Articles By Lt Gen Prakash Katoch
The Austin Guffaws
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 Jun , 2022
When US Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin visited India in March 2021, all he had to say about the Chinese invasion in Eastern Ladakh (April-May 2020) was a quip to the media saying “we never...
Fallout of the Ukraine Conflict
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Jun , 2022
There was some panic in Delaware in the US on June 4 after a small white aircraft breached the restricted airspace of the POTUS Joe Biden’s beach house. Biden was quickly moved to a safe house...
Defending Taiwan – Biden’s Pledge or Gaffe?
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 May , 2022
Concluding his first Asia tour, US President Joe Biden created a furious debate in global circles by telling reporters in Tokyo that the US would defend Taiwan in the event of an invasion....
Anjum Accelerates Proxy War on India
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 May , 2022
It is not unusual for Pakistan to draw attention away from the turmoil within by stoking fires in India. Imran Khan is blaming America for his removal and is calling for fresh elections. The...
Ukraine Conflict and the US-Russia-China Triangle
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Date: 15 May , 2022
The West was expecting Russian President Vladimir Putin to declare all out war on Ukraine in his speech presiding over the annual parade commemorating the triumph over Nazi Germany in World War II...
Xi Jinping’s Global Security Initiative
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 May , 2022
Amid the ongoing Ukraine conflict, Chinese President Xi Jinping delivered the keynote speech at the annual Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) conference on April 21, 2022. Initiated by 25 Asian countries...
Killing Russia and NATO’s Global Role
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 May , 2022
The two ongoing large-scale NATO exercises ‘Defender Europe 2022’ and ‘Swift Response 2022’ (May 1-27) in Poland, with 18,000 troops participating including seven thousand already in situ,...
Western Oomph over Ukraine is Leaking
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Apr , 2022
The cautious admission by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson during his visit to India that Russia might win the war in Ukraine is beginning of the western understanding of what was logical from...
Genie of Tour of Duty is Loose Again
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Apr , 2022
When the idea of Tour of Duty (ToD) in the Army first appeared in media in 2020 stating that the Ministry of Defence (MoD) is preparing a case for one year training for youth followed by 3-year...
Change of Guard in Islamabad
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Apr , 2022
Shehbaz Sharif is the new Prime Minister of Pakistan; elected unopposed on April 11 after the political drama over the past week. His mother’s family originally was from Pulwama in J&K. His...
Ukraine Conflict is in Dangerous Phase
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Apr , 2022
The sudden visit by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to Ukraine signals the US-led western resolve to up the ante against Russia in Ukraine. With mercenary organizations like ‘Britain...
Quad, AUKUS and the Indo-Pacific
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Apr , 2022
On March 28, 2022, the POTUS Joe Biden announced, “In the Indo-Pacific, America is strengthening its role and expanding its cooperation with longtime allies and partners, including new...
The Great Western Circus Flooding India
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Apr , 2022
There is a steady flow of representatives from the Great Western Circus in the backdrop of the Ukraine conflict streaming into India at regular intervals. Quips from the West are continuing but...
America’s Information War is Self Delusional
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 31 Mar , 2022
It is surprising to read some opinions that Ukraine, or rather the US and the West, is winning the information war. The reverse is actually true with America’s credibility falling along with...
Silver Fox Sniffing South Asia
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Mar , 2022
After another massive virus outbreak in China, Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi (called ‘silver fox’ in China) ventured out to visit South Asian countries. The Chinese media talked about his...
14th India-Japan Prime Ministers Annual Summit
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Date: 23 Mar , 2022
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida visited India on March 19-20 for the 14th India-Japan Annual Summit with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Tokyo announced Kishida’s visit on March 18, with...
The Biden-Jinping Tête-à-Tête
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Mar , 2022
US President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping had a video conversation on March 18 – first one since conflict broke out in Ukraine. This conversation was at the behest of Biden...
Game of Sanctions
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Mar , 2022
India is getting cheap Russian crude to ensure its manufacturing industry competes with China’s which sources energy at half the free market rate. Union Minister Hardeep Purialso told Parliament...
America’s Biological Warfare
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Mar , 2022
It is not a secret any more that Anthony Fauci, Director of America’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and the Chief Medical Advisor to the US President was...
Ukraine Conflict is set to Intensify
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Date: 07 Mar , 2022
The only good in the second round of Russia-Ukraine talks is the agreement to create a safe corridor for humanitarian aid. This, along with a safe corridor for foreign nationals to exit Ukraine...