Articles By Lt Gen Prakash Katoch
Sri Lanka’s bloody carnage, ISIS and more
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Apr , 2019
The horrendous Easter Sunday bombing in Sri Lanka have claimed 359 killed till last count including 49 foreigners and some 600 injured. St Anthony’s Church in Colombo, St Sebastian’s Church in the...
Jinping-Azhar – and the UFU Ultimatum
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Apr , 2019
It is amusing to see news reports that for fear of being isolated on the issue of exercising ‘technical hold’ on terrorist mullah Masood Azhar by the UN, China will change course. Nothing of...
Russian International Army Games 2019
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Apr , 2019
Russia’s Defence Ministry is making vigorous preparations for the International Army Games ‘ARMY-2019’ which are scheduled to be held from August 3 to August 17, 2019. As per available...
Mission Shakti and Space War
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Apr , 2019
27 March, 2019, Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a live broadcast to the nation on March 27, 2019, stated that India had shot down a low-earth orbit satellite in space, propelling itself into an...
Reigniting AFSPA
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Apr , 2019
Diwali is once a year but fireworks equivalent to 10 years during Diwali have been fired in run up to general elections 2019 – not actual firecrackers but through verbal abuse. But the Armed...
Special Operations Division – lame duck beginning
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 Mar , 2019
The government-appointed Naresh Chandra Committee on national security submitted its report to the government on August 8, 2012. Amidst numerous recommendation of the Committee, one was...
Operation ‘Sunrise’
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Mar , 2019
News of India conducting a ‘Third Surgical Strike’ in Myanmar has suddenly exploded in media on March 14-15. Over the last three years, all Indian military operations are prefixed with...
Jaw-Jawing Special Forces
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Mar , 2019
Post the Pulwama car-bombing of February 14 and IAF airstrikes on Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) terror camps inside Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (POK) and Pakistan on February 27, the media exploded with...
What Beyond Balakot?
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Mar , 2019
The unprecedented use of image of Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthman, a serving IAF officer, indicates the low to which the ruling political party is prepared to stoop. This too after the...
Kunan-Pushpora Resurfaces with Crackdown on Separatists
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Mar , 2019
Concurrent to the crackdown on the separatists and Jamaat-e-Islami in the Kashmir Valley, the fictitious case of Kunan-Pushpora mass rape case has resurfaced. This could be due to instructions...
Fiasco of Trump-Kim Hanoi Summit
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Mar , 2019
US President Donald Trump hoping North Korea would agree to denuclearize is akin to successive US Presidents asking Pakistan to quit exporting terrorism and shut down the terror sanctuaries in...
Pak had No Alternative to Freeing Abhinandan
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Mar , 2019
Not only is India reverberating with the gallant action of Wing Commander Abhinanan Varthaman on February 27, it has also been duly covered in the Pakistani media. As per reports, Abhinandan...
Drone Technology and Drone Warfare
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Feb , 2019
New reports of January 24, 2019 have stated that a 16-year-old boy from Gujarat, Harshwardhan Sinh Zala, has invented the drone ‘EAGLE A7’ which he claims can detect and destroy landmines...
Litigation against Disabled Soldiers – being withdrawn?
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Feb , 2019
According to media reports of February 20, 2019, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has decided to withdraw its appeals made before the Supreme Court against grant of disability benefits to soldiers by...
Coming – MiG-29 Fulcrums?
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Feb , 2019
Not many would know it was NATO that gave the codename ‘Fulcrum’ to the Classic MiG-29 when the MiG-29 became operational in 1982; a name liked and adopted by the Soviets. IAF received around 70...
Pulwama Car Bombing – another Surgical Strike or Chemotherapy?
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Feb , 2019
The car bombing of a CRPF convoy on February 14, 2019, 30 km short of Srinagar in Pulwama has claimed the lives of 44 CRPF personnel with more than 30 others injured. J&K Governor Satya Pal Malik...
Sabotage - The Silent Killer
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Feb , 2019
During the Regional Conference on Security held in Bangladesh in 2001, both Pakistani speakers Shirin Mazari, Director General, Institute of Strategic Studies and Lt Gen Javed Hassan, Commandant,...
Downsizing the Indian Army
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Vol. 33.4 Oct-Dec 2018 | Date: 08 Feb , 2019
While the MoD may be swayed by 300,000-manpower reduction in the PLA, US concept of Integrated Brigades in Iraq and Afghanistan and the German concept of three rifle company battalions, all this...
Remembering George Fernandes
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Date: 05 Feb , 2019
The norm in Siachen for visit of defence ministers before George Fernandes became defence minister, was to interact with troops at the Base Camp, fly over the glacier and hit back over Khardung La...
Neglecting Border Infrastructure is Dangerous
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Jan , 2019
With general elections approaching fast, there is news once again about plans for border infrastructure, albeit these are still on paper. This time the media on January 13, 2019 has quoted the...
