existing regulations so as to permit middlemen in the processing of tenders for the procurement of defence equipment...
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Allowing Middlemen is Good Move
By Lt. General P.C. Katoch (Retd)On the last day of last year (31 December 2014) media reported that a new government policy legalizing middlemen in arms purchases - a source of massive controversies in the past - will be in place soon.
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PLA(N) Submarines in the Indian Ocean: Cat Among the Pigeons?
By Admiral Arun Prakash (Retd)No other country in Sri Lanka’s post-war history has wielded the influence, had the reach or commanded the servility that China today does...
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Make in India for Defence
By Air Marshal B.K. Pandey (Retd)Unless the government approaches this problem in a slow, steady and more calibrated way, Make in India for military hardware will continue to remain a dream
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Peshawar, a wake-up call
By Lt. General P.C. Katoch (Retd)December 16, 2014, will perhaps go down as the blackest day in Pakistan’s history as far as terrorism goes, as the Pakistan Taliban gunned down 132 children and nine staff members...
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Legalising representatives of arms companies
By Lt. General P.C. Katoch (Retd)The armament companies should be free to choose anyone they want to act as their agents provided they are not blacklisted.
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Remembering 1962
By Lt. General P.C. Katoch (Retd)The present government has taken some baby steps towards...
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26/11 – Mayhem in Mumbai
By Air Marshal B.K. Pandey (Retd)The paradigm shift in the strategy adopted by Pakistan against India calls for a new and a higher level of synergy between the armed and the police forces in India.
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Remembering 26/11
By Lt. General P.C. Katoch (Retd)At the recent SAARC Summit at Kathmandu, Nawaz Sharif called for cooperation in battling poverty, disease and many things but made no mention of terrorism for obvious reasons.
