Articles By Lt Gen Prakash Katoch
Macabre Irony – Peshawar massacre
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Dec , 2014
In the wildest of macabre irony to the ‘good’ and ‘bad’ Taliban theory that Pakistan successfully sold to the US, comes the ghastliest of terrorist attack at the Army Public School,...
Beyond Mahura: Will impotency continue?
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Dec , 2014
The terrorist attack at the army camp at Mahura in Uri Sector of J&K on 5th December resulted in the martyrdom of at least eight army personnel and three police personnel including one Lt Col of...
Indo-Israel Relations
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Nov , 2014
A significant boos to Indo-Israeli ties, the recent government clearance of Rupees 80,000 crore worth defence projects included Import of 8,356 anti-tank guided missile from Israel worth Rs 3,200...
Myanmar: India’s security takes another knock
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Nov , 2014
Former Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar said that food worth Rupees 44,000 crores was wasted last year for lack of storage space in India including vegetables and fruits worth Rupees 13,000...
Counter Terrorism in Cyberspace
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 10 Nov , 2014
American writer-intellectual Gore Vidal once said, “The ‘war on terrorism’ is a war of ideas; and ideas cannot be bombed out of existence. The Bush-Blair partnership changed the word to...
Mating Frankensteins
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Oct , 2014
This is not about Musharraf who wasted his life trying to mate radical organizations in the vain hope of getting eulogized as Zia-ul-Haq II, killing more Pakistanis than Indians in the process...
Al Qaeda’s India Threat
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 15 Oct , 2014
Immediately post Ayman al-Zawahiri announcing establishment of an India Wing of Al Qaeda, prompt came a US media report quoting US counter-terrorism expert Bergen that there is no evidence of Al...
Xi’s Chumar Gamble
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Sep , 2014
A democracy must have debate and opposition because it is dissent that facilitates analysis, which in turn indicates improvements required. We have had this all along in India but we don’t seem...
Great Game South Asia - dangerous portends
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Sep , 2014
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be visiting the US this month. It is but natural that in his two-day summit with President Obama many issues will be discussed, like: taking the Indo-US...
China’s Finger Problem – will President Xi cure?
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Sep , 2014
The Maurya Empire of India was one of the largest empires of its time. At the pinnacle of its glory, this empire stretched to the north right up to the natural boundaries of the Himalayas and to...
ISIS Threat: Dance of Barbarians
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Sep , 2014
The fact that Al Qaeda has been bamboozled by the ISIS in the Middle East is no secret. Pressured by US-NATO, Al Qaeda was in the mode of shifting its major base from Pakistan to Africa when...
Raising FDI in Defence is not enough
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Jul , 2014
FDI in the Defence Sector has been hiked from erstwhile 26 percent to 49 percent when the Finance-cum-Defence Minister recently announced the Defence Budget amounting to 2.29 Lakh Crores ($38.5...
Drone Terrorism
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Jul , 2014
Media recently reported the arrest of four persons in Varanasi for filming the ‘Ganga Aarti’ using drone cameras at the Dashashwamedh Ghat without permission. The arrest was possible because...
Siachen Unmasked
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Jul , 2014
Much water has flown under the bridge since 2nd October 2012 when Atlantic Council of Ottawa put out the news bulletin titled “India-Pakistan experts agree on confidence-building measures at...
Strategic Depth – Not Mere Military Term
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Jun , 2014
Strategic Depth is a term generally related to military operations. It has been described as the distances between the front-lines or battle sectors and the combatant’s capital cities,...
Iraq: India wastes Army’s Special Forces resource
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Jun , 2014
The ISIS onslaught in Iraq is being watched by the whole world. For India, many challenges have sprung with 46 nurses trapped in Tikrit that fell to the ISIS and some 40 Indian workers under...
Gangrenous spread of Terror
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Jun , 2014
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has given a call of “zero tolerance” to Maoists aka Left Wing Extremism (LWE). The NSA too, through his recent article ‘Maoists War Against India: Time for...
Danger at Sea
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 08 Jun , 2014
Vietnam, India’s strategic partner in the east is facing the heat. Not that Vietnam has not seen much worse days, having fought years of war with the US, latter using every known weapon system...
Military Diplomacy – time to bridge the void
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 May , 2014
Questioned ‘why do we need military officers to engage in diplomacy, Nitin Pai, founder and fellow for geopolitics at the Takshila Institute, had replied, “Not only does the nature of...
Leveraging India-China Strategic Partnership
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 May , 2014
Scientists have predicted that global weather would undergo 80 percent change due to El Nino. The effect is already visible through not only changed patterns of rain, heat and cold but the ice...