• Artillery and Firepower : Part 8 – Lessons from the Ukrainian War

    • June 15, 2022
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    • Categories: India, Ukraine
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    In December 2021, I wrote on the future roles of Artillery and Firepower in a series of articles @https://www.gunnersshot.com/2021/12/artillery-and-firepower-future.html. In a span of 3-6 months what I had spelt out conceptually is coming true in battle. It is time we took note of the emerging trends to do a course correction in India.

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  • Countering Targeted Killings In Kashmir – OpEd

    • June 15, 2022
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    By targeting defenceless men and women belonging to the indigenous minority Hindu community as well as non-locals working in Kashmir, Pakistan sponsored terrorists have succeeded in creating a fear psychosis here.

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  • Al Qaeda’s ‘Threat’ to India: What Can the BJP Do Next?

    • June 15, 2022
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    The group’s hatred for the ‘West’ is well-known. It’s anger against India that’s relatively new.

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  • Aren’t We Already in ‘Undeclared Third World War’ with Changed Dimensions and Instruments?

    • June 15, 2022
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    The quarterly USI Journal is the oldest surviving defence journal in Asia, having first appeared in 1872 has been an uninterrupted Journal till date.

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  • Why it’s time Indian and Pakistani experts begin talking and build a runway for policymakers

    • June 8, 2022
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    The trouble is, everything and anything to deal with Pakistan is hitched to Kashmir, at least in Islamabad’s eyes.

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  • Pakistan’s Proxy War In J&K: Joining The Dots

    • June 8, 2022
    • Posted by: Lt Gen Syed Ata Hasnain (Retd)
    • Categories: India, Jammu & Kashmir
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    Islamabad merrily uses UN Resolutions and calls for their implementation but never agrees to the first provision—the withdrawal of all its troops before the next steps.

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  • Half-masting of Tricolour must stop

    • June 1, 2022
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    • Category: India
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    UAE President Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan passed away on Friday, 13 May 2022. There are no questions about his importance and value as the President of United Arab Emirates and ruler of Abu Dhabi, besides that India has close relations with UAE which are in absolute national interest of India on multiple counts and along with that a huge diaspora of Indian population has been employed in various parts of the Emirates.

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  • Tour of Duty – A Regressive Reform

    • June 1, 2022
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    It is often said that the only recipe for a certain victory in the war would be American military hardware, British doctrines, German generals, INDIAN SOLDIERS and an Italian enemy.

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  • Book Review | The watershed: India’s forgotten victory over China

    • June 1, 2022
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    • Categories: China, India
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    Probal DasGupta in his wonderful account ‘Watershed 1967: India’s Forgotten Victory over China’; gives rare granularity into the clashes that were central to India regaining control in these strategically significant border areas

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  • The Best And Worst Of Times

    • June 1, 2022
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    • Category: India
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    It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us.

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