Homeland Security
Demographic drivers of India’s national security
By: Maj Gen GD Bakshi, (Retd) | Issue: Vol 23.3 Jul-Sep 2008 | Date: 22 Dec , 2010
The scientific process of Net Assessment is characterised by a study of trends and triggers. Evolutionary change in the geo-strategic environment can be described in the form of trends. Trends...
The Indian Jihadi Net
By: B Raman | Issue: Vol. 23.4 Oct-Dec 2008 | Date: 20 Dec , 2010
If one carefully analyses the various serial blasts which have taken place in different parts of India since November,2007, one could notice an organic, mushroom-like growth of jihadi terrorist...
New Delhi’s political incompetence creates a valley of discontent
By: Lt Gen Harwant Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Dec , 2010
It was winter- of 1963 when the holy relic at the Hazratbal Shrine in Srinagar went missing. News spread like wild fire and a crowd of more than quarter of a million assembled in Srinagar town....
Maoist Threat and Politics
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Vol 25.1 Jan-Mar 2010 | Date: 13 Dec , 2010
The previous issue of the Indian Defence Review carried a letter from a serving air force officer Group Captain RK Prasad to the Home Minister of India. The officer and his family had been...
WikiLeaks and Indian secrets
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Dec , 2010
We live in the WikiLeaks era when no official document is considered too secret to be put out in the public domain by whistleblowers. It’s only a matter of time before India’s archive of...
Military-Police Relations : The Kolkata Syndrome
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Vol 22.1 Jan - Mar 2007 | Date: 07 Dec , 2010
The Kolkata incident on the New Years Eve wherein the military and police clashed over the detention of two young army officers belonging to a Madras Unit, which has arrived at a peace station...
Kashmir: Lost Bearings
By: Lt Gen (Retd) MC Bhandari | Issue: Vol 22.3 Jul-Sep 2007 | Date: 06 Dec , 2010
New Delhi hosted the SAARC Summit meeting, and Musharraf was conspicuous by his absence. Whereas other nations were represented by their executive heads, Pakistan had opted to send their Prime...
Mumbai 26/11: Take Pakistan ISI to court
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Nov , 2010
Since the Madrid conference on “Democracy & Terrorism” held in March 2005, to which I was invited,I have been repeatedly writing and speaking on the need for victim activism in India in order...
Indian Intelligence: the fiddling has to stop…
By: B Raman | Issue: Vol 22.4 Oct-Dec 2007 | Date: 25 Nov , 2010
The evolution of the Indian intelligence community since 1947 has been on the basis of periodic reviews of our enquiries into perceived intelligence failures. After the Sino-Indian war of 1962,...
Security forces kill nine Naxalites in Datewada in Chattisgarh
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Nov , 2010
In Chattisgarh, nine Naxalites have been killed by security forces in an encounter in Datewada District. According to police sources, the Naxalites were killed in an encounter with CRPF jawans...
Nepal border vulnerable to smuggling of fake currency: Home Ministry
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Nov , 2010
As per available information Indo-Nepal border has also proved vulnerable to infiltration of fake Indian currency notes (FICN), with border districts being used as transit and storage points. ...
The Subverted Indo-Bangladesh Border : II
By: VK Shashikumar | Issue: Vol 24.2 Apr-Jun 2009 | Date: 21 Nov , 2010
Illegal Migrant 1, Name Withheld: “We paid the dalals (human traffickers). The amount varies depending on the security environment extant on that day when the illegal crossing over has been...
Security threats facing India
By: Anand K Verma | Issue: Vol 23.2 Apr-Jul 2008 | Date: 20 Nov , 2010
Threats are a matter of perception. Their assessments take into account capacities, not so much intentions, of a potential adversary. For an accurate reading, the short term and long term...
Is Copy-Cat of Mumbai 26/11 Possible in Indonesia?
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Nov , 2010
Is a copy-cat act of terrorism similar to the 26/11 terrorist strikes in Mumbai possible in Indonesia? That is a question that needs examination following the disclosures made by the Indonesian...
Changing Face of Terror
By: Dr Anil Kumar Singh | Issue: Vol 21.2 Apr-Jun 2006 | Date: 17 Nov , 2010
Phenomenon of terrorism as a global menace is of recent origin. History of terrorism is as old as the human civilisation. However, recent decades have witnessed exacerbation in occurrence of...
ULFA’s niche war
By: Col Rajinder Singh | Issue: Vol 24.1 Jan-Mar 2009 | Date: 15 Nov , 2010
Mr Hiteshwar Saikia told me: “These ULFA boys do not understand that they can not achieve their aim. They can only create hardships for the people of Assam. Where will they get such a large...
Maoists: Enemies of India
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Nov , 2010
The anti-national character of the Maoists was quite evident during the Independence Day celebration and in the run-up to it. In Bengal, they burnt the National Flag. In Bihar, they gave a call...
Global Terrorism and Responses
By: Vikram Sood | Issue: Vol 21.2 Apr-Jun 2006 | Date: 09 Nov , 2010
In today’s context when we talk of international terrorism, we invariably refer to Islamic/jehadi terrorism. Unfortunately, the response to this, described as the global war on terror, is...
Maoist Warriors: More than foot soldiers
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Nov , 2010
Predictably, Delhi’s Left-dominated intellectual circles have condemned the reported move on the part of Chhatisgarh police to implicate a high-profile Delhi University Professor for her...
Terrorist Tentacles in India
By: Wilson John | Issue: Vol 21.2 Apr-Jun 2006 | Date: 03 Nov , 2010
Investigations into the recent terrorist attacks and the subsequent chain of arrests and seizures in different parts of India, particularly rural Maharashtra, have revealed a growing alliance...