Counter Insurgency

There is a view that India's approach to national security is largely ad hoc and marked by incompetence. Indians as well as foreign commentators on the country's security policies seem to share this perception. However, India does have a security approach that has a discernible pattern and arguably has been a success. This comment focuses on how India has dealt with internal security since independence.

• Kanti Bajpai
• September 2010
• Strategic Analysis

An absence of legal statutes in the insurgency affected areas would adversely affect the utility and efficacy of the security capacity of the state.

• Harinder Singh
• July 06, 2010
• IDSA Comments

The Grid-Guard-Govern strategy would do away with the sequential application of socio-economic solutions by undertaking security-led governance cum development action.

• Harinder Singh
• June 11, 2010
• Issue Brief

Air presence is a critical factor in counterinsurgency operations as it provides a high level of dominance and control over the situation.

• Ramesh Phadke
• May 20, 2010
• IDSA Comments

The hard lesson of Chintalnar is that the police are simply not investing enough in their frontline leadership and training to tackle the situation. Even when attempts have been made to bring in competence, the efforts to acquire required counterinsurgency skills have been marginal.

• Harinder Singh
• May 10, 2010
• IDSA Comments

Whereas employing Armed Forces may appear to be an attractive idea to control the naxal menace, the adverse effects of their long term commitment, particularly of the Army, need to be understood.

• Rumel Dahiya
• May 04, 2010
• Issue Brief

Commanders and troops must understand that they are operating in a No Win situation and their overall aim will always remain achievement of a more perfect peace.

• K C Dixit
• December 29, 2009
• IDSA Comments

Obama’s signal that the United States seeks to exit in 18 months will be viewed with scepticism by fence sitters in Afghanistan who will identify the victor as the one who endures.

• Shanthie Mariet D'Souza
• December 14, 2009
• IDSA Comments

A disturbing aspect of the current phase of Islamist militancy in Pakistan is that the terrorist acts outside FATA and NWFP are not being staged by ethnic Pashtun elements but by local Punjabi cohorts.

• P. K. Upadhyay
• November 30, 2009
• IDSA Comments

In recent years India, along with China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, has been following a policy of diplomatic engagement with Myanmar. India has also clarified its diplomatic stand that such a policy engagement will positively serve its national interests.

• Pradip Saikia
• November 2009
• Strategic Analysis