Articles in Homeland Security
Gifting Away of Indian territory: The Rise of the Bandicoots?
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Date: 06 Sep , 2013
It was pathetic to see visuals of the longest serving Defence Minister of India on national TV yesterday evening avoiding media persons wanting to question him on the revelations made in the...
National Security: Can the nation expect PM to stop swimming in slush?
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Sep , 2013
In one crisp interview to Spiegel, Jayati Ghosh has disrobed the government in deflecting blame on “foreign factors” for the economic slush that they have landed this country into. Both the...
Unconventional Warfare – Whose Baby?
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 Aug , 2013
David Maxwell’s recent article ‘Unconventional Warfare Does Not Belong to Special Forces’ in warontherocks.com makes interesting reading. English is a West German language that originated...
Why should our soldiers ‘be nice’ to Pakistanis asks a Common Man
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Aug , 2013
While reading an article (http://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/Pakistan/Decoding-Indo-Pak-ties-It-s-talks-versus-fights/Article1-1105336.aspx?hts0021) in the Hindustan Times which advocated...
Maoists: Crimson Tide
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Vol. 28.2 Apr-Jun 2013 | Date: 24 Aug , 2013
With adequate potential for civil war aimed at Balkanizing India, the Maoist insurgency requires total national focus and synergy, according equal importance to politico-social-economic issues in...
Reactivation of the Kashmir Frontiers
By: Brig Amar Cheema | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Aug , 2013
The Line of Control (LC) that marks the de-facto Indo-Pak border in the disputed state of J&K is witnessing the familiar sequence of infiltration, reverberating gunfire and mindless violence which...
Bharat Verma on chinks in India's security
By: Nishant Chaturvedi | Issue: Courtesy: News Express TV | Date: 17 Aug , 2013
In an exclusive interview Nishant Chaturvedi, News Express Channel Head in Ye Hui Na Baat talks to Bharat Verma, Editor Indian Defence Review on issues of significance and concerning national...
New Delhi: Mice can't roar!
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Aug , 2013
The Prime Minister’s speech this Independence Day from ramparts of the Red Fort reaffirmed to the world that India continues to be a ‘soft state’ ruled by mice. Despite all that has...
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...
Downhill from Kargil
By: Air Marshal Narayan Menon | Issue: Vol 24.3 Jul-Sep 2009 | Date: 25 Jul , 2013
It is only ten years since the Kargil War, and it has already faded from public memory. ‘Tiger Hill’, ‘Tololing”, “Pt 5140”, Mushkoh Valley, and Muntho Dhalo are remembered only in...
Reasoning the Indian Mujahideen
By: Danvir Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Jul , 2013
The Indian Mujahideen (IM) has been quiet active ever since the banning of SIMI in 2001. Almost all the blasts, starting from Delhi in 2008 to Bodh Gaya recently, they have been...
Avoidable Tragedies
By: Air Marshal B D Jayal | Issue: Courtesy: The Telegraph | Date: 20 Jul , 2013
It is now nearing a month since disaster struck the upper reaches of Uttarakhand, unleashing nature’s fury and shattering the lives of thousands of pilgrims and local people. The number of...
The Fall of Maoist Revolution
By: Lt Gen Gautam Banerjee | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Jul , 2013
Having murdered the leading Congress party functionaries in Chattisgarh and celebrating that macabre act like the savages do, the Maoists have now elaborated their ‘hit list’ of politicians...
Joining the Security Dots: Cyber Security, Surveillance and Democracy
By: Maj Gen S G Vombatkere | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Jul , 2013
Edward Snowden, in his courageous, principled expose, has brought out how USA’s National Security Agency (NSA) has been spying on most nations in the world. This spying is clearly to establish or...
Karachi central prison: A tinderbox of expanding militant networks
By: admin | Date: 05 Jul , 2013