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- India’s Defence Procurement Policy: An Evaluation
To say that India is a weapon merchants’ paradise is to state the obvious. Since 2002 onward, India has embarked on an ‘equipment driven’ military acquisition programme that has attracted major arms companies to get a slice of the lucrative Indian arms market....
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- Submarines in Pakistan’s Naval Strategy
At the time of independence, naval planners in Pakistan had concluded that submarines are a potent platform for navies with limited force levels particularly when they are pitted against a superior force....
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- The Indian Navy Sets Sail on a Voyage to Replace the Chetak
The HAL Chetak known the world over as the Aérospatiale Alouette III has come to be the rotary winged workhorse of the Indian Navy. The helicopter was first introduced into the navy almost fifty years ago when the Indian Navy loaned two Alouette IIIs from France for training activities onboard the INS Vikrant...
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- Afghanistan – The Faltering War And Its Aftermath
It has now been almost a decade since the United States launched “OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM”. Ten years down the line it is now the USA’s longest war and with over a 1000 killed and a expenditure of over $ 200 billion, it is also one the US’s most expensive wars....
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- Aerostats for the IAF
Though now eclipsed by the aircraft, the hot air balloon was the first device to give wings to mankind. Taking to sky in 1783 the hot air balloon preceded the aircraft’s first powered flight by over a hundred years. Hot air balloons were followed by airships....
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- Russia-Bangladesh Energy Deal
On May 21st 2010 Bangladesh and Russia signed an agreement on cooperation in the use of nuclear technology for peaceful purposes. Looking at the depth of strategic and foreign policy implications attached with nuclear deals, this agreement has evoked speculation about its implications on Bangladesh’s ...
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- The Iran Imbroglio
The state of the present stand-off between Iran and the rest of the world was inevitable seeing the manner in which events have been unfolding over the past five years. It all began in 2005 when Iran revived its nuclear program claiming its ‘undeniable right’ to produce nuclear energy...
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- IAF’s Aging Big Wings
For a long time now, India has been beset with so many internal and trans-border problems with its neighbors, that as a nation it seems to under estimate its own power and capability which certainly have regional, if not global, dimensions. As it happens, the military in a democracy draws its strategic and tactical roles from the overall national/ political objectives....
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