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Tue, Jul 6, 2021
Why the Army Needs the IAF!

In the early part of the Kargil operations, the army opted to more or less go...

Wed, Jun 23, 2021
Ladakh: 9 Issues to WORRY India

China remains in firm control of an estimated 600-800 square kilometres of...

Wed, Feb 3, 2021
How China's PLA is changing...

A new military rank system had been introduced for the PLA, but all soldiers...

Mon, Nov 23, 2020
War veteran Maj Gen Chibber passes away

Gen. Chibber was commissioned into the Army on June 2, 1995, and was posted...

Tue, Nov 3, 2020
How Mi-8 helped India's Operation Cactus

We salute the Mi-8 today on the occasion of the 32nd anniversary of Operation...

Fri, Oct 23, 2020
7 Pakistani LIES about the 1965 War

Why did Pakistan sign a cease-fire without acquiring Kashmir, which was the...

Fri, Oct 9, 2020
India's Forgotten Victory Over China

'340 PLA soldiers were dead and over 450 injured -- bodies were strewn...

Tue, Sep 15, 2020
Arunachal: China moving troops in depth areas

"A strict vigil is being maintained in almost all the sectors with China from...

Mon, Sep 14, 2020
'India of 2020 is a wake-up call for China'

'The leverage created by the Indian military must not be lost.'

Fri, Sep 11, 2020
India, China reach 5-point plan to de-escalate tension

The joint statement said Jaishankar and Wang agreed that both sides should...

Turning back from the brink of war

The effort made to define the larger picture by focussing on history and the...

Thu, Sep 10, 2020
'China has received a setback'

'India is not the India of 1962. We are not carrying that baggage of history...

Fri, Aug 28, 2020
'China is enlarging the spectrum of war'

'They will try more rounds of military level talks and move it to the...

Wed, Aug 26, 2020
Exclusive! EAM Jaishankar on the Ladakh Stand-off

'I am not minimising either the seriousness or the complex nature of the...

Fri, Aug 21, 2020
'It's very difficult to negotiate with the Chinese'

'Our biggest advantage is that the troops are much better trained and...

Mon, Aug 10, 2020
CIA device: Why I climbed Nanda Devi

'Nanda Devi is not an easy mountain to climb.'

Sat, Aug 8, 2020
War of the maps in South Asia

'The Modi government's grandstanding has hardened the reflexes in Beijing,...

Mon, Aug 3, 2020
India is paying for Modi's wooing of Xi

'China was a relationship from which Mr Modi had expected the most it...

Fri, Jul 24, 2020
Mr PM: Allow our military to prove its worth!

'All the government needs to do is to identify clear political and strategic...

Thu, Jul 23, 2020
Focus on the war even as we win the battle

India has experienced hands and will emerge with flying colours, declares...

Mon, Jul 20, 2020
Time for India to inflict pain on China

'China has gone too long as a rogue power, trashing international norms,...

Sat, Jul 18, 2020
1962 War: 'Secret Reports' lost forever?

'The Himmatsinghji Report is still 'missing'.''It is a great loss for the...

Thu, Jul 16, 2020
World wants India to give China a bloody nose

'Unlike the Chinese army that has been largely a peace time force, the Indian...

Mon, Jul 13, 2020
China can't browbeat India

'By causing military humiliation of India it intends to send a signal to...

Fri, Jul 10, 2020
Has Xi Jinping gone bonkers?

'It doesn't look as if any sensible, worldly wise, person is in charge in...

Mon, Jul 6, 2020
'Be prepared for China taking it to next level'

'We should not worry too much about Indian capabilities, both military and...

China doesn't need Pakistan in a war with India

'If a 'two-front war' develops, Iron Brother may only turn out to be a drag...

Fri, Jul 3, 2020
He told India about the Himalayan Blunder

Very few today realise that without Brigadier John Dalvi's courage, we would...

China could do a naval blockade in Indian Ocean next

Chances are any such disruption will not occur on the major shipping lanes...

India-China: 'More dangerous than before'

'Why has the peace been kept?''Basically because there is a balance.''Maybe...

