Bharat Rakshak

Thanks to our history of socialism, the political / babu class dont appreciate the role competition plays in improving human performance. US extensively uses competition to develop new technologies, faster and potentially at a much lower cost. Take for example the X-prize foundation, the DARPA auton...

Russia to allow US arms shipments to Afghanistan Russia said Friday it will allow the United States to ship weapons across its territory to Afghanistan, a long-sought move that bolsters U.S. military operations but potentially gives the Kremlin leverage over critical American supplies. The announce...

Samizdat in the 21st Century Early last year, Boris Nemtsov and Vladimir Milov published a report titled "Putin. Itogi," or "Putin. The Results." It was a well-documented, comprehensive, and absolutely damning critique of the corruption, authoritarianism, and general dysfunction...

I seem to have touched a raw nerve here. Please note that I said we should build a strong deterrence . I also know strong respects strong, and understand that nobody has any time for weaklings, especially China. I strongly believe we need to significantly scale up our defence capabilities esp. w.r.t...

Is a 300 kt warhead enough to destroy Beijing,Shanghai or HongKong ? :| India is a peaceful country onlee.. We dont speak/think of destroying anybody.. Our missiles can deliver flowers too.. Agreed, our objective is deterrence rather than destruction. With a strong deterrence, we reduce the possibi...

RajeshA wrote:US, Russia may sign deal boosting Afghan transit: Report: AFP

I think this is great news, if US & Russia build better relations, it will reduce TSP's leverage, hopefully stop from Russia from getting too close to China. Do any of the gurus have any insight on this?

I hate to use such language against a person who has held such high constitutional posts, but VR Krishna Iyer is a left wing crackpot, not very different from Arundhati Roy.

Many Thanks. Didnt realise that I could use that thread for all forums.

you will find a plethora of existing threads where such things can be discussed. and PLEASE use the site suggestion thread for this type of queries. this thread is only for problems related to registration and recommending a friend for membership. Sorry for being thick, but I did not find the sugge...

Mods, I would like to suggest that we start a new thread focusing on Indian Soft Power abroad. Since this is a key source of Indian power, I think it deserves its own thread, & potentially give India an edge in the long run. (I did search for soft power & didnt find anything) I'm no expert s...

Rockets For The Red Planet Engineers rethink how to get to Mars and back.

It does look like many people in the US have started to understand what TSP really is see below. Why Pakistan is Going Down the Tubes At the root of the country's problems is a feudal political establishment primarily interested in promoting and preserving its own narrow class interests and unable o...

I think we should stop agonising over every word uttered by US, it is like we dont have any confidence in our abilities. We have to start acting like a Big Power by standing firm & asking US to buzz off, when they spew such nonsense with us. Also, we should start putting the pressure on them by ...

Or they mixed up the currency $ for INR

It is high time we moved on from our focus on 3rd world objectives to more 1st world objectives (for want of a better word!). A good way to start would be to ask the questions How can we get ahead of China? How can we contribute to Space Science e.g. Hubble Space telescope or something even bigger?...

We could go in for joint development with Russia, for example, to defray the costs. We've had success with them on things like BrahMos in the past. I don't necessarily agree that a nuclear-fueled rocket is less safe, since it could be run on a particle-bed reactor with an extremely high fuel burn-u...

Andrew wrote: then tell me who broke the quality of the forum being held to good standards in first place. Do what you are here to do; post your messages....don’t attempt something you are ill-qualified to do i.e. act like as a judge and jury on this forum.... This forum, also, does not need your c...

This is about China's nuclear submarines, trust this is appropriate for this thread. China’s SSBN Forces: Transitioning to the Next Generation China’s undersea deterrent is undergoing a generational change with the emergence of the Type-094, or Jin-class, which represents a substantial improvement o...

Apologies if this is going off-topic, I just thought I should set put the record straight. It is obvious there is a lot of distrust and dislike (even hatred ;)) for the US from the Indian side, but I can tell you from my viewpoint that it is totally one-sided. India is well-regarded in the US. Sure ...

George, Am no expert, but it is extremely well written i.e. you have almost convinced me

Fresh news on Vikram: http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?i=4130620&c=ASI&s=TOP A Russian diplomat said that Moscow is concentrating on rebuilding its own defense forces and is aiming at sales to Iran, and as such has reduced its emphasis on the Indian market . Following the delay in the a...

Spies in the sky The Economist Technology Quarterly SPYING is a sophisticated and expensive business—and gathering military intelligence using unmanned aircraft can be prohibitively so. Predator and Global Hawk, two types of American drone frequently flown in Afghanistan and Iraq, cost around $5,00...

Interesting article in Forbes ... blaming China for the North Korea problem. We Have A Chinese Problem, Not A North Korean One Hours after the Democratic People's Republic of Korea detonated its second atomic device, Beijing condemned the test. "The DPRK conducted another nuclear test in disreg...

Some International Blogs, which I thought relevant. Blog #37: http://informationdissemination.blogspot.com/ About This is a Professional Naval Centric blog that studies maritime strategy in the context of history. New visitors should expect other contributors in the comments to be smarter than you. ...