Articles By Lt Gen Prakash Katoch
Beijing’s CPEC Dilemma
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 May , 2019
Western media, quoting Pakistan military, had reported on May 12, 2019, that five people including a naval soldier were killed and six others were injured (including two army captains, two navy...
Drones in Conflict
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 May , 2019
The ISIS used drones extensively in Iraq-Syria for reconnaissance, surveillance and dropping explosives and mines, inflicting casualties and caution on attacking forces. As early as 2015, Iraqi...
North Korea and the musings in Capitol Hill
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 May , 2019
Soon after Kim Jong-un, DPRK’s Supreme Leader returned from his first meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, DPRK fired two short-range ballistic missiles within the space of a week. The...
Sixth US-Taliban Talks – little gain?
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 May , 2019
The sixth round of US-Taliban talks at Doha, Qatar concluded on May 9 with spokesman for Taliban stating, “The sixth round of talks … ended, with some progress made on the draft agreement...
Specter of ISIS over South Asia
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 May , 2019
A news report titled “Intelligence officials fear more Sri Lanka-style ‘terrorist spectaculars’ as Isil look to tourist destinations’ in ‘The Telegraph’ dated April 27, 2019, has...
Political Olympics of J&K
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 May , 2019
Olympics come every five years, and so do the Political Olympics in J&K. In a pre-election interview to media, BJP President Amit Shah has stated that if the BJP gains majority in the coming...
DSDBO Road completed – but what of the scam and the northeast?
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 Apr , 2019
India has completed the 255-km Darbuk-Shayok-Daulat Beg Oldie (DSDBO) section of the road between Leh and Karakoram (KK) Pass, as mentioned in recent media reports. The road actually ends at DBO,...
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...