US Israel Spy War For Iran Deal & Lessons For India
During the same time of the Edward Snowden revelations of the NSA spying dragnet; behind the scenes a secret intelligence war was being waged between the spies of US and Israel. US was pursuing Iran deal at the time and the White House officials believed the intercepted information could be valuable to counter Mr. Netanyahu’s […]
Mystery Over Death Of Putin’s Ex-Advisor & Russia Today Creator Mikhail Lesin
Western media reports he was likely murdered for being an FBI informant. There are even separate allegations that Lesin may still be alive, with his demise faked by the US authorities. Mikhail Lesin, 57, was announced last weekend to have been found dead in the US capital. Lesin was found dead at 11:30 am on […]
Court Pardons David Headley, Accepts Him As 26/11 Witness
Former FBI agent and Lashkar operative David Headley on Thursday offered to be an approver in the 26/11 case before a sessions court in Mumbai. Headley was produced before Special Judge GA Sanap via video conferencing from an undisclosed location in the US. As reported by The Hindu: “I have revealed the charging documents filed […]
Russia Offers India A Chance To Replace Turkey
The shooting down of a Russian aircraft by Turkish F-16 fighter jets on Nov. 24 raised the specter of a full-fledged Cold War, since the unprovoked attack was undertaken by a NATO member state. Although it may not lead to direct confrontation, the overtures have already begun to show in various sectors. With Russia retaliating […]
Gurdaspur & 26/11 Attacks: Recurring Patterns
Two months ago the report of the magisterial inquiry conducted by Gurdaspur sub-divisional magistrate Manmohan Singh Kang into the incident of terrorists’ attack on the Dinanagar police station, on July 27, had been submitted to Gurdaspur district magistrate Abhinav Trikha. But the district magistrate had rejected it on the ground that it concluded nothing and […]
Hemant Karkare Assassination Timeline – 26/11
We are not looking at seers or saints in relation to the Malegaon blasts. We are not looking at people from a particular community when we question them. We are just detaining people on the basis of evidence. There are a lot of people going around claiming to be saints. – RAW Officer & ATS […]
How Paris Attacks Drives Stocks Of Weapons Manufacturers
Does likelihood of an expanded military response to ISIS signal a boom for the arms industry? Stock prices for weapons manufacturers sharply increased just after the terrorist attacks in Paris. When the New York Stock Exchange opened Monday morning, less than three days after terrorists attacked in Paris, five leading American weapons manufacturers saw their […]
Paris Attacks: Lessons From Mumbai & Madrid Attacks
Since the terrorists hit Paris on the evening of 13 November 2015, in a series of coordinated attacks—consisting of mass shootings, suicide bombings, and hostage-taking comparisons were made between the Paris attacks and the 2008 Mumbai attacks by analysts worldwide. Michael Leiter, former director of the United States National Counterterrorism Center, said that the attacks […]
26/11 Mumbai Attacks Part II – A High Profile Meet & An Assassination
In the previous article on the Mumbai Attacks – Globalized Terror In A Liberalized World, in the first issue of GreatGameIndia we reviewed the security issues in the Indian subcontinent with a comparative analysis of the Spanish Mumbai train bombings raising concerns over a new orientation in our National Security. In this article we take […]
Digital India In The Age Of Information Warfare
Introduction Infrastructure in general refers to a set of interconnected structural elements which provide services and facilities necessary for the development of a society or nation state. National Infrastructure is defined as ‘critical’ when it is believed that, disrupting its function would lead to significant socio-economic crisis with the potential to undermine the stability of a nation […]