Articles By Brig Deepak Sinha
Military and Politics
By: Brig Deepak Sinha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Jul , 2019
If a student of military history were to focus on the Sino-Indian Conflict of 1962, he would be hard pressed to avoid concluding that the result of the confrontation was actually decided in less...
The Military Magicians: Pulling Rabbits out of a Hat
By: Brig Deepak Sinha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 May , 2019
After years of speculation the Government has finally bitten the bullet and formally named the heads of the Armed Forces Special Operations Division (AFSOD) and the Defence Cyber Agency (DCA),...
Taking the Bull by the Horns: A Case for Pro Active Defense to Counter...
By: Brig Deepak Sinha | Issue: Vol. 32.2 Apr-Jun 2017 | Date: 10 Sep , 2017
It isn’t as if a bitter or prolonged conflict with China in the immediate or near future is our inevitable fate. In fact, one hopes that cooperation and convergence, leading to mutual prosperity...
The Illusion of Accountability
By: Brig Deepak Sinha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 May , 2017
We suddenly seemed to have discovered our inherent aggressive nature as everybody and his Uncle seems intent on baying for Pakistani blood in the aftermath of the incident at the LOC. That an...
Playing Hardball: Confronting Chinese Hegemonic Designs in South Asia
By: Brig Deepak Sinha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Apr , 2017
There has been a substantial amount of heat and dust raised over the intemperate actions of the Chinese in the South China Sea and President Trump’s aggressive posturing prior to President Xi...
Trump’s World and its Impact on India
By: Brig Deepak Sinha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 Mar , 2017
In what has come to be termed as the “Asian Century”, it was just a matter of time before the world’s oldest democracy, the United States of America, began to follow in the footsteps of the...
Bull in the China Shop: The Indian Army vs The PLA
By: Brig Deepak Sinha | Issue: Vol. 31.1 Jan-Mar 2016 | Date: 22 Mar , 2017
One would expect that the Indian armed forces, more than fifty years of their confrontation with the PLA, would be pretty knowledgeable not only about their organisational table, capabilities and...
Winning Hearts and Minds in J&K: At Whose Cost?
By: Brig Deepak Sinha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Feb , 2017
The tragic martyrdom of six soldiers, including an officer, is neither the first such loss nor is it likely to be the last in the ongoing tragedy that is Jammu and Kashmir. We are, at this point,...
The Impact of the Agusta Westland Controversy
By: Brig Deepak Sinha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Dec , 2016
The theatre of the absurd was recently played out in public on the saga of the Agusta Westland helicopter procurement when the CBI suddenly arrested Air Chief Marshal SP Tyagi (Retd), former Air...
What the Nagrota Terrorist Assault Augurs for our Military
By: Brig Deepak Sinha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 Dec , 2016
It is accepted conventional wisdom the world over, ever since well-known military theorist, Carl Von Clausewitz, first articulated the aphorism in the late 18th Century that “war is a...
The Indo-Pak Imbroglio: Retaliation and its Consequences
By: Brig Deepak Sinha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Nov , 2016
One cannot help but appreciate Mr. Modi’s sense of timing for the dramatic. Following the raids inside POK subsequent to Pakistan’s Uri misadventure, we have chaos heaped in big measure with...
The Uri Fiasco and Ensuring Accountability
By: Brig Deepak Sinha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Sep , 2016
While it is not known as to what conclusions the Army’s Court of Inquiry has arrived at over the Uri fiasco, it needs little intuition or professional knowledge to conclude that there were...
Not all Goliaths are Bullies
By: Brig Deepak Sinha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Sep , 2016
A recent issue of weekly magazine, Outlook, carried an article on Kashmir by Dr. Ashish Nandy, whom the magazine refers to as “India’s foremost public intellectual and renowned political...
So Where’s the Daesh?
By: Brig Deepak Sinha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Aug , 2016
If some of those in the media, research and security establishment are to be believed Daesh or ISIS, as it is also known, is right here at our doorstep. As proof they point to reports on those...
Stemming the Rot of Self Inflicted Injuries in the Military
By: Brig Deepak Sinha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Jun , 2016
Self- inflicted injury, by its very nature and motivation, is considered abhorrent within military circles and dealt with quite harshly, not just in our military but also by other militaries...
Rightsizing the Military: The Need for a Comprehensive Examination
By: Brig Deepak Sinha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 May , 2016
The Defence Minister has recently announced the formation of an eleven member committee led by Lieutenant General DB Shekatkar (Retd) tasked to look into areas of “overlap” and convergence within...
Special Operations Forces: Transforming Command Structures
By: Brig Deepak Sinha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 May , 2016
America is the world’s sole super power with immense economic clout and unbridled diplomatic access and influence over nearly all governments across the world. This enables them to conduct what...
Lessons from the Brussels Outrage: The Price of Appeasement
By: Brig Deepak Sinha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 May , 2016
Finally, the attack on Brussels, and the earlier ones on Paris, has brought about a glimmer of realization among many Europeans that they are in the midst of a war, which while quite not like the...
India-Pakistan: Who’s Chicken? Playing for Keeps
By: Brig Deepak Sinha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Apr , 2016
One is not quite sure, given the dissonant and discordant voices emerging from Pakistan, as to whether our search for a peaceful way forward has once again been completely stymied or has just hit...
Democracy and the Military
By: Brig Deepak Sinha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Mar , 2016
Despite the accuracy or otherwise of whatever has been alleged by Mr. Manish Tewari, former Union Minister, his personal motivations aside, the stark truth is that citizens of this country have...