Articles By Lt Gen Philip Campose
The Dragon Breathes Fire at Doklam: Should India be Prepared for Limited War?
By: Lt Gen Philip Campose | Date: 28 Jul , 2017
Why did China, on June 16, 2017, try to change the status quo in the China-India-Bhutan land dispute, by trying to occupy the strategic Doklam plateau on the Bhutanese side of the boundary...
‘Operation Tupac’: The Continuing Stimulus behind Pakistan Army’s...
By: Lt Gen Philip Campose | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 09 May , 2017
The killing of two Indian soldiers and subsequent mutilating of their bodies on the Line of Control (LoC) on May 1st, 2017, reportedly by a combined team of Pakistani soldiers and terrorists,...
India’s Military Deterrence and Modernisation in an Era of Optimal Warfare
By: Lt Gen Philip Campose | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 11 Apr , 2017
This article is written as a sequel to the previous one articulated a week ago on ‘Optimal Warfare.’ In that, the author had argued that, ‘optimal warfare’ – a limited, calibrated,...
Optimal Warfare (OW): the emerging Warfare Concept of the 21st Century
By: Lt Gen Philip Campose | Date: 28 Mar , 2017
The Iraq War and the Lebanon War of the first decade of the 21st century are watershed events in the history of warfare. For the weaker side in those wars, the Iraqi Army (who turned insurgents)...
India's Defence Procurement and Modernisation: Can a new Organisation fix...
By: Lt Gen Philip Campose | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 12 Mar , 2017
A committee nominated by India’s Ministry of Defence has recently submitted its recommendations for integrating and streamlining the defence acquisition process by raising a Defence Procurement...
How do we Modernise the Indian Military in Times of Inadequate Defence Budgets?
By: Lt Gen Philip Campose | Date: 13 Feb , 2017
With the announcement of Budget 2017-18 on Feb 01, 2017, yet another opportunity to modernize the Indian military has come and gone unutilised, without as much as raising a whimper among the...
India-Russia Defence Cooperation: Time to Look Forward
By: Lt Gen Philip Campose | Date: 09 Oct , 2016
The Soviet Union earlier, and Russia thereafter, have been the most reliable suppliers of state-of-art armament for India’s defence forces. India and Russia have an institutionalized structure...
Lessons from the Uri Attack
By: Lt Gen Philip Campose | Date: 28 Sep , 2016
The Pakistan Army has been using suicide modules of the Lashkar e Taiba (LeT) and Jaish e Mohammed (JeM) to launch terror attacks against targets in India, especially in J&K, for a long time now....
India’s Transition from an Emerging Power to a Leading Power: Prescriptive...
By: Lt Gen Philip Campose | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 10 Jul , 2016
India has made phenomenal economic progress in the last two decades, to the extent of being accepted by most as an emerging or rising power and also being described in informed circles as a...
India’s Nuclear Doctrine Does Not Need Revision Yet
By: Lt Gen Philip Campose | Date: 21 May , 2016
India’s nuclear doctrine, which was articulated some twelve years back, has withstood the test of time, in terms of successfully deterring nuclear adventurism by our Western neighbour and also...
A Curious Case of the Tail Wagging the Dog
By: Lt Gen Philip Campose | Date: 22 Apr , 2016
Recently, we had the strange case of China setting aside its claims to great power responsibility by taking action at preventing UN sanctions against a known terrorist, Masood Azhar, Chief of the...
Making the Future ICV in India
By: Lt Gen Philip Campose | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 21 Apr , 2016
The induction of the Soviet origin Infantry Combat Vehicle ICV BMP1 and concurrent creation of the Mechanised Infantry Arm of the Indian Army in 1979, as a result of the recommendations of the...
The Salience of Pakistan's Nuclear Weapons
By: Lt Gen Philip Campose | Date: 04 Mar , 2016
Pakistan is reported to have the fastest growing nuclear weapon arsenal in the world. The arsenal is also seen by many military planners in Pakistan as a low cost option to make up for lack of...