In the 7th Century, the Arab conquest of Palestine assimilated its inhabitants (who are today known as the Palestinians). In the year 1516, the land was conquered by the Ottoman Turks. In 1831, Muhammad Ali, the Egyptian viceroy, occupied Palestine. … Continue reading
Cyber warfare refers to politically motivated hacking to conduct sabotage and espionage. It is a form of information warfare sometimes seen as analogous to conventional warfare although this analogy is controversial for both its accuracy and its political motivation1. U.S. … Continue reading
IAI: Aiming High : What is remarkable about Israel is that despite its size and less-than-friendly neighbours—one of whom regularly threatens annihilation—it continues to survive. The country has not just endured, but thrived, and dominates the agenda of West Asia. … Continue reading
< !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> The United States had engaged in a high profile coercive deployment of naval forces in the Gulf from end 2006 to early 2007 to deter Iran from proceeding apace with its … Continue reading
“This is another type of war, new in its intensity, ancient in its origin — war by guerrillas, subversives, insurgents, terrorists, war by ambush instead of by combat; by infiltration, instead of aggression, seeking victory by eroding and exhausting the … Continue reading
A classical response option for a country faced with an externally inspired Low Intensity Conflict (that can drag on for decades) is to conventionalise the conflict. In so doing, its strategic objective is to impose such heavy and deterrent costs … Continue reading
The Israel – Hezbollah conflict has spawned a rich harvest of military lessons that we must analyse and ingest at the earliest. In essence it was an attempt to conventionalise and thereby end a long running Low Intensity Conflict. This … Continue reading
Alon Ben David says overall some 4228 rockets were fired on Israel at the overall rate of almost 130 rockets a day Actually the rate averaged around 150 – 180 rockets per day for the first 10 days, with as … Continue reading
The free rocket threat may not be relevant immediately in the sub continental context. However it is certain that terrorist organisations operating in J&K are likely to draw their lessons form this conflict. Hence the need to study the equipment … Continue reading
A jihadist-terrorist asylum-seeker in the United Kingdom, who was earlier expelled from Hungary has recently made a notorious attempt of defaming the British lawmakers by publicly branding them as “tricksters”. Europe’s leading and most influential multi-media news channel Euro News, through … Continue reading
