Articles By Bharat Verma
Kargil: Ours must live, enemy must die!
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Vol. 29.3 Jul-Sep 2014 | Date: 25 Jul , 2022
Even as the nation readies itself to pay homage to the extraordinary bravery displayed by the young officers and the men of the Indian Army during the Kargil conflict, the lessons thrown up raise...
Mainstream India's Military Power
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Vol 22.1 Jan - Mar 2007 | Date: 13 Feb , 2022
On attaining independence, the first question that should have continually been thrown up was “What are the infirmities in our character that have made India remain under foreign rule and...
India must counter China's imperial ambitions
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Vol 24.4 Oct-Dec 2009 | Date: 06 Aug , 2021
First published on IDR print Issue Vol 24.4 Oct-Dec 2009. New Delhi cannot afford to sit around while others plot its destruction. Surrounded with sullied strategic environment and the spreading...
Blueprint to tackle Maoists
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Vol 25.3 Jul-Sep 2010 | Date: 05 Apr , 2021
First Published on print issue of IDR Jul-Sep 2010 (Vol 25.3) THE BIG PICTURE Confronted with the Maoist menace, Civil Administration’s incompetence is making mountain out of a molehill by...
A Glimpse of Life in the Army
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Book Excerpt: Indian Armed Forces | Date: 17 Jan , 2021
Many of us wonder what the Army does in peacetime when there is no war on. Some people believe that they live a life of luxury, drink a lot and generally waste their time in playing golf or card...
Indo-Pak War of 1965
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Book Excerpt: Indian Armed Forces | Date: 04 Jan , 2021
Nehru’s death in 1964 had created political uncertainty in the country and an impression in Pakistan that India was no longer politically or militarily strong. In Pakistan, Field Marshal Ayub...
1962: नेहरू ने देश का किया...
By: Bharat Verma | Date: 03 Jan , 2021
नेविल मैक्सविल ने अपने ब्लॉग पर ‘हैंडरसन ब्रुक्स की जो रिपोर्ट रिलीज की...
Traditions and Customs of the Service
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Book Excerpt: Indian Armed Forces | Date: 01 Jan , 2019
Military Etiquette The code of honour that the Army follows is fostered through various customs and traditions which are legally and morally binding on every officer and soldier. Respect for...
1962: The Nehruvian Blunder
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Vol. 27.4 Oct-Dec 2012 | Date: 21 Nov , 2016
In any future conflict, New Delhi’s political will and the capabilities of the Indian military should be such that China and Pakistan are hard-pressed to defend Tibet and Lahore respectively...
China will fight India to the last Pakistani!
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Vol 15.4 Oct-Dec 2000 | Date: 16 Sep , 2016
The strategic triangle in Southern Asia is unique. Pitted against two closely aligned nuclear neighbors, China and Pakistan, puts India in an extremely hostile two-front security environment....
Expanding Footprints of European Defence Industries in India
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: EDR Vol. Jan-Feb 2013 | Date: 20 Apr , 2016
The European Union (EU) today faces practically no real military threat. Downsizing of the armed forces, shrinking budgets and the prevailing economic recession at home, make it necessary for the...
How to Setup A Modern Defence Industry in India?
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Vol. 29.1 Jan-Mar 2014 | Date: 10 Apr , 2016
Sixty-seven years of Independence and not a single combat aircraft has been produced by India! Despite the word ‘indigenisation’ featuring repeatedly in political rhetoric, one of the reasons...
If Pakistan splinters...
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Oct , 2015
If Pakistan splinters, it will hit the biggest stakeholder and benefactor China. In order to safeguard its strategic interests, Beijing therefore will make every endeavor to prevent the breakup of...
'India First' Policy Mandatory: What they don’t teach in Indian schools!
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Vol 16.2 Apr-Jun 2001 | Date: 03 Aug , 2015
The five thousand years of civilisation we talk of can be broken in two distinct periods. The first four thousand years appear to be an age of enlightenment. Though I was not there! The last one...
Take the war to the enemy
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Vol 24.1 Jan-Mar 2009 | Date: 30 May , 2015
New Delhi continues to fumble while India burns. Pakistan’s superior psychological warfare machinery further tied down the already overstretched Indian security forces in knots. Airports and...
Indian Defence Philosophy: A 'no-win' Concept
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Vol. 13.2 April-June 1998 | Date: 09 May , 2015
Panipat Syndrome. In times past, an Indian ruler met an invading army not at the frontiers of his kingdom but close to the seat of power. He remained well entrenched with his army within a fort or...
The myths on Pakistan
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 31 Dec , 2014
Indians have been spoon-fed for decades that stable Pakistan alone is necessary for India’s growth. Or that united Pakistan poses less threat than fragmented Pakistan. The myth propagated is...
Pakistan: The Jihad Factory
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Vol 15.1 Jan-Mar 2000 | Date: 19 Dec , 2014
Pakistan ultimately turned out to be the most dangerous place in the world. After witnessing the massacre of thirty-five innocent Indian citizens in the Valley, the American President travelled...
Taliban set to takeover Pakistan
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Vol. 29.2 Apr-Jun 2014 | Date: 17 Dec , 2014
In the near future, Taliban and Taliban like groups will impose Afghanistan type Taliban regime on Pakistan. The civil war raging inside Pakistan in search of elusive ‘purity’ of philosophy...
Stable Pakistan not in India's interest
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Vol 23.3 Jul-Sep 2008 | Date: 31 Oct , 2014
Indians pose the biggest threat to the union of India. The reason is simple. An average Indian does not constitute a nation but is merely an individual. His personal well-being overrides all...