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  • Agenda for the new Raksha Mantri
    By Admiral Arun Prakash (Retd)

    If there is one lesson we should have learnt during our 67 years as a sovereign republic, it is that security shortcomings, both internal and external, have repeatedly served to distract our attention and divert scarce resources away from the pursuit of development.

  • Mandate for the Defence Minister
    By Air Marshal B.K. Pandey (Retd)

    The former Chief Minister of Goa Manohar Parrikar has taken over as the Minister of Defence at a time when the nation is confronted with serious and formidable challenges.

  • Agenda for Defence Minister
    By Lt. General P.C. Katoch (Retd)

    After a long break, India finally has a full time Defence Minister in Mr Manohar Parrikar. The break has actually been extraordinarily long considering that AK Anthony as Defence Minister...

  • Prime Minister's Myanmar visit
    By Lt. General P.C. Katoch (Retd)

    India and Myanmar have a crucial role to play in strengthening ASEAN and both countries are crucial to pushing through vital connectivity issues affecting the whole region and India’s North East.

  • India and Vietnam – firming partnership
    By Lt. General P.C. Katoch (Retd)

    A parallel trilateral dialogue with Japan and Vietnam should be a good initiative or better still inclusion of Vietnam in the proposed US-Japan-India-Australia quadrilateral dialogue may be a better idea for stability in the Indo-Pacific region.

  • Defence indigenisation takes off FDI cap Loosened?
    By Lt. General PC Katoch (Retd)

    The bottom line is that Indian firms do need foreign investments and foreign technology, which will not come till we address the FDI and DPP conjointly.

  • The Indo-Pakistan ceasefire scenario
    By General V.P. Malik (Retd)

    India would have to remain alert on the border/LoC without closing its window(s) for purposeful negotiations or allowing the dilution of its revised policy.

  • Catch-22 – Authority versus accountability
    By Lt. General PC Katoch (Retd)

    Media is abuzz with the statement of Admiral D.K. Joshi, who resigned as Navy Chief on February 26 taking moral responsibility for repeated accidents involving naval vessels, saying the root cause of his resignation was the ‘dysfunctional and inefficient’...

  • The Indian armed forces unshackled
    By Air Marshal (Retd) B.K. Pandey

    Time has come for the nation to reevaluate its military strategy against Pakistan whose capability appears to have been reduced to terrorism, subversion and border skirmishes.

  • Prime Minister Modi’s visit to USA: A preliminary assessment
    By Admiral Arun Prakash (Retd)

    Such is the intensity of India’s domestic political activity, as compared to other democracies, that it makes huge demands on the time...

  • Prime Minister Modi in USA
    By General V.P. Malik (Retd)

    Never before have there been such media hype, and millions’ expectations and hopes, when an Indian Prime Minister has visited the USA. Let me note the major takeaways from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s roller coaster visit before going into the substantive issues...

  • Make in India: non-starter in defence?
    By Lt. General PC Katoch (Retd)

    Prime Minister Modi’s call to US companies to participate in the Indian Defence sector has generated plenty euphoria. This is not very different from the PM signaling another boost to indigenization prior to embarking on his trip to Japan...

  • Prime Minister Modi in the United Nations
    By General V.P. Malik (Retd)

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been able to convey that he is a pragmatic visionary; not only for India and the South Asia region but also at global level.

  • More terror
    By Lt. General PC Katoch (Retd)

    Ironically, among all the big talk of international cooperation for countering terrorism, at best one can expect sharing of intelligence but that too if it suits the national interest of the intelligence provider.

  • Better prospects for speedy modernization
    By Air Marshal (Retd) B.K. Pandey

    These latest decisions by the NDA government clearly reflects their appreciation of the need to modernise the armed forces quickly while also pushing its agenda of “Made in India”.

  • Accelerating indigenization
    By Lt. General PC Katoch (Retd)

    US Deputy Defense Secretary had assured that the US aims to take the Indo-US defence relationship to the next level and help India raise the indigenisation of its defence systems.

  • Blacklisting is not the answer
    By Air Marshal (Retd) B.K. Pandey

    In cases of alleged corruption in defence deals, as a matter of policy, the Ministry of Defence must separate offence from the contract and deal with the former rather than cancel the contract itself and jeopardise national security.

  • Agenda for the new Army Chief
    By Lt. General PC Katoch (Retd)

    When the top of the tree has been rotting for years, what is the point of watering the roots, and more importantly which Service Chief is supposed to raise these issues with a powerless HQ IDS...

  • Downing of MH-17 - deliberate or terror act?
    By Lt. General PC Katoch (Retd)

    What would Russia, already bombarded by US through sanctions, gain by downing MH-17. In contrast, by blaming Russia, US-NATO would score a geopolitical victory.

  • Technological advances unending surprise
    By Lt. General PC Katoch (Retd)

    On April 12 this year, USS Donald Cook (DDG-75), the US destroyer equipped with the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System was repeatedly mocked by a Russian Sukhoi-24...

  • Defence budget 2014-15
    By Lt. General PC Katoch (Retd)

    The fact is that while the FDI confidence index of the country is very high, that in the defence sector is extremely low. It is imperative that all stakeholders be integrated in reforming...

  • 2.5 per cent of GDP ideal
    By Air Marshal (Retd) B.K. Pandey (Retd)

    Given the huge backlog of acquisitions of military hardware, it appears that the 12.7 per cent enhancement in the budgetary allocation for defence may not be adequate.

  • Prime Minister’s splendid initiative – rejuvenating SAARC
    By Lt. General PC Katoch (Retd)

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi deserves all the praise for inviting heads of governments / head of states of all the seven countries...

  • National Security Strategy Priority for new government
    By Lt. General PC Katoch (Retd)

    While threats are mostly identifiable, vulnerabilities may not be clearly identifiable as latter are only indicators.

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