Indian National Security And Counter Insurgency

Author : Namrata Goswami
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134514311

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Indian National Security and Counter-Insurgency by Namrata Goswami Pdf

This book, based on extensive field research, examines the Indian state’s response to the multiple insurgencies that have occurred since independence in 1947. In reacting to these various insurgencies, the Indian state has employed a combined approach of force, dialogue, accommodation of ethnic and minority aspirations and, overtime, the state has established a tradition of negotiation with armed ethnic groups in order to bolster its legitimacy based on an accommodative posture. While these efforts have succeeded in resolving the Mizo insurgency, it has only incited levels of violence with regard to others. Within this backdrop of ongoing Indian counter-insurgency, this study provides a set of conditions responsible for the groundswell of insurgencies in India, and some recommendations to better formulate India’s national security policy with regard to its counter-insurgency responses. The study focuses on the national institutions responsible for formulating India’s national security policy dealing with counter-insurgency – such as the Prime Minister’s Office, the Cabinet Committee on Security, the National Security Council, the Ministry of Home Affairs and the Indian military apparatus. Furthermore, it studies how national interests and values influence the formulation of this policy; and the overall success and/or failure of the policy to deal with armed insurgent movements. Notably, the study traces the ideational influence of Kautilya and Gandhi in India’s overall response to insurgencies. Multiple cases of armed ethnic insurgencies in Assam, Manipur, Mizoram, and Nagaland in the Northeast of India and the ideologically oriented Maoist or Naxalite insurgency affecting the heartland of India are analysed in-depth to evaluate the Indian counter-insurgency experience. This book will be of much interest to students of counter-insurgency, Asian politics, ethnic conflict, and security studies in general.

Author : Sumit Ganguly,David P. Fidler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009-05-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134008087

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India and Counterinsurgency by Sumit Ganguly,David P. Fidler Pdf

This edited volume focuses on India's experiences waging counterinsurgency campaigns since its independence in 1947. Filling a clear gap in the literature, the book traces and assess the origins, evolution and current state of India's counterinsurgency strategies and capabilities, focusing on key counterinsurgency campaigns waged by India within and outside its territory. It also analyzes the development of Indian doctrine on counterinsurgency, and locates this within the overall ebb and flow of India's defense and security policies. The central argument is that counterinsurgency has been an integral part of India's overall security policy and can thereby impart much to political and military leaders in other states. Since its emergence from British colonialism, India's defence policies have not merely sought to protect and preserve India's inherited colonial borders from threats by rival states, but have also sought to prevent and suppress secessionist movements. In countering insurgencies, the Indian state has fashioned strategies that seek to repress militarily any secessionist movement, while simultaneously forging a range of civilian administrative and institutional arrangements that attempt to address the grievances of disaffected populations. The book highlights key strategic and tactical innovations that the Indian Army and security forces made to deal with a range of insurgent movements. Simultaneously, it also examines how the civilian-military nexus enabled India's policy makers to utilize existing, and formulate novel, institutional means to address extant political grievances. India has been most successful where it has managed to use calibrated force, obtained the trust of much of the aggrieved population and made persuasive commitments to political and institutional reform. Examination of these elements of India's counterinsurgency performance can be compared to counterinsurgency doctrine developed by other countries, including the United States, and thus yield comparative policy prescriptions and recommendations that can be applied to other counterinsurgency contexts. This book will be of great interest to students of counterinsurgency and irregular warfare, Indian politics, Asian Security Studies and Strategic Studies in general.

Author : E M Rammohun,Amritpal Singh,A K Agarwal
Publisher : Vij Books India Pvt Ltd
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789381411636

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Maoist Insurgency and India's Internal Security Architecture by E M Rammohun,Amritpal Singh,A K Agarwal Pdf

The Maoists have taken up arms. Their focus is on tribals and lower caste people for support. Stress is on militarisation with hierarchy and building of ‘People’s Guerrilla Army’ capable of destroying the state machinery. Violence and breakdown of law and order is causing loss of innocent lives and damage to property. The book has been covered in five chapters by the contributors. The first chapter deals with the Maoist insurgency in India and analyses the reasons that led to the Communist Party of India (CPI) taking up the cause of the lower castes and scheduled tribes. The second chapter deals with use of air power in combating the Maoist insurgency. The author has suggested deployment of drones to detect insurgent camps in the forests and use of helicopters for evacuation of casualties and other measures to facilitate logistics support for Countering Insurgency. An appraisal of India’s Intelligence agencies has been covered in Chapter Three. The fourth and fifth chapters are concerning the manner in which the United States has reacted after the 9/11 terrorist attack in the USA and how India reacted after the terrorist attack in Mumbai on 26 November 2008. The author has suggested the need to evolve a Comprehensive Internal Security Policy covering all dimensions and all levels -- political, economic and social.