Thu, Jul 2, 2020
PLA using Tibetans against India

'Tibetans will participate in future conflicts with India (in all...

Tue, Jun 9, 2020
'For the 1st time after '62, India has lost territory'

'Doklam was almost like a trailer to what is happening in Ladakh today.''Modi...

Mon, Jun 8, 2020
What provoked the Chinese in Ladakh

We should have anticipated it on August 5 last year, when we made the big...

Wed, Nov 6, 2019
India's First Surgical Strike

'Shastri told General Chaudhuri, 'I want to reach Lahore before they enter...

Tue, Aug 6, 2019
J-K Modi-fied: Special status and state become history

Prime Minister Narendra Modi hailed the passage of bills as a "momentous...

Fri, Mar 15, 2019
The IAF hero awarded the Maha Vir Chakra twice

Claude Arpi reveals how Wing Commander Jag Mohan Nath won a second Maha Vir...

Fri, Mar 1, 2019
What if Nehru had used the IAF in 1962?

'If we had sent a few airplanes (into Tibet), we could have wiped the Chinese...

Mon, Feb 25, 2019
Symbol of sacrifice and courage: PM Modi inaugurates National War Memorial

The NWM pays tribute to soldiers who laid down their lives defending the...

Sat, Nov 17, 2018
Battle of Longewala hero Brig Chandpuri passes away

Hindi film 'Border', in which actor Sunny Deol played the role of Brig...

Fri, Sep 7, 2018
We support 'self-determination' in Kashmir: Pak Army chief

Prime Minister Khan, in his address, said Pakistan will never fight any other...

Mon, Aug 27, 2018
Vajpayee and the art of making war and peace

'Like General Patton, possibly the greatest exponent of the art of war,...

Thu, Jun 7, 2018
A general like none other: Krishnaswami Sundarji

He was the army commander who planned Operation Bluestar.As army chief he...

Mon, May 14, 2018
Why Modi gets his military history wrong

'If only Cariappa/Thimayya/Chaudhari/Manekshaw were given a free hand,...

Thu, Dec 7, 2017
'Among India's military greats, he was the greatest'

Sam Manekshaw led the Indian Army to its greatest military victory this month...

Mon, Sep 18, 2017
A hero's farewell to Marshal of IAF Arjan Singh

Singh's body was consigned to flames amid chanting of hymns at the Brar...

Sun, Sep 17, 2017
Nation pays homage to Marshal of IAF Arjan Singh

The national flag will fly half-mast on the day of the funeral in Delhi.

Sat, Sep 16, 2017
An epitome of military leadership

Arjan Singh, the Marshal of the Indian Air Force, was a fearless and...

Marshal of IAF Arjan Singh passes away at 98

His demise marks an end of a glorious era of the Indian Air Force.

Thu, Jul 20, 2017
How to avoid a two-and-a-half front war

'When war is thrust on you as in 1962 and 1965 or is tempting as in 1971,...

Wed, Jul 5, 2017
China believes the best form of defence is attack

'How can a State, which claims to be a responsible power, unilaterally grab a...

Wed, May 10, 2017
Has India lost Kashmir?

India isn't Israel, nor can it, or should be, says Shekhar Gupta.

Sat, Mar 11, 2017
Finally, Amarinder Singh wins 'father of all battles'

The Congress stalwart could not have asked for a better gift on his 75th...

Thu, Feb 16, 2017
How the Indian Navy destroyed the Ghazi

In insight into PNS Ghazi, the Pakistan Navy's prized submarine that now lies...

Thu, Dec 8, 2016
The General who 'created' Bangladesh

'General J S Aurora, the commander of the Indian forces in the East, asked...

Wed, Nov 16, 2016
Time to Isolate and Disintegrate Pakistan

'India should stop claiming that a united Pakistan is in India's...

Sat, Oct 1, 2016
Pakistan's army is destroying its country

'This army has lost Pakistan's territory, ideology, financial and...

Sun, Sep 25, 2016
Anger in India today is just as it was before 1965 war: Modi

In his monthly radio programme Mann Ki Baat which he began by paying tributes...

