Gp Capt PK Mulay

“Hasn’t it always been like this?’ asked Charlotte. ‘Haven’t they always been games that empires play with one another? - Sherry Thomas, The Art of...

“The purpose of warfare is not to fight; it is to achieve a political objective. If you can achieve this objective without kinetic conflict, so...

‘With whom will we fight? Where will we fight? What is the character of the war that we will fight? How will we fight?’— Jiang...

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time. - Leo Tolstoy Introduction There is a sense of déjà vu about the Sino-Indian standoff in...

Soldiers hate two things; change and the way things are — Anon The National Defence Academy (NDA) was established with the lofty ideal of inculcating...

A wise soldier learns from the past, both the successes and failures. Background Wars shape the destinies of nations and are characterised by tales of...

Background Third of October 2022, was a memorable day for Indian Aviation as the defence minister presided over the formal handing over of the Light...

In 1939, Winston Churchill described the intentions of Russia as “A riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma”. The idiom is equally relevant today...

Airpower is the most difficult of military force to measure or even express in precise terms. — Winston Churchill General Norman Schwarzkopf, the CENTCOM Commander...

The Ukraine-Russia war gets curiouser and curiouser as it enters the seventh month. The happenings could well qualify as a comedy, were it not for...

“We are never deceived, we deceive ourselves.” — Goethe The significance of the element of ‘surprise’ in warfare has been acknowledged since time immemorial. Articulated...

The IAF strike on the Jaish-e-Mohammed training camp at Balakot to avenge the Pulwama terror attack has altered the narrative on India’s strategic thinking. In...

Military confrontations are like the great game of chess. The overall aim is to place the pieces in advantageous positions to get an upper hand....

The emergence of a new world order has been under discussion for some time now. The reasons are not difficult to discern. In the last...

Many years back in Mumbai, then known as Bombay, car drivers used to be very particular while approaching certain road crossings, suspecting that there would...

Indian Air Force’s aircraft acquisitions attract worldwide attention mainly due to the order size and the costs involved. It is thus quite natural that its...