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Per Two Future Force-Structuring Principles, Kaveri-powered long/short range,...
[Rafale] In 1998, I witnessed some tremendously great flying; thrilled to bits when Air Commodore (later Air Marshal) Harish Masand, Air Officer Commanding, Air Wing 2, Lohegaon (Pune), pulled off...
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Now, use the privatised model of Space wholesale in the defence industrial...
[Vikram-1, ignition!] “This is a 100 percent designed in India rocket, a 100 percent made in India rocket, built by 100 percent Indian people, for India and for the world,” the 35-year old Pawan Kumar...
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“Indo-Pacific” Gone, Great! Trump’s flattery at G7… ummm, troubles ahoy!
[Leaders at G7] There was a moment in the lineup at the G7 summit in Nice, France, when on the two-step podium both the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi behind the US President Donald Trump, in the...
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Tighten belts says PM, then $43 Bn thrown at Rafale, another $10 Billion for...
[Modi embracing a calculating French President Emmanuel Macron] The stormy after-effects of the US war on Iran so far have slowed the oil and LNG traffic from the Gulf to a crawl, decelerated the...
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India’s Defence Strategy, Marut & Tejas Programs, Air Power & China Challenge | Bharat Karnad Those interested in the larger subject of India’s not being strategic-minded may want to listen in...
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India the big loser in the US-Iran War
[The embarked 31st US Marine Expeditionary Brigade on ships nearing the Persian Gulf] As predicted in my March 10 post — “America preparing to cut and run from Iran“, the US is in fact getting the...
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Invest in a Foreign “pie in the sky” aircraft, drain Money and ATMNIRBHARTA
[GCAP Vs FCAS] Every military procurement deal is a boondoggle. Apparently the Ministry of Defence thinks the Indian government has money to burn, and that the Indian taxpayer will uncomplainingly...
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Defence cooperation — Don’t do with Israel, Modiji, what you are doing with...
[Prime Ministers Benjamin Netanyahu & Modi] After the visit by President Emmanuel Macron, India and France have just sealed what is officially touted as a “Special Global Strategic Partnership”....
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Indian Air Force — the most luckless air force in the world
[Rafale] The Indian Air Force is the most luckless airforce in the world and its leadership is to blame for it. Once marked out as the leading force of an “Icarian India” with its span stretching from...
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Trump’s veto on India’s military transactions with Russia?
[Modi & Putin] Before Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin sat down to talk turkey at the 23rd India-Russia summit yesterday, the Wall Street Journal published a story...
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Putin and Modi’s moment of reckoning
[Putin & Modi] Sometimes developments come to such a pass and a situation emerges that, one senses, teeters on a consquential turn of events. The Russian President Vladimir Putin’s December 4-5...
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Modi Government’s death blow to Indian defence industry & IAF chief’s...
[Heavy Vehicles Factory, Avadi] This is what a pink paper, not known for criticism of government policies, said on Oct 3 about the Modi regime’s move to allow Indian subsidiaries of foreign arms...
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IAF and the French Defence industry
You can never go wrong under-estimating the Indian Air Force and the Indian government’s strategic foresight. They prove this again and again until now when attaching the adjective ‘strategic’ to any...
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Modi’s effusive response to Trump sets India up for more humiliation
[Hello, did you miss me?] Photographs often reveal the subsurface reality as nothing else does. Just call up the trove of Modi-Trump pics on the net and what you see in most of them is Modi fawning...
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Modi showed spunk and spine, now time to bolster India’s leverage and really...
[Making a point — Modi with Putin & Xi in Tianjin] Narendra Modi and Donald Trump are hewn from the same narcissistic-autocratic Alpha leader cloth. And their clash may be pictured as between two...
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The Dirge after the Drones: A Post-Mortem of Sindoor
[PM with his war council] It is as if the Indian government and its media/commentariat echo chamber, have only now — post-Operation Sindoor and, apparently, for the very first time, discovered that it...
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Nuclear aspects of Sindoor, Trump re-hyphenates India-Pakistan, etc:...
[The PM at the Adampur air base that Pakistan claimed had been destroyed by their missiles] Rediff.com sent me a slate of questions May 12, 2025 for an email interview. I responded. My original...
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संवाद # 250: India MUST’ve punished Pak by taking back Skardu, Haji Pir sailent | Bharat Karnad A bunch of issues tackled in the Vaad podcast; may be of interest to ‘Security Wise’ followers, taped 3...
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Rafale failed in Sindoor! Rethink this French option for MFA
[A grounded Tejas vs a flying Rafale!] The usual, unsatisfactory, inconclusive end to Sindoor. And that too inside of three days of start of military operations! What is equally surprising is how...
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Last gasp of an old power making its exit, India stuck in coolie work; but...
[Trump’s tariffs and counter-tariffs chart] Sure enough, US President Donald Trump did what he promised he’d do — upset everyone’s economic applecart, including America’s. His “reciprocal tariffs”...
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