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114628
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2012.
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The politics of the Southern Asia region is mainly influenced by
the political developments that take place in the two neighbouring
Southern Asian countries, India and Pakistan. However, IndoPak relations have never been stable; rather, they have fluctuated
from acrimony to cooperation and vice versa. Since the partition of
the Indian subcontinent, relations between the two neighbouring
countries have been defined by a host of post-partition political
problems and crises like the border dispute, Kashmir dispute, water
dispute, etc. The emergence of the Cold War politics in the Indian
subcontinent further aggravated the acrimonious relations between
India and Pakistan. The Pakistani leaders have never reconciled the
grievances of the post-partition political problems, especially on
the Kashmir issue; thus, they consider India as the 'biggest threat'
to their existence.
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Because of this fear psychosis, they joined hands
with the US-led Western military alliance Southeast Asia Treaty
Organisation (SEATO) and Central Treaty Organisation (CENTO),
and manoeuvred Pakistan's policy towards the Muslim countries
to develop 'power parity' with India, if not in economic terms, then
through military technology
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114627
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2012.
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The Chinese military modernisation effort is guided by the strategy
of fighting local war under informationised conditions, which
refers to the People's Liberation Army's (PLA's) ongoing effort to
develop a fully networked architecture capable of coordinating
military operations on land, in the air, at sea, in space and across the
electromagnetic spectrum.
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114623
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2012.
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Energy is the basic necessity for all living beings to survive on planet
earth, and no one knows this better than human beings. We also
know that energy reserves in the world are not infinite. The data on
the quantum of energy reserves in different parts of the world, based
on scientific research, and other reliable methods is, in one way, one
of the factors, which can influence the concern of any nation on the
availability of this resource, which is so crucial for the sound economic
growth, and development of human beings. Those who possess
this wealth in abundance as of now may not be concerned about its
availability, but those who do not have in abundance, or who have
very limited energy resources, or have sufficient resources but not
enough to fuel the fast pace of growth and economic development and
are hungry for more, are now more concerned about the affordability
and security of energy reserves both within their own country as well
as in nations which are the producers of this vital resource.
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114629
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2012.
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The recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have underscored the
importance of airlift as an element of air power. On display has been
the formidable airlift capability of the US - the ability to deliver
almost anything, anywhere, anytime. The foundation of this massive
capability was laid during World War II. The fall of Rangoon to the
Japanese, and the eventual blocking of Burma Road in March 1942
had disrupted the supply lines, leaving airlift as the only option to
maintain the forces in China. Failure to supply would risk substantial
Chinese territory to the Japanese and, more importantly, a defeat
in China would relieve a part of the more than one million strong
Japanese force, to cause havoc elsewhere in the Asia-Pacific region.
The Hump
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airlift stands out for the dogged determination of the
aircrew who flew under extreme conditions and hauled tonnes of
supplies, equipment, vehicles, arms, ammunition and thousands of
personnel across the Himalayas from India to China.
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114625
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2012.
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In January 2012, the Obama Administration was reportedly sketching
a new space arms control initiative that would broadly contain
the European Union (EU) draft Code of Conduct.
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Reportedly,
it is an attempt to outline the international norms and connote
commencement of the obligation for non-threatening activities in
space. It aims at encouraging transparency among nations that have
space programmes and diminishing the damage caused by hazardous
debris, and generally makes an international call for space security
considerations. However, this announcement implies the possibility
of an arms control treaty, which following the space policy unveiled
last year, is completely averse to the US unilateral stance supported
by the Bush Administration. Obama's new plan is domestically facing
tremendous critics, and there are concerns over the US space military
capability and dominance cornering into limitation.
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114619
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114626
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2012.
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Prior to World War II, the US involvement with the Persian Gulf
was minimal as it was regarded as a British preserve. However,
during the war, a US Middle East Command was created to oversee
the supply route of war material to the Soviet Union through Iran
and it consisted of some 30,000 personnel. But after the war, it was
reduced to a small contingent stationed at Jufair and Bahrain under
an arrangement with the British. The task of containment of the
Soviets in the huge arc from the Suez to the Malacas was also left to
the British. When the UK decided to withdraw from the region in
1968 due to financial constrains, Washington was in no position to
fill the so-called vacuum due to its heavy commitments elsewhere,
especially in Vietnam.
