Articles By Lt Gen Prakash Katoch
Indigenous Nuclear Missile Tracking Ship
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Jul , 2018
An article titled ‘India to get own missile tracking ship in December’, published in The Economic Times’ on July 20, states that India’s secretive missile tracking / ‘specialized’...
Republic Day Parade 2019 – Chief Guest Donald Trump
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Jul , 2018
Going by media reports, US President Donald Trump has been invited by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to be the Chief Guest at the Republic Day Parade 2019. The news says that the invite is learnt...
Coming - Another Kargil Anniversary
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Jul , 2018
Come July 26, India will celebrate Op ‘Vijay’ Diwas; another anniversary synonymous with the date of culmination of the Kargil Conflict during 1999. There will be wreath laying at Amar Jawan...
Tejas Delayed – is it by design?
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Jul , 2018
Media reports, Tejas, the indigenous Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) has missed yet another deadline of getting its final operational clearance (FOC) by June 2018, 35 years after approval of the LCA...
Empowered Committee – evaluating rifles, carbines?
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Jul , 2018
On July 3, 2018 media reported that Ministry of Defence (MoD) had sent a team of military experts headed by a Brigadier to five countries to scout for rifles and carbines. The nine-member...
Taking Union Cabinet For A Ride – and getting away?
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Jul , 2018
Why do MoD bureaucrats continue to degrade Armed Forces status, rank, pay and equivalence? This can be easily gauged from the article by IAS officer Diplai Rastogi titled ‘The belief system,...
Pakistan on FATF ‘Grey List’ – but not for first time
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 Jul , 2018
There is perceptible happiness in media over Pakistan having been placed in the ‘grey list’ of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF). The country was officially placed in the ‘grey list’...
Nikki Haley’s visit and the Indo-US 2+2 Dialogue
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Date: 29 Jun , 2018
Nikki Haley, US Ambassador to UN visiting India on June 27-28, called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and discussed ways to enhance India-US cooperation in various fields, including...
UNHRC Report on Kashmir – Surprise and No Surprise
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Jun , 2018
The UNHCR Report on Kashmir has been in the news. Since it has been cited as the “first” report, a second one will likely follow, if not more. It needs no elaboration that the 49 page...
Islamic State in Kashmir Valley
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Jun , 2018
Amongst the four terrorists gunned down in a gunfight in Srigufwara of Anantnag area on 22 June 2018, police identified Dawood Ahmad Salafi, chief of ISJK (ISIS affiliate). Security forces...
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...