Homeland Security
Pirates or Naval Al Qaeda or Both?
By: B Raman | Issue: Vol 24.2 Apr-Jun 2009 | Date: 07 Jan , 2011
I have been in receipt of the following message on April 8, 2009, from ECOTERRA International, which disseminates a periodic “Somali Marine & Coastal Monitor”: “Danish owned and US-American...
Meeting Maoist Challenge
By: Lt Gen Harwant Singh | Issue: Vol 25.4 Oct-Dec 2010 | Date: 05 Jan , 2011
While Maoists have been slowly but surely spreading their hold over district after district, scoring a total of over 200 districts, the Indian state slept through this phase spanning over couple...
Maritime Security: an Indian scenario
By: Commodore G Sharma | Issue: Vol 24.1 Jan-Mar 2009 | Date: 03 Jan , 2011
In the late 1930s, a famous radio program in the USA called War of the Worlds — a story line that proposed an attack on the earth from Mars — created a sensation and instilled fear into the...
Operation Nandigram: The Inside Story
By: VK Shashikumar | Issue: Vol 23.1 Jan-Mar 2008 | Date: 29 Dec , 2010
A Primitive Territorial Conflict Nandigram is like any other town in Marxist West Bengal. Even the new in-your-face CPI (M) flags look familiar. Narrow proletarian streets, packed with walking...
The Shadows in J&K
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 Dec , 2010
In his message of February 12, 2007, Ayman al-Zawahiri, the No.2 to Osama bin Laden, has spoken of a global Jihadi Intifada. Has he spoken of any special areas of focus for this Intifada?...
Gujjar Agitation: Internal Security Ramifications
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Vol 22.3 Jul-Sep 2007 | Date: 24 Dec , 2010
The purpose of this article is not to dwell on the political and social dynamics of the recent Gujjar agitation, but to highlight the pernicious internal security ramifications of such...
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...