Articles By Lt Gen Harwant Singh
Afghanistan: Strategic Alliance vs Strategic Depth
Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 December 2011
Historically, Afghanistan has been the most difficult country for military campaigns and equally difficult to govern. The nature of terrain, the climate and the tribes that inhabit the land make an amalgam of harshness and lawlessness. The...
Withdrawing AFSPA A welcome move?
Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 October 2011
Omar Abdullah’s decision to withdraw AFSPA from some parts of J&K should be taken as a welcome move. However it would have been far better for him to have first discussed this issue, within the state security set-up, more so with the...
Soldiers: Waste of highly skilled national asset
Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 September 2011
More than 80 percent soldiers retire at the age of 36/37 years and their yearly number is almost fifty thousand. They do not even get up to the midway point of their pay band, miss out on increments, consequently get pension based on the point...
Limited War : A Flawed Concept
Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 October 2011
It is not clear as to when the idea or perhaps the concept of a limited war was first evolved and articulated in the Indian military. May be it was the fallout from the procrastination, dithering and timidity in our response and an alibi for...
Neglect of the Indian Military
Date: 15 August 2011
In a developing economy, rapid industrialization and a country well on the road to prosperity, preference for government jobs tends to decline. This has not happened in India so far due to a number of reasons. One, government jobs offer...
Pakistan's Confessions: Shouldn't go slow on defence modernisation
Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 July 2011
Pakistan Defence Minister in a recent statement has acknowledged that his country just cannot match India in defence capabilities. This, it is argued, is due to the vast difference in the GDP and foreign trade of the two countries, etc. But...
High Court ruling can make the Armed Forces Tribunal infructuous
Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 June 2011
The defence services had been clamouring for an Armed Forces Tribunal (AFT) for decades, essentially because the civilian courts took years and even decades to decide their cases. These inordinate delays had an adverse impact on discipline,...
India incapable of conducting Op Geronimo
Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 June 2011
Consequent to American operation ‘Geronimo,’ at Abbottabad in Pakistan to eliminate Osama bin Laden, many in civil society have been asking whether India can go ahead with a similar operation. ‘Geronimo’ involved...
Career in the Military: imperatives of attracting right material
Issue: Vol 26.1 Jan-Mar 2011 | Date: 04 April 2011
Throughout history, the Indian soldier fought in the defence of his motherland with unmatched valour and yet lost to almost every invader: even to those who arrived with an army of just a few thousand. What were the underlying causes of this...
Pak nuclear card limits Indian anti terror options
Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 February 2011
ITS three decades since Pakistan has been fermenting trouble in India. It started with Punjab and later in Jammu and Kashmir, followed by sporadic terrorist attacks in rest of India. While it is a cheap option for Pakistan, it has cost India...
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