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A veteran soldier’s lament–Must Read

by Nitin A Gokhale

14 Mar/12

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*Letter dt 09 Feb 2012 to Mr Salman Khurshid**Honble Minister Of Law & Justice**By Lt Gen (Retd) SK Bahri*1. Thank you for your DO letter No MLJ/2011-125 dated *6 Jan 2012*.I am glad that you have got the urgency and sense of frustration which Iwas trying to convey in my…

Double standards of the West–again

by Nitin A Gokhale

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13 Mar/12

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While I do not condone killing unarmed children–and Balakrishnan Prabhakaran was a child–I do have serious objection to selective prosecution of Sri Lanka. A US soldier killing 16 civilians–9 of them children–is termed as an aberration, mistakes and killings by armies in Asia and Africa are seen as…

Manipur: Lessons for Congress even in victory

by Nitin A Gokhale

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08 Mar/12

General, Rediff, Vivekananda International Foundation

In the hype and hoopla over UP election results, the electoral outcome in Manipur, that tiny, beautiful state in the North-east, remained at best a footnote to the grandly-mounted but often vacuous TV studio discussions. But if in the gloom and doom of losing UP, Punjab and Goa,…

Recalling Op Parakram & why it didn’t go through

by Nitin A Gokhale

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08 Mar/12

General, Outlook

Nearly a decade ago, in the midst of Indian Army’s largest ever mobilisation–Operation Parakram–on June 10, 2002, a cover story in Outlook magazine outlined the reasons for India’s reluctance to go the whole hog against Pakistan. Ten years down the line, Indian military planners say they have learnt their…

India, China and the Pirates

by Nitin A Gokhale

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06 Mar/12

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http://the-diplomat.com/2012/03/06/india-china-and-the-pirates/ An agreement between China, India and Japan to coordinate over combating piracy in the Gulf of Aden is an encouraging sign of military cooperation. But it’s no panacea. India Takes Fight to Pirates China Base a Threat to India Navy? India’s Quiet Counter-China Strategy China Needles, India Responds…