Articles By Lt Gen Ashok Joshi (Retd) and Col Anil Athale (Retd)
Let Us Welcome the Agniveer
By: Lt Gen Ashok Joshi (Retd) and Col Anil Athale (Retd) | Date: 10 Jun , 2022
The Government announcement regarding the new recruitment policy for the Armed Forces appeared in the form of a scoop in newspapers on Tuesday, the 7th of June, 2022. The content made it clear...
Time for a Women Empowerment Commission for the Armed Forces!
By: Lt Gen Ashok Joshi (Retd) and Col Anil Athale (Retd) | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Nov , 2021
Thomas Hobbes, a sixteenth century English Philosopher and one of the pioneers of the ‘Realist’ theory in his work ‘Leviathan’ has described ‘Man in state of nature’. He says that in...
Women in the Army: Upside Down Logic!
By: Lt Gen Ashok Joshi (Retd) and Col Anil Athale (Retd) | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Sep , 2021
In our haste for making armed forces gender ‘neutral’ and provide equal opportunity to woman, we seem to have embarked on a spree to make drastic changes in our institutions and recruitment...
Immediate Need: National Government
By: Lt Gen Ashok Joshi (Retd) and Col Anil Athale (Retd) | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Mar , 2020
The loss of nearly one crore and 80 lakh Indians during just two years ending in 1920 due to the pandemic Spanish Flu that struck towards the end of the Great War is a sobering reminder: one in...