Homeland Security
Israel under the Iron Dome – Should India Seek Cover?
By: Lt Col Sailesh Kumar Rai | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Jul , 2014
The ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict has once again brought into sharp focus the technological disparities between the two adversaries. Although there are news reports indicating use of UAVs by...
Drone Terrorism
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Jul , 2014
Media recently reported the arrest of four persons in Varanasi for filming the ‘Ganga Aarti’ using drone cameras at the Dashashwamedh Ghat without permission. The arrest was possible because...
Gangrenous spread of Terror
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Jun , 2014
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has given a call of “zero tolerance” to Maoists aka Left Wing Extremism (LWE). The NSA too, through his recent article ‘Maoists War Against India: Time for...
Counterinsurgency: No Win Situation and Inflexion Point
By: Col Anil Athale | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Jun , 2014
It has become a popular cliché to describe insurgency and counter-insurgency as struggle for hearts and minds of the people. It must be reiterated that it is also a struggle between hearts and...
Article 370 and Nation-Building: A Reality Check
By: Brig Amar Cheema | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 31 May , 2014
“Nothing is as admirable in politics as a short memory’’ --John Galbraith Nation building is an ‘ongoing’ phenomenon and in the case of India’s quest for nationhood, it is...
Silent Subterfuge – LoC to Border?
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 May , 2014
Media reports quote the Special Representative of the Prime Minister on Pakistan saying that India and Pakistan should ensure the LoC is like border. The Special Representative was reportedly...
Containing Maoist Insurgency: An Organisational Approach
By: S V Raghavan and V Balasubramaniyan | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 08 May , 2014
India has been suffering from armed internal violence for the past four decades. Terrorists and insurgent groups have created havoc in various parts of India, targeting combatants and...
The Subverted Indo-Bangladesh Border : I
By: VK Shashikumar | Issue: Vol 24.2 Apr-Jun 2009 | Date: 07 May , 2014
Operation Zero Line Investigates the gateway of terror in the East – the 4,095 km (2,979 km land border and 1,116 km riverine border) long India-Bangladesh border, half of which is along West...
Handling Red Terror: Chicken Egg Debate
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Apr , 2014
Any debate about handling the Maoist insurgency finally boils down to whether it is or isn’t a ‘Law and Order’ problem and whether it should or should not be handled by the Centre or the...
Arming ‘After’ Aiming: Agenda for the New Government
By: Brig Amar Cheema | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Apr , 2014
“The inability to think beyond rigid assumptions and perceptions in matters strategic have often led to surprise, failure and disaster” Mr Stephen Cohen needs to be complemented for...
India needs a new personality
By: Dr Amarjit Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Apr , 2014
Tectonic changes are required on the diplomatic and military fronts for India to emerge happy and confident, and with an industry that can compete with world players. As far as world competition...
Unchecked Infiltration
By: Shib Shankar Chatterjee | Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 05 Mar , 2014
Muhammad Jamil Rehman, a trader, who had come to India to get his mother treated, was one of those, who preferred to stay back, for thorough health check-ups of his mother in India, where medical...
North East in Turmoil
By: Dr Sudhir Hindwan | Date: 24 Jan , 2014
The National Democratic Front of Bodoland has resurfaced with gusto in the North East. On Saturday the separatists (NDFB) massacred two persons and left more than four injured. Earlier on Friday...
Refusing to learn from Mumbai attacks
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Nov , 2013
It is five years since that dreadful night of November 26, 2008, which saw 10 terrorists making an amphibious landing onto the jetties of Mumbai, and proceeding to carry out sophisticated and...
The Chinese Incursion: Need to Introspect
By: Lt Gen (Dr) JS Bajwa | Issue: Vol. 28.2 Apr-Jun 2013 | Date: 04 Nov , 2013
Robert Kaplan in his book “The Revenge of Geography” suggests that, “India’s rivalry with China is not like the one with Pakistan: it is more abstract, less emotional, and (far more...
North-East India: Its place in the National Security Calculus
By: PM Heblikar | Issue: Vol. 28.3 Jul-Sep 2013 | Date: 29 Oct , 2013
There has been no major change in the military architecture in India’s Northeast region since 1962. In a strategic sense, India has remained more in a defensive posture all along the sensitive...
BDCA – Another Self Inflicted Wound
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Date: 23 Oct , 2013
The brouhaha about India having signed the BDCA agreement with China actually is a self-inflicted wound though providing satisfaction to Prime Minister Manhohan Singh that he too inked a border...
Another Kargil in Keran Sector ?
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Oct , 2013
You don’t require a genius to tell you that the serious intrusion in Keran Sector that has been ongoing since 23rd September, even before the terrorist attacks on Hira Nagar Police Station and...
What National Security ?
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Oct , 2013
Not having a National Security Strategy is a terrific boon to the hierarchy, for where is the question of accountability. Without a strategy, national security can flow the way it wants, whose...
The Inside Story of Samba Attack
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 Sep , 2013
Having just returned from the unit, filling in on the events on 26 Sep - Sep has truly been a 'BLACK SEP' this year, losing 4 x Officers and 3 men! ...the militants on the first floor realised...