Fri, May 13, 2016
The mantra that handed the Indian Army victory in 1971

Air Vice Marshal Arjun Subramaniam lists the major operational takeaways from...

Fri, Jan 15, 2016
SC cautions govt against taking prisoners of war issue to ICJ

SC tells the Centre that any deviation from its stand that the issue of...

Fri, Jan 8, 2016
Why has history forgotten this giant?

Anil Shastri, one of the late prime minister's six children, recounts...

Wed, Nov 11, 2015
PIX: Modi celebrates Diwali with troops

For the second successive year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi celebrated...

Thu, Oct 29, 2015
'A country that does not respect its soldiers is doomed to fail'

'Think about this: A widow of a jawan is drawing only Rs 3,500. If OROP is...

Thu, Oct 8, 2015
'I flew every day of the war'

An old fighter pilot remembers the best days of his life.

Tue, Oct 6, 2015
De-terrorise Pak policies towards India, General Sharif!

'New Delhi feels that given the internal dynamics in Pakistan and the...

Mon, Sep 28, 2015
Ayub Khan, the war hero who became an MP

Decorated with a Vir Chakra for leading an attack that destroyed four tanks,...

Thu, Sep 24, 2015
India has still not learnt that single lesson of 1965

50 years after the 1965 War, India still thinks we can have a 'limited war'...

Wed, Sep 23, 2015
Why did India give back the Haji Pir Pass to Pakistan?

'We don't know what the reasons were that we gave back the Haji Pir Pass...

Tue, Sep 22, 2015
'I hate these Pakistanis'

Glimpses of the final days of the 1965 War, as seen from the diary then...

The President, tea and war stories

President Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday hosted a high tea for 1965 war veterans...

Mon, Sep 21, 2015
A martyr's family remembers

'A man dies and it's over for him. But we're right here, it isn't over for...

Sun, Sep 20, 2015
PHOTOS: The spectacular 1965 war carnival at Rajpath

A thrilling vertical manoeuvre by Su30 fighter jets and performance by...

Sat, Sep 19, 2015
1965 decided the fate of the subcontinent

'It would not be incorrect to say that the Chinese-Pakistani strategy of...

Fri, Sep 18, 2015
Pakistan should never consider India weak

'Pakistan's recent utterances and tendency to use pinpricks to try our...

Thu, Sep 17, 2015
Valour, sacrifice of 1965 war etched in our memory: Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday visited Shauryanjali, a military...

Wed, Sep 16, 2015
'When we fight a war we forget the danger'

'The Indian Air Force wanted to fight. My squadron leaders and flight...

Tue, Sep 15, 2015
A grateful nation and a proud school

'It was not surprising that joining the armed forces was one of the priority...

Mon, Sep 14, 2015
The Hero of the Battle of Dograi

Lieutenant Colonel Desmond Hayde was awarded the Mahavir Chakra, the second...

Thu, Sep 10, 2015
Asal Uttar, The Battle That Changed The 1965 War

'News is rife that Pakistan will attack the next day. They have no idea that...

Wed, Sep 9, 2015
The daredevil fighter pilot who survived a Pakistani bullet

'We were firing at Patton tanks that were moving towards India.''Fighter...

Tue, Sep 8, 2015
Param Vir Chakra Abdul Hamid, a Hero's Hero

'Both Abdul Hamid and the enemy tank place each other in their sights and...

Mon, Sep 7, 2015
Pak army chief warns India of 'unbearable cost' in case of war

Warning India of "unbearable damage" in case of a war, Pakistan's army chief...

The general who saved Punjab in the 1965 War

Lieutenant General Harbakhsh Singh, GOC, Western Command, disobeyed the then...

Fri, Sep 4, 2015
My father, the Param Vir Chakra Hero

In spite of being wounded in battle, Lieutenant Colonel A B Tarapore fought...

Thu, Sep 3, 2015
Two Wars and a Romance

'On June 15, 1965, Major A K Afridi of the Pakistan army was captured by...

Wed, Sep 2, 2015
The central lesson from the 1965 War

The 1965 war teaches us that war by escalation is a real possibility. Despite...

