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by Prateek
12 Dec 2005 06:58
Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
Topic: Book Review Folder - 2005/2006/2007
Replies: 404
Views: 154758

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/GL10Df02.html BOOK REVIEW Indian vs American secularism The Wheel of Law by Gary Jeffrey Jacobsohn Buy this book Reviewed by Aruni Mukherjee In the first paperback edition of The Wheel of Law (originally written in 2003), Gary Jeffrey Jacobsohn undertakes a su...
by Prateek
19 Nov 2005 01:09
Forum: Military Exercises Archive
Topic: Cope India 2005 - Kalaikunda AFS - Part I
Replies: 337
Views: 179353

Excercises like these, I would like to know more about how USAF and the falcons performed, rather than boasting by IAF. we must be proud of iaf, but time to learn more about usaf.
by Prateek
10 Nov 2005 11:41
Forum: Military Exercises Archive
Topic: Cope India 2005 - Kalaikunda AFS - Part I
Replies: 337
Views: 179353

US knows PR pretty well...

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/arti ... 286533.cms
Sourav gets a taste of Yankee fuss
by Prateek
10 Nov 2005 00:19
Forum: Military Exercises Archive
Topic: Cope India 2005 - Kalaikunda AFS - Part I
Replies: 337
Views: 179353

I'll tell you one thing, Prateek. I live in the US right now and originally am from Baroda. almost everywhere I'v been in India, the dust and dirt is prevalent. It's not about you wanting to keep in clean or not ! even to keep our own compounds clean is an exercise ! I used to scrub our family car ...
by Prateek
07 Nov 2005 03:46
Forum: Military Exercises Archive
Topic: Cope India 2005 - Kalaikunda AFS - Part I
Replies: 337
Views: 179353

http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=81473 A wing-wing strategy The Indo-US air exercises will help us hone our combat skills JASJIT SINGH The air force base at Kalaikunda was originally built by the Americans (including the two satellite airfields at Kharagpur and Dudhkudi), as pa...
by Prateek
05 Nov 2005 08:08
Forum: Nuclear Issues Archive
Topic: Opposition to the Indo-US nuclear cooperation agreement
Replies: 321
Views: 107822

Here is a list of the Chinese Communist Pathetic Record vis-à-vis India thus far: 1. Takeover of Tibet by force, resettlement of the Han race from hinterland China into Tibet. Driven out the Dalai Lama and harass other Buddhists leaders. Purge of opposition by violent deaths. 2. Land grab from TSP ...
by Prateek
31 Oct 2005 08:06
Forum: Military Exercises Archive
Topic: Cope India 2005 - Kalaikunda AFS - Part I
Replies: 337
Views: 179353

Before the US sells equipment to India, it has to make an unequivocal commitment to supply spares and associated equipment to India come what may, plus offer attractive deep transfer of technology. Not just this, the US has to prove that their equipment is superior to what we already got, comprisin...
by Prateek
31 Oct 2005 01:39
Forum: Military Exercises Archive
Topic: Cope India 2005 - Kalaikunda AFS - Part I
Replies: 337
Views: 179353

The US or Europeans will not come to your door steps, unless they have a thing or two to learn from you, if they can't learn they will steal it from you, that's how they have propsered! So what's to stop India doing the same? I don't hav to tell you this, bcoz I assume you know the answer, our own ...
by Prateek
30 Oct 2005 10:05
Forum: Military Exercises Archive
Topic: Cope India 2005 - Kalaikunda AFS - Part I
Replies: 337
Views: 179353

The US or Europeans will not come to your door steps, unless they have a thing or two to learn from you, if they can't learn they will steal it from you, that's how they have propsered!
by Prateek
29 Oct 2005 01:07
Forum: Nuclear Issues Archive
Topic: Opposition to the Indo-US nuclear cooperation agreement
Replies: 321
Views: 107822

What if the existing plants are used for both civilian and mil purposes? India should be very careful in seperating out its plants as civilian or mil. I prefer to keep IEAE inspections for only the future plants and all current plants remain as they are, away from any inspections, barring may be one...
by Prateek
27 Oct 2005 08:17
Forum: Nuclear Issues Archive
Topic: Opposition to the Indo-US nuclear cooperation agreement
Replies: 321
Views: 107822

