Homeland Security
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...
China-Pak spy web in Northeast
By: VK Shashikumar | Issue: Vol 25.4 Oct-Dec 2010 | Date: 12 Jun , 2012
India’s Defence Minister, circumspect at most times, surprised senior army officers by publicly admitting that China was demonstrating “increasing assertiveness”. He was addressing the...
Indian Army’s Counter-Insurgency Operations in J&K
By: Bhashyam Kasturi | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 03 Jun , 2012
The Indian experience of tackling insurgency is both varied and rich. This is so both in terms of area and terrain and in terms of groups or organisations pursuing a particular...
Limits of Saudi Counter-Terrorism Co-Operation with India
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Jun , 2012
One should avoid over-playing the so-called geo-strategic significance of Saudi counter-terrorism co-operation with India in the wake of the arrest of Zabiuddin Ansari aka Abu Jundal aka Abu...
Nuclear India: Why the Tests Now?
By: K Subrahmanyam | Issue: Vol. 13.2 April-June 1998 | Date: 11 May , 2012
No other country in the world debated going nuclear for a longer period than India and yet when the country finally took the plunge it produced more divisiveness than in any other seven declared...
No Ground to Vacate Siachen
By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 May , 2012
Peace with Pakistan is a desirable goal, but peace should be equally desired by both sides and both should contribute to it in equal measure. The burden of making peace should not fall on India...
Silent Invasion
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 May , 2012
In its latest “Annual Report”, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has admitted that checking illegal migration from Bangladesh is a major challenge “considering the porous nature of the...
Maoists’ Final Assault on Democracy
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 May , 2012
An analysis of recent events related to Maoist terrorism shows that the four-decades-old phenomenon has entered its most dangerous phase. The abduction of two Italian nationals, Paolo Bosusco and...
Internal Security: Centre Playing Politics?
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Apr , 2012
Individual States can control regional terrorism or insurgency with a limited spread. We have had success stories as in the case of Al Ummah in Tamil Nadu. But terrorism or insurgency of a...
Preserving the Military Institution
By: Lt Gen Gautam Banerjee | Issue: Vol. 27.1 -Mar 2012 | Date: 06 Apr , 2012
Military leaders at all levels have to girdle up to protect the exclusivity of the military establishment from attempts of misguided, even if unintentional, dilutions from within the fraternity...
Why the Henderson-Brooks report has never been released! – II
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Vol. 27.2 Apr-Jun 2012 | Date: 03 Apr , 2012
The September 08 Incident: The situation was getting hotter by the day. In Beijing, Mao Zedong had begun his comeback to the political stage in Beijing. In the morning of September 08, 1962, the...
Why the Henderson-Brooks report has never been released! – I
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Vol. 27.2 Apr-Jun 2012 | Date: 02 Apr , 2012
Sir Henry McMahon never envisaged that the hurriedly conducted survey and his drawing of a thick red line on a map could trigger a war. The ‘massive attack’ supposedly planned by India cannot...
Insurgency, Counter-Insurgency and Peace – I
By: Col Anil Athale | Issue: Vol. 27.1 -Mar 2012 | Date: 26 Mar , 2012
Counter-insurgency is a complex phenomenon demanding a complex solution. Any attempt at reductionism can be an invitation to disaster. Although it is very much a form of warfare fitting into the...
Insurgency, Counter-Insurgency and Peace – II
By: Col Anil Athale | Issue: Vol. 27.1 -Mar 2012 | Date: 25 Mar , 2012
Counter-insurgency is a complex phenomenon demanding a complex solution. Any attempt at reductionism can be an invitation to disaster. Although it is very much a form of warfare fitting into the...
NCTC: Proposed powers have serious scope for misuse
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Feb , 2012
In a letter to the Chief Ministers, who have expressed their reservations over certain features of the proposed National Counter-Terrorism Centre (NCTC), ShriP.Chidambaram, the Union Home...
NCTC: Creation of KGB in India?
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Feb , 2012
Of all the Chief Ministers, who have protested against the proposed creation of the National Counter-Terrorism Centre (NCTC) in the Intelligence Bureau of the Government of India with effect...
Counter-Terrorism: Need to Revisit Security Procedures
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Feb , 2012
Since 2007, five Iranian nuclear scientists have been killed in Iranian territory. In some of these instances, the terrorists had attached small magnetic bombs to the exterior of the victims...
L’Affaire Salman Rushdie
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Jan , 2012
The situation became sensitive and complex. One would have expected the Government of India to stop this intimidatory campaign initiated by the Deobandis in the bud and make it clear to them...
Future of Kashmiri Pandits?
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Jan , 2012
It is 23 years today since Jammu & Kashmir saw the beginning of the ethnic-cleansing of the Kashmiri Pandits, the original inhabitants of Jammu & Kashmir (J&K), from their homeland at the...
MoD extends battle winning advantage to the enemy!
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Jan , 2012
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) with its superfluous layers of bureaucracy and the complicated defence procurement procedures, has not only delayed the modernization of armed forces but its...