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Now that the initial euphoria of the successful launch of India’s longest range missile (call it IRBM, ICBM, doesn’t matter) Agni V is over, congratulatory messages from Prime Minister downwards delivered, scientists and India’s strategic community must concentrate on the next steps in fully developing and operationalising the strategic deterrent…

Note:  Today, 28 years ago, brave Indian soldiers climbed the icy heights of Siachen and established Indian Army’s ascendancy on the strategically important glacier. As the clamour for “demilitarisation” of Siachen gets shriller, its important to understand what it takes to be deployed on what is clearly the world’s most…