Articles By Brig Narender Kumar (Retd.)
Potent Indigenous War Unfolding in Jammu & Kashmir
By: Brig Narender Kumar (Retd.) | Issue: Vol. 31.3 Jul-Sep 2016 | Date: 26 Aug , 2016
The real problem is not the terrorists or separatists, but the fragmented approach of the government. All stakeholders should ideally work in an integrated manner and not independent of each...
Pakistan Occupied Kashmir: The Home of Forsaken Citizens of India
By: Brig Narender Kumar (Retd.) | Date: 15 Aug , 2016
Pakistan is in illegal occupation of five districts of Jammu and Kashmir, Gilgit-Baltistan, Diamir, Ghizer, Hunza Nagar, Skarduand Ghanche and named it as Azad Kashmir[1] and Northern Areas. At...
J&K Conundrum: Ambiguous War with Unambiguous Objectives
By: Brig Narender Kumar (Retd.) | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 10 Aug , 2016
In 2001, I was posted in North Kashmir and one day my friend local Kashmiri asked me, “Sir why don’t you kill the militants in Pakistan before they cross over to Kashmir”? He further...
Disengagement and Withdrawal Theory Pushing Kashmir in to Disarray
By: Brig Narender Kumar (Retd.) | Date: 13 Jul , 2016
If I have to answer what is going wrong in Kashmir, I would say the syndrome of disengagement and withdrawal theory on the part of government, political leadership and executive. The space that...
Is Terror Attack in Dhaka Part of Ghazwa-E-Hind?
By: Brig Narender Kumar (Retd.) | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Jul , 2016
The terror strike at Dhaka should not be taken as an attack on Bangladesh alone, rather it should be seen as part of larger plan of ISIS and Al Qaeda to sound the bugle for Ghazwa-e-Hind (Battle...
Pampore Ambush: Paradox of Counterinsurgency Operations
By: Brig Narender Kumar (Retd.) | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Jun , 2016
It was not long back when Army lost three of its elite special forces personnel including two officers and now CRPF (Central Reserve Police Force) have lost eight policemen in an ambush at...
Defeat of ISIS Will Not Mark the Death of Violent Salafist Extremism
By: Brig Narender Kumar (Retd.) | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 14 Jun , 2016
At its peak ISIS/ ISIL, which was controlling territory equal to Great Britain with a population of approximately 9 million people, is eventually nearing its end. In Iraq ISIS controlled almost...
Time to Compensate Soldiers Based on Job Content
By: Brig Narender Kumar (Retd.) | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 14 Mar , 2016
For a nation of population of 1.3 billion, loss of ten persons may appear routine, but death of ten soldiers in avalanche in Siachen on 05 February 2016 became a subject of debate world over. An...
Sonam a Legend whose Legacy will Go On: A Tribute to Legends of Siachen
By: Brig Narender Kumar (Retd.) | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Feb , 2016
I vividly remember during one of the interaction Brig (then Col) Pushkar Chand Deputy Commandant HAWS telling us how he and his team set out to accomplish the assigned task to occupy Siachen...
Spilling Own Blood on Own Land is Absence of Strategy
By: Brig Narender Kumar (Retd.) | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Jan , 2016
After having signed the Indus Water Treaty, Nehru made a forceful assertion in the Lok Sabha on 30 November 1960 that “we purchased a settlement, if you like; we purchased peace to that extent...
North East Region: The Alaska of India
By: Brig Narender Kumar (Retd.) | Issue: Vol. 29.4 Oct-Dec 2014 | Date: 21 Mar , 2015
The North East Region offers all strategic imperatives to India that Alaska offers to the US. It is a land bridge joining the two ends of Asia, the East with the West and a gateway to ASEAN. It...