Articles in Homeland Security
The Psychological Warfare in J & K
By: Lt Gen Raj Kadyan | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 Jul , 2013
The militancy in J&K is a mix of violence and clever use of psychological warfare. Having failed to succeed in their designs to defeat the security forces, the militants have been trying to...
ISI infiltrates Indian think tanks and the media?
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 Jun , 2013
It took a gutsy lady like Ayesha Siddiqa to pen down what has been known for many years now – that the ISI has successfully infiltrated foreign think tanks. In the instant case, she mentions...
Disaster Management: A nation's Litmus Test
By: Danvir Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 Jun , 2013
A nation is not only the territory, its natural resources or the amassed wealth but it is all about the great people that work towards making it a great entity. These people carry humanity in...
Maoists: Whence to the Land of Freedom...
By: Lt Gen Gautam Banerjee | Issue: Book Excerpt: Reign of the Red Rebellion | Date: 27 Jun , 2013
“Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high … Into that heaven of freedom, my father, let my country awake.” —Tagore India is a millennium old civilisation of diverse...
Utharakhand: Disasters Come – Disasters Go !
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Jun , 2013
The horrific disaster that has struck Uttrakhand has been assessed as a mix of natural and man-made. In fact, the various media analyses indicate we were asking for it and there were enough...
Why Maoist Insurgency Will Flourish in India
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Jun , 2013
It was amusing to view the Singh Duo RPN Singh, Minister of State for Home Affairs and RK Singh, Home Secretary describing the Maoist attack on a train in Bihar as “Frustration” on the part...
Terrorism as an Instrument of Power Projection
By: Maj Gen Afsir Karim | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 08 Jun , 2013
It seems there is no change in the policy of the Pakistan army in matters related to Kashmir. The top brass, along with a crop of retired generals, still believes that India should not be allowed...
Fight Maoist strategy and not the forces...
By: Danvir Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 Jun , 2013
The ‘Gandhians with Guns’ as they may be referred by the people like Arundhiti Roy, however the fact is that they are armed rebels working against the interestsof the union of India and its...
Route-Out aur Route-In Alag Hoga
By: Rahul Chutani | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 01 Jun , 2013
“Route-Out aur Route-In Alag Hoga” said the Ustad at the Indian Military Academy. This phrase sounded too basic and too simplistic at that time to the young boys sitting there, imbibing...
Combating Left-Wing Extremism
By: Lt Gen Kamal Davar (Retd) | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 01 Jun , 2013
Among the security perils that afflict India internally, the gravest and most alarmingly burgeoning is left-wing extremism (LWE), commonly dubbed as the Naxal-Maoist threat. Alluded to as being...
Maoists ambush Congress Leaders Convoy
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 May , 2013
The last Saturday (25th May) Maoist ambush of the convoy of Congressmen in Chhattisgarh is being described as a wakeup call in view of forthcoming elections, the term of the present State...
Police cannot take on Maoists
By: VK Shashikumar | Issue: Vol 25.4 Oct-Dec 2010 | Date: 25 May , 2013
The latest flash-point between The People’s Liberation Guerrilla Army or naxals in the Lakhisarai forests of Bihar is a tell-tale indicator of the state of preparedness of the Indian police and...
Tackling Maoists : the Andhra paradigm
By: Col JK Achuthan (Retd.) | Issue: Vol 25.2 Apr-Jun 2010 | Date: 25 May , 2013
“The armed Threat from within is more dangerous than any external Threats.” -Leon Trotsky Introduction Today the greatest danger to India’s independence and flourishing democracy is the...
Spreading Naxalism - Napping Government
By: PV Ramana | Issue: Vol 22.1 Jan - Mar 2007 | Date: 24 May , 2013
Naxalites owing allegiance to the Communist Party of India (Maoist) have been waging a bloody insurrection against the Indian state with the ultimate objective of capturing political power...
Aggressive Chinese designs and India's utter timidity...
By: Maj Gen Mrinal Suman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 May , 2013
External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid, after holding talks with his counterpart Wang Yi in Beijing on 09 May 2013, told reporters that there was still no clarity on the reasons behind the...
More intrusions in Indian Territory by China to follow...
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 03 May , 2013
The Defence Secretary has reportedly informed the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Defence that the Chinese intrusion at Daulat Beg Oldi (DBO) in Ladakh region is actually 19 kilometers deep...