Articles in Homeland Security
Indian Army’s Counter-Insurgency Operations in J&K
By: Bhashyam Kasturi | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 03 Jun , 2012
The Indian experience of tackling insurgency is both varied and rich. This is so both in terms of area and terrain and in terms of groups or organisations pursuing a particular...
Limits of Saudi Counter-Terrorism Co-Operation with India
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Jun , 2012
One should avoid over-playing the so-called geo-strategic significance of Saudi counter-terrorism co-operation with India in the wake of the arrest of Zabiuddin Ansari aka Abu Jundal aka Abu...
Ansari’s Arrest: Answers that India needs
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 May , 2012
Ansari is presently under interrogation by the Indian authorities. It is likely that the interrogation is being carried out by a joint team headed by the Multi-Agency Centre (MAC) of the...
Nuclear India: Why the Tests Now?
By: K Subrahmanyam | Issue: Vol. 13.2 April-June 1998 | Date: 11 May , 2012
No other country in the world debated going nuclear for a longer period than India and yet when the country finally took the plunge it produced more divisiveness than in any other seven declared...
No Ground to Vacate Siachen
By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 May , 2012
Peace with Pakistan is a desirable goal, but peace should be equally desired by both sides and both should contribute to it in equal measure. The burden of making peace should not fall on India...
Silent Invasion
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 May , 2012
In its latest “Annual Report”, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has admitted that checking illegal migration from Bangladesh is a major challenge “considering the porous nature of the...
Maoists' Final Assault on Democracy
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 May , 2012
An analysis of recent events related to Maoist terrorism shows that the four-decades-old phenomenon has entered its most dangerous phase. The abduction of two Italian nationals, Paolo Bosusco and...
Internal Security: Centre Playing Politics?
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Apr , 2012
Individual States can control regional terrorism or insurgency with a limited spread. We have had success stories as in the case of Al Ummah in Tamil Nadu. But terrorism or insurgency of a...
PM's Conference on Internal Security - Q&A
By: Col R Hariharan | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Apr , 2012
Prime Minister has said Left Wing extremism remains a major challenge to the internal security of the country? What are your views? The Prime Minister had highlighted Left Wing extremism (LWE) as...
Maoist Tactics: Wanted cool thinking, not Bravado
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Apr , 2012
The Maoists have been increasingly resorting to abduction as one of their tactics for cowing down the State and society and for demonstrating their ability to enforce their will on the State. The...
Preserving the Military Institution
By: Lt Gen Gautam Banerjee | Issue: Vol. 27.1 -Mar 2012 | Date: 06 Apr , 2012
Military leaders at all levels have to girdle up to protect the exclusivity of the military establishment from attempts of misguided, even if unintentional, dilutions from within the fraternity...
Why the Henderson-Brooks report has never been released! - II
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Vol. 27.2 Apr-Jun 2012 | Date: 03 Apr , 2012
The September 08 Incident: The situation was getting hotter by the day. In Beijing, Mao Zedong had begun his comeback to the political stage in Beijing. In the morning of September 08, 1962, the...
Why the Henderson-Brooks report has never been released! - I
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Vol. 27.2 Apr-Jun 2012 | Date: 02 Apr , 2012
Sir Henry McMahon never envisaged that the hurriedly conducted survey and his drawing of a thick red line on a map could trigger a war. The ‘massive attack’ supposedly planned by India cannot...
Insurgency, Counter-Insurgency and Peace - I
By: Col Anil Athale | Issue: Vol. 27.1 -Mar 2012 | Date: 26 Mar , 2012
Counter-insurgency is a complex phenomenon demanding a complex solution. Any attempt at reductionism can be an invitation to disaster. Although it is very much a form of warfare fitting into the...
Insurgency, Counter-Insurgency and Peace - II
By: Col Anil Athale | Issue: Vol. 27.1 -Mar 2012 | Date: 25 Mar , 2012
Counter-insurgency is a complex phenomenon demanding a complex solution. Any attempt at reductionism can be an invitation to disaster. Although it is very much a form of warfare fitting into the...
Taking Nuclear War-Fighting Seriously
By: Ali Ahmed | Issue: Vol. 27.1 -Mar 2012 | Date: 19 Mar , 2012
What are the implications of a nuclear battlefield? Since the early eighties, this question has been posed since Sundarji’s postal seminar on nuclear conflict while he was in command of the...
Counter-Terrorism: The NCTC Controversy
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Mar , 2012
India has been facing the evil of terrorism since 1971 when two members of the Jammu & Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) hijacked an Indian Airlines plane to Lahore and set it on fire after asking...
NCTC: Proposed powers have serious scope for misuse
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Feb , 2012
In a letter to the Chief Ministers, who have expressed their reservations over certain features of the proposed National Counter-Terrorism Centre (NCTC), ShriP.Chidambaram, the Union Home...
National Counter Terrorism Centre Fiasco
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Feb , 2012
Before 9/11 the assessment in the US was that terrorist threats to the US from abroad would be more serious than home-based threats.The responsibility for co-ordinating preventive action was,...
NCTC: Creation of KGB in India?
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Feb , 2012
Of all the Chief Ministers, who have protested against the proposed creation of the National Counter-Terrorism Centre (NCTC) in the Intelligence Bureau of the Government of India with effect...