Articles By Lt Gen Prakash Katoch
US Stance on Pakistan – finally righting
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Jul , 2017
For the first time ever the US has listed Pakistan among the nations providing “safe havens” to terrorists, saying terror groups like the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and JeM continued to operate,...
Politics over China’s Political Warfare
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Jul , 2017
Query about China’s political warfare in India and you receive blank looks as if the antecedents of Princess Wei are being asked who as per President Xi Jinping was married to the moon in...
Iran-Pakistan Relations – turbulent times
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Jul , 2017
The Iran-Pakistan relations face turbulent times, the major reason being the same as in India-Pakistan and Afghanistan-Pakistan relations; Pakistan sponsored terrorism. In May this year, Iran...
Beyond Amarnath Yatra Attack
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Jul , 2017
The terrorist attack on the bus carrying 60 Amarnath pilgrims returning post visiting the cave on July 10 indicates more terror in the offing, requiring measures beyond ramped up security and...
Third Country Threat in Kashmir - More Chinese Subterfuge
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Jul , 2017
The dirty mind games of the Communist Party of China (CPC) continue unabated, especially through one of its slimy mouthpieces ‘Global Times’, be it through editorials or articles. The...
The Mask of Xi Jinping
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Jul , 2017
There is considerable enthusiasm over the meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping during the informal BRICS meeting on the sidelines of the recent G-20...
China’s Unabated Cartographic Aggression
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Jul , 2017
China’s global cartographic aggression has no parallel. The periodicity with which China changes its territorial claims gives an indication that the Communist Party of China (CPC) treats maps...
Dealing With Maoist Insurgency: Focused Approach Required
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Vol. 32.2 Apr-Jun 2017 | Date: 03 Jul , 2017
Hundreds of CAPF battalions have been raised and there is no reason they cannot deal with internal security issues. They must perform/be ‘made’ to perform, and most importantly, dominate the...
China: Breach of Agreement of Kailash Mansarovar pilgrimage confirms Chinese...
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 Jun , 2017
When the rabid Chinese media says that India “needs to be taught the rules”, it must be understood that: total Chinese media services the Chinese Communist Party (CPC) – stenographers of...
Beyond defining the Strategic Partnership
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 Jun , 2017
Defining the ‘Strategic Partnership’ took some 18 months after the Defence Procurement Policy (DPP) 2016 was released – much time taken but mercifully it finally came through. The private...
Chinese Killings in Pakistan - very much linked to CPEC
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Jun , 2017
The killing of Chinese nationals Lee Zingyang (24) and Meng Lisi (26) in Pakistan post abduction from Quetta, capital of Balochistan, on May 24 was hardly a stray incident. Had the killings not...
The Dirty Face of Defending Borders
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Jun , 2017
China’s Western Theatre Command is responsible for China’s border with Myanmar and thence running west to and including Afghanistan. The Border Guard Divisions are deployed to guard the...
War in Upper Stratum
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Jun , 2017
There is palpable anxiety over international analysts indicating that IAF’s Sukhoi fighter aircraft, certified fit for flying the mission on May 23, that went down close to the India-China...
Don’t Cry beyond WannaCry
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Jun , 2017
WannaCry or WannaCry 2.0 the ransomware that struck globally some 150 countries last month affected some 200,000 PCs worldwide. India was the third hardest hit county with close to 50,000 PCs...
New Defence Procurement Organization – payoffs?
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 31 May , 2017
According to recent media reports, government is mulling setting up a new autonomous organization, ‘Defence Procurement Organization’ (DPO), to be created within the MoD to deal exclusively...
Terrorism – the good, the bad and the ugly
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 May , 2017
US President Donald Trump addressing the NATO summit at Brussels on May 25 stated that US would never stop fighting terrorism, calling the Manchester attacks “savage” and “barbaric”. He also...
US-China and the ‘Fat Boy’ Syndrome
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 May , 2017
‘Little Boy’ was the atomic bomb dropped over Hiroshima by the US but if Little Boy was a US citizen, he would not have much difficulty in connecting the dots and timings of Choe Son Hui,...
Armed Forces – under ‘compensation’ attack
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 May , 2017
Releasing the ‘Strategic Yearbook 2017’ at the United Services Institution of India recently, in presence of the media, Army Chief General Bipin Rawat spoke of the relation between economic...
Judicial Overreach in defence and security issues endangers National Security
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Date: 08 May , 2017
Looking at rulings and advice emanating from the Supreme Court in recent times, one wonders if first, the honourable court has taken control of counter insurgency and counter terrorist operations...
Afghanistan – great game goes intense
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Apr , 2017
During the recent visit of US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis to Afghanistan, General John Nicholson told reporters in Kabul that he is “not refuting” reports that Russia is providing weapons to...