Nitin A. Gokhale

India-Sri Lanka Defence ties: An appraisal

by Nitin A Gokhale

18 Dec/12

General, NDTV

As Indian Army Chief Gen Bikram Singh lands in Colombo later today, he is certain to hear from his hosts about many unfufilled aspects of Indo-Sri Lanka Defence Cooperation. One of the unfinished agendas between India and Sri Lanka is a formal Defence Cooperation Agreement (DCA), in discussion between the…

Fufilling a sacred contract with the soldier

by Nitin A Gokhale

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16 Dec/12

General

The Ministry of Defence will soon invite international bids for constructing a National War Memorial at India Gate following the allocation of Rs 100 crore in the budget for 2014-15 presented to the Parliament on Thursday. Although a basic design and concept for the proposed memorial is available with…

Looking back on IPKF, a quarter century on

by Nitin A Gokhale

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06 Dec/12

General

Half a century ago, the 7th Infantry Brigade of the Indian Army earned the dubious distinction of disintegrating in less than a week against a better-prepared and numerically superior Chinese forces in the Kameng sector of NEFA, now Arunachal Pradesh. Brig. John Dalvi’s landmark book Himalayan Blunder has recorded in detail…

To South China Sea, boldly

by Nitin A Gokhale

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03 Dec/12

General

In July, days before he retired, the then Navy Chief Admiral Nirmal Verma commissioned a Naval Air Station at Campbell Bay on Great Nicobar Island, christening it INS ‘Baaz’ thereby signalling India’s intentions to keep a close watch on the new developments unfolding in east and south east Asia Today,…

Re-arming the Indian Infantry

by Nitin A Gokhale

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28 Nov/12

NDTV

The Indian Infantry, that hard working, non-complaining arm of the Army is at last likely to get the attention it deserves, if plans envisaged by Army Chief Gen Bikram Singh and the Directorate of Infantry fructify in the next couple of years. Starting 2014, several basic weapons used by the…

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India-Sri Lanka Defence ties: An appraisal

Fufilling a sacred contract with the soldier

Looking back on IPKF, a quarter century on

To South China Sea, boldly

Re-arming the Indian Infantry