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

Small Mercies in Melbourne

Lt Gen Prakash Katoch - February 14, 2022

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’,...

Torch of Galwan Shame at Beijing Olympics

Lt Gen Prakash Katoch - February 7, 2022

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...

125th Jayanti of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose

Lt Gen Prakash Katoch - January 23, 2022

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...

Revisiting Siachen Demilitarization

Lt Gen Prakash Katoch - January 21, 2022

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...

Indian Army Must be Demonstratively Proactive

Lt Gen Prakash Katoch - January 15, 2022

Deterrence to conflict whether at the sub-conventional level or conventional under the nuclear backdrop not only should be proactive, it must be suitably demonstrated to convey the effectiveness to the enemy. The stark truth today...

Why Nagaland CM Neiphiu Rio Howls For Repealing AFSPA

Lt Gen Prakash Katoch - December 23, 2021

The Nagaland Assembly has demanded the repeal of AFSPA from the state and elsewhere in the northeast and an apology from the “appropriate authority” for the Army operation that led to the death of...

Repealing AFSPA

Lt Gen Prakash Katoch - December 7, 2021

The media, especially the ‘paid’ variety is ecstatic over the issue of Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSP) which comes up whenever civilian casualties are involved in counter-insurgency operations. The Union Home Minister has...

The 4G Warfare Debate

Lt Gen Prakash Katoch - December 3, 2021

If the title of this article had said just ‘4G Debate’, readers may be excused if they ignored it thinking it about spectrum auction scams related to underhand dealing no matter which government is...

Where India Stands In Future Infantry Soldier Technologies

Lt Gen Prakash Katoch - November 28, 2021

The infantry will remain indispensable despite technological advances in warfighting because what eventually matters is where your boots are on ground. China is using this to nibble away at our territory on the premise...

Manipur Terror Attack and Beyond

Lt Gen Prakash Katoch - November 22, 2021

The terrorist ambush on the Assam Rifles convoy in Churachandpur District of Manipur on November 13, killing five soldiers including Colonel Viplav Tripathi, CO 46 Assam Rifles, his wife and 6-year old son shattered...

Downplaying the External Threat

Lt Gen Prakash Katoch - November 14, 2021

Pentagon’s report to the US Congress titled ‘Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China’ 2020 mentions the Galwan clash, standoff in Eastern Ladakh for which Beijing blames India and China’s refusal...

Deterring Proxy War

Lt Gen Prakash Katoch - October 22, 2021

The killing of non-Kashmiri labourers in Kashmir has brought the count of civilians killed by terrorists to at least 11 in a fortnight. The IG Police, Kashmir Range, flashed a message to the ten...

Imran Khan’s Rift with Army Chief: Will it make any Difference?

Lt Gen Prakash Katoch - October 15, 2021

It is hilarious to see our newspapers talking of the “wide open” rift between Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan and Army Chief General QJ Bajwa, and similarly TV channels going berserk with debates inviting...