Articles in Homeland Security
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...
Hindu Terrorism: A Journalism Agenda
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Jan , 2011
Often, I get phone calls from Delhi-based journalists to discuss with me the disturbing phenomenon of some Hindus taking to terrorism and the reported confession before a Magistrate of Swami...
Self-employed Soldier!
By: Lt Gen Harwant Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Jan , 2011
I was at the College of Combat, Mhow, when the India-China war of 1962 started. The course was terminated and all were instructed to forthwith rejoin their units. Army Headquarters required me to...
Neglect of India's frontier areas
By: Maj Gen Mrinal Suman | Issue: Vol 24.3 Jul-Sep 2009 | Date: 17 Jan , 2011
Defence Minister of India, Mr AK Antony visited Nathu La in East Sikkim in the first week of December 2007 and was visibly taken aback to see the difference between infrastructure on the Indian...
ULFA The Hindu Mercenaries of Jihadis
By: B Raman | Issue: Vol 22.1 Jan - Mar 2007 | Date: 14 Jan , 2011
In 13 different incidents reported since January 5, 2007 from the districts of Tinsukia, Dibrugarh, Sivasagar and Dhemaji, the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) is reported to have mowed...
Left Wing Extremism
By: Maj Gen GD Bakshi, (Retd) | Issue: Vol 24.3 Jul-Sep 2009 | Date: 12 Jan , 2011
The Assembly elections in J&K in 2008 was peaceful and witnessed record voter turnouts. In sharp contrast the very first day of the Lok Sabha Polls in 2009 witnessed an upsurge of Naxalite...
Defining Victory: The Dilemma in Anti-Terrorism and Counter-Insurgency
By: Col Harjeet Singh | Issue: Vol 24.3 Jul-Sep 2009 | Date: 12 Jan , 2011
The usage of the term, ‘war’ when battling terrorism or insurgency raises several issues. An important one is the use of the term ‘victory’ to delineate the desired objective in this...
India should suspend work visas for Chinese
By: B Raman | Issue: Vol 24.4 Oct-Dec 2009 | Date: 10 Jan , 2011
The Hindu has reported on October 1, 2009, that the Chinese Embassy in New Delhi has been issuing visas on a separate sheet of paper to Indian citizens born and resident in Jammu & Kashmir...
The Samjauta Express Explosion: The Follow-Up
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Jan , 2011
“According to American investigators, the LET (Lashkar-e-Toiba) and Al Qaeda were responsible for the Samjauta Express blast and the HUJI( Harkatul-Jihad-Al-Islami) for the Mecca Masjid blast...
The Dubious Deal with ULFA
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Jan , 2011
The Assam government, fully backed by New Delhi, has cleared the passage for release of the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) leaders from jail. On the New Year’s Day, the so-called...
Pirates or Naval Al Qaeda or Both?
By: B Raman | Issue: Vol 24.2 Apr-Jun 2009 | Date: 07 Jan , 2011
I have been in receipt of the following message on April 8, 2009, from ECOTERRA International, which disseminates a periodic “Somali Marine & Coastal Monitor”: “Danish owned and US-American...
Meeting Maoist Challenge
By: Lt Gen Harwant Singh | Issue: Vol 25.4 Oct-Dec 2010 | Date: 05 Jan , 2011
While Maoists have been slowly but surely spreading their hold over district after district, scoring a total of over 200 districts, the Indian state slept through this phase spanning over couple...
Maritime Security: an Indian scenario
By: Commodore G Sharma | Issue: Vol 24.1 Jan-Mar 2009 | Date: 03 Jan , 2011
In the late 1930s, a famous radio program in the USA called War of the Worlds — a story line that proposed an attack on the earth from Mars — created a sensation and instilled fear into the...
Operation Nandigram: The Inside Story
By: VK Shashikumar | Issue: Vol 23.1 Jan-Mar 2008 | Date: 29 Dec , 2010
A Primitive Territorial Conflict Nandigram is like any other town in Marxist West Bengal. Even the new in-your-face CPI (M) flags look familiar. Narrow proletarian streets, packed with walking...
The Shadows in J&K
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 Dec , 2010
In his message of February 12, 2007, Ayman al-Zawahiri, the No.2 to Osama bin Laden, has spoken of a global Jihadi Intifada. Has he spoken of any special areas of focus for this...
Gujjar Agitation: Internal Security Ramifications
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Vol 22.3 Jul-Sep 2007 | Date: 24 Dec , 2010
The purpose of this article is not to dwell on the political and social dynamics of the recent Gujjar agitation, but to highlight the pernicious internal security ramifications of such agitations...
Demographic drivers of India's national security
By: Maj Gen GD Bakshi, (Retd) | Issue: Vol 23.3 Jul-Sep 2008 | Date: 22 Dec , 2010
The scientific process of Net Assessment is characterised by a study of trends and triggers. Evolutionary change in the geo-strategic environment can be described in the form of trends. Trends...
The Indian Jihadi Net
By: B Raman | Issue: Vol. 23.4 Oct-Dec 2008 | Date: 20 Dec , 2010
If one carefully analyses the various serial blasts which have taken place in different parts of India since November,2007, one could notice an organic, mushroom-like growth of jihadi terrorist...
New Delhi's political incompetence creates a valley of discontent
By: Lt Gen Harwant Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Dec , 2010
It was winter- of 1963 when the holy relic at the Hazratbal Shrine in Srinagar went missing. News spread like wild fire and a crowd of more than quarter of a million assembled in Srinagar town. A...
Maoist Threat and Politics
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Vol 25.1 Jan-Mar 2010 | Date: 13 Dec , 2010
The previous issue of the Indian Defence Review carried a letter from a serving air force officer Group Captain RK Prasad to the Home Minister of India. The officer and his family had been...