Arun Kumar Singh

Apr 26, 2010
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Arun Kumar Singh

How long will Ocean remain Indian?

India’s neglect of holistic strategic planning, intelligence, energy security, seapower and national security have again exposed our vulnerabilities, as shown by the following recent events
(1) On February 7, a coup in the Maldives ousted at gunpoint the country’s first elected President, Mohamed Nasheed, after just three years in power.
(2) A study by the American Georgetown University recently said that China possibly possessed 3,000 nuclear weapons.

India needs a home-built Navy

The Indian Navy, which celebrates Navy Day today and Submarine Day on December 8, and will be holding a grand President’s review of the fleet in Mumbai on December 20, would look back with some

India needs a home-built Navy

The Indian Navy, which celebrates Navy Day today and Submarine Day on December 8, and will be holding a grand President’s review of the fleet in Mumbai on December 20, would look back with some

India’s naval assertions

In 1962, as tension began to mount, with an increase in Chinese Army intrusions on the Indo-China border, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, before embarking on a flight abroad reportedly told the media that he had “ordered the (ill-equipped

Surviving deep sea disasters

Submarines, whether conventional or nuclear-powered, operate in a very difficult and unforgiving environment beneath the waves, where every 10-metre increase of depth results in a pressure increase of one bar or one kg per centimetre square. This pressure further complicates any attempts at submarine escape or rescue from a sunken or disabled submarine (DISSUB).

Coastal security in deep water

Apart from the considerable casualties they left in their wake, if anything the multiple blasts of July 13 in Mumbai called attention to, it was to the fact that the city continues to be as vulnerable to terror attacks as before.
After the 26/11 Mumbai attacks in which terrorists entered the city from the sea, breaching our coastal security ring, it became clear that a comprehensive upgrade of the country’s coastal security system was necessary.

The nuclear limit

There has been some heated discussion in the media about the latest decision of the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) to ban the supply of Enrichment and Reprocessing (ENR) equipment to India, despite the earlier Indo-US nuclear deal and the 2008 “clean waiver” accorded to India by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

A risky neighbour

While no one in India was really surprised that Osama bin Laden was finally located and killed by US Navy Seals in Pakistan, the location of Bin Laden’s safe house, next to the Pakistan military academy in Abbottabad, shows how deeply committed Pakistan’s Army and Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) are to supporting global terror.

Lessons from Japan

The earthquake and tsunami of March 11, 2011, in northern Japan killed over 20,000 people and a few thousand may suffer from slow radiation poisoning over the next few decades. Global worries about radioactive material entering the human food chain are real as winds and ocean currents spread the radioactive waste.
On April 3, newspapers reported the following about Fukushima reactors: An eight-inch crack was discovered in the maintenance pit with radioactive seawater flowing into the sea.

Sinking the pirates

Most experts will tell you that once a merchant ship is hijacked by pirates, it is almost impossible to mount a rescue operation because the lives of hostages are at stake. In most cases (similar to aircraft hijacking), quick on-scene decisions are not taken. Local authorities usually await instructions from the concerned government.

The just-concluded summit meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato) in Chicago leaves gaping questions about the viability and direction of the world’s largest military alliance.

If we rework Shankar’s cartoon with, say, Mahatma Gandhi riding a bullock cart of democracy in his dwija dress and Jawaharlal Nehru standing in his sanatan pundit’s dress, a thread across his body, an

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