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Former Army Chief and now Governor of Arunachal Pradesh, Gen JJ Singh created a bit of a stir last month by saying “India will have to move away from our position that our territory is non-negotiable,” in context of the long-standing India-China boundary dispute. He was speaking at a seminar in…

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…

  Note: The Indian Army and particular, its current Chief, Gen VK Singh has been in the news for various reasons of late: some have called him a loose cannon, a loud mouth; others see him as a crusader, a man with unimpeachable military service. Whatever be the views, one thing…

  In my three decades of reporting on the Indian military, I have never felt more uneasy about the military-media interface as I have in the past three months.   Not because the media has been accused of being sensationalist or because many unsavoury truths about internal rivalry and groupism…