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Dinesh Kumar

Anmol Bali Punjab Khalistan edited

The return of competitive militancy in Punjab must end

Facilitated by the ‘instant’ character of social media that has rendered geography irrelevant, secessionist thought has taken a visibly more...

A low-intensity blast was hit at Sarhali Police Station

Radicalisation on the increase, Punjab on a downward spiral

The Punjab Police is no longer the force to reckon with as it once used to be under Julio Francis...

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No less than men: Women in armed forces

A conservative Indian establishment overlooked the fact that women officers have been performing at par with their male counterparts. In...

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A year later, are we any wiser about the airstrikes?

As a country which would want the world to take it seriously, India could use the occasion to demonstrate tangible...

An Indian Navy

CDS should not become another bureaucratic layer

Armed forces need to be better coordinated and the country should have a single point military advice.     Chandigarh: The...

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Let’s highlight the sordid tale of PoK

It remains a land of strict curbs on political pluralism, freedom of expression and freedom of association.   Ever since...

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Too many national security challenges: Time to hurry up and take decisions

Never before has the need for a centralised, holistic and well synchronised approach been more paramount.   Every time a...

5 June is the 35th anniversary of Operation Blue Star, which involved the Army storming the Golden Temple on the night of 5 June 1984.

Operation Blue Star, 35 years later: Only lessons and no winners

It neither ended terrorism, nor religious militant politics, in fact it manifested itself in horrific proportions.   Four days from...

There have been many accidents with a range of artillery and tank ammunitions including the Arjun, T-90 (pictured above) and T-72 tanks manufactured by the OFs.

Defective ammunition: Whose life is it anyway?

A Special Forces soldier or an artillery or armour regiment serves no purpose if equipped with defective or dud ammunition....

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Making war movies is fine, but facts should not be fictionalised

Movies based on landmark events must be preceded by sound research, near accurate depiction, especially when it comes to issues...

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Politics of competitive nationalism: A threat to healthy civil military relations

The Congress party’s unusual declaration of strike dates it had ordered during its tenure marks a despicable low in the...

General Dalbir Singh Suhag

Gen Suhag is a curious choice for Seychelles

Why would an Army Chief, who retired two-and-a-half years ago be posted to an island country that has gained strategic...

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Needed, urgent appraisal of India’s defence requirements, deficiencies

The IAF’s squadron strength is projected to fall to 21 squadrons by 2037. Where will that leave India’s air defence...

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Pak problem has not ended: Build effective deterrence and retaliation capabilities

Security forces remain engaged, with terrorists being armed, trained, funded and diplomatically supported by Pak. India must continue with retaliatory...

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Time to declare Pak sponsor of terror, scale down diplomacy

All responses to terror attacks must be well thought out and based on cold calculations and not on emotions.  ...

Soldiers from Indian Army and China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) take part in the Hand-in-Hand joint military exercise in Chengdu

The worrisome state of Indian Army

Army Day on Tuesday, 15 January, will see an impressive display of soldiers and war-fighting equipment. But behind the pomp...

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1971 too far back: India no longer at peak of its military preparedness

India has been overtaken by geopolitical developments and considerable defence, security mismanagement.   CHANDIGARH: Exactly 47 years ago, the very nation...

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Defence PSUs, ordnance factories are in dire need of overhaul

As is the case with the DRDO, many of the other DPSUs are engaged in producing non-defence items.   Chandigarh:...

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Credible nuclear triad: Not still quite there

In a rare public acknowledgment about India’s nuclear-submarine programme at the highest level, the Prime Minister earlier this week congratulated...

New Delhi: External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Defence Secretary James Mattis during high-level 2+2 dialogue in New Delhi on Sept 6, 2018. (Photo: Amlan Paliwal/IANS)

US-India edging closer to military partnership

The first-ever high level 2+2 meeting between the Indian and US Defence and Foreign Ministers held last month along with...

Airport ground staff stand besides Tejas, India's first locally-built LCA, before its induction into the Indian Air Force at the HAL airport in Bengaluru

HAL needs major restructuring, introduction of accountability

It has been a story of little delivery, at the cost of compromising the airpower dimension of national security.  ...

DRDO has much to answer for its poor performance

On paper the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) comes across as formidable. It is currently engaged in about 70...

Indian Navy has a submarine problem

In 1999, the year when the Kargil War was fought, the then BJP-led NDA government cleared a 30-year plan to...

India wasted opportunity to settle Pak problem in ’71

Every year, 16 December 1971 gets remembered for being a historic day in the subcontinent’s military, diplomatic, intelligence and political...