Articles By Brig Deepak Sinha
Consequences of the Manipur Conflagration
By: Brig Deepak Sinha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 Jun , 2023
In the summer of 64 AD, nearly 2000 years ago, Rome, more or less, was completely razed to the ground in a fire that lasted six days. The hapless citizens, in utter frustration, turned on their...
The Fallacy of Handling China with Kid Gloves
By: Brig Deepak Sinha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Mar , 2023
It is apparent that the Modi Government has shown great reluctance to enhance defence expenditure, and instead has been looking for ways and means to curtail spending, as any government should....
The NFU Saga of Armed Forces Degradation
By: Brig Deepak Sinha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Feb , 2023
General VP Malik, the former Chief of Army Staff, recently tweeted that the “Government now grants NFU to even Railway Officers who have their own assured career progression scheme… but...
Future Wars: The Way Forward
By: Brig Deepak Sinha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Nov , 2022
Over the years, national security issues have gained in importance and face constant and detailed scrutiny from a wide variety of practitioners, researchers, analysts and journalists. This is...
Appointment of the Chief of Defence Staff: Boon or Bane?
By: Brig Deepak Sinha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 Oct , 2022
So, after a gap of approximately nine months, we finally have a new Chief of Defence Staff, which should normally be viewed as good news, especially if envisaged military reforms are to have any...
Putin’s Folly: The Long Road to Self-Destruction
By: Brig Deepak Sinha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Sep , 2022
Ever since President Putin ordered the occupation of Ukraine in a ‘Special Military Operation’ this February, he has been at the receiving end of a stream of bad news. Neither were the...
Chinese Roulette: Which way will the Wind Blow?
By: Brig Deepak Sinha | Issue: Vol. 37.1, Jan-Mar 2022 | Date: 01 Apr , 2022
The 2022 campaigning season along the Sino-Indian Line of Actual Control (LAC) opens up in just a matter of months. By all reckoning, the situation is likely to continue remaining extremely...
AFSPA in the N-E: Is status quo the answer?
By: Brig Deepak Sinha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Jan , 2022
Much has already been written on the tragic incident that occurred recently in the Tiru-Oting area of Mon district, Nagaland. In a case of mistaken identity, six coal miners were killed by a...
The Afghan Disaster: Lessons our Military must Heed
By: Brig Deepak Sinha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Sep , 2021
It may seem a case of “I told you so”, but it was predestined that the United States would always lose in Afghanistan. Off course, while withdrawals tend to be untidy affairs, the manner of...
The Taliban Occupation of Afghanistan: Impact on India
By: Brig Deepak Sinha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Aug , 2021
The swift and relatively unopposed takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban, in a matter of just days and not months as expected,has caught the United States and its Allies,as well as the...
Missteps and Misconceptions: The Theatre Commands Conundrum
By: Brig Deepak Sinha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Jul , 2021
In recent days we have been witness to the rather unedifying spectacle of the Chief of Defence Staff and the Chief of Air Staff being involved in a needless public spat over the way ahead with...
Drone Attacks: Not Another Game Changer
By: Brig Deepak Sinha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Jul , 2021
As was to be expected the recent drone attack on Air Force Station at Jammu, has, as the British would jokingly put it, got our knickers in a twist, and it should. It is no laughing matter that...
Holding Governments Accountable
By: Brig Deepak Sinha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 Apr , 2021
In an interview to the Los Angeles Review of Books well known author and poet, Ranjit Hoskote, says “As writers we must continue to draw attention to the abyss over which we are dancing.”...
Response to Chinese Assertiveness: Hoodwinked, Deluded or Eyes Wide Shut
By: Brig Deepak Sinha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 Mar , 2021
Oddly enough it requires just two phrases to cogently describe our attempts to keep our military strong and defend our territorial integrity over the past seventy-four years. The first, by French...
Confronting the Dragon One Step at a Time
By: Brig Deepak Sinha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 Sep , 2020
The Chief of Defence Staff, General Bipin Rawat’s, unambiguous statement that military options were on the table if diplomatic efforts failed to resolve the ongoing imbroglio with China,...
Responding to the Chinese Game Plan
By: Brig Deepak Sinha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Jul , 2020
News reports now suggest that Pakistan has reportedly moved two army divisions up into Gilgit-Baltistan region opposite Kargil. Clearly some elements within our security establishment must see...
Sino-Indian Stand Off: A Case of Russian Roulette
By: Brig Deepak Sinha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 May , 2020
While our complete attention has been taken up in tackling the COVID 19 pandemic, we find ourselves hit by another virus again involving China, in the form of deliberate attempts by the People’s...
A New Paradigm for Conduct of CI Operations in Jammu & Kashmir: Vision 2020
By: Brig Deepak Sinha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Jan , 2020
It has been more than three months since the Modi Government’s bold and wholly unprecedented step of amending Article 370 that has led to the reorganization of the erstwhile State of Jammu and...
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),...