Articles By Lt Gen Prakash Katoch
Border Defence Cooperation Agreement Kaput!
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Dec , 2013
If the ruling coterie was looking for brownie points for the coming elections by hyping that signing of the BDCA with China had put at rest all border problems till eventual peaceful resolution,...
Equipping Cutting Edge Infantry
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Vol. 28.4 Oct-Dec 2013 | Date: 17 Dec , 2013
Infantry modernisation has not received due importance in past decades. This must be treated as an ‘emergent’ requirement in consideration of the emerging threats from within and outside the...
Permanent Chairman COSC : MoD’s Triumph
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Dec , 2013
Whatever cooks in North and South Blocks, some scents have the tendency to seep through the walls no matter how tight the windows are shut. So one fine day comes this article that the government...
The Badmash Face of Sharif
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Dec , 2013
No surprises, it had to happen – Nawaz Sharif revealing his badmash (punk) side! So, finally he says he had a dream of seeing Indian Kashmir free and hoped to see it happen during his...
China’s Strategic Overture to Japan
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Nov , 2013
China has added another chapter to her “peaceful” rise by declaring another “defensive” measure; that all non-commercial aircraft entering a broad zone over the East China Sea must first...
Military: PM's Sterile Monologues,Wasted Task Forces
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Nov , 2013
At the recent Combined Commanders Conference, the Prime Minister asked for urgent review of Task Force Reports for indigenous production – another monologue statement egged on perhaps because...
Nuclear perfidy
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Nov , 2013
Big powers purported nuclear blindness is on the rise. Not that the malady is new – squints, Nelson’s Eye, blisters in the eyes, all compounded. The whole game is to permit selective...
Sartaj Aziz’s Visit : Stupidity Compounded
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Nov , 2013
Editorials in prominent dailies today headline the ‘Lankan Impasse’ by stating that talk of Prime Minister missing CHOGM meet on 15-16 November will be a signal of foreign policy paralysis...
China: Some Questions
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Nov , 2013
The fact that the media is government paid and government controlled in Peoples Republic of China (PRC) is no secret. It is convenient since then the population, particularly the youth can be fed...
Payback Time Pakistan
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Nov , 2013
Following the US drone strike killing Pakistan Taliban Chief Hakimillah Mehsud, it was hilarious to watch the somber faced Interior Minister of Pakistan accusing the US of scuttling efforts...
India- China: BDCA Unexplained
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Nov , 2013
Following the signing of the BDCA between India and China, much has been written. The follow up official explanation extols great strides having been made by introducing the four ‘concepts’...
Nawaz Sharif: Sniveling up to Mamma
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Date: 24 Oct , 2013
Nawaz Sharif’s call to the United States to intervene in the resolution of Kashmir is no different from a spoiled weakling running up to mamma for solace. After all, American soft corner for...
BDCA – Another Self Inflicted Wound
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Date: 23 Oct , 2013
The brouhaha about India having signed the BDCA agreement with China actually is a self-inflicted wound though providing satisfaction to Prime Minister Manhohan Singh that he too inked a border...
Integrated Theatre Commands
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Vol. 28.3 Jul-Sep 2013 | Date: 15 Oct , 2013
Jointness and integration of the Military is an inevitable requirement for the modern day battlefield. The biggest challenge to jointness is to bring about an attitudinal shift by turning the...
Pak Regulars Combine with LeT, Mujahids, and Taliban against India
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Oct , 2013
It is not surprising that India’s lack of strategic culture denies policy makers to think beyond Border Action Teams (BAT). Whether the BAT obsession is because of the penchant for cricket...
Another Kargil in Keran Sector ?
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Oct , 2013
You don’t require a genius to tell you that the serious intrusion in Keran Sector that has been ongoing since 23rd September, even before the terrorist attacks on Hira Nagar Police Station and...
What National Security ?
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Oct , 2013
Not having a National Security Strategy is a terrific boon to the hierarchy, for where is the question of accountability. Without a strategy, national security can flow the way it wants, whose...
Which India does America Want?
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 01 Oct , 2013
The question which India does America want is intriguing for there are no two India’s but then does America want a strong India or a weak one – that is the difficult part. There are no...
Terrorist Attack: Persisting Parkinson’s Response
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Sep , 2013
The twin terror attacks in Samba today witnessed the expected response from our Parkinson’s afflicted polity – actions following previous set pattern, much to the glee of Pakistan and China. ...
Casting the politico-military Connect
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Sep , 2013
During the Security Conclave held at Delhi Gymkhana Club on 3rd September, a senior military veteran asked the Chairman National Security Advisory Board that if as per him, military is a part of...