Author : Kanwar Pal Singh Gill,Ajai Sahni
Publisher : Gyan Books
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Insurgency
ISBN : STANFORD:36105026116512

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Terror and Containment Perspectives of India's Internal Security by Kanwar Pal Singh Gill,Ajai Sahni Pdf

The geopolitics of South Asia makes it one of the most dangerous places to live in today. The collapse of the Soviet Union has destabilised long-established cold war equations and unleashed violent processes of transformation, of jockeying for power and c

Author : K. V. Krishna Rao
Publisher : Lancer Publishers
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : India
ISBN : 817212001X

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Prepare Or Perish by K. V. Krishna Rao Pdf

In This Book A Deep Analysis Has Been Made Of The Several Invasions Of India, The Wars That Were Fought After Independence, The Counter-Insurgency, Internal Security And Peace-Keeping Operations Carried Out, And Focused Attention On The More Important Lessons That Should Be Learnt From These, To Ensure It As The Freedom Of The Countr Is Never Against Jeopardised.

Author : Longjam Randeep Singh
Publisher : APH Publishing
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 8176481440

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National Security Problem in India by Longjam Randeep Singh Pdf

Author : Ashish Sonal
Publisher : Lancer Publishers
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Insurgency
ISBN : 1897829809

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Terrorism & Insurgency in India by Ashish Sonal Pdf

Author : Rajesh Rajagopalan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000084092

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Fighting Like a Guerrilla by Rajesh Rajagopalan Pdf

This book deals with two significant issues: the peculiar and paradoxical question of why regular armies, better suited to fighting conventional high-intensity wars, adopt inappropriate measures when fighting guerilla wars; and the evolution of the Indian army’s counterinsurgency doctrine over the last decade. In addition, the book also includes the first detailed analysis of the trajectory of the army’s counterinsurgency doctrine, arguing that while it was consolidated only over the last decade, the essential elements of the doctrine may in fact be traced back to the army’s first confrontation with the Naga guerillas in the 1950s. It outlines the three essential elements that make up the Indian army’s counterinsurgency doctrine: that there are no military solutions to an insurgency; that military force can only help to reduce levels of violence to enable political solutions; and that there should be limited use of military force. Rajagopalan argues that international circumstances — particularly the need to counter conventional military threats from Pakistan and China — led to a counterinsurgency doctrine that had a strong conventional war bias. This bias also conditioned the organisational culture of the Indian army.

Author : V R Raghavan
Publisher : Vij Books India Pvt Ltd
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789382573401

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Internal Conflicts by V R Raghavan Pdf

Internal conflicts have replaced interstate wars in the 21st century. The scale and intensities of these conflicts have widened. Many of these conflicts are protracted and intractable resulting in security, economic and political implications not only within the country but also in neighborhood resulting in internationalization of these conflicts. In many cases the consequences have turned into the causes of continuing conflicts. These developments have made the resolution of internal conflicts complex and stretched the capacities of the states affected by them. As the states face internal conflicts, they are inclined to depend on the armed forces to curb these conflicts followed by a slew of other approaches, viz, development & economic and political. This volume comprises of papers written by a former governor and retired armed forces officials from India and Nepal who had vast experience in handling these conflicts. The observations and views put forward by them provide valuable insight for policy makers, academia and researchers.

