Articles in Homeland Security
Mumbai Blasts 13/7: Q& A with B Raman
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Jul , 2011
Q.Can the three blasts in Mumbai on July 13,2011, be attributed to an intelligence failure? A.Yes. I have always held that every successful terrorist strike is due to either an intelligence...
China is not Tunisia or Egypt
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 Jul , 2011
China is not Tunisia or Egypt. That is the message that the Chinese political leadership headed by President Hu Jintao and Prime Minister Wen Jiabao is seeking to send across to its own people...
Intelligence Reform: no gains without a cultural shift
By: Anand K Verma | Issue: Vol 26.2 Apr-Jun 2011 | Date: 01 Jul , 2011
The reforms, as and when the discourse reaches the stage of finality, should also focus on the role of the National Security Adviser (NSA) about which there is much confusion today. Is he an...
Internal Conflicts
By: Maj Gen Afsir Karim | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 28 Jun , 2011
Many mini-wars are raging around the world, but internal conflicts where the main instrument of destruction is terrorism pose a great danger to the entire world directly or indirectly. Internal...
Small Arms Proliferation in the Northeast: The Chinese Connection - II
By: Rajeev Bhattacharyya | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 28 Jun , 2011
Hubs, Routes and Rates: Most of the consignments used to originate in Thailand, which received arms from China and Cambodia. Ships with arms would reach Cox Bazar and other regions of Chittagong,...
Small Arms Proliferation in the Northeast: The Chinese Connection - I
By: Rajeev Bhattacharyya | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 27 Jun , 2011
The illicit proliferation and misuse of small arms is among the most pressing security threats that have affected a large number of countries. Thousands of people are killed or wounded every year...
Kabul Terrorist Attack on Hotel
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Jun , 2011
After a gap of two and a half years, Kabul saw another terrorist attack on an important hotel frequented by foreigners and local VIPs on the night of June 28,2011. The previous attack had taken...
Growing Chinese concern over internal turmoil
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 Jun , 2011
The authorities of the Chinese Ministry of Public Security, who are responsible for internal intelligence, internal security and law and order, seem to be increasingly concerned over the...
The case against Rana
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Jun , 2011
US District Judge Harry D Leinenweberwas reported to have ruled at Chicago on June 9,2011, that TahawurHussainRana, of the Chicago cell of the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LET), was guilty of supporting the...
Counter-Insurgency Operations in Northeast - I
By: Brig (Dr) SP Sinha | Issue: Book Excerpt: Lost Opportunities | Date: 05 Jun , 2011
Prior to 20th century guerrilla warfare was regarded as purely military form of conflict. It was the weapon of the weak against the strong. The guerrillas employed ‘hit and run’ tactics...
China's Inner Mongolia: A Jasmine Revolution with a Difference
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 Jun , 2011
China’s Inner Mongolia, where Mongolians are in a minority of only 20 per cent of the total population of 23 million, has been going through a Jasmine type Revolution with a difference since May...
Maoists are enemeies of India - II
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Vol 26.2 Apr-Jun 2011 | Date: 28 May , 2011
The Ideological Factor At the lower levels, the ideological factor of Maoism is clearly missing. The foot soldiers are just instruments of violence and part of the extortion industry. The lower...
Maoists are enemies of India - I
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Vol 26.2 Apr-Jun 2011 | Date: 27 May , 2011
While the killing of Osama Bin Laden has dominated the Indian media space and the mind space of the Indians, the killing of eleven security personnel in Jharkhand by Maoists on 3rd may 2011 has...
How to ward off threats to Pak nuclear arsenal?
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 May , 2011
The daring commando style raid into a Pakistani naval base at Karachi on May 22 by terrorists of the Pakistani Taliban has highlighted once again the poor state of physical security at sensitive...
How Pakistan's Proxy War Began - VII
By: B Raman | Issue: Book Excerpts: A Terrorist State as a Frontline Ally | Date: 23 May , 2011
Details of the HUM, JEM & LET The report gave the following details of the HUM, the JEM and the LET. The HUM “Formerly known as the Harkat-ul-Ansar, the HUM is an Islamic militant group based...
How Pakistan's Proxy War Began - VI
By: B Raman | Issue: Book Excerpts: A Terrorist State as a Frontline Ally | Date: 22 May , 2011
Terrorism & Bush Jr Administration Terrorism was an important theme during the presidential election campaign of George Bush Jr in 2000. It figured in his election platform and in the studies...
A Shoddy Counter-Terrorism Data-Base
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 May , 2011
More than two years after the 26/11 terrorist strikes in Mumbai and the setting-up of the National Investigation Agency (NIA), the Government of India continues to have a shoddy...
How Pakistan's Proxy War Began - V
By: B Raman | Issue: Book Excerpts: A Terrorist State as a Frontline Ally | Date: 19 May , 2011
Indian Efforts to secure US support In addition to stepping up counter-terrorism operations by the Security Forces on the ground, the Government of India has also been trying, since 1991, to draw...
India and US enhance partnership in joint anti-terrorism
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 May , 2011
The U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Diplomatic Security, in partnership with the Indian Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), on May 13 concluded a two-week seminar on the role of police leaders...
Pak Army & ISI: Dangerous mix of Humiliation & Desperation
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 May , 2011
A dangerous mix of humiliation and desperation is the prevailing mood in the Pakistani Armed Forces and its Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) in the wake of the death of Osama bin Laden in a...