Articles By Lt Gen Prakash Katoch
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...
Drone Swarm Attacks – what India must prepare for
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Mar , 2018
The global drone market was valued at $5.93 billion in 2015, making for a 20.7 percent compound annual growth rate for the predicted $22.15 billion market value in 2022.Military market for...
‘Make in India’ Found Floundering – but what beyond?
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Mar , 2018
According to media reports, MoD had deduced internally that the much publicized ‘Make in India’ initiative is floundering, the entire weapons acquisitions process is badly broken and beset...
Coming – Indigenous Stealth Drone
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Feb , 2018
According to news reports, the indigenous ‘Ghatak’ unmanned combat air vehicle (UCAV), also called AURA, and under development by the DRDO is likely to take to the by the end of this year....
Maldives – China tightening the noose
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Feb , 2018
There cannot be any denial that the manner in which the India-Maldives equation has been allowed to drift, indicates crass intelligence failure coupled with our inability to understand...
Securing Perimeter of Military Establishments
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Feb , 2018
After the terrorist attack on IAF’s Patahnkot airbase on January 2, 2016, the MoD had appointed a committee headed by Lt Gen Phillip Campose, then Vice Chief of Army Staff, to review the...
South India on Short Fuze?
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Feb , 2018
In matters of national security India has repeatedly glossed over breeches and ignored build up to explosive situations till the explosion takes place. Resolute action lacks under euphemisms like...
Tall Story - Ceasefire
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Feb , 2018
Pakistan has deliberately upped the ante at the border. Cross border actions and shelling has intensified. As per reports, missiles are also being used by Pakistan. Since January 3, 2018, 12...
Missiles, Satellites and Anti-Systems
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 Feb , 2018
When India successfully test-fired its nuclear capable Agni-V ICBM on January 18 this year, China made no official statement, but after the December 2016 Agni-V test China had stated it hoped...
Beyond India’s Australia Group Membership
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 31 Jan , 2018
India became a member of the Australia Group on January 19, 2018. The Australia Group restricts trade in materials used to make chemical and biological weapons. It was formed in 1985 prompted by...
Gadhoo – Another Chinese Base in Indian Ocean?
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Jan , 2018
An article in the China Daily during 2014 stated China plans to build 18 “Strategic Support Bases” in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR), outlining a blueprint for the establishment of 18 Chinese...