Lt Gen Prakash Katoch

  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...

  The protracted Ukraine War has gone murkier with Russian forces in Ukraine claiming to have come across US-aided bio-labs developing dangerous pathogens. Not many are aware that the US Department of Defence (DoD) had...

  On April 26, 2022, India took a position opposing the adoption of the resolution on standing mandate for the General Assembly (GA) meeting in case of use of ‘veto’ by the UNGA. The resolution text...

  India has effectively conveyed to the West that it will continue to adopt strategic autonomy including in terms of security. The US has grudgingly understood this and scholars of American think tanks are acknowledging...

  On March 11, 2022, the UN Security Council discussed Russian claims of US biological activities in Ukraine. Very significantly, Izumi Nakamitsu, UN Under-Secretary-General and High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, told the Council that the...

  US President Joe Biden said on March 13 that World War III will not be fought in Ukraine. His comment was in response to Russia bombing Ukraine’s Yavoriv military base, which is some 19...

  Condemnation of the 26/11 Mumbai terrorist attacks and the terror attack at Pathankot together with calls to bring the perpetrators to justice during the recent Quad Foreign Ministers’ Meet at Melbourne attracted much applause....

  The fourth Quad foreign ministers’ meeting attended by Australia, India, Japan and the US was held on February 11, 2022, in Melbourne. The main theme, as earlier, focused on a ‘Free and Open Indo-Pacific’,...

  Since Xi Jinping became the president of China on March 14, 2013, he has been following the footsteps of Adolf Hitler, be it the iron control, barbarity, genocide, establishing Auschwitz-style concentration camps in Xinjiang...

  The Republic Day celebrations from this year are to start from January 23 instead of January 24 to include the birth anniversary of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, as directed by the Government. A statue...

  Interacting with media during his annual press conference on January 12, General MM Naravane, Chief of Army Staff said, “We are not averse to demilitarization of the Siachen glacier, but a precondition to that...