Dr Uddipan Mukherjee, PhD, Author at raksha-anirveda.com

Bangladesh: Searching Order in Anarchy

Dr Uddipan Mukherjee, PhD - August 13, 2024

In 1917, the Russian people were successful in toppling the Czarist regime only when the Army revolted against Czar Nicholas II. In fact, earlier in 1905, the people had failed to dislodge Nicholas for...

Global Terrorism and India

Dr Uddipan Mukherjee, PhD - August 14, 2022

In mid-July 2022, as I was about to proceed towards the Rhine Falls from Hotel Hilton in Zurich, I decided to hire an Uber taxi instead of boarding trains from Zurich Central railway station....

The Uprising of 1857 – Victory at Lucknow

Dr Uddipan Mukherjee, PhD - March 11, 2022

About 4,500 sipahis (soldiers) had gathered at Nawabganj, some 30 km from Lucknow. It was June 30, 1857. In the group was Raja Jailal Singh of Azamgarh. He was an expert in war strategy....

The Battle of Buxar – A Tale Of Military Indiscipline

Dr Uddipan Mukherjee, PhD - September 19, 2021

After the historic battle of Plassey (or Palashi in today’s West Bengal) in 1757 and thereafter a clean sweep over the French at Wandiwash (Vandavasi in Tamil Nadu) in 1760, the English East India...

Artillery, Infantry and Adyar

Dr Uddipan Mukherjee, PhD - August 24, 2021

Air Vice Marshal (Retd.) Arjun Subramaniam in his Full Spectrum (India’s Wars : 1972-2020) points out the ‘significant attrition on the Indians’ caused by the 105mm guns and howitzers used by the infiltrators during...

The Afghan Buzkashi

Dr Uddipan Mukherjee, PhD - August 22, 2021

The world is terrified as well as astonished. How the Taliban with a force of around 75,000 guerrilla fighters could so easily take over entire Afghanistan being manned by close to 3,00,000 trained soldiers...

Deploying COIN: To Counter the Contours of Red Corridor

Dr Uddipan Mukherjee, PhD - May 8, 2021

On 3rd April, 2021 one such fierce faceoff broke out between India’s Security Forces and the Maoist insurgents. It claimed the lives of 22 CAPF personnel and more than 30 injured making it...