POLITICS: India Abandons Global Nuclear Disarmament Analysis by Praful Bidwai NEW DELHI , Oct 26 (IPS) - Seven years after blasting its way into the world’s 'nuclear club', India has executed a major shift in its policy stance by jettisoning its long-standing advocacy of global nuclear disarmament i...
by Prateek
26 Oct 2005 03:14
Forum: Nuclear Issues Archive
Topic: Opposition to the Indo-US nuclear cooperation agreement
Replies: 321
Views: 107822

Dreamer(like Jawaharlal Nehru, when asked about India being accomoted in UNSC permanent membership, forwarded PRC China, just go and check historical facts, before you come with any new dreams, about UK and France leaving their exalted status. I don't like the EU becoming a POLE in this century, in...
by Prateek
25 Oct 2005 07:06
Forum: Nuclear Issues Archive
Topic: Opposition to the Indo-US nuclear cooperation agreement
Replies: 321
Views: 107822

Dubya-Rice move to deep-six the current NPT agreement and reign in Axis of Evil nations like N. Korea, Iran (maybe TSP), Libya (done deal) is causing a lot of upset apple carts. Non-profutullahs who made a career out of NPT are left with nothing. China’s cozy arrangement of duplicitous proliferatio...
by Prateek
14 Aug 2005 23:11
Forum: Mil-Tech Archive
Topic: Cruise Missile Test in Pakistan: News and Discussions
Replies: 381
Views: 132791

TSJ, Saudi cash, sure. China? No brainer that. But Euro tech? I would have thought Ukranian seems more likely. Long back I had suggested an existence of a terrorist Sultanate... as Evil Pentagon or the Evil P5 ... Following is the composition... They all work in tandem... The Sultan - China Finance...
by Prateek
13 Aug 2005 23:40
Forum: Mil-Tech Archive
Topic: Cruise Missile Test in Pakistan: News and Discussions
Replies: 381
Views: 132791

We must concentrate MORE on what they have and and who provides them, not if it is a paint job or an assembly line work. It is always worrisome as long as Pakistan have the Babur's... It is amazing to see what Pakis are capable of.... Just look at them, first they got the the F-16's.. the Agosta B's...
by Prateek
26 Feb 2005 12:02
Forum: Nuclear Issues Archive
Topic: Pakistan Nuclear Proliferation - 02 October 2004
Replies: 321
Views: 107899

Slightly ld.. not sure if this was posted here earlier.. Khan's nuke network still operational: Time Asian News International Recent investigations have revealed that the nuclear proliferation network once managed by Pakistan's top nuclear scientist AQ Khan is still operational. "Nothing has ch...
by Prateek
26 Feb 2005 12:02
Forum: Nuclear Issues Archive
Topic: Pakistan Nuclear Proliferation - 02 October 2004
Replies: 321
Views: 107899

Slightly ld.. not sure if this was posted here earlier.. Khan's nuke network still operational: Time Asian News International Recent investigations have revealed that the nuclear proliferation network once managed by Pakistan's top nuclear scientist AQ Khan is still operational. "Nothing has ch...
by Prateek
24 Feb 2005 04:39
Forum: Nuclear Issues Archive
Topic: Pakistan Nuclear Proliferation - 02 October 2004
Replies: 321
Views: 107899

INTERVIEW: Pakistan Min:No New Info On Khan Nuke Net -2 TOKYO (Dow Jones)--Pakistan Foreign Minister Khursheed Kasuri said Wednesday that he didn't have any information on possible nuclear proliferation by disgraced nuclear scientist A.Q. Khan to more countries than earlier believed. Last February,...
by Prateek
18 Feb 2005 06:06
Forum: Nuclear Issues Archive
Topic: We have Nukes: DPRK - Strategic Impact Analysis
Replies: 54
Views: 26680

India tested their nukes in 1974. In 1998 we tested advanced bums. India-Pak situation has no parallel with NKorea/SKorea. It is similar to comparing Kashmir problem with the palesteni one. We should not equate them. NitWit Singh's statements, as a GOI official, were a mistake. As a GOI official I e...
by Prateek
13 Feb 2005 12:51
Forum: Nuclear Issues Archive
Topic: We have Nukes: DPRK - Strategic Impact Analysis
Replies: 54
Views: 26680

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6960513/site/newsweek/ Nuclear Offense Kim Jong Il has one thing going for him: his ability to threaten the world with doomsday weapons. So how should the Bush administration respond to that threat? The 2006 budget calls for the United States to develop new 'bunker busting' n...
by Prateek
13 Feb 2005 00:03
Forum: Nuclear Issues Archive
Topic: We have Nukes: DPRK - Strategic Impact Analysis
Replies: 54
Views: 26680

