Lt Gen Prakash Katoch

  As has become the norm in all West-dominated groupings, formal or informal, the recent G7 Foreign Ministers Meet in Tokyo condemned Russia for invading Ukraine, rather than focusing on issues such as economy, energy,...

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on March 18 that the situation along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) is “very fragile”. He also said substantial progress has been made for disengagement and discussions...

  Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist Seymour Hersh has described in detail America’s underwater terrorist act in sabotaging Russia’s Nord Stream pipelines, which also affected the EU economy. This is further substantiated by Jim Rickards, former...

  Delivering a talk at Keio University in Tokyo, Japan recently, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said that Ukraine needs NATO’s continued support for as long as it takes, because if Russian President Vladimir Putin...

  India remains apathetic towards national security. More than 75 years after Independence, we are without a national security strategy though the National Security Advisor (NSA) was tasked in 2019 to define one. Notwithstanding the...

  According to American political scientist Christine Fair, about 80 per cent of aid money that was pumped into Afghanistan during the US-NATO deployment in that country was recycled back into the US. Most of...

  Falconry or hawking is a hunting sport using trained hawks, falcons or eagles to hunt prey and return to its master. There are several styles of hunting that vary between the different types of...

  India's Electronic System Design and Manufacturing (ESDM) industry, one of the largest in the world in terms of consumption, reported at US$ 90 billion relied on 65-70 per cent of imports (https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/electronics-manufacturing-gears-up-for-change-but-skill-gap-remains/article6861498.ece). Interestingly, the...

  The DefExpo 2022 (October 18-22) held in Gandhinagar (Gujarat), with the theme ‘Path to Pride’, boosted India’s ‘Make in India, Make for the World’ initiative with more than 300 partnerships,  memorandums of understanding (MoUs),...

  Speculation have been rife in the media, particularly social media, as to whether Xi Jinping the Chinese President has been placed under house arrest by the Peoples’ Liberation Army (PLA).  Rumors of a coup...

  America blames Russia for the Ukraine conflict overlooking its own history, as also that Russia rarely attempts territorial expansion unless its security is threatened, that too after establishing conditions that could lessen resistance among...

Reforms in the military is a continuous effort taking into account the future threats, changing nature of warfare, the future battlefield environment and the impact of critical and emerging technologies on war-fighting. Military reforms...

  The recent wave of killings of Hindus, non-locals and security personnel particularly those not on duty and their relatives, though not the first time, has caused considerable concern and outrage in the country. It...