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Written by Abu Rushd 
As a peace loving country, Bangladesh has always proudly upheld the core value of its foreign policy: ‘Friendship to all malice to none’. All the governments have scrupulously maintained this motto when dealing with every issue, and have endeavored to solve disputes through discussions and not by means of armed forces. But no country in the world, whatever constraints it may have, can sit idle and ignore the core security issues. And as the then Indian Army Chief General K. Sundarji once opined, ‘To be weak is not virtuous, being prepared is not being provocative’; Bangladesh is no exception to this... ...
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Written by BDJ Desk
When 1965 war broke out between India and Pakistan, PAF was totally dependent on foreign sources where USA imposed a ban on supplying small parts even. On the other hand, India had an indigenously built fighter- Gnat in its inventory. Today, India could hardly step forward with Tejas- a Light Combat Aircraft- (LCA) which has been in the production and test and trial stages for long two decades. On the contrary, Pakistan already has commissioned its indigenously built multi role fighter jet- JF 17 Thunder which is a joint collaboration with its strategic ally China... ...
Written by BDJ Desk
BEIJING, March 5 (Xinhua)– China on 05 March announced the country's lowest defense budget increase in six years in the wake of rising economic headwinds and last year's massive draw down of service people... ...
Written by Franz-Stefan Gady
The Indian Navy’s first indigenously developed ballistic missile nuclear submarine (SSBN), the INS Arihant, could be commissioned as early as next month, according to local media reports.
“It has passed all tests and in many things has surpassed our expectations. Technically the submarine can now be commissioned at any time,” a senior defense official told The Economic Times... ...
Written by BDJ Desk
While the C-5 was turning over its engines, a female crewman gave the G.I.s on board the usual information regarding seat belts, emergency exits, etc... ...
Written by Abu Rushd
Not only the number of divisions of Bangladesh Army have increased, but procurement of armaments and equipment to equip the new divisions and to modernize the existing force have become a primary concern for the military authority. As per the directives laid down in Forces Goal 2030, Bangladesh Army is trying best to attain its aim... ...
Written by Nazmun Nahar
The popular Turkish serial "Magnificent Century or Sultan Suleiman" on the Ottoman Empire, largely during the reign of Suleiman the Magnificent, in the year 1520 onwards when the Ottoman Empire reached its zenith was an impressive one... ...
Written by Hamid Hussain
“With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents”. -General Omar Bradley
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) commonly known as drone is the most open secret of modern warfare. UAV is primarily an intelligence platform but use of armed drones for target killing generates heated debate in public... ...
Written by Maj Gen GD Bakshi
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1. The recent events in Syria seem to underline the advent of a new multi-polar world order. Bipolar orders are inherently stable. That is why there was little of hot conflict during the stasis of the Cold War. Subsequently the US pressed home its... ...
Written by BDJ Desk
 The Hellfire missile, although inert, contained sensitive technology.Image -Gety Images
Cuba returned to the United States an inert Hellfire missile that had been wrongly shipped to Havana in June 2014.
The missile, which did not contain explosives, had been shipped to Spain for a Nato training exercise, the Wall Street Journal said... ... |