Terrorism Today: Aspects, Challenges and Responses - Hardcover

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Maj Gen. Dhruv C Katoch, SM, VSM is an alumnus of Sherwood College, Naini Tal, the National Defence Academy, Khadakvasla and the National Defence College, New Delhi. Commissioned in the Dogra Regiment on 31 March 1972, he is a third generation army officer. He served for two years in active operations in Sri Lanka as part of the Indian Peace Keeping Force and also spent many years in combatting terrorism and insurgency within India. Post retirement, he served in the Indian Army's premier think tank, Centre for Land Warfare Studies (CLAWS) and later headed that establishment for two years till November 2014. While at CLAWS, he headed a group which produced a comprehensive report on Left Wing Extremism: An Internal Security Challenge and Response Strategy for Security Forces 2015, and another report on Perception Management in the Indian Army. He has co-edited three books (China's Defence Policy, Naxal Violence, Liberation Bangladesh 1971) and edited another on the 1965 Indo-Pak war. He writes on defence and security related issues and has contributed book chapters as well as articles to defence journals, newspapers and magazines. He is also a guest speaker at universities and in military training establishments in India. Based in the NCR, he is currently the editor of SALUTE magazine and the Secretary General of Indian War Veterans Association (IWVA).