Homeland Security
Internal Security and the Military
By: Lt Gen SC Sardeshpande | Issue: Vol 25.4 Oct-Dec 2010 | Date: 11 Mar , 2011
After a century of peace since 1857, we entered an era of independence — a totally new era of representational democracy, secularism of our brand, social equality, economic equity, uplift of...
Northeast: the future prospects
By: Brig (Dr) SP Sinha | Issue: Book Excerpt: Lost Opportunities | Date: 09 Mar , 2011
It is always difficult to predict the future course of events. Nonetheless, there are some trends that are discernible. One such is the illegal immigration from Bangladesh, which will continue...
Training for anti-Maoist Operations
By: Col US Rathore | Issue: Vol 26.1 Jan-Mar 2011 | Date: 07 Mar , 2011
Deployment of Central Police Organisation (CPO) in Low Intensity Conflict Operations (LICO) is not a new phenomenon. Many units of CPO have served in the northeast, Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab and...
Orissa: Surrender to Insurgents
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Feb , 2011
The Orissa Government’s handling of the situation arising from the kidnapping on February 16,2011, of Shri Ravella Vineel Krishna, the popular District Collector of Malkangiri District, and a...
Don’t throw India to the wolves
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Feb , 2011
The abduction of an IAS officer RV Krishna in Orissa and the seeming capitulation of the state has made the people of India feel vulnerable and insecure. If the swap of terrorists with the...
Coastal and maritime security: two sides of the same coin
By: Vice Admiral PS Das | Issue: Vol 24.1 Jan-Mar 2009 | Date: 04 Feb , 2011
The Mumbai terrorist attack of 26th November 2008 has, correctly, focused on issues concerning the security of India’s vast coastline. Earlier, in 1993, the Maharashtra coast had been used to...
‘invisible Violence’ that consumes India
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Feb , 2011
On Monday, LeT militants dragged two teenaged sisters from their house in the Kashmir Valley and killed them in the most brutal manner. It served as reminder that the situation in the valley has...
Internet poses threat to Authoritarian Regimes
By: Maj Gen Dhruv C Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Jan , 2011
The Jasmine Revolt: The story of Tunisia gives one hope that oppressive regimes can be overthrown by the power of people mobilised to fight injustice without recourse to violence or civil war....
Fight against Terrorism and the Moral Dilemmas
By: Anand K Verma | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Jan , 2011
Terrorism is a phenomenon operating on both sides of morality. Dilemmas, therefore, arise not confined to any one side. This is best apparent by examining some well known cases. Take the case...
Indian Flag at Lal Chowk, Srinagar?
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Jan , 2011
The ongoing march by a political party to raise the national flag in Sri Nagar is being dubbed as politically motivated by its detractors. It indeed is a move for political mobilization for...
Messages from Moscow Airport Blast
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Jan , 2011
Thirty-five persons are reported to have been killed in a suicide blast near the arrival area of Moscow’s Domodedovo airport at 4-32 PM local time on January 24,2011. The suspected suicide...
Peep at the Nautical Crystal Ball
By: Vice Admiral Arun Kumar Singh | Issue: Vol 23.1 Jan-Mar 2008 | Date: 24 Jan , 2011
The Indian Ocean Region (IOR), encompasses 56 littoral and hinterland nations with 33 percent of the world’s population, but only 25 percent of the land mass. The IOR, has numerous unresolved...
Hindu Terrorism: A Journalism Agenda
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Jan , 2011
Often, I get phone calls from Delhi-based journalists to discuss with me the disturbing phenomenon of some Hindus taking to terrorism and the reported confession before a Magistrate of Swami...
Self-employed Soldier!
By: Lt Gen Harwant Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Jan , 2011
I was at the College of Combat, Mhow, when the India-China war of 1962 started. The course was terminated and all were instructed to forthwith rejoin their units. Army Headquarters required me to...
Neglect of India’s frontier areas
By: Maj Gen Mrinal Suman | Issue: Vol 24.3 Jul-Sep 2009 | Date: 17 Jan , 2011
Defence Minister of India, Mr AK Antony visited Nathu La in East Sikkim in the first week of December 2007 and was visibly taken aback to see the difference between infrastructure on the Indian...
ULFA The Hindu Mercenaries of Jihadis
By: B Raman | Issue: Vol 22.1 Jan - Mar 2007 | Date: 14 Jan , 2011
In 13 different incidents reported since January 5, 2007 from the districts of Tinsukia, Dibrugarh, Sivasagar and Dhemaji, the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) is reported to have mowed...
Left Wing Extremism
By: Maj Gen GD Bakshi, (Retd) | Issue: Vol 24.3 Jul-Sep 2009 | Date: 12 Jan , 2011
The Assembly elections in J&K in 2008 was peaceful and witnessed record voter turnouts. In sharp contrast the very first day of the Lok Sabha Polls in 2009 witnessed an upsurge of Naxalite...
India should suspend work visas for Chinese
By: B Raman | Issue: Vol 24.4 Oct-Dec 2009 | Date: 10 Jan , 2011
The Hindu has reported on October 1, 2009, that the Chinese Embassy in New Delhi has been issuing visas on a separate sheet of paper to Indian citizens born and resident in Jammu & Kashmir...
The Samjauta Express Explosion: The Follow-Up
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Jan , 2011
“According to American investigators, the LET (Lashkar-e-Toiba) and Al Qaeda were responsible for the Samjauta Express blast and the HUJI( Harkatul-Jihad-Al-Islami) for the Mecca Masjid blast...
The Dubious Deal with ULFA
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Jan , 2011
The Assam government, fully backed by New Delhi, has cleared the passage for release of the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) leaders from jail. On the New Year’s Day, the so-called...