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The Battle of Buxar – A Tale Of Military Indiscipline

  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...

QUAD Summit: Posers and Prospects

  The View from China! Regional cooperation cliques formed to target a third country will not be popular and have no future ....Chinese Spokesperson The forthcoming QUAD Summit on September 24  is the first in person meet between...

India’s Three Front Strategy

  India’s geostrategic environment has changed significantly in the past one month. A Talibani Afghanistan, a hybrid Pakistan and an authoritarian China – all in flux, present a new geostrategic challenge beyond the ordinary conception...

Valour Stories of Indo-Pak War 1965

  After the Sino-India War of 1962, Pakistan think tanks concluded that military solution to Kashmir was a possibility as they were equipped with modern American weapons like M 47/48 Patton tanks, F86 Sabre and...

Business Lessons From Battlefield

  There are no runners up in war.  Either you are a winner or you do not exist. The ‘Baptism By Fire’ in armed forces is always hands on and does not permit any second...

Artillery, Infantry and Adyar

  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...

Leadership in the Indian Armed Forces: The Need for Merit

The collapse of the ANA, the hasty withdrawal of USA and the rapid gains of Taliban in Afghanistan have major lessons for military and political leadership. ANA lost it completely due to poor motivation...

Post Covid Addictive Laziness

Addictive Laziness In the year 2020, COVID ripped across the world resulting in death, illness, burnout, isolation, and economic turmoil. As if, one onslaught was not enough, it came back with a volley of new...

The Road Ahead for Taliban

    Everyone expects Taliban, supported by Pakistan, which is backed by China to sweep into power in Afghanistan. That is the dark visage floating up. As the US forces are leaving the country, the current...

The Dark and Deep Woods of National Defence

  Former prime PM Manmohan Singh recently said ‘The road ahead is even more daunting than during the 1991 economic crisis and the nation would need to recalibrate its priorities to ensure a dignified life...

Sino Indian Logjam and Tang Ping

  Part 1 – The Military Dimension  Reports have alluded to PLA transgressing the LAC and occupation of locations / heights in violation of  accepted terms of the recent military agreements. One report also claimed that...

China in the Bull(y) Shop

  The 100th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party should have been a great celebration of  ‘joie de vivre’ for the Chinese people. There were two shades to it. The media blitz kept promoting the...
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