Tue, Sep 1, 2015
Are 54 Indians in Pakistan jails dead or alive, asks SC

The court then directed the government to pay the salary and retirement...

India needs to be ready for short wars, says army chief

Speaking at a tri-service seminar on the 1965 India-Pakistan war in New...

Thu, Aug 27, 2015
US backed India on Kashmir in 1965 Indo-Pak war

Declassified US documents of the era indicate.

Wed, Aug 26, 2015
The war that helped India regain its military confidence

'India was in no position to wage another war in 1965, having suffered a...

Tue, Aug 18, 2015
When the nation stood as one: Pages from a Indo-Pak war journal

Fifty years ago, India and Pakistan fought a short but bloody war. The author...

Mon, Jun 22, 2015
OROP: Group of ex-servicemen decides to boycott govt functions

A group of ex-servicemen on Monday announced that they will boycott all...

Thu, May 28, 2015
'Scaling Everest was like a pilgrimage'

Exactly 50 years ago, the first Indian team, led by Manmohan Singh Kohli,...

Thu, Jan 8, 2015
My salute to arguably India's greatest military hero

In super-human acts of valour, Havildar Abdul Hamid personally knocked out...

Tue, Sep 2, 2014
Does IAF need this self-congratulatory nonsense?

'As the IAF kicks off another round of myth-making -- launching a year-long...

Thu, Aug 21, 2014
54 Indian PoWs still languish in Pakistani jails

As many as 54 Indian soldiers, who were captured as prisoners of war during...

Thu, Jan 31, 2013
1965 Indo-Pak war ammo recovered from Barmer

BSF officials successfully conducted Operation Alert in Barmer during which...

Mon, Dec 10, 2012
54 missing Indian soldiers could be in Pak jails: Antony

Fifty-four defence personnel, including a BHorder Security Force trooper,...

Thu, Oct 25, 2012
Lahore, Amritsar: Once sisters, now strangers

The umbilical cord between Lahore and Amritsar was shattered after 1965...

Tue, Sep 20, 2011
Dr S N Prasad: A doyen among military historians

Colonel (Dr) Anil Athale remembers the contributions of military historian S...

Thu, Feb 10, 2011
When Vajpayee opposed nuclear tests...

Strategic guru K Subrahmanyam, who passed into the ages recently, discusses...

Fri, Jan 7, 2011
Indo-Pak thaw resurrects sacred Sikh shrine

With the incremental improvement in ties with Pakistan, the proposal to open...

Sat, Jan 2, 2010
Afghan attack is big blow for the CIA

When Robert Gates, the present US defence secretary, was the director of the...

Tue, Sep 1, 2009
War hero's grandson finally has a job

Hameed was awarded Param Vir Chakra posthumously for his gallantry in the...

Wed, May 13, 2009
'Karachi burned for seven days'

An exclusive interview with Admiral S M Nanda, who led the Indian Navy during...

Mon, Nov 26, 2007
Centre may make classified war records public

Recently, former Army chief general J J Singh, before laying down office, had...

Wed, May 23, 2007
No military solution for disputes like Kashmir: PM

Releasing the book 1965 War: The Inside Story by former Governor R D Pradhan,...

Mon, May 21, 2007
Fate of land given to China to be decided: PoK PM

His statement was regarded significant as a Pakistani or PoK politician...

Sun, May 20, 2007
J&K: Rift between coalition partners

The all parties' meeting was convened by Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad to...

Mon, Feb 12, 2007
Black Panthers, Camels to get President's colours

The award of Colours and Standard by the President is a great honour bestowed...

Thu, Jan 18, 2007
'Karachi burned for seven days'

An exclusive interview with Admiral S M Nanda, who led the Indian Navy during...

Sun, Dec 17, 2006
Sunita Williams takes maiden spacewalk

Only seven other US women and a single Russian woman have participated in the...

Mon, Dec 11, 2006
He taught us not only how to live, but how to die

'He was the first captain of independent India's navy to go down with his...

Mon, Nov 27, 2006
'Sri Lankan Tamils want a separate nation'

Tamil Nadu leader Vaiko on why he supports the struggle for a separate Eelam...

