Indo Bangladesh Military to Military Relations
Apr 4, 2010
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General Mohd Abdul Mubeen, Chief of the Army Staff (COAS), Bangladesh was on a goodwill visit to India from 14-20 Mar 2010. The visit assumes special significance in the light of improving military cooperation between the two countries in consonance with India’s growing relationship with Bangladesh. Indo-Bangladesh relations are multifaceted and founded on historical linkages. |
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Shaping Deterrence Agni-1, Prithvi III, Dhanush Success
Apr 4, 2010
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India successfully carried out user tests of indigenously developed, nuclear-capable, short range ballistic missile (SRBM) Agni-1 from the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Wheeler Island. "It was a fantastic mission carried out by the Indian Army. The test-fire of the Agni-I missile met all parameters," director of ITR S P Dash said. |
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Army Procurement May Pick Momentum
Apr 4, 2010
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Comparative trials of Arjun tank developed by the DRDO with Bhishma or T 90 have been completed. The Army, however, continues to favour T 90 over the Arjun though media reports claimed that Arjun had performed well on most parameters like cross-country drives and accurate engagement of targets on the move. |
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Indian Mujahideen, Lashkar E Taiyyaba, Karachi Project
Apr 4, 2010
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The threat and the challenge paradigm of terrorism in India are evident with its many dimensions. The Home Minister Mr P Chidambaram did not mince words when he said, “The challenge before security is that the source of the terror lies across our border and they have the support of the state and therefore their capacity to reach here and strike is very high.’’ One of the key challenges is the relatively new entity the Indian Mujahideen or the IM which is formed from radical elements of the splinter group of the banned SIMI a grouping of Muslim students. |
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Policing: Catering for Basic Human Needs
Apr 4, 2010
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In order to address the housing needs of the Central Para Military Forces(CPMF), the Ministry of Home Affairs has launched a major initiative through the commencement of an ambitious mega housing project for construction of about 1,00,000 houses across the country. This will be done through the Public Private Partnership mode in about four years. Besides meeting the housing satisfaction level in the Forces, the provision of additional houses for the Force personnel is seen as a measure to boost the morale and motivation level of CPMF personnel, which is also expected to contribute to their operational efficiency. |
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Manipur: Persisting Violence
Apr 4, 2010
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Manipur chief minister Okram Ibobi Singh met with Union home minister P. Chidambaram in New Delhi in the backdrop of the Centre’s talks with the NSCN (I-M). Chidambaram as per a report in the Telegraph reassured the Manipur chief minister that “the Centre would not do anything that would create more problems in the Northeast”. Manipur’s major rebel group, the Revolutionary Peoples Front (RPF) has also declared that any move to disintegrate Manipur as fallout of the ongoing political dialogue between the NSCN (I-M) and Delhi would lead trouble in the State as also with NSCN (IM) |
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Operation Green Hunt – An Unofficial Review
Apr 4, 2010
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Home Minister P Chidambaram has claimed that India would be able to counter the Maoist insurgency by 2013. "We must meet the challenge to fight against Maoists and terrorism in the next two to three years. |
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Naxal Operational Dilemma
Apr 4, 2010
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ven as the security forces have demonstrated good result in different areas of ANO, the Naxals seem to be faced with an operational dilemma. The police are also suspecting that Kishenji the key leader in West Bengal and Jharkhand and commanding the Northern region so to say has been injured and thus has become silent. Maoists are reportedly facing a crisis in leadership with six out of 14 politburo members of CPI (Maoist) in the past three years in custody. |
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Post London India’s Afghan Policy
Apr 3, 2010
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India suspended medical aid and teaching programmes in Afghanistan even as businesses and aid organizations have slashed staff in the country after the February 26 terrorist attack now attributed to the Pakistan based Lashkar e Taiyyaba on a guest house that killed 17 people, among them seven Indians. |
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India’s Foreign Policy Goals Meshing with US QDR
Mar 5, 2010
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India’s broad foreign policy goals were outlined by the Indian Foreign Secretary in her address at the Third MEA-IISS Seminar “Perspectives on Foreign Policy for a 21st Century India.” These are summarized as given below:- |
