Articles in Homeland Security
End the neglect of the Military
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Vol. 28.1 Jan-Mar 2013 | Date: 26 Apr , 2013
Growing threat perceptions call for urgent sprucing up of the military machine which has been grossly neglected in India so far. The Pakistan Army’s strategy in the near future will be based...
Chinese Incursion in Ladakh exposes Indian Army war machinery's (Un)...
By: Col (Dr) PK Vasudeva | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Apr , 2013
Surprisingly, in a deep incursion, Chinese troops have entered the Indian Territory in Daulat Beg Oldi (DBO) sector in eastern Ladakh and erected a tented post without digging any trenches,...
Bangalore blast: Three people arrested in Chennai for alleged involvement
By: admin | Date: 23 Apr , 2013
Reigniting Kashmir
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Courtesy: fairobserver.com | Date: 19 Apr , 2013
John Quinton, American writer once wrote, “Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.” Appears happening in Kashmir, at least on...
Revoking AFSPA would be a folly
By: Sunita Vakil | Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 30 Mar , 2013
The new phase of violence that has swept Kashmir once again highlights the fact that the overall situation remains on knife’s edge. Militants disguised as cricketers killed five paramilitary...
Jihadis Refocusing on Kashmir
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Mar , 2013
Defence expert Bharat Verma says 12th March attack on the Srinagar CRPF camp is a sign that jihadi forces are now again focusing on Kashmir as they are freed from the Afghan conflict, thanks to...
Countering IEDs: Training remains the Key
By: Maj Gen Dhruv C Katoch | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 13 Mar , 2013
On 22 February, eight persons, including six policemen, were killed in a landmine blast triggered by Maoists at Majhauliya village in Bihar’s Gaya district. This marked the first major land mine...
The killers' mace of the dark visitors
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Vol 24.1 Jan-Mar 2009 | Date: 12 Mar , 2013
In February 1999, the PLA Literature and Arts Publishing House in Beijing released a fascinating book written by Qiao Liang and Wang Xiangsui, two Senior Colonels of the People’s Liberation...
AFSPA: Misconceptions and Ground Realities
By: Maj Gen S G Vombatkere | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Mar , 2013
Sanjoy Hazarika1 and Walter Fernandes2 bring out the justifiable opposition to AFSPA felt by people from our northeastern states where it was first imposed in 1958. The provocation for both...
No Time for Turf Wars
By: Air Marshal B D Jayal | Issue: Courtesy: The Telegraph | Date: 09 Mar , 2013
Nothing could have painted a clearer security picture of our neighbourhood than three prominent news items on the same day in one national daily .Osama plotted to nuke US with AQ help, India...
The scourge of terror attacks
By: Lt Gen Raj Kadyan | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Mar , 2013
The multiple bomb blasts in Dilsukhnagar area of Hyderabad on 21 Feb 2013 are undoubtedly part of a continuing process. Almost 20 such blasts have occurred in various parts of the country in the...
Failing On Terror Yet Again
By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Feb , 2013
Hyderabad is bloodied again by terrorism, exposing once more our failure to marshal the political will, the legal instruments, the organizational structure and the required technical skills and...
Hydrabad Blasts
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Feb , 2013
Eleven persons are reported to have been killed and over 87 injured in two well-timed explosions in the Dilsukhnagar area of Hyderabad around 7 PM on February 21,2013. Initial reports indicated...
How Pakistan's Proxy War Began - I
By: B Raman | Issue: Book Excerpts: A Terrorist State as a Frontline Ally | Date: 09 Feb , 2013
Pakistani assistance for the anti-Government of India activities of alienated sections of the Indian society was not due to only its revanchist spirit following its loss of the then East Pakistan...
Lessons from Latehar
By: Maj Gen Dhruv C Katoch | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 02 Feb , 2013
On 07 January 2013, ten police personnel were killed in an ambush in the Karmatiya Forest of Latehar District. Nine of the killed were from the Central Reserve Police force (CRPF) and one was...
UPA-Samjhauta-Saeed Nexus Exposed!
By: Rajinder Puri | Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 31 Jan , 2013
Home Minister Mr. Sushil Kumar Shinde addressing his party’s brainstorming Chintan Shivir at Jaipur almost immediately after Mr. Rahul Gandhi – with impetus of changing the culture and...