Articles in Homeland Security
Slump in Maoists’ War: An Opportunity to Reap
By: Shashank Ranjan | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Oct , 2014
On 20 September 2014, The Indian Express carried a report, captioned, “Ahead of Global Meet, Maoists Admit to Setbacks”. The report mentions about a letter uploaded on CPI (Maoist)...
Sardar Patel’s Foreign Policy
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Oct , 2014
Now that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has ensured that the country “acknowledges” the contributions of India’s first Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister Sardar Vallabhai Patel towards...
Chairman COSC & CAS visits Flood Affected J&K to oversee Relief and Rescue...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Sep , 2014
The Chairman, Chiefs of Staff Committee (COSC) and Chief of the Air Staff (CAS) Air Chief Marshal Arup Raha visited the flood affected areas of Jammu and Kashmir, today and carried out aerial...
Fight alienation and not AFSPA
By: Lt Gen Harwant Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Sep , 2014
Periodically Omar Abdullah demands abrogation of AFSPA from certain areas of the state of J and K. He claims that there is complete peace in these areas and therefore there is little justification...
Internal Security: The Maoist Dimension
By: Lt Gen Gautam Banerjee | Issue: Vol. 29.2 Apr-Jun 2014 | Date: 13 Aug , 2014
The Maoist rebellion is a phenomenon, an adverse one of course, in which bands of armed local inhabitants, led by firebrand ‘area commanders’, assume a role that should truly lie within the...
Maoists Through the Prism of their Victims
By: Lt Gen Baljit Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 Jul , 2014
What can be surmised from an understanding of the history of warfare in general is that in any form of armed conflict, collateral damage (loss of limb and life) to the populace at large as also of...
Kashmiris are being hijacked!
By: Col Jaibans Singh | Issue: Courtesy: www.defenceinfo.com | Date: 24 Jul , 2014
The government in the centre has been there barely two months and a segment of the so-called prime-movers of the Kashmir valley, political leaders and intelligentsia, have started voicing a...
Israel under the Iron Dome - Should India Seek Cover?
By: Lt Col Sailesh Kumar Rai | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Jul , 2014
The ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict has once again brought into sharp focus the technological disparities between the two adversaries. Although there are news reports indicating use of UAVs by...
Drone Terrorism
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Jul , 2014
Media recently reported the arrest of four persons in Varanasi for filming the ‘Ganga Aarti’ using drone cameras at the Dashashwamedh Ghat without permission. The arrest was possible because...
Why ex-IB chief Ajit Doval is the best NSA India could ever get
By: admin | Date: 07 Jul , 2014
Siachen Again!
By: Lt Gen Mukesh Sabharwal | Issue: Vol 27.3 Jul-Sep 2012 | Date: 07 Jul , 2014
De-militarisation is a process that consists of several logical steps: ceasefire, authentication, demarcation, withdrawal, re-deployment and verification. It is a concept that formal and informal...
Let the new Government Evolve a Policy on Kashmir. Then we can Discuss...
By: admin | Date: 24 Jun , 2014
Kiren Rijiju: 'We must strengthen our position on China border'
By: admin | Date: 18 Jun , 2014
The three dangers to India
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Vol 22.3 Jul-Sep 2007 | Date: 18 Jun , 2014
Very few policy makers in India dare to acknowledge the danger to the nation’s territorial integrity. The security and integrity of the nation has become hostage to vote-bank politics. Democracy...