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SP's Land Forces - October-November 2012

Issue Features

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  INTERVIEW
  ‘Net-centricity will usher in profound changes in operational concepts and organisational changes’
  

  Lt General (Retd) V.K. Kapoor, Editor, SP’s Land Forces, interviewed Lt General Sunit Kumar, Director General Information System (DGIS), Indian Army.

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  INDO-CHINA WAR 1962
  Lessons Learnt and the Way Forward
  By General (Retd) V.P. Malik

  India’s national security framework and its antiquated civil-military relationship have not grown in step with the needs of new security challenges.

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  NEIGHBOURHOOD
  China’s Military Modernisation
  By Dr Monika Chansoria

  Much of the PLA’s success over the next decade will be determined by how effectively it integrates emerging capabilities and platforms into the force.

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  TECHNOLOGY
  Managing Battle at the Cutting Edge
  By Lt General (Retd) P.C. Katoch

  With both China and Pakistan hell-bent on stoking insurgencies within India, our cutting edge forces will need to be equipped with the requirements...

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  MODERNISATION
  Preparing Soldiers for Future Wars
  By Lt General (Retd) P.C. Katoch

  We must be prepared for short, intense, high-tech wars; in addition to expanding terrorism, asymmetric and fourth generation wars...

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  STRATEGY
  Siachen Surrender: An Expensive Affair
  By Lt General (Retd) P.C. Katoch

  Without a national security strategy we may find solace in non-alignment, but the political bungling in agreeing to withdraw from Siachen will surely...

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  CONCEPT
  Future Wars in India
  By Lt General (Retd) V.K. Kapoor

  The types of threats and challenges existing currently and those that are likely to arise in the future are, by themselves, indicative of a threat-cum-capability-based force structure in which the potential adversary’s capabilities...

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  DISASTER MANAGEMENT
  Indian Army in Disaster Management
  By Lt General (Retd) V.K. Kapoor

  The role of the Army in disaster management is as essential today as it was earlier, i.e. before the formation of the National Disaster Management Authority.

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  TECKNOW
  Northrop Grumman Remotec to Begin Delivering Titus Robot in December
  

  Northrop Grumman Corporation’s subsidiary Remotec Inc. will begin deliveries in December of TitusTM, the newest and smallest member of its AndrosTM line of unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs).

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  INDUSTRY
  With Tatra Deals on Hold, BEML Revs Up on Other Army Deals
  By SP’s Special Correspondent

  It has been a turbulent year for defence PSU Bharat Earth Movers Ltd (BEML), with its Tatra truck line coming under the spotlight of allegations, and an ongoing CBI probe into the entire programme.