Lt Gen Prakash Katoch, Author at raksha-anirveda.com

Peace Deal with UNLF?

Lt Gen Prakash Katoch - December 6, 2023

The incidents of weapons having been looted from the Manipur police and IRB armouries in the first week of May were covered in the mainstream media. The official figures are 4,500 weapons and 50,000...

Makings of the Middle East War

Lt Gen Prakash Katoch - November 23, 2023

Leaders of the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China) plus the newly induced BRICS members (Saudi Arabia, Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran and the UAE) held an emergency meeting virtually on November 21 under...

Beijing’s Tightening Grip on Sri Lanka

Lt Gen Prakash Katoch - November 8, 2023

On October 15, 2023, the ferry service between India and Sri Lanka was resumed after a gap of 40 years. From the early 1900s to 1982, the Indo-Ceylon Express ran between Chennai and Colombo...

Finishing Off Hamas

Lt Gen Prakash Katoch - October 18, 2023

The Israel-Hamas war has begun to widen into a regional conflict. In addition to the bombing of Gaza, Israel has bombed targets in Lebanon and Syria, which appears to be an American design to...

Is India Ready to Stop Malice-Driven Dragon?

Lt Gen Prakash Katoch - October 17, 2023

China is at war with us. This statement may shock some because the general hierarchical understanding of war is confined to conventional war. But the character of war turned hybrid long back, which encompasses...

Africa: The Next Battleground

Lt Gen Prakash Katoch - September 9, 2023

The war in Ukraine is facing a new crisis; paucity of manpower on the Ukrainian side. All Ukrainian males abroad have been asked to report back for military service amid reports that 10,000 poles...

Expanded BRICS: Significant for Multi-Polar World Order

Lt Gen Prakash Katoch - August 28, 2023

The 15th BRICS Summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, witnessed the second expansion of BRICS. In his address on August 24, 2023, South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa, while announcing the summit’s outcome, said, “We have...

Aatmanirbharta: Beyond Rhetoric

Lt Gen Prakash Katoch - August 14, 2023

Launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in May 2020 with a Rs 2,000,000 crore (US$ 262 billion) package (10 percent of India’s GDP), the Aatmanirbhar Bharat campaign aims to foster self-reliance across various sectors....

The Backstabbing Game Continues

Lt Gen Prakash Katoch - July 24, 2023

The attack on a temple in the Kashmore area of Sindh Province in Pakistan on July 16 by some eight-nine ‘dacoits’ using rocket launchers, and another report of 30 Hindus, including women and children,...

Orchestrating the Theatre of War

Lt Gen Prakash Katoch - July 15, 2023

According to a Press Information Bureau (PIB) release on June 18, a ‘Chintan Shivir,’ organised by the Ministry of Defence (ministry), deliberated upon various issues such as national security, cyber security, information security policy,...

Unmasking the Deceit

Lt Gen Prakash Katoch - July 10, 2023

The recent authorisation of cluster bomb supply to Ukraine by United States President Joe Biden raises concerns about the moral implications. The US boasts how it has impaired Russia while the EU continues to...

Manipur Fires to Impact National Security

Lt Gen Prakash Katoch - July 3, 2023

China has been arming insurgents of northeast India over the past several decades. In addition, it has also established credible proxies in Myanmar. China trained and armed the Peoples’ Liberation of Army (PLA) of...

Triangulated India-Nepal-China Relations

Lt Gen Prakash Katoch - June 29, 2023

During the recent visit of Nepal’s Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal alias Prachanda to India in June 2023, India and Nepal signed seven agreements in various fields including trade and commerce, cross-border petroleum pipeline,...