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Ind Ian D Efence Re V Ie W Lance R ISSN 0970-2512 Jul-Sep 2015 Vol. 30 (3) INDIAN DEFENCE REVIEW LANCER Lancer Publishers Coffee Table Books Published by Coffee Table [email protected] • +91 11 41759461, 26960404 • www.lancerpublishers.com [email protected] India’s Foremost Military Publishers Military Foremost India’s eBook edition available on amazon.com, google play and apple TURN YOUR ARTILLERY www.lancerpublishers.us INTO PINPOINT WEAPONS In the Line of Duty Indian Air Force in Wars The Psychology of Modernization of the TIBET: The Lost Frontier India’s Strategic A Soldier Remembers Air Vice Marshal Ak Tiwary Military Humour Chinese PLA Claude Arpi Problems Lt Gen Harbakhsh Singh eISBN: 978-1-935501-42-8 Brigadier J. 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Lt Gen Prakash Katoch Gp Capt TP Srivastava 65 Gp Capt Balakrishna Menon COMPUTER NETWORK OPERATIONS AND ELECTRONIC WARfaRE Air Marshal Narayan Menon Complementary or Competitive? Lt Gen Davinder Kumar 73 Prakash Nanda Senior Foreign Policy Analyst SPECTRE OF CHINA’S ARTIFICIAL ISLANDS Prof Swaran Singh & Dr Lilian Yamamoto 78 Vice Admiral Rajeshwer Nath CHINA’S GAME OF TERRITORIAL CLAIMS Vice Adm BS Randhawa Lt Gen Gautam Banerjee 83 Former Chief of Material and Controller of Warship Production and Acquisition, Indian Navy AEROspaCE AND DEFENCE NEWS Priya Tyagi 89 Amitabha Roychowdhury Associate Editor, Press Trust of India THE DRAGon’S ADVENTURES IN THE INDIAN OCEAN Vice Admiral Anup Singh 104 Ramananda Sengupta Foreign and Strategic Affairs Analyst INFLUENCE OF AERIAL COMBAT ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF ARMOURED FIGHTING VEHICLES Kanwal Sibal Artsrun Hovhannisyan 110 Former Foreign Secretary of India FIFTY YEARS SINCE HAJI PIR Vice Admiral Anup Singh Special Correspondent 115 THE MIDDLE EAST: An Assessment Air Marshal Dhiraj Kukreja 121 Cover Photograph: CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE HIMALAYAS: A Ticking Time-Bomb? Multi Calibre Individual Weapon System Col CP Muthanna 126 5.56 x 30 mm JVPC RESTRUCTURING DEFENCE REFORMS FOR NATIONAL SECURITY Brig Gurmeet Kanwal 132 WANTED A FULL SPECTRUM MILITARY DOCTRINE Brig Amar Cheema 140 INDIAN DEFENCEiDR REVIEW REVIEWING INDIA’S FOREIGN POLICY From Regional Power to Potential Super Power in print every january, april, Anant Mishra 147 july and october from new delhi THE PLA DIGEST for more information, please email us at Claude Arpi 154 [email protected] [email protected] BOOK REVIEW 162 INDRADANUSH-IV Indo-UK Bilateral Air Exercise The Indian Air Force contingent poses for a photograph in front of the Sukhoi-30 and the Typhoon at the close of Ex Indradanush-IV at RAF Coningsby, United Kingdom. An IAF Su-30 MKI and RAF Typhoon Contingent Commander of IAF Gp Parachutes of IAF Special Forces flying in a formation Capt A Shrivastava receiving a Garud Commandos opening up on memento from his RAF counterpart exit from the RAF Hercules during a Wg Cmdr Chris Moon, Commanding para drop. Officer of 3 (Fighter) Sqn. DAILY ONLINE FROM NEW DELHI www.indiandefencereview.com Contributors may please send their articles, not exceeding 3500 words, in a disk with a hard copy, with suitable illustrations to Editor, Indian Defence Review. The views expressed are the contributors’ own and do not necessarily represent the opinions or policies of the Indian Defence Review. Publisher: Anuradha Verma, Indian Defence Review, Lancer Publishers & Distributors, New Delhi. Advertising: For information and rates, please contact Manav Randhawa, Director of Marketing or the Publisher. How to reach us: Indian Defence Review, 2/42 (B) Sarvapriya Vihar, New Delhi-110016. +91 11 41759461, 26854691 Telefax +91 11 26960404 [email protected] www.indiandefencereview.com Printed at Sona Printers Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi. Price: Rs 350 picture pad 2 INDIAN DEFENCE REVIEW 30.3-Jul/Sep ‘15 FROM THE EDitor “We live in a wondrous time, in which the strong is weak because of his scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity.” —German Chancellor, Otto von Bismarck. ifty years ago, Pakistan muddied the waters by initiating a spate of belligerent actions in the area of FRann of Kutch that led to a war between India and Pakistan on the former’s Western borders. India claims it was the victor. Equally vociferous is Pakistan’s claim to victory. Neutral military historians grade it as a ‘stalemate’. How INDO-PAK WAR 1965 is victory measured – by the political objectives achieved, Are Commemorations Due? or territory captured or by equipment and wherewithal destroyed and captured or by tactical and operational level military victory? One needs to dispassionately analyse these to come to a conclusion. Ever since Partition, even though Jammu and Kashmir was the main bone of contention, other border disputes existed. Early in 1965, Pakistan began by trying to resolve one of these in the Rann of Kutch. During Partition, Pakistan contested the alignment of the Southern boundary of its province of Sindh with the Northern alignment of the boundary of Kutch – two princely states prior to Independence. The contest first arose in 1956 which ended with India regaining control over the disputed area. This area is inhospitable, a salty lowland, rich in natural gas. Pakistan’s border patrols began foraying into territory controlled by India in January 1965 which was followed by attacks by both countries on each other’s posts on April 08, 1965. Initially, these operations were conducted by the Border Police of both nations but soon escalated to intermittent skirmishes between the armed forces. In June 1965, the British Prime ...a limited war to wrest Minister Harold Wilson successfully persuaded both Kashmir was likely to countries to end hostilities and set up an international tribunal under the aegis of the UN to resolve the dispute. bear fruit before India A verdict was reached in 1968, much after the war, which had completed full gave Pakistan ten per cent (910 sq. km.) of its claim and 90 augmentation of its per cent (8,190 sq. km.) awarded to India. forces in the wake of Why did Pakistan initiate action in Kutch? India had suffered a major rout at the hands of the Chinese in the 1962 debacle. November 1962. Consequently, there was a substantial augmentation of the armed forces undertaken in a phased manner. Increase in manpower is only one aspect; the induction of equipment, individual training, battle inoculation and collective training at formation level are essential prerequisites to formulate battle drills and procedures.
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