“It is not the Big Armies that Win Battles…… It is the Good Ones” -Field Marshal Maurice Comte de Saxe (1782) Ukraine’s Panic call for Tanks Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy […]

January 23rd  is a day of remembrance, it’s a day of reflection,  it’s a day to introspect the proud history of India’s freedom struggle. On this day, Netaji Subhash Chandra […]

On September 9, 1962, Krishna Menon who was the Defence Minister of India decided to evict the Chinese troops south of Thala Ridge. This decision was endorsed by Nehru, who […]

Special Frontier Force (SFF) or Establishment 22 – is a highly secret organisation comprising of Tibetan and Gurkha commandoes and mountain climbers trained in mountain warfare and covert operations behind […]

The 17th G-20 or Group of Twenty summit — an intergovernmental forum made up of 19 countries and the European Union is in progress in Bali, Indonesia to discuss major […]

No matter how much one tries to avoid reading about the Russia-Ukraine ‘special operations’, the media, print and visual, has at least one news item on it, hence, my contribution […]

Democratic Republic of Congo (DPR) in Central Africa also known as Congo-Kinshasa, Belgian Congo and Zaire is the second-largest country in Africa and the 11th-largest in the world with a […]

Cantonments as garrisons were composite military-civilian townships. They were high on heritage with diverse legacy and inheritance. Sprawling pastures abridged with paved landscapes. The chirping of birds distinctly reverberated, and […]

Fifty-seven years ago the battle of Asal Uttar fought in the Khem Karan sector of Punjab in the month of September 1965 is often compared to the Battle of Kursk […]

Back in the 80s, when dad was GE at Ichhapore, a census town in Barrackpore near Calcutta, we never expected to live in a house with so many rooms which remained […]

One of the last things that Lord Mountbatten, wanted to do before he finally left India on 23 June 1948 was to solve the Hyderabad issue. Hyderabad was the only […]