Articles By B Raman
Threat Perception: Is it China or Pakistan or China-Pakistan combine?
By: B Raman | Date: 06 Jun , 2012
For over a year now, a strategic debate has been going on in Delhi on future threat scenarios relating to State and non-State actors. Our preoccupation till now has been with the continuing...
Limits of Saudi Counter-Terrorism Co-Operation with India
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Jun , 2012
One should avoid over-playing the so-called geo-strategic significance of Saudi counter-terrorism co-operation with India in the wake of the arrest of Zabiuddin Ansari aka Abu Jundal aka Abu...
Modernisation of National Security Apparatus
By: B Raman | Date: 30 May , 2012
The Government of India has taken the first important step towards the modernisation of our national security apparatus by commissioning a study of the apparatus as it stands today and as it...
Ansari’s Arrest: Answers that India needs
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 May , 2012
Ansari is presently under interrogation by the Indian authorities. It is likely that the interrogation is being carried out by a joint team headed by the Multi-Agency Centre (MAC) of the...
Internal Security: Centre Playing Politics?
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Apr , 2012
Individual States can control regional terrorism or insurgency with a limited spread. We have had success stories as in the case of Al Ummah in Tamil Nadu. But terrorism or insurgency of a...
Al Qaeda after the death of Laden
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Apr , 2012
There is an air of nervousness all over the world where there is a strong US presence regarding the dangers of Al Qaeda-inspired attacks on US nationals and interests coinciding with the first...
Maoist Tactics: Wanted cool thinking, not Bravado
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Apr , 2012
The Maoists have been increasingly resorting to abduction as one of their tactics for cowing down the State and society and for demonstrating their ability to enforce their will on the State. The...
China's surprise Military Strike Capability
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Apr , 2012
We don’t need Agni-V, the intermediate range ballistic missile that we successfully tested on April 19, 2012, to give ourselves a deterrent capability against Pakistan. We need it only for a...
Is General Kayani's smile genuine?
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Apr , 2012
During a visit to the site of the devastating avalanche near Skardu in Pakistan-Occupied Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) on April 18, 2012, which killed about 125 military personnel and 15 civilians, Gen...
Uncertain months ahead for Chinese Leadership
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Apr , 2012
Wang Lijun was the Deputy Director of the Public Security Bureau in Tiefa in the Liaoning province from 1992 to 1995. From 1995 to 2000, he held the same position in Tieling city, also inthe...
One India & One China
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Apr , 2012
The strong economic relations between India and China and their co-operation in multilateral for a such as the recent Copenhagen summit on climate change should not blind one to the fact that the...
Suu Kyi: What Next? Co-option or Independence?
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Apr , 2012
Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) has won a landslide victory in bye-elections to the Parliament.It is reported to have won at least 40 of the 45 seats for which the...
From an Islamic Bomb to a Jihadi Bomb
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 Mar , 2012
The second Nuclear Security Summit currently being held in Seoul, South Korea, would make a fresh evaluation , inter alia, of the security of nuclear materials in the possession of many...
Afghanistan: All is not yet lost
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Mar , 2012
All is not yet lost in Afghanistan. The Taliban and its affiliates such as the so-called Haqqani Network are alive and active not only in the interior provinces, but even in Kabul. They still...
Tibetan unrest spreads from Sichuan to Qinghai
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Mar , 2012
The Tibetan unrest against the repressive policies of the Chinese authorities has spread from the Tibetan areas of Western Sichuan to Qinghai. According to details received late, Qinghai has...
Counter-Terrorism: The NCTC Controversy
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Mar , 2012
India has been facing the evil of terrorism since 1971 when two members of the Jammu & Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) hijacked an Indian Airlines plane to Lahore and set it on fire after asking...
China: Better to counter microblogs than to block them
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Feb , 2012
According to Radio Free Asia, funded by the US State Department, Zhu Mingguo,deputy leader of the Guangdong provincial Government in China, which witnessed a people’s revolt in the village of...
NCTC: Proposed powers have serious scope for misuse
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Feb , 2012
In a letter to the Chief Ministers, who have expressed their reservations over certain features of the proposed National Counter-Terrorism Centre (NCTC), ShriP.Chidambaram, the Union Home...
National Counter Terrorism Centre Fiasco
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Feb , 2012
Before 9/11 the assessment in the US was that terrorist threats to the US from abroad would be more serious than home-based threats.The responsibility for co-ordinating preventive action was,...
NCTC: Creation of KGB in India?
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Feb , 2012
Of all the Chief Ministers, who have protested against the proposed creation of the National Counter-Terrorism Centre (NCTC) in the Intelligence Bureau of the Government of India with effect...