Articles By Lt Gen Prakash Katoch
Myanmar Aflame
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Dec , 2023
Myanmar is aflame, not only because of the turmoil within but also heavy fighting along its borders with China and with India; with fleeing Myanmar refugees streaming into China and India. In the...
The Xi-Biden Tête-à-Tête
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Nov , 2023
The outcome of the November 15 meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and the POTUS Joe Biden on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in San Francisco was on...
Reading Nepal
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Nov , 2023
As always, India was the first responder in providing relief to Nepal when struck by a 6.4 magnitude earthquake on November 3, which left 157 dead and scores injured. On November 5, India sent...
America’s Wider War
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 Nov , 2023
The US NSA Jake Sullivan has said that the US is seeing elevated risk of the Israel-Hamas war widening into a regional conflict. However, with 800 plus US bases around the world, a wider war...
Israel – America’s Ukraine 2.0?
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Oct , 2023
The multi-pronged Hamas attack in Israel on October 7 caused enormous casualties in the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF). Details of killed in first 24 hours of the action published by IDF include:...
Coordinated Hamas Attack Stuns Israel
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Oct , 2023
The unprecedented multi-pronged attack by Hamas in the wee hours of the morning of October 7 through land, sea and air has left Israel jarred. The surprise, backed by massive fire of some 5000...
Pakistan’s ISI Changes Tack
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Oct , 2023
It has been covered in these columns earlier that Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau accused India for the killing of Khalistan Tiger Force (KTF) self-appointed chief Hardeep Singh without...
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...
Blowback of BRICS Expansion
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Sep , 2023
There is an ongoing controversy whether the BRICS expansion by including Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates as full members of BRICS is a challenge to the...
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...
Ketagalan Forum 2023
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Aug , 2023
The participation of former Army Chief, General Manoj Naravane, Navy Chief, Admiral Karambir Singh and Air Force Chief, Air Chief Marshal RKS Bhadauria in the recent ‘Ketagalan Forum 2023 –...
Niger – Newest Global Hotspot
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Aug , 2023
The recent military coup in Niger ousting the government of President Mohamed Bazoum has created much turbulence in the in the West, more so because the new regime is viewed as pro-Russia with...
BRICS and De-dollarization
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Aug , 2023
There is perceptible glee in the US over Russian President Vladimir Putin physically not attending the upcoming 15th BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) Summit scheduled in...
Weaponizing Refugees
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 Jul , 2023
France has been on fire since 17year old Nahel M was shot at point-blank range by the police in Paris. Clashes between civilians and police erupted soon after the video of the incident went...
The Shadow over Storm Shadow
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Jun , 2023
The battle for Bakhmut (Artyomovsk), which Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky had made a prestige issue, resulted in massive casualties for the Ukrainian forces. But Zelensky still doesn’t...
Dollar and the Petrodollar
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 May , 2023
The POTUS Joe Biden’s visit to Papua New Guinea in a bid to counter growing Chinese influence in the Pacific has been cancelled. Biden also cancelled attending the QUAD meeting scheduled in...
Warmonger Brains
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 May , 2023
The US-led West is crying hoarse about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine but the US history is blackest of the black having attacked, bombed and invaded hundreds of countries for economic and...
Can China Broker Ukraine Ceasefire?
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 Apr , 2023
The first ever telephone conversation between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky on April 26, 2023, was weeks after Zelensky sought their meeting and even sent...
Ukraine's Spring Offensive
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Apr , 2023
US Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin said on April 21, 2023, that the West has transferred more than 230 tanks and 1,500 armoured vehicles to Ukraine to equip nine new armoured brigades, and...
2023 G20 Delhi Summit
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Apr , 2023
As part of its G20 presidency, India had planned 200 meetings across fifty cities. One confidential G20 meeting held at Itanagar, capital of Arunachal Pradesh in March 2023 set China’s tail...