Articles By Lt Gen Prakash Katoch
UCAVs – post Nishant fiasco
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Dec , 2015
Post dumping of DRDO’s Nishant UAV by the Army after successive failures with decades of development and at least Rs 90 crores (official figures) behind it, now comes the news that India is...
Beyond the Combined Commanders Conference
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Dec , 2015
The Combined Commanders Conference that Prime Minister Narendra Modi chaired in recently was different from earlier such conferences. This is the first time that the Combined Commanders Conference...
Nepal – in wake of crimson tide
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Dec , 2015
As per reports, the motorcade of Nepal President Bidhya Devi Bhandari was attacked in Janakpur by Madhesis who also threw a petrol bomb at a temple she visited. The activists of Madhesi Morcha...
Dialogue Redux – onus of success on Pakistani Military
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Dec , 2015
The ‘Heart of Asia’ conference in Islamabad is fifth in the series of ministerial level meetings that have been ongoing since 2011, in continuation of the ‘Istanbul Process’ that brings...
Security Cooperation – China’s Game of Shadows
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Dec , 2015
India and China have agreed for the first time to form a ministerial-level mechanism headed by respective Home Ministers to step up cooperation and coordination on a host of security-related...
Taiwan – Why Shy Full Relations?
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Vol. 30.4 Oct-Dec 2015 | Date: 04 Dec , 2015
If Taiwan is annexed by China, the PLA Navy would be able to extend its reach to the second island chain, right down to Guam, the Marianas and even some other smaller islands in the central...
Pakistan – euphoric with Big Two support
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Nov , 2015
According to specific inputs received by intelligence agencies, Pakistan’s ISI recently held a meeting in a camp in POK with chief commanders of top terrorist outfits LeT, Hum and JeM asking them...
Maldives – in eye of political storm
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Nov , 2015
The need for political reconciliation has been in news with respect to Afghanistan for long, but happenings past two years and recent short emergency imposed in Maldives indicates Maldives needs...
Myanmar – Will Peace Prevail
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Nov , 2015
Myanmar’s main opposition party, the National League for Democracy (NLD) led by Aung San Suu Kyi has won a resounding victory, sweeping through Myanmar’s elections with 37 additional seats...
Stealth Bomber – picking the best
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Nov , 2015
No aircraft is totally invisible to radar but stealth aircraft make it more difficult for conventional radar to detect or track the aircraft effectively because stealth technologies reduce...
Herat Calling: Region is set for the Great Game
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Date: 12 Nov , 2015
The Fourth Herat Security Dialogue (HSD IV) held in Afghanistan on 2-3 October 2015 under aegis of Afghan Institute of Strategic Studies (AISS) saw participation by 17 countries including US,...
Women in Combat
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Nov , 2015
It is but natural that post the decision to induct women officers in the IAF, the debate would ensue whether the Army and Navy would induct women into combat. One wonders if the said decision of...
Army’s TCS – bogged down again?
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 Oct , 2015
There was much euphoria in early 2014 when two developing agencies were finally selected for developing the Army’s Tactical Communications System (TCS) after years of delay. But this too...
Hybrid war in Afghanistan takes a new turn
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Date: 29 Oct , 2015
Hybrid War is not new but became the preferred option with estimates of a decade of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan costing the US some $6 trillion and the combined figure of 57,694 killed and...
Nuclear Pakistan – Incessant Tail Wagging
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Oct , 2015
As Nawaz Sharif began preparations to travel to Washington to meet Obama, it was certain that Pakistan will start wagging her nuclear tail furiously, much to the delight of indigenous Pakistan...
Obama and Pakistan – frozen in time
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Oct , 2015
As Nawaz Sharif heads to Washington with his ISI approved new NSA, Naseer Khan Janjua, the outcome is already known. Obama has already given his preamble that Pakistan is an important player in...
Beyond Kunduz – hybrid war rages on
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 Oct , 2015
Kunduz is the news having been invested by the Pakistan supported Afghan Taliban and the fighting rages on as can be expected in built up areas. The US accidentally bombed a hospital run by...
RMA in the Indian Context
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Vol. 29.4 Oct-Dec 2014 | Date: 30 Sep , 2015
Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA) can be defined as “A major change in the nature of warfare brought about by the innovative application of technologies, which combined with dramatic changes...
DefExpo 2016 – politics overtaking all else ?
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Date: 24 Sep , 2015
With the world in turmoil, the need for arming and modernizing militaries and the enormous finances of the arms industry, defence and defence related exhibitions and fairs have become a regular...
India’s Security Sector: An Appraisal
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Vol. 30.1 Jan-Mar 2015 | Date: 15 Sep , 2015
Challenges to India’s security are mounting by the day. The governance of India’s security sector needs to be seen in the context of its external and internal vulnerability. Integrated,...