Homeland Security
India’s Mine Counter-Measure Vessels Gap: A Critical Maritime Security...
By: Rahul B Wankhede | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 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...
Demographic invasion of India from the North East
By: Brig Amrit Kapur | Issue: Vol 22.2 Apr-Jun 2007 | Date: 23 Aug , 2023
First Published in print issue of Indian Defence Review (Vol 22.2) Apr-Jun, 2007 Six decades of ‘Indian effort’, still Seven Sisters have not been fully integrated with the main landmass....
Manipur Revisited
By: Brig Deepak Sinha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Aug , 2023
In 1978, the Congress (I) found itself as the main opposition at both the Centre and in Punjab. At the same time J S Brar, a farmer from Moga, was appointed as the Head of the Damdami Taksal, a...
Muharram Procession in Srinagar: a ‘Win-Win’ Situation for All
By: Nilesh Kunwar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 31 Jul , 2023
It’s after more than three decade hiatus that Srinagar once again witnessed the traditional Alam Sharief procession that marks the occasion of 8th Muharram and the fact that this major event in...
Manipur: Into the Abyss
By: Brig Deepak Sinha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Jul , 2023
Common sense tells us that all successful businesses are primarily driven by the profits they hope to earn. A possibility only in a peaceful and stable environment where law and order are not an...
SOS from North East India
By: Col Anil Athale | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Jul , 2023
The violence that began in May 2023 and seems to continue to date, has the potential to unravel peace in the entire North Eastern region. Peace in the North East has been brought about after...
Maritime Cyber Security Concerns
By: Vice Admiral MP Muralidharan | Issue: Vol. 38.2, Apr-Jun 2023 | Date: 21 Jul , 2023
The globalisation of trade and commerce as well as increasing liberalisation has resulted in interlinking of economies of nations towards the end of the last century. Development of newer...
How did New Delhi Crush Militancy in Kashmir?
By: Ramananda Sengupta | Issue: Vol. 38.2, Apr-Jun 2023 | Date: 08 Jul , 2023
I was in Srinagar a few days before the third meeting of the G20 working group on tourism began in that city from May 22-24, 2023. On my return to Delhi, I realised the brief trip had yielded...
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...
Manipur Crisis: A Complex Threat – II
By: Maj Gen Nitin P Gadkari | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Jun , 2023
Home Minister’s Visit & Beyond The Indian Home Minister, Shri Amit Shah, visited Manipur’s troubled state from 29 May till 01 June 23. The long-awaited visit by a central minister was late in...
The ‘Snow Leopards’ of Ladakh
By: Nilesh Kunwar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Jun , 2023
Though simple and peace loving, the people of Ladakh are extremely patriotic and fiercely committed when it comes to defending their homeland and this was evident in 1948, when a formidable...
Poonch Terror Attack Exposes Pakistan’s Duplicity
By: Nilesh Kunwar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 May , 2023
The recent attack on an Indian army vehicle by Pakistan backed terrorists in the Poonch area of J&K that claimed five lives is an extremely tragic incident that serves as a grim reminder of the...