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Lt Gen JFR Jacob: A Personal Remembrance
Lt Gen JFR Jacob: A Personal Remembrance

1971 War hero, principal planner of the Indian army’s race to Dhaka, GOC-in-C, Eastern Command, Governor of Goa and Punjab, Lt Gen JFR Jacob passed away in early January 2016. Many richly deserved tributes followed his death and a grateful nation gave the General a befitting farewell. While General Jacob’s brilliance was widely...

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Hollande's Visit: The Security Angle
Claude Arpi | 20 Jan , 2016 0 comments
Hollande's Visit: The Security Angle

The French have recently rediscovered their old Gaulish belligerent genes. The list of France’s present military intervention outside its territory is long and the locations spread over two continents: Africa and the Middle-East. French troops are deployed in Syria (Ops Chammal, 3.500 men); in Central African Republic (Ops Sanaris, 900 men);...

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What people don’t understand about Life in the Army: Daughter of an Army Officer
Amrit Mann | 19 Jan , 2016 19 comments
What people don’t understand about Life in the Army: Daughter of an Army Officer

This article was originally published here on Youth Ki Awaaz Nobody is a fan of loose talk and I am no exception. What boils up every drop of blood in me are misinformed conversations that give birth to misinformed opinions. I recently overheard two so-called ‘educated, suited-booted gentlemen’ discuss the Pathankot terrorist attacks...

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Terrorism and Pakistan: A Compulsion or Dilemma
Terrorism and Pakistan: A Compulsion or Dilemma

Pakistan is in a state of flux as far as terrorism is concerned, the seeds of poison it sowed in decades of eighties and nineties are now beginning to yield crops of devastation. Pakistan in a bid to wage proxy wars against India and Afghanistan encouraged, financed, trained and helped in crossing over of terrorists will now have to come up...

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India, Vietnam take ties to strategic level against Chinese assertiveness
India, Vietnam take ties to strategic level against Chinese assertiveness

Vietnam lies in the Asia-Pacific region which has of late become a major witness to a phenomenal rise of China, which as a country is not only the world’s second largest economy, but is also a nation with the largest armed forces. The United States, concerned with the increasing might of China, especially its military power, is trying to...

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