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“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 recently appealed to the West that...

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 Bose was - “not...

  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 was in London to...

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 enemy lines against the...

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 global economic issues like...

75 years ago on the 27th of October, the Indian infantry soldiers landed at Srinagar airport to take part in the first-ever war after independence. The first war between India and Pakistan began in October...

  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 to add to the...

  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 population of 108 million...

  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 reveille bugle sounded. Training...

  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 in the Second World...

  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 unexplored. House 47, dubbed The...

  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 state which has not...

  INS Vikrant commissioned by Prime Minister Narendra Modi as part of the 75th anniversary of Indian independence is the first aircraft carrier to be built in India.  The new indigenously built 45,000-ton aircraft carrier will...