May be that the NKorea thinks that since a man(CP) couldn't do anything, now with a woman (CRice) in his place, they have become more aggressive and bold and are coming out publicly. :wink:
by Prateek
28 Dec 2004 03:43
Forum: News Folders Archive
Topic: Indian Air Force - News Folder - December 2004
Replies: 48
Views: 21679

Entire IAF station pushed off the map in Car Nicobar [Newindpress, 28 December 2004] CAR NICOBAR ISLANDS: The day after, the sea here almost mocks in its ordinariness. The sun blazing, when you look down from the AN-32 on its way to Car Nicobar from Port Blair, there are just tiny white flecks on t...
by Prateek
03 Oct 2004 05:42
Forum: Nuclear Issues Archive
Topic: Pakistan Nuclear Proliferation - 02 October 2004
Replies: 321
Views: 107899

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_3-10-2004_pg7_5 Brazil denies acquiring N-tech from Pakistan RIO DE JANEIRO: The Brazilian government has denied allegations that it obtained its centrifugal plans for uranium enrichment from a clandestine nuclear network headed by Pakistani scient...
by Prateek
11 Sep 2004 23:06
Forum: News Folders Archive
Topic: Indian Air Force - News Folder - September 2004
Replies: 45
Views: 17176

India, Israel to hold joint air exercises [Hindustan Times, 11 September 2004] India and Israel have reportedly agreed to hold joint air force exercises. Over the last decade or so, Israel has emerged as a major arms supplier to India. But military exercises between the two are unprecedented. The d...
by Prateek
22 Aug 2004 03:26
Forum: Mil-Tech Archive
Topic: The Saras Flies!
Replies: 236
Views: 94981

Passimist DDM reporting... http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/5922_963065,0015002200000057.htm Saras still a distant dream HTC August 22 It may take a few more years before India's indigenously-built 14-seater light transport aircraft 'Saras' starts flying. While the first prototype designed and dev...
by Prateek
18 Jul 2004 02:17
Forum: Military Exercises Archive
Topic: Cold Start: An analysis
Replies: 277
Views: 132422

Re: Cold Start: An analysis

Definitely this is a change from being defensive to offensive line of thinking. Close network between the IA, IN and IAF is a way to go. To top this, India should also try to provide more 'WINGS' to the IA. IMO, the future conflict should have less involvement from the IA, compared to the IAF and IN...
by Prateek
01 Jul 2004 22:33
Forum: BR Nostalgia Archive
Topic: Bharat Rakshak Celebrates Seven Years!
Replies: 162
Views: 110932

Re: Bharat Rakshak Celebrates Seven Years!

We want to know the first 100 members of BRF who are still participating. I remember the days where we had just one forum... probably pre 1998 nuke tests .. Then thre came 4 forums and now 3 with hte popular forum gone... Pretty long time, I have been posting since then.. Time has passed by so quic...
by Prateek
01 Jul 2004 10:52
Forum: BR Nostalgia Archive
Topic: Bharat Rakshak Celebrates Seven Years!
Replies: 162
Views: 110932

Re: Bharat Rakshak Celebrates Seven Years!

Congratulations ! :wah:
by Prateek
13 Mar 2004 23:12
Forum: Nuclear Issues Archive
Topic: Pakistan Nuclear Proliferation - 02 Mar 2004
Replies: 326
Views: 92694

Re: Pakistan Nuclear Proliferation - 02 Mar 2004

U.S. Widens View of Pakistan Link to Korean Arms http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/14/international/asia/14KORE.html ASHINGTON, March 13 — A new classified intelligence report presented to the White House last week detailed for the first time the extent to which Pakistan's Khan Research Laboratories p...
by Prateek
13 Mar 2004 00:00
Forum: Nuclear Issues Archive
Topic: Pakistan Nuclear Proliferation - 02 Mar 2004
Replies: 326
Views: 92694

Re: Pakistan Nuclear Proliferation - 02 Mar 2004

Originally posted by jrjrao: Hahahahahah! Genius Amrikees. Now, it is India that better "improve its export controls" to "crack down on the global nuclear black market" . This is so that if India improves its act, then future PhotoChor-Khan-Networks can then be prevented from do...