Defence Blogs & Tweets: India and International

JaiS · Post by **JaiS** » 12 Apr 2009 22:38

Based upon Rahul's suggestion and my intent to do the same, I am starting this thread to serve as an archive of Military blogs, related to the Indian Military and otherwise. This thread is not intended to keep a track of updates to the individual blogs which will be posted here, instead the other threads should be used for discussing individual posts.

******************* READ THIS FIRST *******************

>> This thread is not meant for discussions, but just a repository of links to blogs {and twitters}.

>> When posting in this thread, please provide at least one or more tags(the more the merrier), which in your judgement provide the best description of blog content.

>> Enumerate the blog/twitter number by following the last post. for example if the last post above yours contains blog # 39, then the one you post will be blog # 40.

>> follow the same numbering system irrespective of whether your link is a blog or a twitter. if the last post above yours contains blog # 40, then the twitter link you post will be tweet # 41. do not follow different serials for blogs and tweets
Thanks.
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Edited#1: The aim here is to gather first-party blogs, i.e. blogs of the authors themselves.

Edited#2: If you feel that a particular blog here promotes a sinister/anti-Indian agenda, or is an attempt at impersonation please do not hesitate to bring attention to the same by posting in the suggestions thread.

if in doubt, follow the format below :
Blog #1:

Air Marshal Ashok K. Goel (Retd.)
PVSM AVSM VM

http://airmarshalashokgoel.blogspot.com

Tags = IAF, India

JaiS · Post by **JaiS** » 12 Apr 2009 22:42

Blog #2:

Official blog of SEDS-Students for Exploration and Development of Space-India

http://sedsindia.blogspot.com/

Tags = India, Space, SEDS

JaiS · Post by **JaiS** » 12 Apr 2009 22:50

Blog #3

Blog of Air Commodore Kaiser Tufail

http://kaiser-aeronaut.blogspot.com

Tags = PAF, Pakistan, Kaiser Tufail

Also from his About Me section:

I was commissioned as a pilot in 1975 after my training at PAF Academy, Risalpur. Earlier, I completed my schooling from Cadet College, Hasanabdal. I have had the opportunity of flying several classic fighters including F-6 (MiG-19), F-7P (MiG-21 variant), F-7PG (MiG-21 double-delta variant), Mirage-5, Mirage F-1E and the venerable F-16 Fighting Falcon. I commanded a fighter squadron, a fighter wing and PAF's largest fighter Base at Masroor. When out of the cockpit, I found time to pursue literary activities. 'Great Air Battles of Pakistan Air Force', a book written by me, is a manifestation of my interest in aviation history. I also write for various military journals and newspapers. I retired as an Air Commodore in 2005, after thirty memorable years of service.

JaiS · Post by **JaiS** » 13 Apr 2009 00:50

Blog #4:

R. Hariharan's blog

http://hariharansmiblog.blogspot.com/

Tags = India, Army, Military Intelligence

From his about me section:

I am a retired Military Intelligence officer of the Indian Army with nearly three decades of service. My areas of special interest are insurgency and terrorism, South Asia with special reference to Bangladesh, Myanmar and Sri Lanka. I write regularly in the website of South Asia Analysis Group www.southasianalysis.org. This blog will include all my writings, presentations, book extracts and interviews.

JaiS · Post by **JaiS** » 13 Apr 2009 01:10

Blog #5:

U.S. PACOM BLOG

http://us-pacific-command.blogspot.com/

Tags = US, PACOM, Pacific Command

Blog Description

This is an official site sponsored by U.S. Pacific Command (PACOM) and managed by the PACOM Public Affairs Office. The PACOM Blog is intended to highlight and discuss issues that pertain to the PACOM mission and strategy as well as serve as a forum for discussion.

Hiten · Post by **Hiten** » 13 Apr 2009 01:19

Blog #6: * Col. Ajai Shukla's Blog - Broadsword

http://ajaishukla.blogspot.com/

Tags: India, Armed Forces [all the 3 services], defence acquisition program, indigenous R&D

Blog #7: * Vijainder K Thakur's BLOG [rank not known]

http://kuku.sawf.org/
http://flareout.blogspot.com/

Tags: India, Armed Forces [all the 3 services], defence acquisition program, indigenous R&D, Space program

Blog #8: * Major Navdeep Singh's blogs - Indian Military : Service Benefits and Issues

http://www.indianmilitary.info/

Tags: India, Armed Forces [all the 3 services], salary, benefits

Blog #9: * The Band of Brothers Blog

http://blog.bandofbrothers.in/

Compliation of all news related to the Indian Armed Forces that appear online

Blog #10: * Report My Signal Blogs

http://reportmysignal.blogspot.com/
http://reportmysignal-defence.blogspot.com/

to provide platform for discussing defence related matter and in particular those pertaining to Electronics, Communication, Computers and Information Warfare

