Articles By Maj Gen GD Bakshi
Tactical Shifts in the Terror Profile
Issue: Vol. 23.4 Oct-Dec 2008 | Date: 08 October 2011
From June 08, India has been victim of a new phase of terrorism and enhanced ISI activities. This spurt in ISI sponsored terrorism was presumably initiated by Lt Gen Nadeem Taj to divert attention from former President Musharraf’s...
Israel attack on Iraq: likely scenario and impact
Issue: Vol 23.3 Jul-Sep 2008 | Date: 16 February 2012
The United States had engaged in a high profile coercive deployment of naval forces in the Gulf from end 2006 to early 2007 to deter Iran from proceeding apace with its nuclear enrichment programme.1 There was massive (planted) speculation in...
J&K: The complete surrender?
Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 March 2012
The recent spate of scams has so exhausted the fund of public outrage, that the die-hard votaries of peace with Pakistan (at any cost) have found the time opportune to shamelessly resile from our principled post Mumbai stand and restart the...
The critical battles of Helmand and Kandhar
Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 February 2011
The year 2010 was crucial for the final outcome in Afghanistan. There were two major changes in the military leadership. The highly regarded, Special Forces Commander, Lt Gen Stanley McChrystal had been brought in to replace Lt Gen McKiernan....
Left Wing Extremism
Issue: Vol 24.3 Jul-Sep 2009 | Date: 12 January 2011
The Assembly elections in J&K in 2008 was peaceful and witnessed record voter turnouts. In sharp contrast the very first day of the Lok Sabha Polls in 2009 witnessed an upsurge of Naxalite violence. There were 14 attacks that claimed 16...
Demographic drivers of India's national security
Issue: Vol 23.3 Jul-Sep 2008 | Date: 22 December 2010
The scientific process of Net Assessment is characterised by a study of trends and triggers. Evolutionary change in the geo-strategic environment can be described in the form of trends. Trends refer to extrapolation of a particular phenomena...
Resurrecting Afghanistan
Issue: Vol 24.4 Oct-Dec 2009 | Date: 23 November 2010
The Afghan nation-state was one of the oldest states of Asia. It became the first failed state in Asia. In the interests of not only regional stability but global security as such, this contagion of collapse must be...
Tawang: Locals boycott Chinese goods
Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 October 2010
A youth camp of 645 young college students of some 28 colleges and technical institutions of Arunachal Pradesh was held at Itanagar. The Camp was conducted from 11-16th October 2010. It was inaugurated by Mr. Bosiram Siram, the Honourable...
Capture of India : the Maoist blueprint
Issue: Vol 25.3 Jul-Sep 2010 | Date: 06 October 2010
In 2003-2004 the former Peoples War Group (PWG) and the Maoist Communist Centre held a series of confabulations to work out their merger. Their Central Committees met five to six times to exhaustively discuss a...
Israel Hezbollah Conflict Part 8 : Conclusion
Issue: Vol 22.1 Jan - Mar 2007 | Date: 26 April 2007
The Israel – Hezbollah conflict has spawned a rich harvest of military lessons that we must analyse and ingest at the earliest. In essence it was an attempt to conventionalise and thereby end a long running Low Intensity Conflict. This...
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