Articles By Lt Gen Prakash Katoch
Dollar and the Petrodollar
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 May , 2023
The POTUS Joe Biden’s visit to Papua New Guinea in a bid to counter growing Chinese influence in the Pacific has been cancelled. Biden also cancelled attending the QUAD meeting scheduled in...
Warmonger Brains
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 May , 2023
The US-led West is crying hoarse about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine but the US history is blackest of the black having attacked, bombed and invaded hundreds of countries for economic and...
Can China Broker Ukraine Ceasefire?
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 Apr , 2023
The first ever telephone conversation between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky on April 26, 2023, was weeks after Zelensky sought their meeting and even sent...
Ukraine's Spring Offensive
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Apr , 2023
US Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin said on April 21, 2023, that the West has transferred more than 230 tanks and 1,500 armoured vehicles to Ukraine to equip nine new armoured brigades, and...
2023 G20 Delhi Summit
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Apr , 2023
As part of its G20 presidency, India had planned 200 meetings across fifty cities. One confidential G20 meeting held at Itanagar, capital of Arunachal Pradesh in March 2023 set China’s tail...
Clarion Call by TTP
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Apr , 2023
Pakistan is witnessing political instability, grave economic situation, social unrest and an increasingly unstable internal security situation. This being the year of general elections in the...
Mother of All Swarms
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Mar , 2023
In the hunt to kill Osama bin-Laden, the US had fired its GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB) bomb (thermobaric/aerosol bomb) in Afghanistan on April 13, 2017; unaware that Osama was merrily...
Chipping the Chip Industry
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Mar , 2023
US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo’s four-day trip to India beginning March 7, 2023 was to participate in the US-India Commercial Dialogue and the US-India CEO Forum. She called on Prime...
Fake Peaceniks
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Mar , 2023
Joseph Goebbels, Adolf Hitler’s Minister of Propaganda from 1933 to 1945 is known to have said, “Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth.” The war in Ukraine is witnessing two...
China’s Peace Plan for Ukraine
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 Feb , 2023
China’s 12-point peace plan for Ukraine outlines the following: one, respect the sovereignty of all countries; two, abandon Cold War mentality; three, – cease hostilities; four, resume peace...
Ballooning America
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Feb , 2023
When the English translation of the Chinese book ‘Unrestricted Warfare: China’s Master Plan to Destroy America’ was first published in 1999, it shocked the US strategists out of their wits....
Tremors in the West
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Jan , 2023
An article in The Economist on May 25, 2017 talked of Ukraine fighting two wars; with Russia in the East and with its core – battling endemic corruption. The level of corruption has shot up...
Pakistan in Hot Soup
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Jan , 2023
Pakistani historian and academic FS Aijazuddin wrote in a recent article, “At the moment, Pakistan, like some charpoy left out in the rain, is precariously balanced on its four uneven corners....
Zelenskyy’s Mission Washington
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Dec , 2022
The suited-booted US President Joe Biden rushing across the red carpet to hug Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was quite a sight – almost like a papal embrace to a baptized slave returning...
China Wins Nepal Again
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Dec , 2022
The Nepali Congress emerged as the single largest party winning 89 seats in the recent General Elections in Nepal to elect the 275 members of the House of Representatives; 165 members from...
Violence Upsurge in South Asia
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Dec , 2022
There is a sudden spurt of violence in South Asia. The Afghanistan-Pakistan border is afire. Pakistan had reported seven civilians killed in the recent incident of exchange of fire between the...
Tighter China-Saudi Embrace
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Dec , 2022
The superlative welcome accorded to Chinese President Xi Jinping at Riyadh was witnessed world over. In contrast, a ‘comparatively’ modest welcome was given to US President Joe Biden when he...
The Impossibility of Ukraine Ceasefire
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Dec , 2022
A recent telephone call from German Chancellor Olof Scholz to Russian President Vladimir Putin has triggered speculation about a possible ceasefire in Ukraine. But Scholz is a messenger boy of the...
G20 & the US Claptrap
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Nov , 2022
India received the G20 Presidency at a ceremony at the close of the recent G20 summit held in Bali, Indonesia on November 15-16; the G20 Presidency gavel was transferred from Indonesian President...
Xi-Biden Meet – Spoofing in Bali
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Nov , 2022
US President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping held a three-hour meeting on November 14 on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Bali, Indonesia. Visuals showed Biden walking up to Xi at the...