Blog #11: * Report my signals - Shradhanjli

http://reportmysignal-shradhanjli.blogspot.com/

To provide an exclusive platform for paying tributes to our Veterans from SIGNALS, who leave us for heavenly abode

Jagan · Post by **Jagan** » 13 Apr 2009 02:30

Blog #12: Shiv Aroor's Live Fist Blog

http://livefist.blogspot.com

Tags: India, Armed Forces [all the 3 services], defence acquisition program, indigenous R&D, Space program, IAF, Indian Army, Indian Navy

About:
Shiv Aroor is a
defence journalist in Delhi, India. This is a personal blog.
E-mail Shiv on
shivaroor [at] gmail [dot] com.
Please do not use text or photographs without prior permission from the respective copyright holder. If this blog has accidentally overlooked a copyright on text, photographs, graphics or other matter, please e-mail me.

Blog #13: Pragmatic's Blog
http://pragmatic.nationalinterest.in

Tags: Armed Forces, Govt Bureaucracy , Ministry of Defence, Police

Jagan · Post by **Jagan** » 13 Apr 2009 02:35

Blog #14: Air Marshal S Y Savur (Former AOC-in-C SAC)
http://sysavur.blogspot.com/
ABC - Amicably, Briefly, Caustically
Challenging Mind to think differently & healthily.

Blog #15: Suman Sharma's Blog
http://chhindits.blogspot.com/
Tags: Defence, MoD, Airforce

Rahul M · Post by **Rahul M** » 13 Apr 2009 07:53

guys, plz continue numbering the blogs as Jai started, if possible, it will help immensely in locating blogs in the future.

B Raman served as additional secretary at the Research and Analysis Wing, India's external espionage agency, and headed the counter-terrorism division at RAW for more than a decade till his retirement in 1994.

He is presently Director of the Institute for Topical Studies, Chennai

Blog #16: B Raman's Blogs.

Raman's strategic analysis
http://ramanstrategicanalysis.blogspot.com/

Tag : B Raman, Security, Analysis, Terrorism.

More or less same content in

Blog #17: RAMAN'S TERRORISM ANALYSIS
http://ramansterrorismanalysis.blogspot.com/

I'll add the numbering later.

Jagan · Post by **Jagan** » 13 Apr 2009 08:34

Blogs of Major A H Amin (Pakistan Army)

Blog #18: Indo Pak Wars
http://indopakmilitaryhistory.blogspot.com/ (first post is NSFW)
Tag : Indian Army, Pakistan Army, India-Pakistan Wars

Blog #19: Military Maps Duplicates some content from above.
http://military-maps.blogspot.com/
Tag : Maps, Indian Army, Pakistan Army, India-Pakistan Wars

Rahul M · Post by **Rahul M** » 13 Apr 2009 18:20

thanks Jagan.
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Blog#20

Maloy Krishna Dhar's website and blog.

http://maloykrishnadhar.com/

He taught in a college and worked as a junior staff reporter before joining the Indian Police Service in 1964. He was drafted to the Central Intelligence Bureau in 1968. He had seen actions in the North East, Sikkim, Punjab, and Kashmir, and handled important political, counterterrorism, counterinsurgency and counterintelligence operations.

He retired as Joint Director, IB in 1995.{guys plz correct me if I'm wrong on this.}

Tags: Intelligence, Security, Terrorism, Politics, Society.

Rahul M · Post by **Rahul M** » 13 Apr 2009 18:25

Blog#21

VIKRAM SOOD'S PERSPECTIVES...

Blog of Vikram Sood, ex-Chief, R&AW.

Vikram Sood was a career intelligence officer who retired in March 2003 after heading India's external intelligence service, the Research and Analysis Wing. He is currently Vice President, Centre for International Relations, Observer Research Foundation, an independent public policy think tank.

http://soodvikram.blogspot.com/

Tags : Intelligence, Security, Foreign Relations, Terrorism.

Jagan · Post by **Jagan** » 14 Apr 2009 03:09

Blog # 22

My Daddy strongest
http://iafshots.blogspot.com/
The site is by Anuj Velankar, a merchant navy officer. The site hosts photographs from his father Gp Capt PM Velankar's collection. The photographs are also accompanied by well written posts adding information to the pictures.

