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141582
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Israelis are thrilled about India’s abstention at the UNHRC vote on the Gaza war, Operation Protective Edge and the news that President Pranab Mukherjee will be the first Indian President to visit Israel this October. That Prime Minister Narendra Modi will follow soon is pathbreaking and testimony to the genuine strategic partnership. At a workshop on Role of State Actors in Promoting Terrorism, Extremism and Radicalism at the Counter Terrorism Summit at Tel Aviv, I warned Israelis not to miss the woods for the trees by over-estimating the nuclear threat from Iran: “you worry about Iran which does not have a bomb (as yet) but ignore Pakistan, the world’s leading exponent of terrorism, which has 200 bombs”.
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141576
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On 14 March 2013 President Xi Jinping took over as the president of People’s Republic of China, and also became a ‘paramount leader’, wearing all three hats simultaneously: the all-powerful general secretary of the Communist Party of China and Chairman, Central Military Commission, in addition to being the President.
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141575
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The 6th Xiangshan Forum held here from October 16 to 18 amidst heightened tensions between China and the United States over the disputed South China Sea was a 1.5 track (officials and experts) military diplomacy. What set it apart was its grand scope and scale and that it was organised by the Peoples’ Liberation Army itself.
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141579
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There is nothing more shameful for the country than to send the armed forces and state police forces for counter-terrorism operations without adequate self-protection equipment. It is sad to see that no lessons have been learnt from past mistakes – in the recent terrorist attacks in Gurdaspur, many Punjab police personnel were forced to fight their opponents without bullet-proof jackets.
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141577
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On September 3, as Russian President Vladimir Putin stood next to Chinese President Xi Jinping and watched the fly-past overhead during the military parade at China’s Tian’anmen Square, his heart must surely have skipped a few heartbeats after he saw the airborne J-11B heavy-MRCAs (multi-role combat aircraft) and J-15 carrier-based heavy-MRCAs of the People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) and the PLA Navy (PLAN) — both of which are unauthorised, back-engineered clones of the Su-27 family of heavy-MRCAs. And particularly galling is China’s consistent assertion that these, along with other products like naval radars and LR-SAMs closely resembling their Russian counterparts are not direct clones, but are instead re-engineered homegrown solutions that do not violate Russian intellectual property rights (IPR). To Russia this is an unacceptable state-of-affairs, since acquiescence to it will eventually result in China virtually reducing Russia to a marginal global exporter of advanced military hardware. However, all that Russia has been able to do thus far is force China to ink an agreement signed 11 December 2011 to protect and respect Russian IPRs, and refuse to export the Su-35S heavy-MRCA in large numbers to the PLAAF. It also continues to insist that enormous amounts of liquidated damages ought to be paid to Russian Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) for those Russia-origin products that have been cloned, and that such cloned products should be permanently barred for export.
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141581
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It was in July 2011 that defence minister A.K. Antony accepted the need to impart training to the defence acquisition functionaries and suggested establishment of a dedicated institute for the purpose. He was addressing an international seminar on defence acquisitions.
In a way, it was Indian government’s first ever admission of the need to inject professionalism in the acquisition regime. Subsequently, even the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) observed that the system of acquisitions being handled by unspecialised personnel posted for three-year tenures was simply not adequate. It emphasised that ‘defence acquisition is a cross-disciplinary activity requiring expertise in technology, military, finance, quality assurance, market research, contract management, project management, administration and policy making’.
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141578
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Hostile air action has been perceived as natural fallout since the time man thought and implemented flying machines. Therefore, actions to counter these hostile air actions also did not take too long to follow. The definition commenced from defence of homeland from hostile air actions and went on to become counter air activities and missile defence which all now can be loosely put under the umbrella of air defence. In some Western and also ex Warsaw Pact nations, air defence is put as either an independent service or command or under the air force.
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141580
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The recent decision of the Contact Group on Piracy off Somalia (CGPS) to roll back the ‘High Risk Area’ (HRA) from 1 December 2015 has brought cheer to Indian ship-owners and once again re-focused attention on piracy and the difficulties of combating it. Edward Teach, otherwise known as Blackbeard, Sir Francis Drake, Sir Walter Raleigh, Barbarossa, the Barbary pirates and others may have passed into history, but piracy remains a part of the world and has, since the end of the Cold War, re-emerged as one of the numerous non-traditional threats to security. How can it continue to thrive in the modern world, despite all the benefits of technology and international cooperation? How prepared is India to tackle piracy, both in its waters as well as in the region?
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