Police have arrested 12, including biryani seller, ginger vendor & money lender, alleged to be part of terror-crime network run by Pakistan-based gangster Shahzad Bhatti & aide Ajmal Gujjar.
For Trump, the killing of IS second-in-command, al-Minuki, is an ad for the new counter-terrorism doctrine. But America needs to ask itself why taking the hammer to the problem has failed to demolish it.
Lt Gen Hardev Singh Lidder’s book on Operation Sarp Vinash shows why the Indian Army’s 2003 campaign to clear terrorist strongholds in Rajouri-Poonch still matters today.
EAM didn’t name Pakistan, but noted India’s counter-terror ops, said UN system was in crisis & ‘better off’ nations have been lecturing while insulating themselves from energy issues.
Technical intel reveals sleeper cells are in contact with Pakistan-based handlers, leaking sensitive info about security forces and key installations via WhatsApp, Telegram, and Signal.
The resurgence of militancy in the Jammu region is concerning. India must take a cue from unilateral actions taken by countries like the US and Israel.
Hill Kaka, where militants had dug in during early 2003, became the de facto headquarters of Terror Inc. Then the Army launched its biggest pincer movement called Op Sarp Vinash.
In a seminal work, former military officers Lt. Gen. D.S. Hooda & Lt. Col. Pavithran Rajan put forth a framework to approach cognitive warfare, called Socio-Technical-Cognitive Battlespace.
India, China and Russia share more contradictions than congruence. Each has a different worldview, as also a different adversary. The rude fact is that BRICS is the most irrelevant of all such groupings.
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