Colonel Anil Athale (Retd)

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South Asia: It Is Climate Change, Stupid
Rediff.com21 Sep 2024

India should encourage the second coming of SAARC with climate change as an urgent...

Courting trouble on the Rafale
Rediff.com15 Nov 2018

The strategic illiteracy on display in the arguments put forth on the Rafale deal...

How to bring about regime change in Pakistan
Rediff.com29 Sep 2016

'In order to achieve Pakistan's psychological isolation and pariah status, breaking all...

Pakistan's crackdown on radicals is a ray of hope
Rediff.com7 Mar 2016

'If the bulk of the Pakistan population and the all powerful army are now against...

Delhi gang-rape: Time to instil the fear of law
Rediff.com9 Jan 2013

It is the 'tolerance' of eve teasing and harassment of women that is the start point of...

The Untold Story: How US came to India's aid in 1962
Rediff.com4 Dec 2012

The story of the 1962 war with China has all the elements of a dramatic historical...

Exclusive: What provoked the India-China war?
Rediff.com16 Oct 2012

Colonel Anil Athale (retd), the official historian of India's 1962 war with China,...

What really happened in August 1947
Rediff.com14 Aug 2012

Why did Mountbatten suddenly declare that the Partition of India would take place with...

Judicial activism: How far does it go?
Rediff.com13 Jul 2011

Colonel Anil Athale (retd) on the state of the judiciary in the country.

A Dyer situation at Ramdev's midnight eviction
Rediff.com8 Jun 2011

The main issue is the high risk that government took in a midnight swoop where things...

A strategy to win the World Cup
Rediff.com28 Mar 2011

Colonel Anil Athale (retd) lists a few military tactics that may help team India win...

Why Shivaji is a pan-Indian hero
Rediff.com24 Feb 2011

It is time to free this great son India from the shackles of narrow regionalism, says...

Does the World Cup face a terror threat?
Rediff.com17 Feb 2011

Carrying out terror attacks during the World Cup in India may be an urgent necessity...

Warning: Security perils for India on road ahead
Rediff.com25 Jan 2011

The apparent Indian smugness and inability to see the gathering clouds on the security...

There is no major threat from 'saffron terrorists'
Rediff.com6 Jan 2011

The LeT terror campaign is backed by the power and resources of a state. To compare...

How to defuse the Ayodhya crisis
Rediff.com20 Sep 2010

'If ever there was a case for the government to use its power to issue an ordnance and...

Why it's time to be blunt with Pakistan
Rediff.com14 Jul 2010

Colonel Anil Athale (retd) recommends that Extrnal Affairs Minister S M Krishna should...

The Naxals must be defeated, here's how
Rediff.com7 Apr 2010

'A demonstration of the force by the State will wean away a large portion of...

Contours of emerging US strategy in Af-Pak
Rediff.com2 Dec 2009

Colonel Anil Athale says that a long lasting solution to the Af-Pak situation is...

Barbarians at the gate, are we ready?
Rediff.com19 Feb 2009

'The recent surrender by the Pakistani State to the Taliban in the Swat valley may well...