Sat, Oct 14, 2006
'Kalam is the greatest human being I have met'

Dr Y S Rajan, President A P J Abdul Kalam's close friend for over 40 years,...

Tue, Sep 26, 2006
'Calling Pakistan's N-bomb Islamic is racist'

Musharraf states that no other country's weapons have been labelled in such a...

Musharraf objects to 'Islamic bomb' tag

"The much stronger condemnation by the world in 1998 was surely because...

Mon, Apr 24, 2006
Musharraf 'literally wept' when East Pakistan fell

Musharraf said he was 'emotionally hurt' and 'literally wept' when he heard...

Wed, Oct 26, 2005
On a wing and a prayer

'Parulkar was lucky. He was crouching to peer thru the gunsight when the...

The Wolfpack in action

The four Sabres - from Sargodha's 17 PAF Squadron - were being led by their...

Mon, Oct 17, 2005
1965 war: A reality check

What became the real source of contention was the Indian counter-offensive on...

Mon, Oct 10, 2005
1965 war: The wrong lessons

There has been a lot written about the intelligence failures in 1962, but...

Wed, Oct 5, 2005
The 1965 War: A view from the east

'The war devastated Ayub; shattered martial myths; highlighted societal...

Fri, Sep 30, 2005
1965 war: The Chinese bluff

It tremendously increased the pressure on Shastri and his government, forcing...

Tue, Sep 27, 2005
'We didn't want to capture Pakistan'

Marshal Arjan Singh on the 1965 War.

Wed, Sep 21, 2005
'The Indian Air Force wanted to fight'

The first Marshal of the Indian Air Force Arjan Singh looks back at the 1965...

Mon, Sep 19, 2005
The 1965 War: Lessons yet to be learnt

'India did not initiate steps to raise Special Forces trained to detect and...

Tue, Sep 13, 2005
Lahore and after

This war took place at a time when the commanders on neither side had much...

Mon, Sep 12, 2005
The Fog of War

'Fortunately for us, the Indians had been over cautious when the opportunity...

Fri, Sep 9, 2005
Why Pakistan lost Akhnur

Perhaps if Akhnur had been captured and the Indian lines of communication...

Thu, Sep 8, 2005
Operation Gibraltar: Battle that never was

A former Pakistan soldier reflects on the 1965 war.

Tue, Sep 6, 2005
65 war Pak's mistake: Ex Pak air chief

Former Air Marshal Nur Khan accused former military ruler Ayub Khan and his...

1965 decided fate of the subcontinent

The 1965 war proved that Indian unity was solid while Pakistan was vulnerable...

'We won the 1965 war, not India'

The group editor of Jang revisits the 1965 war, through Pakistani eyes.

Fri, Aug 5, 2005
Shastri may have died of heart attack: Nayyar

Noted columnist Kuldip Nayyar on Friday said former Prime Minister Lal...

Tue, Aug 2, 2005
Ayub ordered secret operation without telling PAF

Former ruler Ayub Khan launched a secret operation in 1965 to send...

Fri, Jul 1, 2005
Army launches "internal inquiry" in Ayub claim

The Army Chief Gen J J Singh chaired a high level meeting at the army...

Thu, Jun 16, 2005
Why Siachen matters

What is the guarantee that some future Pakistani general/president will not...

Thu, Jun 2, 2005
Did India plant 1965 war plans?

'If, as Gohar claims, Pakistan had in its possession the Indian plan, then...

Tue, May 31, 2005
Govt to investigate Gohar's claims

The government will investigate the claim of former Pakistani dictator Ayub...

Thu, Oct 14, 2004
The credibility factor

Here is a man who has been humiliated thrice in war by India. What has...

Wed, Oct 6, 2004
Why has history forgotten this giant?

Is Lal Bahadur Shastri who epitomised honesty and sincerity in public life...

Mon, Apr 14, 2003
Varsha Bhosle: YES, all four wars

'India's greatest tragedy is, every battle won by the soldier turned into a...

Sat, Dec 21, 2002
Giving Haji Pir back to Pak a mistake: Gen Dyal

India did not realise the strategic importance of the pass, the leader of the...