Articles By Lt Gen Prakash Katoch
China: Another Cross Border Squeak
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Jul , 2013
Why are we getting so worked about uttering by Comrade Luo Yuan working ‘under’ the Director General of the world military research department at a People’s Liberation Army academy...
India’s Energy Faux Pas
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Date: 03 Jul , 2013
The emergence of shale gas on the global scene has ushered a new era of energy revolution transforming the need versus resource debate with far reaching strategic ramifications. Heightened...
Fabrication of a Deadly Triangle: India, Pakistan and Afghanistan
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Jul , 2013
With all the historian accolades to William Dalrymple, his Brookings Essay titled ‘A Deadly Triangle: Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India’ insinuating that “The hostility between India and...
ISI infiltrates Indian think tanks and the media?
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 Jun , 2013
It took a gutsy lady like Ayesha Siddiqa to pen down what has been known for many years now – that the ISI has successfully infiltrated foreign think tanks. In the instant case, she mentions...
Utharakhand: Disasters Come – Disasters Go !
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Jun , 2013
The horrific disaster that has struck Uttrakhand has been assessed as a mix of natural and man-made. In fact, the various media analyses indicate we were asking for it and there were enough...
Elusive Military Transformation
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Jun , 2013
Two days back a defence correspondent wrote in a prominent daily that the Ministry of Defence (MoD) is apparently not in favour of a Permanent Chairman for the Chiefs of Staff Committee (COSC) and...
Why Maoist Insurgency Will Flourish in India
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Jun , 2013
It was amusing to view the Singh Duo RPN Singh, Minister of State for Home Affairs and RK Singh, Home Secretary describing the Maoist attack on a train in Bihar as “Frustration” on the part...
Surreal China - Lessons from Myanmar
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 09 Jun , 2013
Myanmar helped China seize the opportunity to integrate more with Myanmar militarily, politically and economically, Chinese strategists having visualised the long-term need for reaching out to...
Maoists ambush Congress Leaders Convoy
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 May , 2013
The last Saturday (25th May) Maoist ambush of the convoy of Congressmen in Chhattisgarh is being described as a wakeup call in view of forthcoming elections, the term of the present State...
China’s Foreign Policy: Biang Biang Noodles!
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 May , 2013
Tavleen Singh narrates in her book ‘Durbar’ that having personally witnessed grisly scenes of children dying of starvation in presence of their hapless parents themselves surviving on grass...
More intrusions in Indian Territory by China to follow...
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 03 May , 2013
The Defence Secretary has reportedly informed the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Defence that the Chinese intrusion at Daulat Beg Oldi (DBO) in Ladakh region is actually 19 kilometers deep...
Illiteracy of War Drums
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 May , 2013
In a recent TV debate on the Chinese intrusion in Ladakh, to a suggestion by a veteran Army General that India should be resolute in response, a Member Parliament from the ruling party said,...
China Mocking Pussy Footers
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Apr , 2013
In law, treason is the crime that covers some of the more extreme acts against one’s sovereignty or nation. A person who commits treason is known in law as a traitor. By another...
China: Hum Dekh Rahe Hain – We Are Watching!
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Apr , 2013
Commenting on the latest Chinese intrusion in Ladakh, Foreign Minister Salman Khurshid echoed former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi’s famous cliché “Hum Dekh Rahen Hain, Hamen Dekhna Hoga, Hum...
Reigniting Kashmir
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Courtesy: fairobserver.com | Date: 19 Apr , 2013
John Quinton, American writer once wrote, “Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.” Appears happening in Kashmir, at least on...
Indian Military in Afghanistan
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 17 Apr , 2013
A study released by the Centre for Strategic and International Studies, USA on 14 Jan 2013 has totaled the direct spending by the US on the war in Afghanistan for the period FY2001 to FY2013 as...
China and Pakistan: Plain Talk is the Key!
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 08 Mar , 2013
Diplomacy does not imply ignoring the obvious where national security is involved. When China warned India to cease oil exploration in Vietnamese waters, there were calls that India should raise...
Empowering the Military
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Mar , 2013
Situations in counter insurgency environment cause their own stress on soldiers especially when politicians and officials play their dirty games. Three days after the operation, DC Kupwara...
Special Forces in India
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Vol. 28.1 Jan-Mar 2013 | Date: 02 Mar , 2013
Historically, Indian Special Forces have been used for direct action type of roles during conventional wars. The hierarchal understanding of trans-border employment of Special Forces in India is...
China incapacitating India from within...
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 14 Feb , 2013
Diplomacy does not imply ignoring the obvious where national security is involved. When China warned India to cease oil exploration in Vietnamese waters, there were calls that India should raise...