Ramesh Phadke

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Archive data: Person was Advisor, Research at IDSA from 2009 to 2010

Joined IDSA
01 July 2009
Background
Ramesh V. Phadke, a fighter pilot, is a retired Air Commodore of the Indian Air Force. He was the Air Force Member and Senior Fellow at IDSA from 1999 to 2002.
He is a MSc in Defence Studies from Madras University. He held the Air Mshl Subroto Mukherjee Chair at the USI of India in 2003 and is the author of a book, China’s Power Projection Capabilities, published by USI-Manas Publications, Delhi.
He was a visiting fellow at CISAC Stanford University in 2001 where he published a paper titled “PLAAF: Shifting Air Power Balance”.
His current interests include China’s Military, Air Power Studies and India’s Security and Comprehensive National Power.
Publications at IDSA

Advisor, Research
Email:-rvphadke[at]idsa[dot]in
Phone:-+91 11 2671 7983

Publication

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Pakistan’s 26/11

Both India and Pakistan must immediately review their security practices for the protection of vital and vulnerable national assets, which in Pakistan’s case must also include nuclear weapons.

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Sino-Indian Relations

China has all along been testing the limits of India’s tolerance and restraint and has once again given the Indian foreign ministry much home work for the next few months.

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Searching for Options

In the aftermath of the disastrous meeting between the Foreign Ministers of India and Pakistan, there is an all-pervasive air of despondency if not frustration as India seems to be running out of options.

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Always in the Line of Fire

There are no shortcuts to overcoming the grave Naxal threat to our democratic way of life. Broadening the mandate by handing over the problem to the army is neither fair nor efficacious.

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MMRCA: A difficult choice for the IAF

As an old fighter pilot, I would always pitch for a light, easily manoeuvrable, agile and relatively inexpensive fighter that delivers every time, generates high sortie rates and is easy to maintain and train on a day to day peace time schedule.