Articles By Lt Gen Prakash Katoch
Taliban Launches Spring Offensive
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 May , 2021
Spring runs through March to May in Afghanistan. A 90-day reduction in violence intended to prevent a spring offensive by Taliban was among the four point proposal by America’s Joe Biden...
US Retreat From Afghanistan
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 May , 2021
In 2014, America was forced to shut down its military base at Manas in Kyrgyzstan, wiping out its only physical footprint in Central Asia. Now US-NATO troops are exiting Afghanistan – only...
Imran’s Surrender to TLP
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Apr , 2021
Two visuals in the electronic media covering the Tehrik-e-Labaik Pakistan (TLP) besieging the Pakistani establishment headed by Prime Minister Imran Khan were ironical and comical at the same...
Quad – The Posturing
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Apr , 2021
Plenty has been written about future of the Quad after the First Quad Leaders Virtual Summit on March 12, 2021. There is divergence of views whether the Quad can emerge as a strategic counter to...
China’s Spectre on Bhutan
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Apr , 2021
China and Bhutan held their 10th round of expert group meeting (EGM) on boundary issues in Kunming (China) between April 6 and 9. This was reportedly the 25th round of boundary talks between the...
Resetting the Iran Nuclear Deal
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Apr , 2021
The indirect talks to revive or rather reset the Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) or the Iran nuclear Deal inked in Vienna on July 14, 2015 have kicked off. The talks are indirect because Iran...
Ashraf Ghani’s Peace Plan
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Apr , 2021
A senior-level meeting between the Taliban and the Afghan government is scheduled to be hosted by Turkey later this month. Turkey is to appoint a special envoy for these peace talks. This was part...
Myanmar Cauldron – Different Shades
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Apr , 2021
Myanmar is in the news practically every day but for wrong reasons. The UN Special Envoy on Myanmar has warned that the ground situation will only worsen and has called upon the UNSC to consider...
Tighter China-Iran Embrace
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 Mar , 2021
During the recent two-day visit to Tehran by Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi, Iran and China signed a 25-year agreement on March 27 that would chart the future course of the economic, political...
About Turn sans Trust will be Foolish
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 Mar , 2021
China’s lecherous ways have little parallels. Despite the ongoing standoff with India in Eastern Ladakh, China’s foreign ministry issued a statement on February 22 with its spokesperson Wang...
The Taliban Ultimatum
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Mar , 2021
Amid the ongoing dialogues on Afghanistan involving the Taliban and new proposals by the US to jumpstart the intra-Afghan dialogue for bringing peace to Afghanistan and the region, the Taliban...
Bajwa’s Latest Jig – Dancing to Beijing’s Tune
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Mar , 2021
Qamar Javed Bajwa, Pakistan army chief is back to old tricks; dancing to Beijing’s tune as China sings peace without disengaging from Depsang, Gogra and Hot Springs in Eastern Ladakh. ...
Will Quad be China’s Achilles Heel?
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Mar , 2021
The first ever Quad Leaders Summit was held virtually on March 12, 2021 between US President Joe Biden, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga and Australian...
The Myanmar Imbroglio
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Mar , 2021
Myanmar is in turmoil since the military took control of the country on February 1, 2021 and detained Aung San Suu Kyi and officials from her National League for Democracy (NLD) party. Myanmar’s...
China the Regional Hegemon
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Mar , 2021
Addressing a webinar organized by the College of Defence Management (CDM), Secunderabad on March 4, 2021, Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat stated that a belligerent China will continue...
The Ceasefire Game
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 Mar , 2021
Much has been said and written about the February 25, 2021 statement by Director Generals of Military Operations (DGMOs) of India and Pakistan reiterating their commitment to ceasefire along the...
Quad in Focus
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Feb , 2021
India, Australia, Japan, and the US held their third Quad ministerial meeting on February 18 to discuss ways to enhance cooperation for maintaining a free, open and inclusive Indo-Pacific in the...
China’s Underwater Threat
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Feb , 2021
As part of its early revolution of military affairs, China gave preference to build its submarine fleets over aircraft carriers. China needed to first secure its interests at sea closer home and...
Joe Biden Must Recognize Genocide of Balochis
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Feb , 2021
Delivering his first major foreign policy speech at the US State Department in Washington DC on February 2, 2021, Joe Biden, the POTUS signaled a major difference between his administration and...
Islamabad’s Peace Googly
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Feb , 2021
Much has been made of Pakistani army chief General QJ Bajwa stating while addressing a graduation day ceremony at Pakistan’s Air Force Academy in Risalpur on February 2, 2020, “We stand firmly...