Articles By Col US Rathore
Beyond Bakhmut
By: Col US Rathore | Date: 09 May , 2023
Russia and Ukraine continue to attrit each other in the suburbs and streets of Bakhmut. A counter-offensive by Ukraine, armed with recent tranche of military aid from US and NATO allies is...
NATO Checkmates Russia
By: Col US Rathore | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Apr , 2023
Most unpalatable fallout of the ongoing Ukraine war for Russian Federation is perhaps Finland joining the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) after securing Turkish Parliament’s...
Ukraine War: Russia’s Winter Strategy or Admission of Defeat
By: Col US Rathore | Date: 27 Dec , 2022
Russia-Ukraine war has entered inthe tenth month with no signs of abating. In the first week of April this year, after battling for almost five weeks on a distant northern axis, Russia withdrewits...
Pakistan Army COAS: Race Hots Up
By: Col US Rathore | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 Nov , 2022
On 29 November 2022, General Qamar Javed Bajwa shall relinquish the command of the most powerful organisation in Pakistan and the ninth largest army in the world. General Bajwa was appointed the...
The Quintessential Queen
By: Col US Rathore | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 Oct , 2022
Engulfed in the early morning fog, the Palam Airport New Delhi, on October 27, 1947, was witnessing a history in the making. Few military trucks were ferrying men and stores to the Dakotas DC 47,...
Carl Gustaf: Infantry’s Man Friday
By: Col US Rathore | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Oct , 2022
In 1980, while undergoing training at the Officers’ Training School, Madras, I had a chance to handle and firea 3.5 inch Rocket Launcher, the American anti-tank weapon produced in haste during...
Drone: The Winning Edge
By: Col US Rathore | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Jul , 2022
Exploitation of the third dimension in battlefield has always been a winning factor. In our context, the fighter jets, bombers and helicopters, for a variety of reasons like their availability,...
Intense Tactical Battle Area
By: Col US Rathore | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 May , 2022
From many military lessons which ongoing Russo-Ukraine war can offer for study, perhaps the most noticeable is the increased range, accuracy, lethality and sophistication of the weaponry being...
Finally, an Assault Rifle
By: Col US Rathore | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Dec , 2021
One often gets to read about how the Indian Army is coping with its night-blind main battle tanks, vintage artillery & anti-aircraft guns and outdated helicopter fleet. But the plight of Indian...
Republic Day 2020 – A Parade of Many Firsts
By: Col US Rathore | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Jan , 2020
January 26 invokes a patriotic fervour in all of us. It is quite a show when the uniformed soldiers march in unison, freshly painted military equipment trundle down the Rajpath and the aircrafts...
Terror’s Third Dimension
By: Col US Rathore | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Oct , 2019
In a recent bid to revive militancy in Punjab, Pakistan has tried to smuggle in arms and ammunition from across the border, in multiple sorties using drones. The cargo was meant for the Khalistan...
India’s Defence Budget cast in the old mould
By: Col US Rathore | Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 16 Mar , 2015
Defence has got INR 2,46,727 crore (USD 40.07 billion), which is roughly 1.73 per cent of India’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and 13.88 per cent of the total Central expenditure. If this is...
Is al-Qaeda Waning?
By: Col US Rathore | Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 01 Oct , 2013
Al-Qaeda came into being in 1988-89, in Peshawar, Pakistan. The nine-year-long Soviet occupation of Afghanistan had turned into an ignominious retreat at the hands of Mujahedeen and Taliban. These...
IT superpower India humbled by petty cyber criminals!
By: Col US Rathore | Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 24 Aug , 2012
People of the India’s Northeast, in the eyes of we hinterland Indians, share a common identity. With our limited knowledge about those seven States, we address them as Naga, Mizo or Manipuri....
Reign of Terror: How safe are we?
By: Col US Rathore | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Sep , 2011
Post-26/11, reacting to the elaborate security arrangements near Hotel Taj, Mumbai someone exclaimed with great flourish, “Why all this? Lightning does not strike at the same place...
Hate India to Survive in Pakistan
By: Col US Rathore | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Jul , 2011
Events leading to Cricket World Cup semi-final match between India and Pakistan at Mohali generated a lot of optimism. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh extended invitation to Pakistan’s...
Cricket World Cup and Politics over Terror
By: Col US Rathore | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Apr , 2011
The tenth edition of Cricket World Cup has taken South Asia by storm – four host nations, forty-eight matches between fourteen teams at thirteen venues makes it truly a mega sporting event....
Lessons from Japan
By: Col US Rathore | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Mar , 2011
On 11 March, Japan was jolted by an earthquake of 8.9 magnitude. Soon a massive tsunami followed. Ten-meter-high waves invaded the eastern coast of the country. The epicentre of the earthquake...
Training for anti-Maoist Operations
By: Col US Rathore | Issue: Vol 26.1 Jan-Mar 2011 | Date: 07 Mar , 2011
Deployment of Central Police Organisation (CPO) in Low Intensity Conflict Operations (LICO) is not a new phenomenon. Many units of CPO have served in the northeast, Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab and...