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Let’s go down agnipath: A rejoinder
- August 14, 2024
- Posted by: Brig Deepak Sinha (Retd)
- Category: India
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It is based on the premise, accepted by Parliament,
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Can a Muscular Response deter Chinese Aggression?
- August 14, 2024
- Posted by: Brig Deepak Sinha (Retd)
- Categories: China, India
The Sino-Indian War of 1962
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All actions have consequences
- July 19, 2024
- Posted by: Brig Deepak Sinha (Retd)
- Category: India
Mr Modi is taking over as the Prime Minister for the third time
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Rebooting the Indian Army: A Doctrinal Approach to Force Restructuring
- July 19, 2024
- Posted by: Brig Deepak Sinha (Retd)
- Category: India
Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.
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Facing a long hot summer
- February 24, 2021
- Posted by: Brig Deepak Sinha (Retd)
- Category: Strategic Affairs
In a few short months, we are in for what is bound to be one long hot summer, global warming notwithstanding. Our enemies are at our gates and the prospect of conflict well within the realms of possibility. After all, the PLA must be keen to get on with its unfinished business, though what that might be, neither our military nor civil leadership have quite figured out!
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Unending Ladakh Story
- August 10, 2020
- Posted by: Brig Deepak Sinha (Retd)
- Categories: Domestic Issues, Military, Strategic Affairs
The Modi Govt is in a fix today, not because of the negligence of previous regimes but because of its own deliberate neglect of the military. We have failed to learn lessons
An interesting anecdote doing the rounds among military veterans’ groups on social media pertains to an incident just after the 1971 war.
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Need Bravery not Bravado
- July 31, 2020
- Posted by: Brig Deepak Sinha (Retd)
- Categories: ASEAN & ARF, China, Europe, Foreign Affairs, Rest of the World, SAARC, Strategic Affairs, USA, West Asia
In the preface to his insightful work, Generalship: Its Disease and Cure, British military tactician Major-General JFC Fuller quotes an apocryphal tale told to him by a member of the French General Staff. “At the battle of Waterloo, Colonel Clement, an infantry commander, fought with bravery; but unfortunately, was shot through the head.
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Lessons from History
- June 25, 2020
- Posted by: Brig Deepak Sinha (Retd)
- Categories: ASEAN & ARF, China, Foreign Affairs, Military, Strategic Affairs
At the turn of the 20th century, George Santayana, Spanish philosopher, writer and essayist, wrote, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” We Indians possess a unique ability to wax eloquent on our civilisational heritage and yet remain remarkably ignorant, or pay little heed to, or learn from events that have occurred in the not too distant past.
