Homeland Security
Unmaking of a great power in the making…
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Vol 27.3 Jul-Sep 2012 | Date: 20 Jan , 2013
Sixty-five years after Independence, the ‘functional anarchy’ is now increasingly becoming dysfunctional as disorder spreads across the Union of India. Midway, even before she could rise and...
Siachen: Track II Unexplained
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Jan , 2013
A recent article in a prominent Indian daily last week talked of non-state actors who bring nations closer and the Ottawa Dialogue; the now well known issue of ‘Demilitarization of Siachen’....
Air Power against the Maoists
By: Air Marshal Narayan Menon | Issue: Vol. 27.4 Oct-Dec 2012 | Date: 30 Dec , 2012
Employment of air power to search and destroy targets has been carried out on a very large scale in Afghanistan and Pakistan by the US forces. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and Unmanned Combat...
Deportation issues for Illegal Bangladeshi Immigrants
By: Kahnu Nanda | Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 29 Dec , 2012
Gadaharishpur Panchayat is a stunningly green and beautiful patch of land on the periphery of coastal Erasama Block of Jagatsinghpur District populated by Bengali-speaking Muslims, accused of...
2012: Multiplying security threats
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Dec , 2012
India is surrounded with Islamic fundamentalist regimes, a rising communist super power and military dictatorship. The authoritarian regimes in the neighbourhood contradict India’s...
Demilitarizing Siachen: Looking for a Soft Option?
By: Air Marshal B D Jayal | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Dec , 2012
At what is commonly referred to as Siachen, India hold the dominating high ground on Saltoro Ridge. To the west of this is Gilgit and Baltistan, which is proposed to be leased by Pakistan to...
Insensitive timing of Rehman Malik’s visit
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Dec , 2012
If NaMo, the Chief Minister of Gujarat, had been well-advised, instead of raising the issue of Sir Creek, he would have raised the insensitive timing of the official visit of Mr. Rehman Malik,...
AFSPA: Who wants the military for internal security?
By: Maj Gen S G Vombatkere | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 Dec , 2012
Parliament and Government Government can function in the interest of people only when there is peace and order in society, persons in power use people-oriented politics, and the rule of law is...
Action plan to deal with Maoist Insurgency
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Nov , 2012
Start a crash programme for the development of road and telecommunications infrastructure in the entire tribal belt of Central India. The Chinese realised that without effective road and rail...
Maldivian boat in distress rescued by Indian Naval Ship Shardul
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Sep , 2012
'RANKURI', a 95 feet long Maldivian mechanical boat, with four personnel onboard, reported missing at sea off the Southern cost of Maldives since 17 Sep 12 was rescued by Indian Naval Ship 'INS...
Mumbai Attacks: An Infidel Country Like India
By: Dr Prem Mahadevan | Issue: Vol. 27.2 Apr-Jun 2012 | Date: 29 Aug , 2012
The 2008 Mumbai attacks appear to have been a joint operation between two factions of the Lashkar that had been drifting apart due to policy disagreements. One was a ‘loyalist’ faction led by...
Pakistan unleashes Cyber War on India
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Aug , 2012
The next generation of warfare, the cyber war can not only disrupt data-links, electronic devices and networks, but can also create panic by use of the social media as we witnessed in the mass...
Psy-jihad against people from the Northeast
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Aug , 2012
What we have been seeing since May, 2012, is a proxy jihad through the Internet and modern means of communications such as the cell phone and I-pad being waged by a new generation of IT savvy...
Turmoil in Bodoland
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Jul , 2012
Assam is burning as I write this. Ethnic clashes between the Bodo tribes (Hindus) and “Bengali Muslims” (most of them being immigrants) have already consumed 40 lives and resulted in...
Is Colonel Purohit guilty?
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Vol. 23.4 Oct-Dec 2008 | Date: 18 Jul , 2012
The article was written one month prior to 26/11 and was published in Indian Defence Review issue No. 23.4 (Oct-Dec 2008) under the the title "Spare the Army". Going by the selective and...
“Unwise to lift ban on Pak TV programmes,” says former RAW officer
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Jul , 2012
In 1989, widespread demonstrations, some of them leading to violence, broke out in Jammu & Kashmir against the Government of India. That was the time when East Europe was in turmoil with...
IAF comes to the rescue of Maldharis stranded in swamps of little Rann of Kutch
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Jun , 2012
The IAF pressed into service, its Mi-8 and Chetak aircraft promptly in response to a request for casualty evacuation of villagers at Enjar Village. Led by Wing Commander Vikas Bali and co-pilot...
Abu Jundal: New Delhi must change as Islamabad will never!
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Jun , 2012
Prima facie it appears that Abu Jundal and Abu Hamza are assumed names of an Indian citizen, Syed Zabuddin Ansari. Lashkar-e-Toiba normally provides such assumed identities to its operators. The...
The Siachen Imbroglio
By: Maj Gen S G Vombatkere | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Jun , 2012
The title and contents of Mr.A.G.Noorani's article “Settle the Siachen dispute now“1 strongly suggest peace-by-demilitarization of Siachen on an immediate basis. His quest for peace is...
India’s Shrinking Influence
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Vol 22.2 Apr-Jun 2007 | Date: 15 Jun , 2012
Despite India’s pretensions of an emerging great power, its influence is shrinking -both, internally as well as on its external periphery. Internally, Naxalites and insurgent outfits control...