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Zorawar: The Mountain Tank
Indian Army has required a light tank since the Kargil War 1999 and Doklam stand-off of 2017 to equip its Sikkim corps, Ladakh corps and Tejpur corps. During 1962 War in Trijap sub sector (North Pongong Tso) and Rezang La area and during the near War in 2020 at Moldo/Galwan sub-sector, the Chinese had mobilised their Armoured and Motorised...
Lt Col Stobdan Kalon, VSM: The man who reconnoitered Siachen in 1978
The exploits of Col. ‘Bull’ Kumar in India’s Siachen saga are well documented. It was from his chance meeting with Volkar Stallbohm and Jaroslav Poncar in 1978 that Kumar learnt about Pakistan permitting expeditions in the Siachen region. His interest in the region having been triggered, Kumar gathered more details about the expeditions...
Theatre Commands take shape, Lok Sabha Clears Inter-Services Organisation Bill
As momentum gains for the proposed reorganisation of the Indian military into integrated theatre commands, the Lok Sabha on August 4 passed the Inter-Services Organisation (Command, Control and Discipline) Bill, 2023. It seeks to empower Commander-in-Chief and Officer-in Command of Inter-Services Organisations (ISOs) with all disciplinary and...
Why Article 370 Abrogation Continues to Irk Pakistan
Despite its claim to the contrary, it’s apparent that Islamabad’s unending repertoire of allegations that people in Kashmir being denied their fundamental rights and being brutalised has failed to fool the international community. And with Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari himself admitting that “Islamabad faces an...
Demographic Invasion of Jammu
Jammu, the ISI Target The year 1995. Things in Jammu were deteriorating and fast appeared to be going the Kashmir way. The fundamental factor: Pakistan’s Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI) saboteurs, after wrecking the administration in the Kashmir Valley and disrupting its political and economic institutions, had turned its attention to what...