Kailash · Post by **Kailash** » 14 Apr 2009 23:22

Blog # 23

http://nosint.blogspot.com/

Naval Open Source Intelligence - International news watch pertaining but not limited to Naval news.

aditp · Post by **aditp** » 18 Apr 2009 07:14

edited.
this thread is only for blogs of pro's and ex-pro's, at most dedicated journalists.

nmadhav · Post by **nmadhav** » 18 Apr 2009 09:50

This is my first post. Hope i got everything right.
Blog # 24

Intelli-Briefs bring you Intelligence briefs on Geopolitics , Security and Intelligence from around the world . We gather information and insights from multiple sources and present you in a digestible format to quench your thirst for right perspective, with right information at right time at right place

http://intellibriefs.blogspot.com/

k prasad · Post by **k prasad** » 22 Apr 2009 17:11

Blog #25:

Acorn on National Interest - http://acorn.nationalinterest.in/

The Indian National Interest is a non-partisan community of individuals committed to economic freedom, realism in international relations, an open society, a culture of tolerance and good governance. Its efforts are directed towards increasing public awareness and education on strategic affairs and public policy.

Blog #26:

The Interpreter - Weblog of the Lowy Institute for Public Policy - http://www.lowyinterpreter.org/

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lowy_Institute)

The Lowy Institute for International Policy is based in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It is an independent, nonpartisan think tank endowed by Frank Lowy to conduct original, policy-relevant research about international political, strategic and economic issues from an Australian perspective. Its research and analysis and its active program of conferences, seminars and other events are designed to inform and deepen the debate about international policy in Australia and to help shape the broader international discussion of these issues.

somak · Post by **somak** » 22 Apr 2009 18:28

Blog #27: Prasoon Sengupta's Blog

http://**************/

Tags = Defence, India, Military, Weapon Brochures

HariC · Post by **HariC** » 23 Apr 2009 03:09

somak wrote:http://**************/

Prasun Chor Gupta's blog. Or was it Prasun PPT Gupta? (PPT = Power point presentation)

somak · Post by **somak** » 23 Apr 2009 07:30

What he has stolen? somebody's ppts? i'm clueless

JaiS · Post by **JaiS** » 23 Apr 2009 09:05

somak, what part of ". When posting in this thread, please provide atleast one or more tags" from the first post in this thread is difficult to understand ?

Rahul M · Post by **Rahul M** » 24 Apr 2009 11:16

somak wrote:What he has stolen? somebody's ppts? i'm clueless

articles and photographs from BR mainsite(as also from Tom Cooper's ACIG) contributed by BR webmasters and passed them off as his own in publications without as much as a credit.
not to mention that he invents and lies through teeth to conjure non-existent information.

anyway, the point is never to quote from his articles on BR unless it is a no-copyright press release from GoI/DRDO/MOD etc.

JaiS · Post by **JaiS** » 26 Apr 2009 19:21

Blog #28: U.S. Air Force Live

http://airforcelive.dodlive.mil/

The Official Blog of the United States Air Force

Tags = Official USAF DoD

And an associated Youtube channel:

USAirforce Blue Tube: http://www.youtube.com/user/AFBlueTube

nmadhav · Post by **nmadhav** » 27 Apr 2009 01:09

Blog # 29

A blog on Chinese Naval and Air power
http://china-pla.blogspot.com/

JaiS · Post by **JaiS** » 08 May 2009 04:52

Blog #30:

Major Gaurav Arya's Blog

http://www.majorgauravarya.blogspot.com/

Tags = India, Army, Kashmir

Blog #31:

Major Navin Chandar's Blog

http://cosmicwarrior.wordpress.com/category/military/

Tags = India, Army, NSG

KBDagha · Post by **KBDagha** » 22 May 2009 11:24

Blog #32: Chinese Military
********************
Hi,
Came across this interesting blog regarding Chinese military:

http://www.china-defense-mashup.com

Tags: PLA, PLAAF, Chinese defence industry

Regards,
Khambat Dagha,

Rahul M · Post by **Rahul M** » 23 May 2009 08:38

Blog # 33

Know Your Enemy
Shiv Aroor's Official Blog @ HT site.

http://headlinestoday.intoday.in/index. ... y&Itemid=1

tags : defence journalism,opinion pieces, sri lanka, LTTE, terrorism.

krishna_j · Post by **krishna_j** » 23 May 2009 18:27

Blog # 34

Blog of Air Cmde Sajad Haider (Retd PAF)

http://www.sajadhaider.com/blog-1/

also on his new autobio Flight of the Falcons on '65 and '71 debacle

Tilak · Post by **Tilak** » 24 May 2009 00:13

Blog # 35

StratPost : http://www.stratpost.com/

About :

StratPost is the only defense, security and strategic affairs news and analysis website in the region that does original and indepth news reporting, analysis and special reports.

