Lt Gen (Dr) Rakesh Sharma, PVSM,UYSM,AVSM,VSM (Retd.)

Are armed forces still the Profession of Arms? The profession of arms is unique because of the lethality of our weapons and our operations, the...

Indian Armed Forces are organisations that despite having large bureaucracies, hierarchical structures and specialisations, are like living organisms and are not machines. Different stages of...

Six months, and the external security environment of India has turned on its head! With burgeoning trade at the threshold of $100 billion and general...

In a candid statement on the floor of the Indian Parliament on 15 and 17 Sep 2020, the Defence Minister Rajnath Singh stated that there...

Infantry – the Alma Mater, to be proud of!  Nearly seventy years in incessant combat in insurgencies, in countering infiltration (CI) and in combating terrorism (CT), has...

The Indian Army Chief had in the annual press conference prior to the Army Day 2018, stated that time had come to shift attention to...

The bedrock of all security strategies is the in-depth analysis of how the security environment of the future is fathomed, and how this analysis is...

“The humanities and social sciences teach us to question, analyze, debate, evaluate, interpret, synthesize, compare evidence, and communicate—skills that are critically important in shaping adults...

‘A different habit, with worse effect, was the way that ambitious officers, they came in sight of promotion to the Generals’ list, would decide that...

The aftermath of the incident in South Kashmir, tying a civilian in front of the Army jeep, to protect the polling staff from a large...