Articles By Brig Deepak Sinha
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),...
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...