Experts Speak
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Another Kargil Anniversary – what did we learn?
By Lt. General P.C. Katoch (Retd)July 26 will be another anniversary of the Kargil Conflict, not very different from previous ones albeit few events merit mention: signature campaign...
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ARPAN is good – but what beyond?
By Lt. General P.C. Katoch (Retd)A day after PM Modi launched the Digital India Week, the Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar formally launched Army’s Arpan 3.0 on July 2.
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Afghanistan – caught in new Great Game
By Lt. General P.C. Katoch (Retd)President Ashraf Ghani is likely realizing his folly for throwing his lot with Pakistan. Why Ghani believed Pakistan would bring Taliban to the negotiating table when the US failed to do so is intriguing, especially when the Taliban oppose democracy and the Afghan Constitution?
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Indo-Myanmar CT cooperation
By Lt. General P.C. Katoch (Retd)John Swinton, the former Chief of Staff at the New York Times, called ‘The Dean of His Profession’, said during his farewell speech in 1953...
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Modi-Nawaz meet in offing – but Outcome?
By Lt. General P.C. Katoch (Retd)Media is agog with news of possibility of Prime Minister Narendra Modi meeting his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif on the sidelines of the annual summit of Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in Russian...
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Respecting National Security
By Lt. General P.C. Katoch (Retd)As per media reports, the recent visit by the NSA to Myanmar to tie up joint Indo-Myanmar operations against the Naga and other insurgents lodged inside Myanmar territory did not get the expected response...
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Bullet Proof Jackets – army’s continuing void
By Lt. General P.C. Katoch (Retd)One only wonders if the establishment wants serving soldiers also to go on hunger strike for basic weapons and protection – akin to veterans on hunger strike at Jantar Mantar for OROP denied to them past 40 years.
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Cancellation is not the answer
By Air Marshal B.K. Pandey (Retd)In the procurement of defence equipment, allegations of wrong doing from dissatisfied vendors has become fairly routine.
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Chinese Submarines on the Prowl in Indian Ocean Region
By Rear Admiral Sushil Ramsay (Retd.)Recent reports of a conventional Chinese submarine entering...
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Clean Chit for AgustaWestland
By Air Marshal B.K. Pandey (Retd)The UPA government had a strong inclination for ordering investigations...
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ISRO’s AVATAR – making India proud again
By Lt. General P.C. Katoch (Retd)On June 7, China conducted the fourth test in 18 months of a hypersonic nuclear delivery vehicle (dubbed WU-14 by the US) is capable...
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Protecting Lakhvi - China reaffirms she is no friend of India
By Lt. General P.C. Katoch (Retd)Writing in the Nikkei Asian Review on June 11, Katsuji Nakazawa wrote that Chinese President Xi Jinping is haunted by fears of assassination.
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Indo-US defence relations – Will irritants persist?
By Lt. General P.C. Katoch (Retd)Continued US support to the Pakistani military despite all this, even blatant nuclear proliferation, is certainly detrimental to Indian interests
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Whither Airport Security?
By Air Marshal B.K. Pandey (Retd)CISF is the largest industrial security force in the world providing security cover to over 300 industrial units in the country.
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Soldiers demand One Rank, One Pension
By Lt General V.K. Kapoor (Retd)When a former service officer writes on a subject which involves ex-servicemen’s benefits he is unlikely to be taken seriously because he is expected to take the side of his former comrades in arms!
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New era in Indo-Bangla relations
By Lt. General P.C. Katoch (Retd)The ratification of the India-Bangladesh Land Boundary Agreement (LBA) during the recent visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Bangladesh is perhaps the topmost strategic achievement with neighbouring countries...
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Special operations in Myanmar
By Air Marshal B.K. Pandey (Retd)In the early hours of June 9 this year, Indian Special Forces carried out surgical operations deep inside Myanmar territory. Their targets were two camps of the Nationalist Socialist Council of Nagaland (Khaplang) and allied insurgent groups.
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Cross-border military raid in Myanmar
By Lt General V.K. Kapoor (Retd)Thursday, June 4, 2015, witnessed one of the biggest militant attacks on the Army in recent years. At least 18 soldiers were killed and another 11 injured when they were ambushed in the Moltuk valley of Chandel district in Manipur.
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Myanmar Raid – go for credible deterrence
By Lt. General P.C. Katoch (Retd)It is the first time Government of India has shown willingness to conduct pre-emptive strikes to curtail operational capabilities of insurgent groups
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Restructured leadership of DRDO
By Air Marshal B.K. Pandey (Retd)Leadership changes in DRDO signal the determination of the government to propel the organisation to attain significantly higher levels...
