Articles By Lt Gen Prakash Katoch
India-China-Pak Trilateral – mischievous trap sprung by Luo Zhaouhi
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Jun , 2018
Luo Zhaohui, China’s crafty ambassador to India sprang a surprise on June 18 by proposing an India-China-Pakistan trilateral summit on the lines of China-Russia-Mongolia meet.. Luo was...
Kashmir Policy – questions for the hierarchy
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Jun , 2018
While stating he and his other sons were also ready to sacrifice their lives for the country, Mohammed Haneef father of Sepoy Aurangzeb, recently abducted and killed by terrorists in J&K,...
Indigenous ‘Dhanush’ Clears Trials
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Jun , 2018
The indigenous ‘Dhanush’ 155mm howitzer has cleared successful trials which is excellent news. The bad part is the headlines “It took 4,000 rounds and 5 Years for Dhanush to get Yes from...
Samparking Armed Forces – for Samarthan?
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Jun , 2018
The word ‘samparking’ – is unprecedented, but so was BJP President Amit Shah’s visit to General DS Suhag, former Army Chief in latter’s government bungalow in Delhi Cantonment. The visit...
The Mess in the Valley – playing into enemy hands
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Jun , 2018
If Pakistan broke the ceasefire within 48 hours of their DGMO proposing it, this should have been more than expected. Two BSF jawans were killed and 12 civilians and a cop killed, while thousands...
Opening Cantonments with Multiple Aims?
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 May , 2018
Kudos are due to Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman for the finesse and alacrity with which opening of closed roads in all 62 military cantonments across the country was announced, overnight...
India’s North Korean Outreach
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 May , 2018
The surprise two-day visit by General VK Singh, MoS (EAM) to North Korea on May 15-16, 2018, has evoked much interest. India has diplomatic relations with North Korea since 1973, but this was the...
Nawaz Sharif’s 26/11 Faux Pas – lands him in thick soup
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 May , 2018
Nawaz Sharif’s statement to Dawn that those who attacked Mumbai in 2008 were from Pakistan created a stir in Indian media but more in political and military circles in Pakistan. In his interview...
Stationing Fighter Jets in ANI is good, but need to do more
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 May , 2018
News about the decision for India to permanently station fighter jets in the Andaman & Nicobar Group of Islands (ANI) is a welcome move, something that should have happened years back. Deployment...
Nepal – fast becoming ISI Control Centre?
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 May , 2018
On the night of April 17, 2018, a pressure cooker bomb went off outside the Indian Consulate office in Nepal’s Biratnagar, damaging the wall of the premises. Biratnagar is the industrial...
Neemrana Dialogue Resumed – what are the payoffs?
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 May , 2018
Out of the blues came news reports that the government has agreed to revive the Track II diplomacy process with Pakistan despite its apparent aversion to ‘conventional’ talks with the...
Pakistan’s Pashtun Moment trenchant
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 May , 2018
February 4, 2018 saw thousands of angry Pashtun youth gathered outside the press club in Islamabad chanting ‘Azadi’ (freedom) slogans and highlighting human rights violations against the...
Private Industry can give quantum jump to military – but for entrenched...
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 May , 2018
In August 2016, the Indian Army set up its own Army Design Bureau (ADB) whose charter included: • act as central repository of technical know-how for the Indian Army; ADB was a unique...
Defence against Drone Attacks
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Apr , 2018
The loss of a Heron Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) of the Indian Navy near Porbandar in March 2018 has taken the count of UAVs lost by the Indian Armed Forces to 14 since the Kargil Conflict....
Pakistan - Terror tags don’t worry Beijing’s Darling
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Apr , 2018
News about the recently released UNSC consolidated list of individual terrorist and terrorist entities naming 139 from Pakistan including prominent names like Dawood Ibrahim and LeT chief Hafiz...
GSAT 6A – technical failure?
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Apr , 2018
On March 29, 2018, ISRO launched communication satellite GSLV Mk-II (GSLV-F08); carrying the 2,140kg GSAT-6A, the three-stage rocket injected the satellite into a geosynchronous transfer orbit...
Bajwa Doctrine and ‘Wait & Watch’ – stale wine
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 Mar , 2018
Amidst all the din about the Bajwa Doctrine, an apt comment is by Zahid Hussain who in his article ‘Is it chief’s doctrine’?, published in the DAWN on March 21, 2018, writes, “Now we hear...
Unmanned Tanks – not too distant
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 Mar , 2018
As per recent news reports India and Japan are to work together to introduce artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics in the defence sector. This is important considering the increasingly...
Security of Camps – The Scourge Within
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Mar , 2018
In July 2017, then Defence Minister Arun Jaitley had delegated substantial financial powers to the Armed Forces for undertaking works for perimeter security of sensitive military installations....
The Game of Interlocution
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Mar , 2018
As per news reports of February 9, the National Human Rights Commission took cognizance of a complaint by three Army kids seeking appropriate enquiry in the recent incidence of stone pelting and...