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114621
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2012.
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The Indian military Services have established numerous and
distinguished academies across India for the purpose of training
professional soldiers in new generation military science, warfare
command, and strategy and associated technologies. The Indian
government has taken many such steps to educate, prepare and attract
young talents towards armed forces. For this, many schools like the
Rashtriya Indian Military College (RIMC) at Dehradun, Rashtriya
Military Schools at Ajmer, Bengaluru, Belgaum, Chail and Dholpur,
were set up. Later, the Sainik schools, which are a joint venture of the
centre and state governments, were established in the states basically
to broaden the recruitment base, and remove a perceived regional
imbalance in the officer's cadre of the Indian defence forces. All these
were set up with an aim to provide necessary preliminary training
for Indians wishing to become officers in the Indian armed forces.
These institutions serve as feeder institutions to the National Defence
Academy (NDA) now.
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There are a large number of individual Service
training institutes, which focus on single Service training, and there
are quite a few joint training or inter-Service training institutions like
the NDA, DSSC (Defence Services Staff College), CDM (College of
Defence Management), NDC (National Defence College) and AFMC (Armed Forces Medical College), which focus on joint training.
Though India was one of the few countries which started these joint
institutions fairly early, the progress in developing synergies and
maximising combat potential has been rather slow.
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ID:
114620
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2012.
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This is posturing. This is the true north - strong and free, and they're
fooling themselves if they think dropping a flag on the ocean floor is going
to change anything. There is no question over Canadian sovereignty in
the Arctic. We've made that very clear. We've established - a long time
ago - that these are Canadian waters and this is Canadian property. You
can't go around the world these days dropping a flag somewhere. This
isn't the 14th or 15th century.
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ID:
114622
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2012.
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At 0749 hours on Sunday, December 07, 1941, the Japanese launched
the first of two waves of attacks against American facilities at Pearl
Harbour, Hawaii; the second wave of aircraft arrived at 0900 hours.
The first wave consisted of 183 Japanese dive/torpedo bombers
accompanied by 'Zero' fighter escorts, whilst the second wave
consisted of 168 aircraft similar in nature/composition to the first
wave. Eighteen operational warships, including four battleships, were
sunk or badly damaged, 188 aircraft were destroyed, 2,403 Americans
were killed (including civilians) and 1,178 were wounded.
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Although
it could be said that the Japanese achieved local and tactical surprise,
the American losses in the attack could have been much worse had it
not been for the fact that three aircraft carriers were not in port, nine
cruisers and virtually all of the destroyers remained afloat, and none of
the fleet's submarines was lost. The possible extent of American losses
were further limited by the fact that Adm Nagumo, the commander
of the Japanese task force, refused to authorise a third wave of attack
that could possibly have led to the calamitous destruction of the naval
dockyards and oil storage tanks; the loss of which would have placed
severe restraints on the use of Pearl Harbour as a forward base for counter-offensives against Japanese advances towards the Philippines,
Malaya and the Dutch East Indies. The attack solved President
Franklin D. Roosevelt's most pressing problem at the time - how to
overcome American public opposition to involvement in a war that
was ongoing in Europe for the previous year and a half. It is a known
fact that over 80 per cent of the American population (at least on the
eve of Pearl Harbour) was not in favour of the US entering the war
as an active participant. Roosevelt obtained overwhelming majority
support when he asked Congress for a 'declaration of war' against
Japan after the attack on Pearl Harbour.
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ID:
114624
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2012.
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Forty years ago, India won the 14-day Bangladesh War in an
unprecedented and unambiguous manner. The war culminated in
nthe dismemberment of Pakistan, and Bangladesh was born as the
eighth most populated nation with 78 million people.
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It is pertinent
to revisit the war and study the politico-military aims and objectives
in conjunction with the diplomatic challenges.
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