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THE TORTUOUS MMRCA SAGA: Part I

by Nitin A Gokhale

18 Nov/17

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More than a year after the government signed the deal to buy 36 Rafale combat jets in September 2016, the contract is back in the news again, thanks to the allegations by the Opposition Congress that the government did not follow rules and procedures and that it overpaid for the…

Removing the cobwebs: How Modi altered the national security approach

by Nitin A Gokhale

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22 Oct/17

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By personally authorising a surgical strike, and then announcing it to the world, Prime Minister Modi was truly living up to his growing reputation as a ‘risk taker’.Surgical strikes inside PoK were indeed a massive political and diplomatic gamble. A number of things could have gone wrong.The advancing parties could…

India needs to punch according to its own weight

by Nitin A Gokhale

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24 Sep/17

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Swarajya magazine interviewed me on eve of the publication of my book Securing India The Modi Way: Pathankot, Surgical strikes and more, to be released on 29 September. Here are some excerpts Rishabh (Swarajya magazine): So, my first question to you is that your book is rather curiously titled…

The story behind making of a new book

by Nitin A Gokhale

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11 Sep/17

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Finally the book is ready to print! Sometime in early 2017, I was on my annual visit to one of the military training establishments to deliver a talk. Over tea, after the usual lively interactive session, a young, smartly turned out officer popped a question that stumped me for a…

The Assam Regiment and Brig. T. Sailo

by Nitin A Gokhale

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13 Apr/17

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Last month, the Salute magazine published a special issue on the Assam Regiment, one of Indian Army’s well-know infantry units. I wrote a small tribute to one its illustrious officers, Brig. T. Sailo, who also later became the Chief Minister of Mizoram. Here’s the account of my first encounter with…