Interviews/Spotlights
Osama's Death: Affect on US Policy towards Pak and Afghan - II
By: Ramtanu Maitra | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 01 Sep , 2011
Pakistan’s Response The U.S. lawmakers’ and population’s response to the Osama killing put both Islamabad and Rawalpindi—at least those who tacitly approved the operation, prior to it or...
Osama's Death: Affect on US Policy towards Pak & Afghan - I
By: Ramtanu Maitra | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 31 Aug , 2011
The 2 May killing by U.S. Navy Seals of the notorious al-Qaeda leader, Osama bin Laden, at his residence next door to Pakistan’s principal military academy, Pakistan Military Academy (PMA), in...
Sino-Indian Border Dispute
By: Lt Gen (Dr) Mohan Bhandari, (Retd.) | Issue: Vol. 23.4 Oct-Dec 2008 | Date: 29 Aug , 2011
China launched full scale invasion on India in 1962. In fact, Chinese invasion had commenced way back in 1906 when it maneuvered and succeeded in concluding the 1906 Convention in Calcutta. In...
Maritime Rapid Reaction Force
By: Dr Vijay Sakhuja | Issue: Vol 21.4 Oct-Dec 2006 | Date: 26 Aug , 2011
Addressing the combined conference of Indian Military Commanders on October 26, 1999 Former Defence Minister George Fernandes had noted that the Indian Armed Forces should set up a Rapid Reaction...
Air Power & Irregular Warfare in the Indian context
By: Air Cmde Arjun Subramaniam | Issue: Vol 24.1 Jan-Mar 2009 | Date: 19 Aug , 2011
“This is another type of war, new in its intensity, ancient in its origin — war by guerrillas, subversives, insurgents, terrorists, war by ambush instead of by combat; by infiltration,...
India in the Neighbourhood
By: Vikram Sood | Issue: Vol 22.1 Jan - Mar 2007 | Date: 19 Aug , 2011
Leo Tolstoy’s classic Anna Karenina begins with the famous sentence: “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” The Indian subcontinent is somewhat like...
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...
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...
The Indian Army: The first challenge - VII
By: Major K.C. Praval | Issue: Book Excerpt: Indian Army After Independence | Date: 08 Aug , 2011
Pir Saiyid Fazal Shah was a towering mass of rock. The Punjabis stormed it around 1700 hours after 25-pounders, howitzers and aircraft had pounded it. The enemy used every weapon with it to stop...
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...
The Indian Army: The first challenge - VI
By: Major K.C. Praval | Issue: Book Excerpt: Indian Army After Independence | Date: 05 Aug , 2011
Throughout the winter of 1947-48, and the summer that followed, the Punch garrison had remained cut off. Under Brigadier Pritam Singh it continued to wage its lonely battles against the besieging...
Gaps in Maritime Security-II
By: VK Shashikumar | Issue: Vol 24.1 Jan-Mar 2009 | Date: 02 Aug , 2011
Revamping Coastal Security Apparatus: Considering the inadequate coastal security infrastructure along the vast and porous Indian coastline the issues relating to registration of boats,...
Gaps in Maritime Security-III
By: VK Shashikumar | Issue: Vol 24.1 Jan-Mar 2009 | Date: 02 Aug , 2011
The Customs Department: There is a Customs office at every major fishing centre. Strictly in accordance with the rules and regulations and in accordance with its charter of activities, every...
Indian Army: The first challenge - V
By: Major K.C. Praval | Issue: Book Excerpt: Indian Army After Independence | Date: 02 Aug , 2011
An unsuccessful attempt was made in April-May 1948 to relieve Skardu. A battalion of the Jammu and Kashmir Infantry was sent from Srinagar together with a small party of regular troops. Due to...
1965 War:True Story of 2/Lt Baljit Singh- III
By: Colonel Baljit Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 Aug , 2011
The incidents narrated ahead are based on the experience of 2nd Lieutenant Baljit Singh, 3rd Madras Infantry Battalion, 69th Infantry Brigade, who had participated in the legendary 1965 Indo-Pak...
Indian Army: The first challenge - IV
By: Major K.C. Praval | Issue: Book Excerpt: Indian Army After Independence | Date: 30 Jul , 2011
The beginning of December brought the first snowfall to Uri. About this time, enemy troops in uniform appeared for the first time in this sector. On 11 December, all traffic to Uri stopped...
The Indian Army: The first challenge - III
By: Major K.C. Praval | Issue: Book Excerpt: Indian Army After Independence | Date: 28 Jul , 2011
During a discussion of these recommendations by the Defence Committee, Prime Minister Nehru urged that the occupation of Domel was important and told the Army Chief to consider sending a force to...
How Pakistan's Proxy War Began - VIII
By: B Raman | Issue: Book Excerpts: A Terrorist State as a Frontline Ally | Date: 27 Jul , 2011
Wanted: A Counter Proxy War Doctrine In the absence of a meaningful and effective response from our side, it is India, which has been bleeding at the hands of this Army of Islam, with the...
The Indian Army: The first challenge - II
By: Major K.C. Praval | Issue: Book Excerpt: Indian Army After Independence | Date: 26 Jul , 2011
A battle is the testing ground for a soldier. All the training that he receives from the day he enlists is for this supreme test, when he stakes his dearest possession — his life — against...
Evolving Maritime Challenges
By: Vice Adm RN Ganesh | Issue: Vol 24.3 Jul-Sep 2009 | Date: 25 Jul , 2011
The naval strategy of the Western powers led by the USA during the Cold War was centred on the location and tracking of Soviet ballistic missile-firing nuclear submarines (SSBNs). When the Cold...