Why 21st Century won't be peaceful?

How can we establish the world without armed conflicts ?, It's simple, just end wars and push diplomatic measures.it might Seem as a cake walk, but it's paradoxical, The world without armed conflicts is a distant dream. War was born along with the civilizations. When a group of people with similar interests, ethnic identities, and unity, decides to live together, the grouping gets its own single and a collective identity, and begins to act as a single unit or a person, that person would only look after his own survival and undermines the existence of others. Even though civilizations paved the way towards formations of empires and in turn into nation states, the latter prevailed, the selfishness of groupings.which makes them ignore the right to live by other groupings. As Darwin states, it's a battle for survival of the fittest.

The Cold War 2.0: A brief Outlook

After decades of peace,and short wars,the world is slowly entering the next phase were multipolarity would challenge the security scenario by military standoffs and arms race. After the collapse of the soviet union back in 1991,the unipolar world under united states witnessed the spread of capitalism and globalization. It enabled more countries to lift their population out of poverty and to build strong economy and military might that began to challenge the dominance of United States on international stages. The players such as India,China and Russia began to get special attention in international politics and US policies started to revolve around these nations.

Baluchistan:Why India must Internationalize the issue?

After Uri attack,India at UNGA publically condemned Human rights violations of Pakistan army in Balochistan. Balochistan constitutes 40% of Pakistan's physical area and has abundant deposition of minerals and natural gas. The terrain is so rugged and basically regarded as inhabitable, It's home to one of the ethnic minorities in Pakistan,called Balochs.

Their origin can be traced back to Aleppo in Syria,a breakaway faction from Kurds. After migrating to various regions such as Turkey and Iraq,they settled down in western parts of Pakistan. They were ruled by Khans of Kalat and had enjoyed a well structured ruling mechanisms and an army. After British occupation,Baloch territory underwent various administrative changes. They trifurcated between Iran,British and Afghanistan in the name of settling borders. Though they demanded a separate country after partition,Pakistan by force annexed the region. Since then thousands of people were killed and 'disappeared' from Baluchistan.

Why India should reconsider F-16IN?

The MMRCA deal was officially ended by the Indian government in 2015.The deal which was supposed to purchase 126 Aircrafts to fill the gap between Light Combat Aircraft and Sukhoi 30 MKI Air priority fighter was the only hope to reach minimum sanctioned strength of 39.5 SQNs by 2017. As Airforce war waging capabilities are shrinking,this would posses a serious threat to the security of the nation in coming years. Indian Airforce Achieved sanctioned strength only during 1980's following the purchase of Mirage-2000 and Mig-29s. As the majority of the aircraft are well beyond life cycle,due to sluggish procurement processes and due to economic constraints,they were never replaced.Although a majority of them were upgraded and overhauled to extend the service life,repeated snags, and shortage of components,further undermines capabilities of Air force.

Massive search ops on for missing Indian Air Force An-32

IAF in along with navy and coast guard launched a massive rescue operation to find missing An-32,which was Enroute from Chennai to Port Blair. With 29 passengers including 6 crews on board it would be one of the biggest military aviation mishaps the country faced. According to ANI one P8 I & one Dornier aircraft were launched. and 4 Indian Navy ships diverted to join in Search & Rescue operations. The aircraft left Tambaram air base at 0730 am with 29 passengers on board. The ATC lost contact 16 minutes after the take off. According to sources,the aircraft was last seen on radar at 0812am. AN-32 known to its reliablity under all conditions. Indian Airforce operates close to 100 AN-32 as of 2016. 
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INDIAN ARMED FORCES: MODERNIZATION PART I

PART-I

(i)Introduction

   (ii)Threat perception& Doctrines

PART II

(iii)Indian modernization process: History

(iv)Manpower and Equipment crisis

(v)Planned projects

PART III

(vi)Indian Procurement policy

(vii)The way ahead

(viii)Conclusion

PART I

INTRODUCTION

Modernisation of armed forces on par with varying threat perceptions and technological innovation is essential to have a phenomenal war waging capabilities. In the 21st century, it would be difficult for a manpower oriented army to win a major conflict with an enemy who is technologically superior. Both Afghan war and Iraq war demonstrated that it’s difficult to have a victory under asymmetric warfare conditions, were enemy movements are largely unpredictable. As countries tend to use asymmetrical warfare to weaken adversaries, without technological superiority, it would be difficult to attain total superiority against enemy forces.

India is the 7th largest country in the world. Its economy is flourishing at an astonishing rate of 7.2% per annum. But still its 1.2 million armed forces are yet to undergo modernization process. The restraint policies followed by the government of India forced armed forces to remain as a force, only are to be used as a last resort. From 1947 Kashmir War to 1999 Kargil war this restraint attitude of political leadership made the conflicts difficult to resolve and often failed to utilize the dominance that they had during course of war.

J-20:A Game changer for PLAAF

PLA is undergoing swift modernization and structural changes as part of its ambitious plan to become a formidable military power  in the region. The push for indigenisation helped PLAAF to become one of the most advanced airpower the world. After closely studying strategies of Falkland wars and Yom-Kippur wars, china made the significant change to combat strategies. They realized the need for building new aircraft that would possess long ranges and larger weapon carrying capacity. The J-20 was developed as part of J-XX program which started at late 1990's.

On 22 December 2010, the first J-20 prototype underwent high-speed taxiing tests outside the Chengdu Aircraft Design Institute.It was first flown on 11 Jan 2011, just 2 days after the US secretary of Defense Robert Gates started visiting China. Although they claimed test was preplanned, most observers believe that China was intended to send a clear message to the west about it's growing military capabilities. In 5 years Chengdu Aerospace Corporation made a total of 9 prototypes with the latest prototype rolled out on Dec 2015. The latest prototype, which marked as 2101 suggests that it would be the first among Low Rate Initial Production airframes (LRIP), which is intended for military use. It signals J-20 may enter service before planned induction date.

UN report says Indian peacekeepers face sexual abuse charges

In recent years, global peacekeeping forces have faced mounting accusations of sexual harassment and abuse of authority, especially in impoverished areas. (http://blogs.cfr.org/patrick/files/2011/08/pk-photo.jpg)

Indian peacekeeping forces were accused of sexual exploitation and abuse in three cases between 2010 and 2013, a recent United Nations report has revealed, embarrassing the army that contributes the third-largest contingent to UN missions.

The allegations bring back memories of a cash-for-sex scandal in the Democratic Republic of Congo involving Indian personnel in 2008, when an investigation found at least 10 soldiers had sex with prostitutes in violation of the UN code of conduct. There were also allegations of some soldiers fathering children.

US Army Developing 'Star Wars Hoverbikes'

Someone in the US Army must have loved Star Wars, because theAmerican military is now on its way towards developing the hoverbikes featured in the sci-fi classic and implementing them in real-world battlefields.

The design of the new vehicle will apparently be taken straight from the scenes of Luke Skywalker and the ewoks hurtling through the forest moon of Endor in the 1983 film Star Wars: Return of the Jedi.