IPKF's Performance in Sri Lanka

Issue: Book Except: Assignment Jaffna | Date: 08 April 2011

The Long War

Used as we are to wars of a fortnight or three weeks, the Cl Ops against the LTTE in Sri Lanka, which went on for nearly two and a half years, proved indeed tough - and to many, too much. Careerists suffered a great deal....

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Internal Security and the Military

Issue: Vol 25.4 Oct-Dec 2010 | Date: 11 March 2011

After a century of peace since 1857, we entered an era of independence  — a totally new era of representational democracy, secularism of our brand, social equality, economic equity, uplift of the downtrodden and diverse-yet-united...

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Trends in Military Leadership

Issue: Vol. 23.4 Oct-Dec 2008 | Date: 19 February 2011

“The sense of grievance among armed forces that the civilian bureaucracy has short-changed it and this is reflected in the hierarchy laid down in the pay commission is both sad and dangerous. If allowed to fester it will undermine not...

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LTTE'S Self Destruction

Issue: Vol 24.2 Apr-Jun 2009 | Date: 07 January 2011

Insurgency-guerilla war as a combination in the struggle of the weak against the strong has established itself as a strong and successful method of waging an armed struggle. It is said that the combination may not win but forces the opponent to...

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Military Power: The Task Ahead

Issue: Vol 23.1 Jan-Mar 2008 | Date: 29 December 2010

Power means the sum total of capabilities, with the help of which things can be manipulated to one’s own advantage, be it individual or nation. Along the strands of capabilities is the power of the military, a vital component of...

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