Brig Narender Kumar (Retd.)
Has India made Strategic Miscalculation in Assessing the Impact of Wuhan Virus?
Introduction It is baffling who advised Prime Minister to declare victory over Wuhan Virus at a time when India had not even started vaccination of 45 and above population. The…
Teenage Terrorists of Kashmir: Collective Failure of Parents Teachers & Society
On December 09, 2018 two teenagers Mudasir Rashid Parray, 14, and Saqib Bilal Sheikh, 16 were killed in a gun battle with the security forces. It shook the Kashmir valley…
India’s Response to Pakistan Hybrid War in J&K is Skin Deep
India has adopted punitive fire assaults to respond to Pakistan Army’s hybrid war. However, it has limited impact and flipside of this strategy is that it has increased collateral damage…
Unpredictable Security Environment: Need for an Integrated Military Approach
The overall effort should be to enhance operational capabilities in an evolving security scenario. The Indian Armed Forces cannot remain immune even in changing times to serve narrow parochial objectives.…
Weapons of Mass Disruption Lessons for India
Snowden Impact Edward Joseph Snowden disclosed that the National Security Agency (NSA) of USA had developed a capability that allowed it to intercept almost any communication. With these capabilities, the…
Declining Readiness Affecting Rapid Response Against Hybrid Threat
If security forces are always reactive and not proactive, they are bound to suffer unacceptable losses, because the initiative is always with the adversary. 2016 has been a bloody year…
Defence Reforms: A Priority and Challenge for The Government
Defence Minister Mr Manohar Parrikar has hinted that defence reforms are on the card and government is likely to take a decision in the next few months. It is a…
Price of Protecting The Nation: Who is the Real Enemy?
“When You Go Home, Tell Them Of Us And Say, For Their Tomorrow, We Gave Our Today. — The Kohima Epitaph It is past midnight, the company commander is out in…
Irrationality Making Kashmir An Unstable Plateau
John Maynard Keynes said, “There is nothing so disastrous as a rational strategy in an irrational world.” The turn of events put in place by Pakistan hints at dangerous consequences…
Potent Indigenous War Unfolding in Jammu & Kashmir
The real problem is not the terrorists or separatists, but the fragmented approach of the government. All stakeholders should ideally work in an integrated manner and not independent of each…
Pakistan Occupied Kashmir: The Home of Forsaken Citizens of India
Pakistan is in illegal occupation of five districts of Jammu and Kashmir, Gilgit-Baltistan, Diamir, Ghizer, Hunza Nagar, Skarduand Ghanche and named it as Azad Kashmir[1] and Northern Areas. At last…
Disengagement and Withdrawal Theory Pushing Kashmir in to Disarray
If I have to answer what is going wrong in Kashmir, I would say the syndrome of disengagement and withdrawal theory on the part of government, political leadership and executive.…
Is Terror Attack in Dhaka Part of Ghazwa-E-Hind?
The terror strike at Dhaka should not be taken as an attack on Bangladesh alone, rather it should be seen as part of larger plan of ISIS and Al Qaeda…
Pampore Ambush: Paradox of Counterinsurgency Operations
It was not long back when Army lost three of its elite special forces personnel including two officers and now CRPF (Central Reserve Police Force) have lost eight policemen in…
Time to Compensate Soldiers Based on Job Content
For a nation of population of 1.3 billion, loss of ten persons may appear routine, but death of ten soldiers in avalanche in Siachen on 05 February 2016 became a…
Spilling Own Blood on Own Land is Absence of Strategy
After having signed the Indus Water Treaty, Nehru made a forceful assertion in the Lok Sabha on 30 November 1960 that “we purchased a settlement, if you like; we purchased…
North East Region: The Alaska of India
The North East Region offers all strategic imperatives to India that Alaska offers to the US. It is a land bridge joining the two ends of Asia, the East with…
