Articles By Lt Gen SC Sardeshpande
What Ails the Army's Officer Class?
By: Lt Gen SC Sardeshpande | Issue: Book Excerpt: War & Soldiering | Date: 08 Nov , 2018
Of late one increasingly hears and reads about the weaknesses in the Army’s Officer class: Law suits in the Court, statutory complaints, representations, sexual aberrations and so on. If a...
War: Science or Art?
By: Lt Gen SC Sardeshpande | Issue: Book Excerpt: War & Soldiering | Date: 22 Oct , 2017
Science is the field of knowledge, investigation, compilation. It explains nature’s phenomena and unveils its new vistas. Art is the province of creation, construction, action, “doing”. It is...
National Security and the use of Armed Force
By: Lt Gen SC Sardeshpande | Issue: Vol. 32.1 Jan-Mar 2017 | Date: 19 May , 2017
With all the churning and regurgitation on the national security canvas, as it gets closer and closer to every citizen in today’s world, how do we develop our national security awareness and...
Our Strategic Culture
By: Lt Gen SC Sardeshpande | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 31 May , 2016
An article by a senior army officer on “Strengthening Our Strategic Culture” in an eminent weekly recently, lands one in confusion as the article rolls national unity, national education,...
Letter to Maj Gen Sardeshpande from a Jaffna Citizen
By: Lt Gen SC Sardeshpande | Issue: Book Except: Assignment Jaffna | Date: 25 Nov , 2015
From: Dr SS Arulanandam Periyamaraddy Chavakachcheri To: Maj Gen Sardeshpande General Officer Commanding Palaly Dated: 5 May 1988 Enclosed is the photo-copy of ‘Eelam News’ published in ‘Junior...
The Culture Baggage of Indian Military Philosophy
By: Lt Gen SC Sardeshpande | Issue: Vol. 29.2 Apr-Jun 2014 | Date: 25 Jun , 2014
The Gandhian philosophy of ahimsa has affected the Indian attitude towards war and use of force. Nehruvian distrust of India’s armed forces and military leadership has coloured the dispensation...
India’s Southern Security
By: Lt Gen SC Sardeshpande | Issue: Vol 22.3 Jul-Sep 2007 | Date: 11 Sep , 2011
A general review of media reportage on India’s southern security, relating to Sri Lanka in recent months reveals following salient aspects:- Sri Lankan Govt’s (SLG) argument of finding...
IPKF's Performance in Sri Lanka
By: Lt Gen SC Sardeshpande | Issue: Book Except: Assignment Jaffna | Date: 08 Apr , 2011
The Long War Used as we are to wars of a fortnight or three weeks, the Cl Ops against the LTTE in Sri Lanka, which went on for nearly two and a half years, proved indeed tough – and to many,...
Internal Security and the Military
By: Lt Gen SC Sardeshpande | Issue: Vol 25.4 Oct-Dec 2010 | Date: 11 Mar , 2011
After a century of peace since 1857, we entered an era of independence — a totally new era of representational democracy, secularism of our brand, social equality, economic equity, uplift of...
Trends in Military Leadership
By: Lt Gen SC Sardeshpande | Issue: Vol. 23.4 Oct-Dec 2008 | Date: 19 Feb , 2011
“The sense of grievance among armed forces that the civilian bureaucracy has short-changed it and this is reflected in the hierarchy laid down in the pay commission is both sad and dangerous....
LTTE'S Self-Destruction
By: Lt Gen SC Sardeshpande | Issue: Vol 24.2 Apr-Jun 2009 | Date: 07 Jan , 2011
Insurgency-guerilla war as a combination in the struggle of the weak against the strong has established itself as a strong and successful method of waging an armed struggle. It is said that the...
Military Power: The Task Ahead
By: Lt Gen SC Sardeshpande | Issue: Vol 23.1 Jan-Mar 2008 | Date: 29 Dec , 2010
Power means the sum total of capabilities, with the help of which things can be manipulated to one’s own advantage, be it individual or nation. Along the strands of capabilities is the power...