Raja Menon
The writer, a former rear admiral in the navy, is author of ‘A Nuclear Strategy for India’.
Articles By Raja Menon
Define your environment
There is something the new government needs to do before making foreign policy
Needed: A 25-year horizon
With China’s rise, India needs to start formulating strategic and defence needs for the future
A question of capability
After Uri, a replay of a 2001 predicament.
The Strategic Imperative
Benefits outweigh costs of India, US intimacies
Don’t Just Thump The Table
NSA-level talks between India-Pak provide apt forum for issue of nuclear stability.
Boxed in by Pakistan
India has the options. It needs the imagination
Not the border,nor the ocean
For India-China ties,Chinas nuclear assistance to Pakistan is the real problem
The stealth queen
INS Chakra shows the significance of nuclear attack submarines
Turfed out of our own backyard
In all the world,the Indian Navy is one of just two navies still growing. The other is the Chinese Navy. It is no accident that the rise of...
Isle of contention
How Mountbatten resisted all the wily British plans to hold on to the Andaman and Nicobar islands...
Were not racing anywhere,Pakistan
The INS Arihant nuclear-powered submarine,yet to get its missiles,has been a long time a-coming,as the old Eartha Kitt song goes. But its been worth the wait.
Slowdown effect: fauji kin find soldiers uniform fashionable,again
The global economic downturn has its share of positives too: it seems to have played a constructive role in reviving the patriotic streak in the citys youth.
Between AFMC,Command Hospital,a ride that rattles bones
With the rains only days away,authorities claim the condition of most of the roads in the city is okay,leaving motorists hopeful of a hassle-free monsoon.
Soldier by choice and a winner all the way
Gaurav Hridaya attributes his fascination for the Armed Forces to the years spent at Rashtriya Indian Military College,Dehra Dun.
This monsoon,less traffic jams but parking fee could go up
The monsoon is just days away and Puneites,especially the 80,000-strong population of the Pune Cantonment...
Ahead of monsoon,tussle over sewage work
With the monsoon just days away,the Pune Cantonment Boards plans to ensure a hassle-free rainy season for citizens have hit a snarl.
Shortage of civilian faculty makes NDA turn to serving officers
Around 33 serving officers from the three services,currently posted at the National Defence Academy...
New terminal takes off ahead of schedule
A pleasant surprise awaited those who flew out of the city on Monday as they found themselves being asked to go through the new,spacious departure terminal at the Lohegaon Airport.
Three dry days on the trot,but citys tipplers stay happy and high
Nilesh Jadhav,a second year B.Com student at a well-known college in the city,is enjoying his summer vacation and was looking forward to having his usual quota of beer with friends at his favourite bar in Kalyani Nagar.