Homeland Security
How to Defend Against the Dubious Kuki-Chin Armed Movement
By: M A Hossain | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Apr , 2024
The Bangladesh government has garnered significant experience in countering insurgency activities in the Chattagram Hill Tracts (CHT). Through operations like "Operation Dabanal," the Bangladesh...
Contribution of Army Goodwill Schools towards Development of J&K
By: Nilesh Kunwar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Apr , 2024
The contrast couldn’t be more telling. While the people of J&K ushered 2024 with the good news that students of Army Goodwill School in Wuzur, Anantnag had won two gold medals in the...
Operation Meghdoot: India’s Conquest of the Siachen Glacier
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Apr , 2024
Operation Meghdoot, a monumental military endeavor launched on April 13, 1984, marks a defining moment in India's history, epitomizing its unwavering determination to safeguard its territorial...
Jobless Growth in India: Thoughts on Viksit Bharat
By: Prof (Dr) SN Misra | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Apr , 2024
Introduction One of the paradoxes of India’s growth story, after economic liberalization was introduced in 1991, has been jobless growth. At its peak during the years 2004-2009, while the...
The Question of Sea Security in IR
By: Dr Sudhir Hindwan | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 Mar , 2024
The recent induction of MH-60 R Helicopters and deployment of INS Jatayu in the Lakshadweep area by the Indian Navy will strengthen India's maritime prowess in the Indian Ocean Area and enhance...
Human Security and its Dimensions
By: Dr. Vladislav B. Sotirovic | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Mar , 2024
The concept of human security is a controversial approach by a certain group of post-Cold War 1.0 academicians (after 1990) for the purpose of redefining and at the same time making broader the...
India’s War on Terrorism Ecosystem in J&K
By: Nilesh Kunwar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Feb , 2024
There’s a general misapprehension amongst many that terrorism can be effectively eradicated solely by using the 'fighting fire with fire' strategy and killing or apprehending terrorists...
Remembering Shivaji The Great
By: Col Anil Athale | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Feb , 2024
“A few distant centuries ago, on a nondescript day I can barely imagine Upon what craggy hilltop, within a dense sunless forest O sovereign Shivaji Lightning-like, across your forehead, there...
Emerging Focus on Islands in Pacific
By: Vice Admiral MP Muralidharan | Issue: Vol 38.3, Jul-Sep & 38.4, Oct-Dec 2023 | Date: 08 Jan , 2024
The 21st century is spoken of as the century of the seas. Globalization of trade and commerce and the increasing liberalisation and interlinking of economies towards the end of the last century...
The Indian Way of War!
By: Gp Capt PK Mulay | Issue: Vol 38.3, Jul-Sep & 38.4, Oct-Dec 2023 | Date: 31 Dec , 2023
‘With whom will we fight? Where will we fight? What is the character of the war that we will fight? How will we fight?’— Jiang Zemin1 The phrase ‘way of war’ was popularized by the 1973...
Manufacturing ‘Abnormality’ in Kashmir
By: Nilesh Kunwar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Dec , 2023
That normalcy returning to Kashmir Valley irks those who stand to gain from unrest in this region is a well known fact. This lot comprises the pro-Pakistan lobby who thrive on lavish financial...
India’s Mine Counter-Measure Vessels Gap: A Critical Maritime Security...
By: Rahul B Wankhede | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Dec , 2023
Introduction Over the last few years India’s military naval fleet has seen a constant growth with the addition of new vessels like: frigates, destroyers, corvettes and even a full fledged...
Counter-Terrorism Operationsin JKUT: Rajouri Presents a big Challenge
By: Col (Dr) Tej Kumar Tikoo (Retd.) | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Nov , 2023
On 22 November 2023, a gun fight ensued between the Jihadi terrorists and the Indian Army in the Bajimaal-Kalakote area of Rajouri district of JKUT. By the time the encounter ended two days...
“Behind Closed Doors: Covert Machinations in the Khalistan Separatist...
By: Dr. Aniruddha Babar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Nov , 2023
“....This plan envisaged the encouragement of a separatist movement among the Sikhs for an independent state to be called Khalistan. ...In 1971, one saw the beginning of a joint covert...
Homeland Economics & Challenges for Military Industry Capability
By: Prof (Dr) SN Misra | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Nov , 2023
‘The torment of precaution often exceeds the dangers to be avoided’, said Napoleon Bonaparte in 1823. He did not have the semi-conductor supply chains in mind. But his comments still ring...
To Integrate Border Areas, Devise a New Philosophy
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Nov , 2023
French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau had once said: "Nothing is so gentle as man in his primitive state, when placed by nature at an equal distance from the stupidity of brutes and the fatal...
Will 2023 See a ‘Hot’ Winter in Kashmir?
By: Nilesh Kunwar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Nov , 2023
Every year, prior to onset of winters, Kashmir Valley witnesses a flurry of activities. While the civil administration works overtime to complete stocking of essential items ranging from...
J&K and Secularism
By: Hari Om Mahajan | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Sep , 2023
On September 21, 2023, Kashmir-based pro-autonomy and pro-Article 370 National Conference’s vice-president and former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah, opined that “any attempt...
Trudeau’s Gambit
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Sep , 2023
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has claimed that the Indian government is behind the killing of the Khalistan Tiger Force (KTF) chief Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Canada. In a statement Trudeau...
South Asia Terror – Western USP?
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Aug , 2023
A recent UN report highlights the following: Afghanistan is becoming epicenter of terror with 20 terrorist groups operating from Afghan soil; Al Qaeda has infiltrated law enforcement agencies...