Lt. Gen. Rakesh Sharma PVSM,UYSM,AVSM,VSM (Retd.)
Envisioning Post-Pandemic Ex-Servicemen Contributory Health Scheme (ECHS)
The Covid19 Pandemic has been ravaging the world with over three million dead globally. April 2021 has brought a calamitous second wave of the...
Army Officers and Professional Military Education (PME):Need for Focussed, Systemic Change
Profession of arms is unique because of lethality of weapons and breadth of operations. Warfare, including virtual ones like cyber and electromagnetic spectrum, and...
Army Officers Cadre: Need for Positive Restructuring
Indian Army Officers are a class apart. That is why lakhs of young boys barely in their teens aspire and compete to join the profession...
Contemplation of Non-Kineticism and Military Capabilities
Are armed forces still the Profession of Arms? The profession of arms is unique because of the lethality of our weapons and our operations,...
Modern Warfare and Contemplation of Strategic Victory
That is an old saying - victory has a thousand fathers, defeat is an orphan! On the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln on 01 May 2003,...
Turning Points, Objective Determinants
Indian Armed Forces are organisations that despite having large bureaucracies, hierarchical structures and specialisations, are like living organisms and are not machines. Different stages...
LOC-isation of LAC: Pragmatic Appreciation
In a candid statement on the floor of the Indian Parliament on 15 and 17 Sep 2020, the Defence Minister Rajnath Singh stated that...
Ideating Structural Rebalancing
In a recent article catchily headed, The Army in Indian Military Strategy: Rethink Doctrine or Risk Irrelevance, the author states that “…Indian Army’s prevailing...
Independent Domain of China’s Cyberspace Operations
The transformation of the Chinese Military from September 2015 greatly emphasised on new Strategic Support Force (SSF), bringing about significant changes in warfighting and organizational...
Super High Altitude Areas in Eastern Ladakh: Designing Ground Operations
The Chinese have exhibited a coercive and intimidating approach in 2020, in South and East China Seas, the Taiwan Straits, Nepal (Mt Everest), Bhutan...