Articles in Book Excerpt: India's War since Independence

1971: The Gradual Escalation - IV

1971: The Gradual Escalation - IV

By: Maj Gen Sukhwant Singh | Issue: Book Excerpt: India's War since Independence | Date: 08 May , 2011

Kashmir defied a political decision despite prolonged negotiations between representatives of India and Pakistan countries. Frustrated by its inabiltiy to find a solution of the problem to its...

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1971: The Gradual Escalation - III

1971: The Gradual Escalation - III

By: Maj Gen Sukhwant Singh | Issue: Book Excerpt: India's War since Independence | Date: 07 May , 2011

Yahya Khan asserted that the genuine refugees from East Pakistan numbered only 2 million, and he was prepared to accept back only this number and no more. This would have left about 8 million as...

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1971: The Gradual Escalation - II

1971: The Gradual Escalation - II

By: Maj Gen Sukhwant Singh | Issue: Book Excerpt: India's War since Independence | Date: 06 May , 2011

When news trickled in of the revolt of the Bengali elements in units of the Pakistani Army stationed in East Pakistan and of Tikka Khan’s crackdown on the nationalistic civil population, voices...

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1971: The Gradual Escalation - I

1971: The Gradual Escalation - I

By: Maj Gen Sukhwant Singh | Issue: Book Excerpt: India's War since Independence | Date: 04 May , 2011

When news trickled in of the revolt of the Bengali elements in units of the Pakistani Army stationed in East Pakistan and of Tikka Khan’s crackdown on the nationalistic civil population, voices...

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1971: The Rajasthan Campaign - IV

1971: The Rajasthan Campaign - IV

By: Maj Gen Sukhwant Singh | Issue: Book Excerpt: India's War since Independence | Date: 01 May , 2011

16 December: After suffering a few casualties in the probing mission in Barmer and believing that the enemy had reinforced his defences in the Nayachor and Umarkot areas, bewoor’s fears once...

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1971: The Rajasthan Campaign - III

1971: The Rajasthan Campaign - III

By: Maj Gen Sukhwant Singh | Issue: Book Excerpt: India's War since Independence | Date: 30 Apr , 2011

5 December: The camel battalion secured Rotak, Kelnor and Mankor in the Barmer sector by the end of the day in the north. Khokhrapar and satellite localities in the central sub-sector were...

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1971: The Rajasthan Campaign - II

1971: The Rajasthan Campaign - II

By: Maj Gen Sukhwant Singh | Issue: Book Excerpt: India's War since Independence | Date: 29 Apr , 2011

Air Force units located in Gujarat and at Nal did not come under AOC Jodhpur, air support for Bikaner and Kutch sectors had to be dealt with directly with Headquarters Western Air Command....

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1971: The Rajasthan Campaign - I

1971: The Rajasthan Campaign - I

By: Maj Gen Sukhwant Singh | Issue: Book Excerpt: India's War since Independence | Date: 28 Apr , 2011

After commanding an artillery brigade in Ladakh, I was selected to take over an infantry brigade, quite a feat in those prejudice-ridden days of early 1969. My General asked me: “Where do you...

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1971: India's Military Plan - II

1971: India's Military Plan - II

By: Maj Gen Sukhwant Singh | Issue: Book Excerpt: India's War since Independence | Date: 19 Apr , 2011

A comparison of the relative strength of India and Pakistan worked out at a ratio of 7:4, and this did not appear to the planners as such a preponderant superiority in numbers as to go for the...

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1971: India's Military Plan-I

1971: India's Military Plan-I

By: Maj Gen Sukhwant Singh | Issue: Book Excerpt: India's War since Independence | Date: 18 Apr , 2011

On the map, Bangladesh looks like the head of a female stag with stunted horns pointing towards Siliguri, and its narrow neck is represented by the Agartala bulge. The country is landlocked on...

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India's Losses and Gains in Post-Independence Wars - III

India's Losses and Gains in Post-Independence Wars - III

By: Maj Gen Sukhwant Singh | Issue: Book Excerpt: India's War since Independence | Date: 27 Mar , 2011

Care had not been taken at higher levels to verify the claims in accordance with the realities on the ground before preferring them at the negotiating table. The exaggeration might have been the...

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India's Losses and Gains in Post-Independence Wars - I

India's Losses and Gains in Post-Independence Wars - I

By: Maj Gen Sukhwant Singh | Issue: Book Excerpt: India's War since Independence | Date: 25 Mar , 2011

A nation has recourse to war either to further from a position of strength the interests it has not been able to promote by political and economic means, or when cornered by a stronger adversary...

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The pitfalls in evolution of Indian Army-III

The pitfalls in evolution of Indian Army-III

By: Maj Gen Sukhwant Singh | Issue: Book Excerpt: India's War since Independence | Date: 28 Jan , 2011

The Indian opening of a second front in Punjab on 6 September forced Ayub Khan to pull troops out of the Chhamb-Jaurian sector to reinforce the Lahore and Sialkot sectors. Despite thinning out,...

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The pitfalls in evolution of Indian Army-II

The pitfalls in evolution of Indian Army-II

By: Maj Gen Sukhwant Singh | Issue: Book Excerpt: India's War since Independence | Date: 27 Jan , 2011

Chaudhuri set about his task energetically and with dispatch, bringing to his job as Chief a wealth of experience of well-handled assignments both in command and staff, including his tenure as...

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