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Indian Defence Budget
Mar 5, 2010
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The Indian Finance Minister allocated Rs 1,47,344 crore towards defence in 2010-11 budget, a 4 per cent increase from that of the 2009-10 allotment of Rs 1,41,703 crore. Of the allocation provided, Rs 60,000 crore [Approximately $ 12 Billion] would go for capital expenditure, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said presenting the Budget in the Lok Sabha |
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Milan and Tropex 10
Mar 5, 2010
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Indian Navy hosted the largest four-day naval war-game, Milan-2010, involving 12 nations in the Asia Pacific region from 4 February in which means to counter terror threats to coastal and island territories was debated keeping in mind the attacks in Mumbai. “There would be a discussion (during Milan-2010) on maritime terror and the means to counter the attacks like what happened in Mumbai,” Assistant Chief of Naval Staff (Foreign Cooperation and Intelligence), Rear Admiral Sudharshan Shrikhande told reporters. |
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Vayu Shakti – The First Fire Power Demonstration at Night
Mar 5, 2010
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In a first ever display of its precision strike capability by night, a mammoth fire power demonstration (FPD), codenamed ‘Vayu Shakti-2010’, showcased the operational capabilities of IAF by day, dusk and night at the sprawling Chandan Air-to-Ground Range, Pokharan on February 28. The FPD demonstrated the day and night employability of air power by frontline fighter aircraft of the IAF including Su-30 MKI, Mirage-2000, Jaguar, Mig-21 and Mig-29. |
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Pune Blasts: An Avoidable Tragedy
Mar 5, 2010
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The Pune Germany Bakery blast which has tragically claimed nine innocent lives initially going up to 17 at last count has broken the lull of past many months with the last terror attack in the hinterland in India in Mumbai on 26/11. There were familiar voices of how such strikes are impossible to avoid, but the Pune police have no excuses when there was a clear warning that Osho Ashram, Chabad House and German Bakery were on the target list with Lashkar-e-Taiba operative David Coleman Headley having the surveyed the same. |
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Border Management: Consolidating Vigilance
Mar 5, 2010
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India has a 4097 km border with Bangladesh. The Indo-Bangladesh border passes through West Bengal (2216.7 km), Assam (263 km), Meghalaya (443 km), Tripura (856 km) and Mizoram (318 km). The entire stretch consists of plain, riverine belts, hills and jungles, with hardly any natural obstacles. The area is heavily populated and cultivated right up to the border. |
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The New Approaches
Mar 5, 2010
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he militancy and political space in Jammu and Kashmir saw the Government willing to adopt new approaches while militant groups and separatists sticking to familiar tactics of supporting Pakistani mediation, stone pelting and terrorist attacks in old hubs as Sopore and Tral. |
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Stone Pelting: The “Intifida” Strategy in Kashmir
Mar 5, 2010
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The last few months have seen consistent bandhs and stone pelting by Kashmiri youth in the Valley. These incidents have multiple connotations varying from release of pent up frustrations of largely urban youth of Srinagar to deliberate targeting of the security forces to invite retaliation. |
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No Peace Talks in Sight
Mar 5, 2010
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Manipur remains on the edge as per current trends. The Crime and Criminal Tracking Network System (CCTNS) is being introduced in the State. The Crime and Criminal Tracking Network System is an automated system to facilitate police personnel to retrieve case related information for review or updates |
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Naxal Strikes: Strategy Exploits Police Debility
Mar 5, 2010
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Even as the Central Government was making grandiose schemes for launching coordinated operations in Maoist affected Central India, the guerrillas launched two major attacks during February killing scores and quickly followed it up by an offer of cease fire putting the Ministry of Home Affairs in a quandary. |
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The Maoists Attempt to Gain Initiative: Call for Cease Fire
Mar 5, 2010
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Almost immediately after the attack in Silda and Jamui, the Maoists were operationalising a strategy of talks with the government. Gopinathji alias Durga Hembram, wanted talks at the earliest while Kishenji the military commander was opposing it in a central committee meeting of 30 of the 36 member including those from Bihar, Jharkhand and Orissa in the Kanai-shol hill forest area as per media reports. |
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