Brig Narender Kumar, SM, VSM (retd.)

Brig Narender Kumar is an Infantry Officer with close to 15 years’ experience in counter insurgency and anti-terrorism operations having served in Sri Lanka (Operation PAWAN) J&K and North East. He has been part of UN Mission in North Africa and had a tenure in Indian Training Team in a foreign country. He has served as Brigade Major in Western Theatre, Col Administration of a Division and Brig General Staff of an Area responsible for Northern Border. Commanded a Rashtriya Rifles battalion in J&K and Assam Rifles Sector in North East.

Contributions

Reconciliation is the Way Forward for Durable Conflict Resolution in the Northeast

March 18, 2021 Brig Narender Kumar, SM, VSM (retd.)

Introduction Conflict settlement is a significant achievement for a state to put an end to a violent protracted armed engagement. In fact, Johan Galtung gave new idea of concept of peace as negative peace that is absence of violence but i...

Tags: North-East Insurgency, National Security and Strategic Studies, Article, Conflict Resolution, Communication, Kuki, Naga Tribes, Naga Peace Accord, Reconciliation

Rewriting the New Narrative of Jammu and Kashmir

March 23, 2020 Brig Narender Kumar, SM, VSM (retd.)

Introduction Disjunction between the law and state can lead to systemic decay that breed corruption, instability, violence and erosion of institutions of governance. Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) is victim of the disjunction that allowed state ...

Tags: Jammu & Kashmir, National Security and Strategic Studies, Article, Radicalisation, Proxy War, Article 370, 35 A, Pakistan strategy, Over Ground Workers, Stone pelters, Cross border terrorism, Challenges, Economic impact

Saudi Arabia Drone Attack: Sign of Changing Character of Hybrid War

October 01, 2019 Brig Narender Kumar, SM, VSM (retd.)

Introduction The Houthi militants carried out an audacious "large-scale" attack with 10 drones targeting Saudi Aramco oil facilities in Abqaiq and Khurais.1 Even in the past Houthi rebels had attacked Saudi Arabia but the preci...

Tags: National Security and Strategic Studies, Defence, Article, Drones as new weapons, Dangers of drone attack, Drones a threat to global stability

Terror Strike in Sri Lanka: Expanding Footprints of Jihadist Movement in the Indian Subcontinent

May 06, 2019 Brig Narender Kumar, SM, VSM (retd.)

Gauging the Current State of the Jihadist Movement1 In the 20th Century, the world confronted three totalitarian revolutionary movements: Nazism; communism; and fascism. Now the world is under assault from a fourth such movemen...

Tags: Terrorism, National Security and Strategic Studies, Article

कश्मीर में टकराव की स्थिति टालने के लिए शांति का विचार समझना जरूरी

March 13, 2019 Brig Narender Kumar, SM, VSM (retd.)

कश्मीर में शांति का विरोधाभास जर्मनी के चांसलर विली ब्रांट ने कहा था, “शांति ही सब कुछ नहीं...

Tags: Jammu & Kashmir, National Security and Strategic Studies, Hindi, Article, कश्मीर आतंकवाद, कश्मीर शांति समाधान