Why is S-400 an absolute necessity for India?
India signed a £4bn deal with Russia on October 5, 2018, to buy five regiments of the S-400 Triumf missile system. A payment of £700mn has already been made to Russia in 2019. India will get one of such systems at the end of this year as Russia...
Selling a dream!
Since the abrogation of article 370 last year, there has been much hullabaloo of retaking Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (So called Azad Kashmir, Gilgit-Baltistan) especially by the leaders of the ruling dispensation. This idea has also occupied the...
PARAM VIR CHAKRA GREATEST OF THE ULTIMATE BRAVE
Param Vir Chakra is the most-prestigious military decoration of India. Tens of millions have served but only 21 medals were awarded.
Operation Bandar, The Indian Airstrike at Balakot
Why did India choose to strike at Balakot, surrounded by dense forest on all four sides, practically a haven for terrorists?
Pokhran-ii
On 11th May 1998, India successfully detonated three nuclear devices named Shakti-I, Shakti-II, Shakti-III, and on 13th May two other devices named Shakti-IV and Shakti-V at Indian army’s Pokhran test range.
CAA, NRC AND LESSONS FOR THE INDIAN GOVERNMENT FROM THE ROHINGYA CRISIS – PART 2
The Background: There has been a long history of Muslim-Buddhist animosity and clashes in the Rakhine region. The province of Rakhine lay between the largely Islamic eastern part of the “suba(province) of Bangal (Bengal)” of the Mughal empire and...
CAA, NRC and Lessons for the Indian Government from the Rohingya Crisis – PArt 1
The partition of India by colonial Britain in 1947 on the basis of Islamic majority regions resulting in the formation of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan and the People’s Republic of Bangladesh (with Islam as its official religion) has left a deep...
Infantry system
The Government of India recently announced procurement of 72,400 units of US made Sig Sauer 716 G2 - 7.62x51 mm Assault rifles, 94,000 units of UAE made Caracal 816- 5.56x45 mm Carbines and over 7 lakh units of the Russian AK 203 7.62x39 mm...
Pulwama and the Elusive Panacea for Kashmir
Cambridge: How Jammu and Kashmir went from being the proverbial 'heaven on earth' before independence to the purgatory that it has become today may be a conundrum even for the most knowledgeable political pundits. In what could be seen as another...
HAL’s ability to make Rafale
The nation is exercised about Rafale and HAL. Rightfully there is a doubt in people's minds as to why having an aircraft manufacturing unit in HAL, the offset contract should go to Reliance Defence which has been formed only recently. While...