Articles in Homeland Security

Slump in Maoists’ War: An Opportunity to Reap

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)...

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Sardar Patel’s Foreign Policy

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...

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Chairman COSC & CAS visits Flood Affected J&K to oversee Relief and Rescue...

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...

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Fight alienation and not AFSPA

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...

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Internal Security: The Maoist Dimension

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...

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Maoists Through the Prism of their Victims

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...

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Kashmiris are being hijacked!

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...

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Israel under the Iron Dome - Should India Seek Cover?

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...

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Drone Terrorism

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...

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Siachen Again!

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...

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The three dangers to India

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...

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