Homeland Security
Strategy to Eliminate the Red Corridor
By: Brig Anil Gupta | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Apr , 2021
The nation is shocked yet again with mass causalities of the policemen who were part of an anti-Maoist operation launched in the forests of Bastar in Bijapur district of Chattisgarh, a Maoists...
Blueprint to tackle Maoists
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Vol 25.3 Jul-Sep 2010 | Date: 05 Apr , 2021
First Published on print issue of IDR Jul-Sep 2010 (Vol 25.3) THE BIG PICTURE Confronted with the Maoist menace, Civil Administration’s incompetence is making mountain out of a molehill by...
ISI Meddling Again?!
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Mar , 2021
Two alleged contract killers from Faridkot in Punjab, Sukhvinder Singh (25) and Lakhan (21), deployed through the aegis of Pak ISI Dubai network, were apprehended by the Special Branch of Delhi...
Announcing the Penta-Polar World
By: Navneet Bhushan | Issue: Vol. 36.1, Jan-Mar 2021 | Date: 01 Mar , 2021
India has been playing the power dynamics game without a long-term, consistent and constructed narrative or at least, there is not enough evidence of this being so. Secondly, India has perhaps...
Internal Threat 1950 and now
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Feb , 2021
One of the biggest lessons that can be drawn from the collapse of Soviet Union is that a country may be extremely strong on the external front but will not sustain as a nation if its internal...
Indo-Pacific: An Emerging Outlook for the 21st Century
By: Vice Admiral MP Muralidharan | Issue: Vol. 35.4 Oct-Dec 2020 | Date: 16 Jan , 2021
Strategically located in the Indian Ocean, India was a flourishing economic and cultural centre from the dawn of civilisation. As historian KM Panikkar in his seminal work ‘India and the Indian...
Harnessing Youth Power in Jammu & Kashmir
By: Col Jaibans Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Jan , 2021
Jammu and Kashmir has suffered tremendously in the shadow of the gun for the last almost three decades. Violence hit the youth of the region most of all. Their education and development suffered...
Positive changes in Kashmir raise hopes for early statehood
By: Col Jaibans Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 31 Dec , 2020
The Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir has witnessed a paradigm shift in its socio-political environment in recent times. Of great importance is the successful and incident free conduct of the...
Theological War that Tears India
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Dec , 2020
For India, the Andaman and Nicobar (A&N) Islands serve as an aircraft carrier in the Indian Ocean. Strategically, India has been investing in the Islands in enhancing its defence potential and as...
Rising Jihadist Recidivism in Tamil Nadu: A Red Flag
By: Dr V Balasubramaniyan | Issue: Vol. 35.4 Oct-Dec 2020 | Date: 15 Dec , 2020
On 08 January 2020, two alleged terrorists inspired by the Islamic State1, Abdul Shameem and Y Thowfeek, shot and killed Wilson, a Special Sub Inspector of Tamil Nadu Police at Kaliyakavalai,...
Nagrota Encounter: A Critical Appraisal of Pakistan’s intent and our...
By: Brig Anil Gupta | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 Nov , 2020
The successful encounter at Nagrota, near Jammu on NH 44, in which four heavily armed Pakistani terrorists were eliminated by the alert and diligent Indian security forces, has once again exposed...
Fake Army of Assam
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Nov , 2020
Incidents of terrorists wearing Army uniforms to attack army bases in Jammu and Kashmir have been happening over past years. Donning Army uniforms naturally would help terrorists close in to...
Kashmir: Self appointed, self serving leadership is now in self preservation...
By: Col Jaibans Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Sep , 2020
In the wake of the bifurcation of the state of Jammu and Kashmir and abrogation of Article 370, the political structures in Kashmir that were aligned with separatism and soft separatism have been...
The Islamic State Footprints are all over India
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 31 Aug , 2020
There are some very significant indicators, which indicate the widespread footprints of the Islamic State in India. Recently in Bengaluru, a 28 year old ophthalmologist, Abdur Rehman, was...
Gupkar Declaration 2.0
By: Brig Anil Gupta | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Aug , 2020
Not content with anti-national, seditious, pro-separatist Gupkar Declaration signed on 04 August 2019, a day prior to the historical announcement of Modi Government, the six leaders of Kashmir...
Handling Insurgencies
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Aug , 2020
Insurgencies are generally believed to be having lives of about 50 years but somehow they have tended to linger on in India. There are many reasons for this, one being that the use of force is...
Kashmir: A timely lid has been put upon the fallacy of Azaadi
By: Col Jaibans Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Aug , 2020
As the situation turns for the better in Jammu and Kashmir with reorganisation of the state into two Union Territories and abrogation of Article 370, there arises a need to look at the, by now,...
Jammu & Kashmir: Challenges before the New LG
By: Brig Anil Gupta | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Aug , 2020
The union territory (UT) of Jammu & Kashmir (JK) is undergoing a metamorphosis. Once famous world-wide as “Heaven on Earth”, it has been turned into a hell because of three decades of...
Challenging the New Kashmiri Narrative
By: Brig Anil Gupta | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Aug , 2020
Ever since the historical day of 05 August 2019 when two J&K specific articles of the Constitution of India were abrogated/made dysfunctional, the hardliner lobby in Kashmir led by the Gupkar...
Kashmiriyat and secular philosophy of Indian Army are intrinsically linked
By: Col Jaibans Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Jun , 2020
History provides innumerable examples of the most beautiful places, rich in natural resources, commerce, education and boasting of an enlightened civilisation becoming victim to barbaric attacks...