Articles in Homeland Security
Gangrenous spread of Terror
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Jun , 2014
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has given a call of “zero tolerance” to Maoists aka Left Wing Extremism (LWE). The NSA too, through his recent article ‘Maoists War Against India: Time for...
Counterinsurgency: No Win Situation and Inflexion Point
By: Col Anil Athale | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Jun , 2014
It has become a popular cliché to describe insurgency and counter-insurgency as struggle for hearts and minds of the people. It must be reiterated that it is also a struggle between hearts and...
Maoist War Against India: Time for United & Strong Response: Ajit Doval
By: admin | Date: 06 Jun , 2014
Article 370 and Nation-Building: A Reality Check
By: Brig Amar Cheema | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 31 May , 2014
“Nothing is as admirable in politics as a short memory’’ –John Galbraith Nation building is an ‘ongoing’ phenomenon and in the case of India’s quest for nationhood, it is definitely...
Pakistan Occupied Kashmir and Northern Areas
By: Bhashyam Kasturi | Issue: Vol 14.3 Jul-Sep 1999 | Date: 30 May , 2014
The Northern Areas form a large chunk of territory annexed by Pakistan in 1947. It provided the bulk of the manpower for the intrusions in Kargil, consisting of the Northern Light Infantry of the...
Silent Subterfuge – LoC to Border?
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 May , 2014
Media reports quote the Special Representative of the Prime Minister on Pakistan saying that India and Pakistan should ensure the LoC is like border. The Special Representative was reportedly...
Spy vs Spy: When R&AW lost
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 May , 2014
A spook spends his working life in a cloistered world—protecting himself, his relatives, his feelings and his joys and sorrows from unwanted curiosity. The special bonds that one develops in this...
Northeast: the Role of Narcotics and Arms Trafficking
By: Brig (Dr) SP Sinha | Issue: Book Excerpt: Lost Opportunities | Date: 10 May , 2014
The illegal narcotics trade is one of the major reasons for the continuance of insurgencies in the North-east. The consequences of trafficking in narcotics are many; for one, it is a major source...
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...
The Subverted Indo-Bangladesh Border : I
By: VK Shashikumar | Issue: Vol 24.2 Apr-Jun 2009 | Date: 07 May , 2014
Operation Zero Line Investigates the gateway of terror in the East – the 4,095 km (2,979 km land border and 1,116 km riverine border) long India-Bangladesh border, half of which is along West...
Siachen was accepted as Indian Territory in 1949!
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 Apr , 2014
The Boss of Pakistan says: “It’s time to resolve the Siachen issue”, but what General Kayani forgets is that the Siachen issue was ‘solved’ long ago, in fact, in July 1949. I reproduced here an...
Handling Red Terror: Chicken Egg Debate
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Apr , 2014
Any debate about handling the Maoist insurgency finally boils down to whether it is or isn’t a ‘Law and Order’ problem and whether it should or should not be handled by the Centre or the...
Arming ‘After’ Aiming: Agenda for the New Government
By: Brig Amar Cheema | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Apr , 2014
“The inability to think beyond rigid assumptions and perceptions in matters strategic have often led to surprise, failure and disaster” Mr Stephen Cohen needs to be complemented for flagging...
India needs a new personality
By: Dr Amarjit Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Apr , 2014
Tectonic changes are required on the diplomatic and military fronts for India to emerge happy and confident, and with an industry that can compete with world players. As far as world competition...
Unchecked Infiltration
By: Shib Shankar Chatterjee | Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 05 Mar , 2014
Muhammad Jamil Rehman, a trader, who had come to India to get his mother treated, was one of those, who preferred to stay back, for thorough health check-ups of his mother in India, where medical...
Rise of Naxal Violence
By: Dr Sudhir Hindwan | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Feb , 2014
The recent Naxal attack in Bihar is a disturbing reminder of an array of issues which the country is yet to come to grips with. The series of violent activities by the Maoists in Bihar suggest...