Articles in Homeland Security
IPKF's Performance in Sri Lanka
By: Lt Gen SC Sardeshpande | Issue: Book Except: Assignment Jaffna | Date: 08 Apr , 2011
The Long War Used as we are to wars of a fortnight or three weeks, the Cl Ops against the LTTE in Sri Lanka, which went on for nearly two and a half years, proved indeed tough – and to many,...
Samjauta Blast Probe: Messier & Messier
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Apr , 2011
The investigation into the February 18,2007, explosions on board the Samjauta Express to Pakistan that killed 68 persons 43 of them Pakistanis returning home after visiting India is becoming...
Cricket World Cup and Politics over Terror
By: Col US Rathore | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Apr , 2011
The tenth edition of Cricket World Cup has taken South Asia by storm – four host nations, forty-eight matches between fourteen teams at thirteen venues makes it truly a mega sporting event....
Some reflections on India's Defence Policy
By: Brij Raj Singh | Issue: Vol 24.4 Oct-Dec 2009 | Date: 31 Mar , 2011
India remembered Kargil a few weeks back. We all recall with pride the sacrifices our soldiers and airmen made in this conflict ten years ago. Kargil no doubt was a military success but it...
Designer Wars and India
By: Col Rajinder Singh | Issue: Vol 24.2 Apr-Jun 2009 | Date: 25 Mar , 2011
Be it military philosophies, social systems, cultural ethos, political doctrines, economic concepts, business environments and cosmic theories, technology over the last fifty years has been the...
We the mere Indians
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Mar , 2011
The publication in instalments of leaked WikiLeaks diplomatic cables by selected newspapers such as the “Guardian”of the UK, the “New York Times”, “Le Monde” of France, “Der...
Lessons from Japan
By: Col US Rathore | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Mar , 2011
On 11 March, Japan was jolted by an earthquake of 8.9 magnitude. Soon a massive tsunami followed. Ten-meter-high waves invaded the eastern coast of the country. The epicentre of the earthquake...
Hostages on Sea
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Mar , 2011
As I write this, family members and supporters of the six Indian sailors onboard MV Suez, an Egyptian ship, captured by Somali pirates in August 2010, remains uncertain. With the deadline to pay...
Internal Security and the Military
By: Lt Gen SC Sardeshpande | Issue: Vol 25.4 Oct-Dec 2010 | Date: 11 Mar , 2011
After a century of peace since 1857, we entered an era of independence — a totally new era of representational democracy, secularism of our brand, social equality, economic equity, uplift of...
Northeast: the future prospects
By: Brig (Dr) SP Sinha | Issue: Book Excerpt: Lost Opportunities | Date: 09 Mar , 2011
It is always difficult to predict the future course of events. Nonetheless, there are some trends that are discernible. One such is the illegal immigration from Bangladesh, which will continue to...
Training for anti-Maoist Operations
By: Col US Rathore | Issue: Vol 26.1 Jan-Mar 2011 | Date: 07 Mar , 2011
Deployment of Central Police Organisation (CPO) in Low Intensity Conflict Operations (LICO) is not a new phenomenon. Many units of CPO have served in the northeast, Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab and...
Orissa: Surrender to Insurgents
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Feb , 2011
The Orissa Government’s handling of the situation arising from the kidnapping on February 16,2011, of Shri Ravella Vineel Krishna, the popular District Collector of Malkangiri District, and a...
Don't throw India to the wolves
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Feb , 2011
The abduction of an IAS officer RV Krishna in Orissa and the seeming capitulation of the state has made the people of India feel vulnerable and insecure. If the swap of terrorists with the...
Coastal and maritime security: two sides of the same coin
By: Vice Admiral PS Das | Issue: Vol 24.1 Jan-Mar 2009 | Date: 04 Feb , 2011
The Mumbai terrorist attack of 26th November 2008 has, correctly, focused on issues concerning the security of India’s vast coastline. Earlier, in 1993, the Maharashtra coast had been used to...
'invisible Violence' that consumes India
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Feb , 2011
On Monday, LeT militants dragged two teenaged sisters from their house in the Kashmir Valley and killed them in the most brutal manner. It served as reminder that the situation in the valley has...
Internet poses threat to Authoritarian Regimes
By: Maj Gen Dhruv C Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Jan , 2011
The Jasmine Revolt: The story of Tunisia gives one hope that oppressive regimes can be overthrown by the power of people mobilised to fight injustice without recourse to violence or civil war....
Fight against Terrorism and the Moral Dilemmas
By: Anand K Verma | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Jan , 2011
Terrorism is a phenomenon operating on both sides of morality. Dilemmas, therefore, arise not confined to any one side. This is best apparent by examining some well known cases. Take the case...
Indian Flag at Lal Chowk, Srinagar?
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Jan , 2011
The ongoing march by a political party to raise the national flag in Sri Nagar is being dubbed as politically motivated by its detractors. It indeed is a move for political mobilization for...
Messages from Moscow Airport Blast
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Jan , 2011
Thirty-five persons are reported to have been killed in a suicide blast near the arrival area of Moscow’s Domodedovo airport at 4-32 PM local time on January 24,2011. The suspected suicide...
Peep at the Nautical Crystal Ball
By: Vice Admiral Arun Kumar Singh | Issue: Vol 23.1 Jan-Mar 2008 | Date: 24 Jan , 2011
The Indian Ocean Region (IOR), encompasses 56 littoral and hinterland nations with 33 percent of the world’s population, but only 25 percent of the land mass. The IOR, has numerous unresolved...