Lt Gen Vinay Shankar

It would be reasonably in order to assume that the BJP manifesto was drafted after much deliberation and debate involving all the intellectuals of the...

The government approval for the Aviation arm of the Indian Army to acquire attack helicopters is the outcome of decades of dialogue, representations, haggling and...

“A comparison with other defense industries would be in order to draw some relevant deductions. Take China, Turkey, South Africa, South Korea, Israel and closer...

We should not blame our cricketers or our hockey players for our dismal record against Pakistan. It is something to do with our national psyche....

Recently under the aegis of the Army a seminar was conducted to discuss the shape, size and structure of our Army in 2020. The scope...

If we were to comment on the attitude of our leadership to our country’s defence preparedness the conclusion would be of unwitting indifference. There is...

The recent denial of a visa by China to one of our senior most serving army officers has taken the Indian Security and Diplomatic establishment...

While our Prime Minister plays the conjuror with war clouds and the mysteries of lightening strikes, a grave and potently disastrous possibility of an armed...

The political and administrative elite of India has yet to assimilate a fundamental lesson in the management of the Country’s defense policy. Like in almost...

The challenges that the Army is expected to face in the next decade are not likely to be any less formidable. An appraisal of the...

It is almost seven years since the first set of major policy changes were promulgated by the Government to give a fillip to our stagnating...

Any current survey of India’s Defence Industry would take us back to the Fiat and Ambassador age. Should it be so at a time when...

Our Foreign Secretary in a recent talk has stated that “India’s efforts to bridge the trust deficit and pave the way for a serious and...