Author : N. C. Asthana,Anjali Nirmal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Counterinsurgency
ISBN : UOM:39015054458891

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Terrorism, Insurgencies, and Counterinsurgency Operations by N. C. Asthana,Anjali Nirmal Pdf

It Presents An Exhaustive Analysis Of Terrorism In Kashmir, The North-Eastern States And Punjab Besides Left-Wing Terrorism. We Find A Revealing Expose Of The Machinations Of The Isi And The Threat Of Pan-Islamic Fundamentalism. The Authors Show That Ad Hoc Responses In The Nature Of Fire-Fighting Do Not Lead Us Anywhere. That Is Why, In Spite Of Having Killed Thousands Of Terrorism That Deals And Arrested Several Times More, We Are Still Nowhere Near Controlling Terrorism That Defines A Political, Police Or Military Solution. Here The Authors Develop A Comprehensive Strategy For Counterinsurgency, Followed By An Enunciation Of The Crucial Tactical Concepts That Will Ensure Victory In Our War Against Terrorism.

Author : Center Strategic Research,Institute National Strategic Studies,National Defense University (US)
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1542767881

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India's Naxalite Insurgency by Center Strategic Research,Institute National Strategic Studies,National Defense University (US) Pdf

The pace of U.S.-India defense cooperation over the past decade-and especially the past 2 years-has been unprecedented and impressive in many areas. These areas include defense technology cooperation, the discussion of a framework for military-to-military agreements, and the expansion of joint military exercises. U.S.-India defense cooperation, however, will remain limited in critical areas where India's historical independent interests remain firm. Among these areas of Indian reserve include strategic autonomy, the imperatives of domestic federalism, and the preference for a go-slow approach toward redressing civil unrest. Attempts by U.S. policymakers to press harder in these areas will likely prove counterproductive. India's long-running class-based, economic insurgency-the Naxalite insurgency (or Community Party of India [CPI]-Maoist insurgency)-is a case study in which external security partnerships will remain limited, if not mostly unwelcomed, in New Delhi. Known as "the greatest domestic security threat faced by India" from 2006 to 2011, the Naxalite insurgency has receded and largely been contained-albeit still far from eliminated-as of 2016. India's security response to the Naxalite insurgency from 2004 to 2015 demonstrates that New Delhi will prefer limited interaction with external security partners when addressing matters of domestic counterinsurgency. With this insight, U.S. policymakers should not expect that New Delhi will accept direct assistance for its domestic counterinsurgency units in the foreseeable future, and the United States should not press India too hard on this issue. Washington would be ill-served by an Indian backlash to such unwelcomed assertiveness. Any Indian backlash might curb or reverse far more important bilateral military-to-military interactions including joint maritime security activities in the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific, bilateral interoperability exercises that improve Indian confidence and capabilities against potential Chinese encroachment in disputed Sino-Indian border areas, and military-to-military collaboration in global counterterrorism intelligence-sharing and operations. The United States instead should focus on not only its offers of major near-term bilateral military assistance for security cooperation but also, to the extent that Indian sensitivities will allow, actions by China that threaten mutually held security concerns in New Delhi and Washington.

Author : Akali Omeni
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351597630

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Counter-Insurgency in Nigeria by Akali Omeni Pdf

This book offers a detailed examination of the counter-insurgency operations undertaken by the Nigerian military against Boko Haram between 2011 and 2017. Based on extensive fieldwork conducted with military units in Nigeria, Counter-Insurgency in Nigeria has two main aims. First, it seeks to provide an understanding of the Nigerian military’s internal role – a role that today, as a result of internal threats, pivots towards counter-insurgency. The book illustrates how organizational culture, historical experience, institutions, and doctrine, are critical to understanding the Nigerian military and its attitudes and actions against the threat of civil disobedience, today and in the past. The second aim of the book is to examine the Nigerian military campaign against Boko Haram insurgents – specifically, plans and operations between June 2011 and April 2017. Within this second theme, emphasis is placed on the idea of battlefield innovation and the reorganization within the Nigerian military since 2013, as the Nigerian Army and Air Force recalibrated themselves for COIN warfare. A certain mystique has surrounded the technicalities of COIN operations by the Army against Boko Haram, and this book aims to disperse that veil of secrecy. Furthermore, the work’s analysis of the air force’s role in counter-insurgency is unprecedented within the literature on military warfare in Nigeria. This book will be of great interest to students of military studies, counter-insurgency, counter-terrorism, African politics and security studies in general.

