Articles in Courtesy: Aakrosh
J&K: Theatre of the Next War
By: Maj Gen GD Bakshi, (Retd) | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 30 May , 2014
Significance of the Gilgit–Gwadar Corridor The ominously rising strategic salience of the Gilgit–Baltistan region was made sharply apparent by Selig Harrison’s startling disclosure in 2010...
Containing Maoist Insurgency: An Organisational Approach
By: S V Raghavan and V Balasubramaniyan | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 08 May , 2014
India has been suffering from armed internal violence for the past four decades. Terrorists and insurgent groups have created havoc in various parts of India, targeting combatants and...
India’s Security Concerns
By: Maj Gen Afsir Karim | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 04 May , 2014
Once the United States and NATO forces leave the Afghanistan– Pakistan region, the ongoing conflict in the region is likely to be exacerbated. The Taliban is undefeated and waiting to reestablish...
Organisational and Structural Evolution – Lessons from Al-Qaeda
By: Dr. S. V. Raghavan & Dr. V. Balasubramaniyan | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 21 Nov , 2013
The global community has witnessed transformations in terror groups across the spectrum. These transformations can be attributed to various external changes that force the terror groups to change...
China-US- North Korea: The Dynamics of a Strategic Triangle
By: Ashok Kapur | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 31 Aug , 2013
China has developed a double policy in relation to North Korea. Its primary interest was and remains to maintain North Korea as a strategic buffer against the extension of American commercial,...
Insight into Myanmar
By: Shubhodeep Chattopadhyay | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 26 Aug , 2013
Ethnic minorities constitute almost one-third of the total population; the minority communities are located mainly in seven states, and these are named after these communities. The following...
Terror related activities in developing India
By: S. Sanyal | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 05 Aug , 2013
As defined, development is a process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage. It involves a process of becoming deeper and more profound. It is a progression from simpler to...
Internal Challenges
By: Maj Gen Afsir Karim | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 29 Jul , 2013
Management of internal security has become a greater challenge with the increasing threats of domestic and foreign-sponsored terrorism and the widening ethnic, religious and political divides in...
Terrorism as an Instrument of Power Projection
By: Maj Gen Afsir Karim | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 08 Jun , 2013
It seems there is no change in the policy of the Pakistan army in matters related to Kashmir. The top brass, along with a crop of retired generals, still believes that India should not be allowed...
Chinese Longue Duree: PLA Modernisation
By: Pinaki Bhattacharya | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 05 Jun , 2013
An impressionable Henry Kissinger, the then U.S. national security adviser, was clearly awed by the presence of his Chinese interlocutor, Zhou Enlai, steeped in revolutionary history and the...
Combating Left-Wing Extremism
By: Lt Gen Kamal Davar (Retd) | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 01 Jun , 2013
Among the security perils that afflict India internally, the gravest and most alarmingly burgeoning is left-wing extremism (LWE), commonly dubbed as the Naxal-Maoist threat. Alluded to as being...
Need a Muscular Indian Strategy in Afghanistan
By: Pinaki Bhattacharya | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 19 Mar , 2013
Even at the cost of sounding bellicose with that expressed need in the title of this paper, this writer will argue that Afghanistan stands as a shining example of the success of the country’s...
The Challenge Posed by China’s Military Posture in Tibet
By: Brig Vijai K Nair | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 09 Mar , 2013
China is in forceful occupation of approximately 38,000 square kilometres of Indian territory in Aksai Chin in the west and claims a further 90,000 square kilometres of Indian territories in the...
Chinese Nuclear Capabilities Deployed in Central China
By: Maj Gen Afsir Karim | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 25 Feb , 2013
By 1971, the first-known nuclear weapon was brought to Tibet and installed at Tsaidam Basin in northern Amdo (Ch: Qinghai).1 Today, the defence arsenal is believed to include 17 top-secret radar...
Dubious Role of the Army in Pakistan
By: Maj Gen Afsir Karim | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 21 Feb , 2013
Terrorism and violence continue in Pakistan, along with the political intrigues, and this may eventually lead to the return of the military rule in some form or the other. The Pakistani army may...
The Long Reach of Islamic Fundamentalism
By: Maj Gen Afsir Karim | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 07 Dec , 2012
Since the Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai was shot by Taliban gunmen on her way to school, the pressure has been mounting both in Pakistan and Afghanistan to bring those behind the crime to...
Peace and Stability in Afghanistan
By: Lt Gen Ravi Sawhney | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 06 Nov , 2012
A negotiated political settlement with the Taliban would be a desirable prerequisite to ending the prevailing conflict in Afghanistan, but current talks with the Taliban are unlikely to result in...
US-Pakistan: The Drone Attacks
By: Ramtanu Maitra | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 16 Sep , 2012
Since 2004, the United States has made hundreds of attacks on targets in northwest Pakistan using drones (unmanned aerial vehicles) controlled by the CIA’s Special Activities Division. Some...
Arab Spring: A Mirage
By: Nilofar Suhrawardy | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 14 Sep , 2012
The so-called Arab Spring is proving to be a strong litmus test for diplomacy and democracy at several levels, bilateral, regional, multinational, economic and that which bears features of...
War against Lashkar-e-Taiba
By: Maj Gen Afsir Karim | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 04 Sep , 2012
If Pakistan does not take strong measures against the fundamentalist forces and terror groups and their influence and power grows, it may lead to the collapse of the state. Presently, Pakistan...