Homeland Security
Pulwama Car Bombing – another Surgical Strike or Chemotherapy?
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Feb , 2019
The car bombing of a CRPF convoy on February 14, 2019, 30 km short of Srinagar in Pulwama has claimed the lives of 44 CRPF personnel with more than 30 others injured. J&K Governor Satya Pal Malik...
Pulwama Terror Attack: Challenge by Jihadists
By: Brig Anil Gupta | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Feb , 2019
The deadly car bomb suicide attack on a convoy of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) near Awantipora in Pulwama claiming the lives of more than 40 troopers and leaving a score of them injured is...
Article 370: The untold story
By: Maj Gen Sheru Thapliyal, PhD | Issue: Vol 26.1 Jan-Mar 2011 | Date: 14 Feb , 2019
It is often not realized that among the causes of Kashmir problem – inclusion of plebiscite in the Instrument of Accession, reference of Kashmir to UN, halting Indian offensive when it was...
Sabotage – The Silent Killer
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Feb , 2019
During the Regional Conference on Security held in Bangladesh in 2001, both Pakistani speakers Shirin Mazari, Director General, Institute of Strategic Studies and Lt Gen Javed Hassan, Commandant,...
Terrorism as a Cancer: Does this Metaphor Work for India?
By: Dr Krishna S Dhir, PhD | Issue: Vol. 33.4 Oct-Dec 2018 | Date: 09 Feb , 2019
Though primarily a medical term, the word ‘cancer’ is increasingly being applied to ideas associated with ‘terrorism’. It is generally understood that cancer is triggered by conditions...
The Veil behind the Proxy War
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Feb , 2019
Recently, the Maharashtra ATS arrested nine suspects allegedly owing allegiance to Islamic State. They were planning to carry out chemical attacks in large public gatherings including the Kumbh....
A Wake up Call: ‘Izzat’ at Stake
By: Brig Anil Gupta | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Feb , 2019
Jammu & Kashmir continues to hog media limelight for one reason or the other. A recent happening in Kashmir, though outrageous and barbaric has failed to sensitise the Lutyens media while the...
Turbulent Times Ahead – Security Scenario in 2019
By: Maj Gen Pushpendra Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 Jan , 2019
Prime Minister Modi commenced his innings in 2014 with characteristic flamboyance by inviting heads of all SAARC governments- including Pakistan – to his inauguration. This followed...
Army Chief laid out an honest, transparent Kashmir Policy in annual media...
By: Col Jaibans Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Jan , 2019
The annual press conference of Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Indian Army, on the occasion of Army Day, was held on 10, January this year. As was expected, more than 50 percent of the questions...
Disclosing Operation Kabbadi (September, 2001): An Immature Idea
By: Dr Rajasimman Sundaram | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Jan , 2019
Disclosing Indian Army’s aborted plan to launch “Operation Kabaddi” in September 2001 with an objective to end cross border infiltration in India’s premier national daily (The Hindu, 22...
A New Messiah in Kashmir!
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Jan , 2019
Shah Faesal recently quit Indian Administrative Service (IAS). He has been since much in news, primarily because he is a Kashmiri Muslim and belonged to the J&K cadre wherein he served for 10...
Neglecting Border Infrastructure is Dangerous
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Jan , 2019
With general elections approaching fast, there is news once again about plans for border infrastructure, albeit these are still on paper. This time the media on January 13, 2019 has quoted the...
For Shah Faesal it is time to smell the coffee
By: Col Jaibans Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Jan , 2019
Shah Faesal is the new flavor in the political landscape of Kashmir! A top rated IAS officer who has suddenly had a twinge of conscience that has compelled him to find a new uncharted path. One...
How Secure will India be in 2019?
By: Maj Gen SB Asthana | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Jan , 2019
Although one year is too short a period for trending a serious subject like National Security, nevertheless speculating the immediate trends may be a useful exercise under the existing realities,...
Andaman & Nicobar – India’s Natural Aircraft Carrier
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Jan , 2019
China makes no bones about her 'Malacca Dilemma' and ensures aggressive presence in Indian Ocean Region (IOR). She has listening posts in Coco Islands, has made strategic investments in Kyaukpu...
J&K: A Counter Narrative
By: Brig Anil Gupta | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Jan , 2019
In my previous article “Battle of Perceptions: difference correct wordings can make,” I had emphasised the need of winning the battle of perceptions in J&K. Building an appropriate...
Maoists deadlier than before
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Jan , 2019
The Home Minister claims that Maoist terror is on decline. Statistically that may be the indication, but in reality Maoist terror, its reach and influence has hardly waned. The Maoist method of...
Teenage Terrorists of Kashmir: Collective Failure of Parents Teachers &...
By: Brig Narender Kumar (Retd.) | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 Jan , 2019
On December 09, 2018 two teenagers Mudasir Rashid Parray, 14, and Saqib Bilal Sheikh, 16 were killed in a gun battle with the security forces. It shook the Kashmir valley and question was raised,...
Situation in J&K: Serious but not insurmountable
By: Col (Dr) PK Vasudeva | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Dec , 2018
The Kashmir conflict is a territorial conflict primarily between India and Pakistan, having started just after 1947 partition. India and Pakistan have fought three wars over Kashmir –...
Defending India: Buying Land for Defence Works!!
By: Lt Gen (Dr) JS Bajwa | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 Dec , 2018
A quaint situation exists in the State of Arunachal Pradesh. Land required by the security forces for construction of defence works which include bunkers, firing positions and tracks is to be...