Articles By Brig Deepak Sinha
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...
