Homeland Security
India’s Southern Security
By: Lt Gen SC Sardeshpande | Issue: Vol 22.3 Jul-Sep 2007 | Date: 11 Sep , 2011
A general review of media reportage on India’s southern security, relating to Sri Lanka in recent months reveals following salient aspects:- Sri Lankan Govt’s (SLG) argument of finding...
Terror without Trail
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Sep , 2011
The terrorism situation on the ground is more and more worrying. It is not just because the terrorists have become smarter than they were before. They have, of course, but that should not be the...
The Price of Security
By: Lt Gen Vinay Shankar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Aug , 2011
The political and administrative elite of India has yet to assimilate a fundamental lesson in the management of the Country’s defense policy. Like in almost every other sphere the quality of...
Karachi is Burning
By: B Raman | Date: 20 Aug , 2011
The civil war-like situation in Karachi continues without respite. Seventy-three persons belonging to different communities and religious sects were reported to have been killed—many of them in...
The Child Guerrillas of the Northeast – II
By: Rajeev Bhattacharyya | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 15 Aug , 2011
Dearth of cadres has forced outfits to adopt ingenious tactics also in Assam albeit in a manner more devastating than in Manipur. The United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) has been forced to...
The Child Guerrillas of the Northeast – I
By: Rajeev Bhattacharyya | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 15 Aug , 2011
Adults fight wars, but often they drag children into it. The Spartans of Ancient Greece created a highly martial society, with boys as young as seven being introduced to rigorous military...
Is China Changing?
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 Aug , 2011
Recent events in the port city of Dalian in north-east China where public protests forced the local Government to accept a demand for closing down a chemical plant following an accident and for...
Afghan Taliban carries out a catastrophic strike against US Navy Seals
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Aug , 2011
Seven officers of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of the US and an officer of the Jordanian Intelligence related to the royal family of Jordan were killed in a suicide attack launched on...
Coastal Security remains as vulnerable as ever due to poor human reflexes
By: B Raman | Date: 04 Aug , 2011
India’s coastal security remains as vulnerable as ever due to poor human reflexes despite the lessons learnt (hopefully) from the immense tragedy of 26/11 when 10 members of Pakistan’s...
Blasts in Pune
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 Aug , 2011
In the light of the four low-intensity blasts in Pune on August 1, 2012, there is a need for a co-ordinated revisit to reports being received from time to time since 2002 on the attraction of Pune...
The Subverted Indo-Bangladesh Border : III
By: VK Shashikumar | Issue: Vol 24.2 Apr-Jun 2009 | Date: 28 Jul , 2011
Cattle Smuggling and Terrorism: Let’s come straight to the point. The cattle-smugglers of West Bengal, their knowledge of the border areas, the gaps and the vulnerable areas through which...
Suicide & Suicidal Terrorism
By: B Raman | Issue: Book Excerpt: TERRORISM-Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow | Date: 25 Jul , 2011
Suicide protests are not unknown in history. As recent examples, one could cite the self-immolation of many Tamils in Tamil Nadu in the 1960s to express their opposition to the introduction...
Investigate the Indian Angle in Kashmir American Council
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Jul , 2011
There are two aspects to L’Affaire Fai, the case relating to the arrest earlier this week and the proposed prosecution of Ghulam Nabi Fai, the head of the Washington DC based Kashmiri American...
Maoists: Should India allow a PoK within the country?
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Jul , 2011
The cynics and vested interests have been portraying Chhattisgarh as a remote, underdeveloped, violence ridden region, where tribal are exploited and live like primitive humans in sub-human...
Forebodings in J&K over spring
By: Anand K Verma | Issue: Vol 26.2 Apr-Jun 2011 | Date: 18 Jul , 2011
The advent of spring in Kashmir is creating apprehensions in some quarters in the State. Will there be a repeat of turmoil and tension, which marked the post spring period from 2008 to 2010? In...
Harvest of Hate
By: Wilson John | Issue: Vol 21.4 Oct-Dec 2006 | Date: 17 Jul , 2011
It is important to understand that of the multiple objectives a terrorist attack has, the least articulated and understood is the cycle of terror and hate. When groups like LeT carry out...
Xinjiang, Tibet Continue to Haunt CPC/PLA Leadership
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Jul , 2011
The situation in the Chinese-controlled Xinjiang region of China and in the so-called Tibet Autonomous Region continues to haunt the leadership of the Communist Party of China (CPC), which has...
Evolution of Militancy in Indian Muslim Community
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Jul , 2011
The following three events have contributed to the growth of militancy, often amounting to terrorism, in the Indian Muslim community, particularly among its young members: The demolition of...
Kashmir American Council: Games Intelligence Agencies Play
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Jul , 2011
The practice of intelligence agencies floating and funding non-Governmental organisations and even publishing houses for using them for PSYWAR purposes was born during the Second World War and...
Lack of Command & Control
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Jul , 2011
Institutions and states tend to decay when there is a weakening of the command and control at the top. Many institutions and States do pass through such spells due to the failure of the human...