Jasjit Singh
33 books
Political Developments in Afghanistan: Implications for India is an account on the longstanding relationship between the two Southern Asian countries. At the outset, the author briefly takes the readers to the pre-colonial period political development in the region in an attempt to analyse the factors which laid the foundation of their historical engagement. The book focuses on the relations between the two Southern Asian countries after partition of the Indian ...
Indian Air Force now completes 80 years since it was formed as an independent component of India’s armed forces. Time and again, the air force has performed magnificently even against severe odds, and built up a professional reputation that is the envy of leading air forces of the word. This volume, as the Second Edition of the earlier volume published in 2007 has been extensively revised and updated. Air Forces are unique in the sense that they are the ...
The last combat aircraft designed by the 74-year old HAL (Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd) with its expansive infrastructure was in the 1950s - and it was an excellent aircraft. Thirty years later an ad-hoc, interim institution called ADA (Aeronautics Development Agency) was set to design the LCA (Light Combat Aircraft) under the DRDO management. Thirty years later the aircraft has yet to enter service although the Indian Air Force has ordered 40 aircraft knowing they ...
The papers in this volume, presented at a national seminar, organized by the Centre for Air Power Studies, New Delhi, endeavour to analyse the role of Indian Air Force in the Indo-Pakistan war of 1971. Tracing the causes of the 1971 war, they review India’s interests and compulsions during the war.
Focusing on Indian war aims and objectives, the contributors discuss at length Pakistan’s military strategy, jointness in the war, higher defence ...
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AWACS (Airborne Warning and Control Systems) were formally inducted in the Indian Air Force during May 2009, making India a member of a club of only 6 other nations that operate such a sophisticated air defence system. But beyond air defence, many critical issues are related to AWACS and hence being debated in appropriate circles. Tracing the history of Combat Support operations in the Indian Air Force, this book describes the evolution and ...
There is an apparent global power shift from the West to the East, essentially due to the rise of India and China and, as a consequence, the US has called for greater presence in the East in the midst of a major economic crisis and huge defence cuts. Many, after the Cold War, considered the international order to be unipolar; however, the rise of India and China, with Russia, Japan and South Korea assuming signi?cant roles, appears to indicate a shift to a ...
Nuclear power faced its biggest challenge in 25 years when an earthquake and a tsunami ofunprecedented proportions struck the Fukushima nuclear power station of Japan on March 11,2011. Three operating nuclear reactors at the site automatically shutdown, just as they weredesigned to in such an eventuality. However, the gigantic tsunami that followed the temblor, risingto a height of 45 feet, disrupted the emergency core cooling system and caused the much ...
With the shift of global power from West to East, we have entered the era of an Asia-cantered century. The rise of China and India, the recovery and resurgence of Russia on one side and Japan on the other, and the nature of the international order are leading to enormous changes. These transformational changes in the military, economic and political dynamics of Asia are accelerating with the passage of time. Historically, changes in the international order and ...
This is the story of one man who has been the ICON of the Indian Air Force (IAF) for decades - but in reality it is also the history of a family called the IAF. Arjan Singh joined this family in his teens when the Second World War started, and rose to be the sole Marshal of the Indian Air Force, the highest military rank attainable which before him only two Army Chiefs, Carriappa and Sam Manekshaw, had achieved. At the ripe old age of 24, he commanded No. 1 ...