Nitin A Gokhale

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The killing of 8 security personnel — seven Assam Rifles soldiers and one jawan of a Territorial Army unit — in Nagaland’s Mon district on Sunday morning made it to India’s television screens almost 12 hours after it occurred, once again demonstrating the low priority one of India’s most important…

A raging debate has ensued in the defence fraternity on issues raging around the Mountain Strike Corps (17 Corps) and its size after Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar stated that the originally envisaged plan cannot be implemented since there is very little money available at the moment. I have been a…

Cut your coat according to your cloth. That’s the loud and clear message Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar has sent out to the three armed forces. In less than six months after taking over, Parrikar has studied various complex issues dogging the Defence Ministry and has come to his own conclusions on…