Articles By Lt Gen Prakash Katoch
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...
Navy’s Minesweeping Woes – Going Critical
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Jan , 2018
From the very beginning of his tenure, Prime Minister Narendra Modi gave priority to visiting countries in the Indian Ocean. Addressing the valedictory function of the International Fleet Review...
Maldives: Drift, Intransigence, Implications
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Jan , 2018
There is plenty euphoria in the media about Maldives having “reset” the bilateral relations with India, Mohammed Asim, Maldivian Foreign Minister and Special Envoy of Maldivian President...
Assault Rifles, Carbine Procurement – Israel could be best source
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Jan , 2018
Media headlines on January 17 read “13 yrs after requst, Army to get 1.6 lakh rifles, carbines”. The Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) headed by the Defence Minister, has cleared fast-track...
The Tuting Saga – what we should learn
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Jan , 2018
Mao Zhedong said and Deng Xiaoping reiterated, “Tibet is the palm of China and Ladakh, Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan and NEFA (now Arunachal Pradesh) are its fingers”. Xi Jinping was a secretary in...
Armed Forces Suicides, Welfare and Morale
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Jan , 2018
A recent editorial in a national daily titled ‘An Unhappy Army’ states that unflattering information on the internal “atmosphere” in the armed services is seldom made public: the...
Finally: A US President shows Pakistan the Mirror
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 Jan , 2018
No US President has ever been as direct as President Donald Trump, in publicly showing the mirror to Pakistan. In the past, when Hillary Clinton threatened Pakistan to join GWOT or face...
Netanyahu is Coming!
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 Jan , 2018
When PM Narendra Modi made his maiden visit to Israel last year, Israeli newspapers had headlined that the world’s most important Prime Minister is coming to Israel. Now Israeli Prime Minister...
More Cross Border killings, another Surgical Strike?
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Dec , 2017
India lost one Major and three soldiers in Pakistan’s cross border action in Keri Sector of Rajouri District of J&K on December 24. Pakistani troops reportedly targeted the Army patrol at Brat...
Military Applications of 3D Printing – where are we?
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Dec , 2017
In 2014, the 3D printers market in India was at nascent stage with just 250-500 combined workforce of engineers, sales representatives, graphic designers etc. However, by 2019 these numbers are...
Drones and Lasers – Rapid Development is Vital
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Dec , 2017
Just before the recent visit to India by Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, China made big noise about an Indian drone that crashed across the line of actual control in China occupied Tibet during...
Bullet Train, Saltoro and the BMS
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Dec , 2017
In a recent pre-election rally in Gujarat, Prime Minister Narendra Modi stated that those who do not want the bullet train are welcome to keep using the bullock cart. Debunkers of the bullet train...
The Mazari Saga – and the Pakistan Army-Islamist Nexus
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Dec , 2017
The video of Imaan Mazari of Pakistan lambasting the Pakistani Army and Pakistani Government’s handling of the recent protests by Islamists in Faizabad...
Islamists Protests in Pakistan – is the experiment backfiring?
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Dec , 2017
Till the last reports when this article was sent for publication, 10 persons were killed and more than 250 injured in clashes in Pakistan as the army and security forces cracked down on Islamist...
Stonewalling Privatization of Government Defence Industry
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 Nov , 2017
As per media reports, Army’s move to source fabric for its combat uniforms from the private sector because of huge price differential between the uniforms procured from Ordnance Factories and...
Pakistan’s Complicity with Islamic State
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Nov , 2017
Post the terrorist attack in Zakhura area of Srinagar on November 17, the Islamic State, through its new platform ‘Amaq’, has claimed its first kill in J&K. The ISI supported...
Tejas, Arjun – and vilification of the Armed Forces
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Nov , 2017
A massive information campaign has been mounted to vilify the Armed Forces with respect to the not so indigenous Tejas LCA and the indigenous Arjun main battle tank (MBT) produced by the DRDO....
American Deep State: Two-Timing Trump?
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Nov , 2017
The meeting and brief conversation between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin during the recent APEC meeting at Manila was watched world over with great interest....
The Faux Pas of Army Building Foot Over Bridges – and beyond
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Nov , 2017
Much has been written about the Army being employed to construct three foot over bridges (FoB) including replacing the one linking the Elphinstone Road and Parel suburban stations in Mumbai. 22...