Articles By Lt Gen Prakash Katoch

Neemrana Dialogue Resumed – what are the payoffs?

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...

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Pakistan’s Pashtun Moment trenchant

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...

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Private Industry can give quantum jump to military – but for entrenched...

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...

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Defence against Drone Attacks

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....

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Pakistan - Terror tags don’t worry Beijing’s Darling

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...

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GSAT 6A – technical failure?

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...

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Bajwa Doctrine and ‘Wait & Watch’ – stale wine

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...

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Unmanned Tanks – not too distant

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...

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Security of Camps – The Scourge Within

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....

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The Game of Interlocution

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...

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Drone Swarm Attacks – what India must prepare for

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...

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‘Make in India’ Found Floundering – but what beyond?

‘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...

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Coming – Indigenous Stealth Drone

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....

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Maldives – China tightening the noose

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...

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Securing Perimeter of Military Establishments

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...

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South India on Short Fuze?

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...

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Tall Story - Ceasefire

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...

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Missiles, Satellites and Anti-Systems

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...

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Beyond India’s Australia Group Membership

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...

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Gadhoo – Another Chinese Base in Indian Ocean?

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...

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