Author : Thomas F. Lynch, III
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-04
Category : Counterinsurgency
ISBN : 1542916011

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India's Naxalite Insurgency by Thomas F. Lynch, III Pdf

The pace of U.S.-India defense cooperation over the past decade-and especially the past 2 years-has been unprecedented and impressive in many areas. These areas include defense technology cooperation, the discussion of a framework for military-to-military agreements, and the expansion of joint military exercises. U.S.-India defense cooperation, however, will remain limited in critical areas where India's historical independent interests remain firm. Among these areas of Indian reserve include strategic autonomy, the imperatives of domestic federalism, and the preference for a go-slow approach toward redressing civil unrest. Attempts by U.S. policymakers to press harder in these areas will likely prove counterproductive. India's long-running class-based, economic insurgency-the Naxalite insurgency (or Community Party of India [CPI]-Maoist insurgency)-is a case study in which external security partnerships will remain limited, if not mostly unwelcomed, in New Delhi. Known as "the greatest domestic security threat faced by India" from 2006 to 2011, the Naxalite insurgency has receded and largely been contained-albeit still far from eliminated-as of 2016. India's security response to the Naxalite insurgency from 2004 to 2015 demonstrates that New Delhi will prefer limited interaction with external security partners when addressing matters of domestic counterinsurgency. With this insight, U.S. policymakers should not expect that New Delhi will accept direct assistance for its domestic counterinsurgency units in the foreseeable future, and the United States should not press India too hard on this issue. Washington would be ill-served by an Indian backlash to such unwelcomed assertiveness. Any Indian backlash might curb or reverse far more important bilateral military-to-military interactions including joint maritime security activities in the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific, bilateral interoperability exercises that improve Indian confidence and capabilities against potential Chinese encroachment in disputed Sino-Indian border areas, and military-to-military collaboration in global counterterrorism intelligence-sharing and operations. The United States instead should focus on not only its offers of major near-term bilateral military assistance for security cooperation but also, to the extent that Indian sensitivities will allow, actions by China that threaten mutually held security concerns in New Delhi and Washington.

Author : Sudhir S. Bloeria
Publisher : Manas
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015050695603

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Pakistan's Insurgency Vs India's Security by Sudhir S. Bloeria Pdf

Pakistan aided and inspired militancy had reached full blown proportions in the valley in the beginning of 1990. Serious efforts were being made by Pakistan to enlarge the area of disturbances and the arc of militancy, into the border areas. The book chronicles how this difficult objective was achieved. With over 200 kms. long Line of Control (LoC), the area represents an important flank in our defence. The book is about successful tackling of militancy, restoring peace, winning the confidence of the local population and establishing efficacy of the civil administration. The book also focuses on the work done by the civil administration in co-ordination with the security forces, with the people's involvement despite the strenuous efforts of Pakistan's ISI and its agents to create disturbances.

Author : Sumit Ganguly,Nicolas Blarel,Manjeet Pardesi
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Human security
ISBN : 0199480133

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The Oxford Handbook of India's National Security by Sumit Ganguly,Nicolas Blarel,Manjeet Pardesi Pdf

India faces an array of national security challenges. Externally, they range from geopolitical tensions and territorial disputes with China and Pakistan, nuclear deterrence, and state-sponsored/backed cross-border terrorism to the internal security issues related to secessionism, counter-insurgency, Naxalism, and ethnic conflict. In recent decades, the national security agenda has been expanded to include issues related to economics, environment, development, and transnational criminal activities. More than two decades of rapid economic growth has also added energy security to the national security matrix. Concomitant with its economic rise, India's national security agenda also includes a more proactive vision for the wider Asian region, including the Indian Ocean, with implications for power projection, and for India's contributions to global peacekeeping missions through the United Nations. This handbook is the first comprehensive analysis of all these national security challenges, traditional and non-traditional, facing India. With contributions from some of the leading and rising scholars from across the world, the essays cover a wide range of topics and issues including the colonial legacy, realist/liberal/constructivist approaches to national security, India's wars, strategic culture, conventional military challenges including issues of military modernization and defence-industrial challenges, nuclear security, the role of space, cybersecurity, terrorism, insurgencies, the role of the intelligence agencies, civil-military relations, and the relationship between national security and state-making in India.