Articles in Homeland Security

Tactical Shifts in the Terror Profile

Tactical Shifts in the Terror Profile

By: Maj Gen GD Bakshi, (Retd) | Issue: Vol. 23.4 Oct-Dec 2008 | Date: 08 Oct , 2011

From June 08, India has been victim of a new phase of terrorism and enhanced ISI activities. This spurt in ISI sponsored terrorism was presumably initiated by Lt Gen Nadeem Taj to divert...

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CIA successes mounting against Al Qaeda

CIA successes mounting against Al Qaeda

By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Oct , 2011

The USA’s Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has kept up its run of successes against Al Qaeda with the killing of Anwar al-Awlaki, a US citizen of Yemeni origin, and Samir Khan, a US citizen of...

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How Pakistan's Proxy War Began - II

How Pakistan's Proxy War Began - II

By: B Raman | Issue: Book Excerpts: A Terrorist State as a Frontline Ally | Date: 23 Sep , 2011

The HUM: The Harkat-ul-Ansar (HUA) of Pakistan was started in central Punjab in Pakistan in the early 1980s by certain religious elements under the name the Harkat-ul-Mujahideen (HUM) with...

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How Pakistan's Proxy War Began - III

How Pakistan's Proxy War Began - III

By: B Raman | Issue: Book Excerpts: A Terrorist State as a Frontline Ally | Date: 22 Sep , 2011

The Markaz and its Lashkar: The Markaz Oawa al Irshad (MOI) was founded in 1987, at the inspiration of Osama bin Laden, by Zafar Iqbal and Hafiz Mohammed Saeed of the University of Engineering...

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Reign of Terror: How safe are we?

Reign of Terror: How safe are we?

By: Col US Rathore | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Sep , 2011

Post-26/11, reacting to the elaborate security arrangements near Hotel Taj, Mumbai someone exclaimed with great flourish, “Why all this?  Lightning does not strike at the same place...

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Indian Mujahideen objective, an Islamic Caliphate across South Asia, says USA

Indian Mujahideen objective, an Islamic Caliphate across South Asia, says USA

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Sep , 2011

The Secretary of State designated the Indian Mujahideen (IM) as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) under Section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act and as a Specially Designated...

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Hazaras Massacred in Balochistan by Al Qaeda

Hazaras Massacred in Balochistan by Al Qaeda

By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 Sep , 2011

 Twenty-six Shia pilgrims belonging to the Hazara community were dragged out of a bus in which they were travelling at Mastung in Balochistan on September 20,2011, lined up and shot dead by...

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Mumbai 26/11 repeated by Taliban in Kabul

Mumbai 26/11 repeated by Taliban in Kabul

By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 Sep , 2011

According to an analysis by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), the Afghan Taliban and its affiliates such as the Haqqani network and Gulbuddin Heckmatyar’s Hizbe-Islami (HI) attempted...

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India’s Southern Security

India’s Southern Security

By: Lt Gen SC Sardeshpande | Issue: Vol 22.3 Jul-Sep 2007 | Date: 11 Sep , 2011

A general review of media reportage on India’s southern security, relating to Sri Lanka in recent months reveals following salient aspects:- Sri Lankan Govt’s (SLG) argument of finding...

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Terror without Trail

Terror without Trail

By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Sep , 2011

The terrorism situation on the ground is more and more worrying. It is not just because the terrorists have become smarter than they were before. They have, of course, but that should not be the...

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The Price of Security

The Price of Security

By: Lt Gen Vinay Shankar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Aug , 2011

The political and administrative elite of India has yet to assimilate a fundamental lesson in the management of the Country’s defense policy. Like in almost every other sphere the quality of...

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Karachi is Burning

Karachi is Burning

By: B Raman | Date: 20 Aug , 2011

The civil war-like situation in Karachi continues without respite. Seventy-three persons belonging to different communities and religious sects were reported to have been killed—many of them in...

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Maoist terror, governance failures and the keyboard terrorist

Maoist terror, governance failures and the keyboard terrorist

By: Maj Gen Dhruv C Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Aug , 2011

The growth of Left Wing Extremism in India from an obscure village in the Naxalbari Block of West Bengal in 1967 to 235 districts across its length and breadth in 2011 does not bode well for the...

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The Child Guerrillas of the Northeast - II

The Child Guerrillas of the Northeast - II

By: Rajeev Bhattacharyya | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 15 Aug , 2011

Dearth of cadres has forced outfits to adopt ingenious tactics also in Assam albeit in a manner more devastating than in Manipur. The United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) has been forced to...

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The Child Guerrillas of the Northeast - I

The Child Guerrillas of the Northeast - I

By: Rajeev Bhattacharyya | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 15 Aug , 2011

Adults fight wars, but often they drag children into it. The Spartans of Ancient Greece created a highly martial society, with boys as young as seven being introduced to rigorous military...

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The New Fundamentalist Challenges

The New Fundamentalist Challenges

By: Maj Gen Afsir Karim | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 14 Aug , 2011

The vulnerability of the Indian coastal areas and islands of the Western Indian Ocean to the activities of al-Qaeda and Pakistan based terrorist groups became apparent following the terrorist...

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Is China Changing?

Is China Changing?

By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 Aug , 2011

Recent events in the port city of Dalian in north-east China where public protests forced the local Government to accept a demand for closing down a chemical plant following an accident and for...

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Afghan Taliban carries out a catastrophic strike against US Navy Seals

Afghan Taliban carries out a catastrophic strike against US Navy Seals

By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Aug , 2011

Seven officers of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of the US and an officer of the Jordanian Intelligence related to the royal family of Jordan were killed in a suicide attack launched on...

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Maoists and the Armed Forces

Maoists and the Armed Forces

By: Gp Capt RK Prasad | Issue: Vol 24.4 Oct-Dec 2009 | Date: 06 Aug , 2011

Armed forces personnel hailing from the Red Corridor are being subjected to intimidation and extortion by the Maoists for at least two decades now. The families of the servicemen residing in their...

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Coastal Security remains as vulnerable as ever due to poor human reflexes

Coastal Security remains as vulnerable as ever due to poor human reflexes

By: B Raman | Date: 04 Aug , 2011

India’s coastal security remains as vulnerable as ever due to poor human reflexes despite the lessons learnt (hopefully) from the immense tragedy of 26/11 when 10 members of Pakistan’s...

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