HIGHER DEFENCE MANAGEMENT IN INDIA: NEED FOR URGENT REAPPRAISAL Nitin A. Gokhale (The author, currently NDTV’s Security & Strategic Affairs Editor, is an authoritative defence analyst, author, media trainer and a multi-media reporter with 30 years experience across web, print and broadcast mediums. Author of three books on insurgency, war…
Towards forging better civil-military approach to counter-insurgency in India
India must be the only country in the world to have continuously faced internal disturbance/insurgency/terrorism for over 60 years. It has withstood armed rebellion aided by external forces, encountered internal turmoil brought about by perceived and real neglect; taken on the mafia in urban areas and is now confronted with…
Shedding new light on IAF’s role in 1962
Why wasn’t the Indian Air Force (IAF) used against the advancing Chinese in the 1962 war? For over 50 years, strategic thinkers, military historians and amateur hacks have postulated various theories either justifying or decrying the decision by India not to employ air power in the month-long war with China…
Military & Media: Can they work together?
What do Indian military officers think of Indian media? What is the quality and level of interaction between the two? Is there a scope for improvement? These are some of the questions India’s College of Air Warfare (CAW) wanted me to attempt and answer in an article it wanted me…
AK Antony’s Australia visit: Well begun is half done?
Joint Statement on visit of Mr. A.K Antony, Defence Minister of India to Australia 4-5 June, 2013 (As received from Australian High Commission in India) Indian Minister of Defence A K Antony and the Australian Minister for Defence Stephen Smith met in Perth on 4 June and Canberra on 5 June…