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  • Light Combat Aircraft : Unduly Long Wait
    Wg.Cdr. NK Pant (Retd.)    ·   06 Sep, 1999    ·    #257    ·    Commentary    
    In the early 1980s, Indian defence planners visualized the need for an indigenously produced next generation multi-role combat aircraft which could replace the MiG-21 fleet, which is the backbone of the IAF combat arm after their obsolescence in t...
  • Jammu and Kashmir : An Operational Update upto 30 August 1999
    Maj. Gen. Ashok Krishna (Retd)    ·   03 Sep, 1999    ·    #256    ·    Commentary    
    The situation in the war affected Kargil sector was generally quiet except for isolated incidents of firing and shelling which  have continued.  A few militant related violent incidents  were reported in J&K. By an...
  • India's Draft Nuclear Doctrine
    Mallika Joseph    ·   31 Aug, 1999    ·    #255    ·    Commentary    
    Speakers:   Dr. Amitabh Mattoo, Lt. Gen V. K. Sood, Mr. P. R. Chari     The focus of the seminar was the "Indian Nuclear Doctrine" released by the caretaker BJP Government. Whether it was a 'draft'...
  • India's Nuclear Doctrine
       ·   27 Aug, 1999    ·    #254    ·    Commentary    
    Nuclear weapons are great equalisers. Nuclear doctrines are great equalisers too. To be a nuclear, doctrinist, one need not know much. Unlike conventional strategy where civilians,  need to defer to the experience of military officers, in nuc...
  • Rann of Kutch : Pakistan's Ominous Designs
    Wg.Cdr. NK Pant (Retd.)    ·   25 Aug, 1999    ·    #253    ·    Commentary    
    Pakistan 's Atlantique maritime reconnaissance aircraft which is capable of firing anti-ship Exocet missiles, was the second aircraft shot down over Indian territory in the last three years, whilst on a covert espionage mission....
  • The Nuclear Doctrine
    PR Chari    ·   24 Aug, 1999    ·    #252    ·    Commentary    
    Haste is written all over the document enunciating the BJP's nuclear doctrine. A preamble describes its underlying premises. This is followed by an enunciation of objectives, a general description of the nuclear forces required to establish th...
  • Pakistan's Foreign Policy: Predicaments and Perspectives - An Analysis
    Dr. Subhash Kapila    ·   20 Aug, 1999    ·    #251    ·    Commentary    
    Pakistan's foreign policy successes so far resulted from a single point agenda namely, courting the United States and China for strategic gains that would be discomfiting and embarrassing to India strategically. Both the United States and Ch...
  • Kargil: An Operational Update upto 18 August 1999
    Maj. Gen. Ashok Krishna (Retd)    ·   20 Aug, 1999    ·    #250    ·    Commentary    
    General     1. Pakistani aggressors still occupy the stray post in Mushkoh; they are being supported by  artillery fire.  Brazen attacks on Indian military and para military outposts are also on the rise in J&...
  • Shooting the Atlantique
    D Suba Chandran    ·   19 Aug, 1999    ·    #249    ·    Commentary    
    An Indian Air Force MiG 21 shot down a Pakistani surveillance aircraft Breguet Atlantique on 10th August, killing all 16 Pakistan personnel on board, for intruding 10 km into Indian territory in the Kori Creek region in Gujarat...
  • Russian Interests in Soth Asia and the Kargil Crisis
    KM Pari Valen    ·   19 Aug, 1999    ·    #248    ·    Commentary    
    Facing a Kargil like situation in its own province, of a Dageston,  Russia perceives Kargil crisis as an issue that had implications for geo-politics in South Asia and its own interests. So it expressed serious concern over th...
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