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Admiral Arun Prakash on the Need For Nuclear Submarines
Here's Part IV of our ongoing interaction with Admiral Arun Prakash. In this, he tells us about his perceptions of deterrence and the need for a…
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Admiral Arun Prakash on DRDO, Obsolesence and Self-Reliance
I reproduce here excerpts from Adm Arun Prakash's article Planning For Tomorrow's Navy: The Challenges in Retrospect, written for the December 2006 issue of FORCE magazine…
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LiveFist EXCLUSIVE: Admiral Arun Prakash on What Platforms The Future Indian Navy Needs
Admiral Arun Prakash: Navies have, for centuries, been accepted and used as instruments of diplomacy and state policy. Therefore, unlike the other Services, they derive their…
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LiveFist EXCLUSIVE (Part 2): Admiral Arun Prakash On The New Indo-US Strategic Partnership
LiveFist: The Navy was at the forefront of the new strategic Indo-US complexion with exercises and exchanges at the topmost levels. How did you personally see…
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LiveFist EXCLUSIVE: Admiral Arun Prakash on the China Threat
In an ongoing interview with former Chief of Naval Staff (CNS) Admiral Arun Prakash, LiveFist brings you the views of one of the most articulate and…
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The Army’s Pay Commission Demands!
The slide to the right is from the 82-slide presentation made by Army General J.J. Singh to the Defence Ministry today (click to enlarge). The slide…
DRDO
Forces on Review — Why is DRDO Stagnating?
An interesting and balanced piece in The Telegraph today by former AOC-in-C South-Western Air Command, Air Marshal BD Jayal. Best of all, the element of the…
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M Natarajan on Agni-III
I spoke to M Natarajan on camera yesterday for Headlines Today. Here's the transcript of what he said last evening on the Agni-III launch. He offers…
Air Force
Look who’s talking!
I reproduce here R Prasannan's fine piece in The Week -- the other side of the DRDO story. Some of our commenters have referred to this…
Aircraft And Helicopters
Pakistan’s JF-17 Thunder – An Analysis
By Mihir Shahfor LiveFistOn March 23 2007, two JF-17 “Thunder” fighters took to the skies for the first time in Pakistan as a part of the…
Navy
Navy’s Far East Deployment
Just got this press release from the Navy:Ships of the Eastern Fleet, under the command of theFlag Officer Commanding Eastern Fleet, Rear Admiral RK Dhowan, are…
Government-Policy-Politics
Losing the island, again
I've always been a little suspicious about the ostensible big-brother attitude that New Delhi always just stops short of espousing in the subcontinent. Sometimes, we're "prisoners…