Articles in Homeland Security
Poor political leadership continues to plague J&K
By: Col Jaibans Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Apr , 2019
As the people of Jammu and Kashmir get on to vote for their representatives in the Parliament, it becomes relevant here to dwell on the report card of the esteemed Members of Parliament (MPs) of...
Kishtwar Killing Part of a Bigger Game Plan
By: Brig Anil Gupta | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Apr , 2019
The broad daylight cold blooded murder by jihadi terrorists of a devoted Rashtriya Swayam Sevak (RSS) leader and his police guard in Kishtwar town of Jammu cannot be treated as a stray incident...
Reigniting AFSPA
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Apr , 2019
Diwali is once a year but fireworks equivalent to 10 years during Diwali have been fired in run up to general elections 2019 – not actual firecrackers but through verbal abuse. But the Armed...
Kashmiri Youth and the Democratic Process
By: Col Jaibans Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 Apr , 2019
Kashmir, despite being in the throes of a very unfortunate environment of violence, has witnessed a steady improvement in literacy levels over the last few decades. The 2011 census recorded a...
Operation ‘Sunrise’
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Mar , 2019
News of India conducting a ‘Third Surgical Strike’ in Myanmar has suddenly exploded in media on March 14-15. Over the last three years, all Indian military operations are prefixed with...
Has the Pulwama Crisis Altered Strategic Dimensions?
By: Shalini Chawla | Date: 15 Mar , 2019
On 26 February, the Indian Air Force (IAF) targeted a Jaish-e-Muhammed (JeM) camp in Balakot in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province, after over 40 Central Reserve Police Forcejawans were...
Anti India sentiments serve Pakistan’s interests
By: Farooq Wani | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Mar , 2019
Politics makes strange bedfellows while destiny imposes difficult neighborhoods. The two nation theory being followed by Pakistan survives on spewing venom at its secular, democratic and...
Airstrikes wipe out decades of cowardice and humiliation
By: Sudip Talukdar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Mar , 2019
Fast paced events have overtaken the country, quite unprecedented in its post independence historical sweep, such as the devastating air strike on Balakot, the nerve-centre of Jaish-e-Mohammed’s...
Pulwama-Balakot can be defining moment for India in a long drawn out war
By: Commodore C Uday Bhaskar (Retd.) | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 11 Mar , 2019
The grenade attack in Jammu city on Thursday (March 7) that killed two people and injured more than 40 has been attributed to the Hizbul Mujahedin and comes a few weeks after the Pulwama attack....
Pakistan: Reeling under the impact of self created fault lines
By: Col Jaibans Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Mar , 2019
The high tension created by the face-off between India and Pakistan post the barbaric terrorist attack on the Indian Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) convoy at Pulwama, Kashmir, in...
What Beyond Balakot?
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Mar , 2019
The unprecedented use of image of Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthman, a serving IAF officer, indicates the low to which the ruling political party is prepared to stoop. This too after the...
Kunan-Pushpora Resurfaces with Crackdown on Separatists
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Mar , 2019
Concurrent to the crackdown on the separatists and Jamaat-e-Islami in the Kashmir Valley, the fictitious case of Kunan-Pushpora mass rape case has resurfaced. This could be due to instructions...
National Security cannot be ignored
By: Maj Gen Harsha Kakar | Issue: Courtesy: www.dailyexcelsior.com | Date: 07 Mar , 2019
Post the Pulwama incident the Government went on an overdrive seeking to act against Pak. The nation cried for revenge, implying launching some form of retribution against Pak. An air force strike...
The challenges in Kashmir have increased manifold for the Indian Army
By: Col Jaibans Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Mar , 2019
Wing Commander Abhinandan has been returned by Pakistan to India! There are divergent reasons being given for this decision by Pakistan but courtesy demands that we ignore the supposed ulterior...
Economic and Strategic Importance of Sea in Modern Indian Context
By: Vice Admiral MP Muralidharan | Issue: Vol. 33.4 Oct-Dec 2018 | Date: 28 Feb , 2019
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru was very perceptive in stating that “By and large it can be said that even in the past and remote ages, it was the seafaring nations that prospered, prospered both from...
Pulwama: Pakistan’s reaction and India’s options
By: Dr. Simrit Kahlon | Issue: Courtesy: www.defenceinfo.com | Date: 24 Feb , 2019
While coming to terms with the horrific terrorist attack on a CRPF convoy at Pulwama, Kashmir, it becomes important to see Pakistan’s reaction to the carnage that it has sponsored. Pakistan has...
Pulwama Attack: Time to Get the Messaging Right
By: Col Vivek Chadha (Retd.) | Issue: Courtesy: IDSA | Date: 23 Feb , 2019
Suicide attacks are one of the most potent and effective options available to terrorists.1 They have been used with telling effect in conflict torn areas like Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan. The...
Kashmir: De-radicalization is the only solution
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Feb , 2019
There is again grief in the nation. The nation is again angry. This is the phenomenon since at least three decades. Yet after every attack we look for reasons, as though it is the first one. Like...
Resolute action, not bombast, required in terror attacks
By: Sudip Talukdar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Feb , 2019
Forthright action should now replace the sheer bombast that drives political and social discourse in India, regarding wanton acts of terror against soldiers, security men and civilians alike. What...
Kashmir – Let Truth Be Told
By: Lt Gen (Dr) JS Bajwa | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Feb , 2019
“Nero fiddled while Rome burnt.” In July of the year 64 CE (Common Era) a great fire ravaged Rome for six days destroying seventy percent of the City and leaving half its population homeless....
