Articles By Cecil Victor
India's security challenge: A two-and-half-front war
By: Cecil Victor | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 07 Jul , 2017
It is summer, and what has been the pattern over the past decade, the season of madness is upon us. Pakistan has intensified its attempts at infiltration of proxy militants into Kashmir through...
Battling India's Maoist insurgency: Saga of neglect, incompetence and ignorance
By: Cecil Victor | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 08 May , 2017
A pair of shoes and socks left neatly in a hollow in the jungle floor has become the leitmotif of neglect, incompetence and a glaring ignorance of how the pervasive “Left Wing Extremism”...
Welcome rethink in India's Nuclear Posture?
By: Cecil Victor | Date: 16 Apr , 2017
India’s nuclear doctrine of massive retaliation as a deterrent appears to be changing because developments within the Sino-Pak entente cordiale point to the possibility of a “window of...
Learning from Israel: Countering stone-pelters in Kashmir
By: Cecil Victor | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 31 Mar , 2017
The use of pellet guns to control juvenile stone-pelters has acquired an odium it deserves. It has become counter-productive of the intent and purpose of crowd control in the perfervid Kashmir...
China Gets Its Flying Boats: Regional Waters Just Got Murkier
By: Cecil Victor | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 27 Aug , 2016
These were the mainstay of colonial empires east of Suez for many decades. With China announcing its “largest flying boat in the world” and India placing orders for 18 from Japan, the...