Articles By Lt Gen Prakash Katoch
Moulding Perceptions to Incite Violence
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Jul , 2016
Information operations are complex requiring detailed planning and execution. In the overall context, information operations must include psychological operations, computer network operations,...
Go Beyond the Rhetoric: US needs to add Substance to its South Asia Policy
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Date: 23 Jul , 2016
As per media reports, the draft democratic party manifesto in the run up to the US presidential election has described India as an “important Pacific power”, while pledging that it will...
Ashraf Ghani's missive to Pakistan – appears final
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Jul , 2016
At the recent NATO summit in Warsaw, President Ashraf Ghani in his address categorically stated that peace initiatives taken by Afghanistan with Pakistan are not successful as Pakistan...
Internal Security – Chinks Very Apparent
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Jul , 2016
The term ‘internal security’ needs to be taken with a pinch of salt with borderless proxy wars, terrorism, optimization of internet by tech savvy terrorists and more such reasons. Nations...
The AQIS Call – Mirrors Pakistan’s ISI
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Jul , 2016
The historical basis of the ISI’s confidence flows from the fact that both the US and China used Pakistan for creating the Taliban and Al Qaeda and the US gave Pakistani regulars and Taliban...
The Afghan Conundrum: As Big Powers Continue Their Charade, Afghanistan...
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Date: 06 Jul , 2016
Richard Olsen, US Special Representative for Pakistan and Afghanistan recently said that India and Iran will be included in the Afghan peace process at a “later stage”. What is that later...
Dhaka Terror Attack – What to Expect?
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 Jul , 2016
Much has been written about the horrific terrorist attack in Dhaka on July 1 and what it portends for India. The ISIS has claimed responsibility for the attack – was this claim genuine or an...
The Bigger Threat
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Jun , 2016
There is little doubt that the recent China generated cyber attack on Indian governmental and commercial establishments primarily targeting India military and the well coordinated incursion...
Torkham Clash with Afghanistan: Is it Pakistan’s Conscious Design
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Date: 23 Jun , 2016
Torkham is in the news with Pakistan firing heavy artillery and mortars at Afghan forces across the Khyber Pass border since June 14. What the escalation will lead to is anybody’s guess. Would...
India-Myanmar-Thailand Highway: Strategic Dimensions
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Jun , 2016
Inking of the trilateral pact between India-Myanmar-Thailand (IMT) making way for the IMT Highway provides seamless vehicular movement between SAARC and ASEAN nations, enhancing trade, business,...
The Road to NSG Membership
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Jun , 2016
The preliminary technical meeting of the NSG in Vienna on June 9 discussed the new applications from India, Pakistan and Namibia. The discussions, according to sources, recognized the merit in...
Fretting over Chabahar: Phobia or diversionary ploy by Pakistan?
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Date: 06 Jun , 2016
It was downright amusing to read an article in a prominent Pakistani daily titled ‘Trade route linking Chabahar Port with Afghanistan’ a security threat’. The article refers to deliberations...
Defence Reforms – cart before the horse?
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Jun , 2016
Talking to the media and news channels Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar has said that he has now set the stage for far-reaching defence reforms from a chief of defence staff (CDS) and unified...
Mansour Killed – but ISI has backup
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 May , 2016
As per media reports, Mullah Akhtar Mansour, Afghan Taliban chief has been killed in a US drone strike in Baluchistan Province of Pakistan. It may be recalled that the installation of Mansour to...
Cutting Army Flab
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 May , 2016
The irony of India is that government after government has asked the Army to downsize without telling them what is the ‘Right Size’ of the Army the nation should have? To arrive at the...
Army’s FICV – Where are we?
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 May , 2016
Infantry combat vehicle development was undertaken by most allied and axis powers almost simultaneously. But Schutzenpanzer 12-3 (mounted with a 20mm canon and carrying five infantrymen) of West...
The Chabahar Project – need to accelerate
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 May , 2016
A young Iranian diplomat interacting with a think tank at New Delhi recently was of the view that though India’s interest in the project to develop the Chabahar Port jointly with Iran went back...
Beyond the Indo-Pak FS level Talks
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 Apr , 2016
Finally the Foreign Secretaries of India and Pakistan met on 26-April-2016 on the sidelines of the Heart of Asia, Istanbul process being hosted by India. Keeping the events of this year starting...
Afghanistan - under sustained attack
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Apr , 2016
When Kunduz, Afghanistan’s fifth-largest city, fell to Taliban last September-October under the stewardship of Mullah Akhtar Mansour, it was a big blow to Afghanistan’s National Security Forces...
China sounds ‘Action Stations’ in South China Sea
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Apr , 2016
While the US DoD posted a clip on the internet showing a Russian SU-24 attack aircraft conducting a simulated attack on USS Donald Cook in the Baltic Sea flying just 30 feet away from the...