StratPost is run by Saurabh Joshi, a journalist based in New Delhi, India who has worked in print, television as well as internet news media. With an abiding interest in defense, security, geopolitics and strategic affairs he brings to StratPost his drive to understanding these issues in the context of the Indian subcontinent and the surrounding region. Besides defense and strategy, his past assignments have included reporting from Kashmir, coverage of terror strikes as well as election coverage from all over India. He has worked for various news organizations in India and abroad, including the Boston based newspaper Christian Science Monitor. The Delhi-based journalist has a Bachelors degree in Journalism (Honors) as well as a law degree (LLB), both from the University of Delhi.

Saurabh can be emailed at saurabhjoshi(at)stratpost(dot)com.

Tags: Indian Air Force, Indian Army, Indian Navy , South Asian Defense , Strategic Affairs

Babui · Post by **Babui** » 24 May 2009 08:40

Blog #36:

Captain Rohit Saxena's Blog http://captrohitsaxena.blogspot.com/

arunsrinivasan · Post by **arunsrinivasan** » 24 May 2009 13:47

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. Questions are encouraged. No personal attacks. Comments are open and anonymous, but are subject to moderation. Unprofessional behavior will not be tolerated.

It focuses US Navy, and its relations with other major powers. Has some good posts about Chinese Navy & its growth.

Blog #38:

http://abumuqawama.blogspot.com/
About

Abu Muqawama is a blog dedicated to following issues related to contemporary insurgencies as well as counterinsurgency tactics and strategy. Abu Muqawama aims to be a resource for students, counterinsurgents, academics, and the general public.

Andrew Exum (author of Abu Muqawama Blog) a fellow at the Center for a New American Security, was an Army officer in Iraq and Afghanistan from 2002 to 2004.

JaiS · Post by **JaiS** » 12 Jun 2009 05:53

Blog ( Twitter channel actually ) #39:

UK MoD Twitter channel

https://twitter.com/DefenceHQ

Tags = UK MoD Twitter

k prasad · Post by **k prasad** » 13 Jun 2009 14:07

Blog #40: http://gentleseas.blogspot.com/

Australia in the Indian Ocean

This blog is mainly about naval matters, submarines, nuclear weapons, and ABMs relevant to Australia and India. After a brief rest the blog/writer is back.

About the Author:

Peter Coates is an independent researcher who formerly worked for the Australian Government on intelligence and policy issues.

Hiten · Post by **Hiten** » 29 Aug 2009 20:25

Blog #41:

Commander Dilip Donde - Indian Navy Solo Circumnavigation

Tags: India, Navy, Voyage, Circumnavigation, adventure

His Facebook page - http://www.facebook.com/people/Dilip-Donde/775401095

JaiS · Post by **JaiS** » 30 Aug 2009 08:09

Blog #42:

indianexserviceman
http://indianexserviceman.blogspot.com/

Tags = India, Ex-servicemen, veteran, pension

There are about 20 lakhs exservicemen in the country. They are the most valuable human resources that the country can make use of. The objective of this blog is to provide a medium for exchanging views & educating the veterans of the Armed Forces by disseminating important information. The Blog at http://indianexserviceman.blogspot.com has been conceived by a team comprising of Sgt.C.Muthukrishnan & Sgt.S.Kandiah (Veterans of IAF) under the guidance of Lt.Col.James Kanagaraj.

govardhanks · Post by **govardhanks** » 30 Aug 2009 15:43

Blog #43:

Indonesian military blog
http://majalahmiliter.blogspot.com/

Tags: Indonesia, Military news

An indonesian blog listing latest military news world wide

pavel · Post by **pavel** » 09 Oct 2009 08:59

Blog Number # 44

Indian Defence Blog
http://www.bharat-defence.com

Tags:Indian Defence News,Airforce,Army,Navy and Missiles

pgbhat · Post by **pgbhat** » 19 Jan 2010 09:16

# 45
Vikram Sood's tweeter channel

pgbhat wrote:http://twitter.com/Vikram_Sood

tags : Intelligence, R&AW, Terrorism

# 46
Lt. Gen H S Panag's tweeter channel

Anujan wrote:http://twitter.com/rwac48

tags : Indian Army

Craig Alpert · Post by **Craig Alpert** » 22 Jan 2010 01:54

edit.

Rahul M · Post by **Rahul M** » 22 Jan 2010 19:43

# 47
Chacko Joseph's Blog. (Editor FrontierIndia website)

http://brutegorilla.blogspot.com/

Tags : Military, DRDO, Images.