Factors Affecting Outcome of War

Issue: Book Excerpt: Hinduism & its Military Ethos | Date: 22 February 2012

What were the causes for Hindu defeats? The simple and short answer is ‘Military non-performance of the Hindus’.

To examine the reasons of that non-performance, we have first to understand the nature of war, i.e. the factors...

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Bureaucratic Mischief with the Military!

Issue: Book Excerpt: Hinduism & its Military Ethos | Date: 21 April 2012

When India became free, one of the first tasks was to evolve a new structure for management of the Defense set-up. Therefore, it would be relevant to enumerate the broad principles on which the defense structure of a democratic country needs to...

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India's China Syndrome

Issue: Book Excerpt: Hinduism & its Military Ethos | Date: 18 March 2012

The first major test of the Indian armed forces came in 1962 when India was involved in a border conflict with China. In 1914, an Englishman, Sir Arthur Haney McMahon tried to define the border between India and Tibet (China) on the highest...

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A British private company, raised a private army to conquer India!

Issue: Book Excerpt: Hinduism & its Military Ethos | Date: 07 May 2012

It is a law of nature that all civilizations must finally decay and be replaced; Muslims were no exception. By the early 1700s, Muslims were bored and fatigued with their 500 years of continuous rule. There were no new challenges emerging; the...

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The Kargil Conflict does not qualify to be called a War

Issue: Book Excerpt: Hinduism & its Military Ethos | Date: 19 August 2011

It appears from newspaper reports that some Pakistani mujahideens (irregulars) occupied the Kargil heights sometime around April 1999. Later on, they were joined by regular Pakistan troops. Their overall numbers might have been a few thousand...

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