In the early part of the Kargil operations, the army opted to more or less go...
China remains in firm control of an estimated 600-800 square kilometres of...
A new military rank system had been introduced for the PLA, but all soldiers...
Gen. Chibber was commissioned into the Army on June 2, 1995, and was posted...
We salute the Mi-8 today on the occasion of the 32nd anniversary of Operation...
Why did Pakistan sign a cease-fire without acquiring Kashmir, which was the...
'340 PLA soldiers were dead and over 450 injured -- bodies were strewn...
"A strict vigil is being maintained in almost all the sectors with China from...
'The leverage created by the Indian military must not be lost.'
The joint statement said Jaishankar and Wang agreed that both sides should...
The effort made to define the larger picture by focussing on history and the...
'India is not the India of 1962. We are not carrying that baggage of history...
'They will try more rounds of military level talks and move it to the...
'I am not minimising either the seriousness or the complex nature of the...
'Our biggest advantage is that the troops are much better trained and...
'Nanda Devi is not an easy mountain to climb.'
'The Modi government's grandstanding has hardened the reflexes in Beijing,...
'China was a relationship from which Mr Modi had expected the most it...
'All the government needs to do is to identify clear political and strategic...
India has experienced hands and will emerge with flying colours, declares...
'China has gone too long as a rogue power, trashing international norms,...
'The Himmatsinghji Report is still 'missing'.''It is a great loss for the...
'Unlike the Chinese army that has been largely a peace time force, the Indian...
'By causing military humiliation of India it intends to send a signal to...
'It doesn't look as if any sensible, worldly wise, person is in charge in...
'We should not worry too much about Indian capabilities, both military and...
'If a 'two-front war' develops, Iron Brother may only turn out to be a drag...
Very few today realise that without Brigadier John Dalvi's courage, we would...
Chances are any such disruption will not occur on the major shipping lanes...
'Why has the peace been kept?''Basically because there is a balance.''Maybe...
'Tibetans will participate in future conflicts with India (in all...
'Doklam was almost like a trailer to what is happening in Ladakh today.''Modi...
We should have anticipated it on August 5 last year, when we made the big...
'Shastri told General Chaudhuri, 'I want to reach Lahore before they enter...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi hailed the passage of bills as a "momentous...
Claude Arpi reveals how Wing Commander Jag Mohan Nath won a second Maha Vir...
'If we had sent a few airplanes (into Tibet), we could have wiped the Chinese...
The NWM pays tribute to soldiers who laid down their lives defending the...
Hindi film 'Border', in which actor Sunny Deol played the role of Brig...
Prime Minister Khan, in his address, said Pakistan will never fight any other...
'Like General Patton, possibly the greatest exponent of the art of war,...
He was the army commander who planned Operation Bluestar.As army chief he...
'If only Cariappa/Thimayya/Chaudhari/Manekshaw were given a free hand,...
Sam Manekshaw led the Indian Army to its greatest military victory this month...
Singh's body was consigned to flames amid chanting of hymns at the Brar...
The national flag will fly half-mast on the day of the funeral in Delhi.
Arjan Singh, the Marshal of the Indian Air Force, was a fearless and...
His demise marks an end of a glorious era of the Indian Air Force.
'When war is thrust on you as in 1962 and 1965 or is tempting as in 1971,...
'How can a State, which claims to be a responsible power, unilaterally grab a...
India isn't Israel, nor can it, or should be, says Shekhar Gupta.
The Congress stalwart could not have asked for a better gift on his 75th...
In insight into PNS Ghazi, the Pakistan Navy's prized submarine that now lies...
'General J S Aurora, the commander of the Indian forces in the East, asked...
'India should stop claiming that a united Pakistan is in India's...
'This army has lost Pakistan's territory, ideology, financial and...
In his monthly radio programme Mann Ki Baat which he began by paying tributes...
Air Vice Marshal Arjun Subramaniam lists the major operational takeaways from...
SC tells the Centre that any deviation from its stand that the issue of...
Anil Shastri, one of the late prime minister's six children, recounts...
For the second successive year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi celebrated...
'Think about this: A widow of a jawan is drawing only Rs 3,500. If OROP is...
An old fighter pilot remembers the best days of his life.
'New Delhi feels that given the internal dynamics in Pakistan and the...
Decorated with a Vir Chakra for leading an attack that destroyed four tanks,...
50 years after the 1965 War, India still thinks we can have a 'limited war'...
'We don't know what the reasons were that we gave back the Haji Pir Pass...
Glimpses of the final days of the 1965 War, as seen from the diary then...
President Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday hosted a high tea for 1965 war veterans...
'A man dies and it's over for him. But we're right here, it isn't over for...
A thrilling vertical manoeuvre by Su30 fighter jets and performance by...
'It would not be incorrect to say that the Chinese-Pakistani strategy of...
'Pakistan's recent utterances and tendency to use pinpricks to try our...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday visited Shauryanjali, a military...
'The Indian Air Force wanted to fight. My squadron leaders and flight...
'It was not surprising that joining the armed forces was one of the priority...
Lieutenant Colonel Desmond Hayde was awarded the Mahavir Chakra, the second...
'News is rife that Pakistan will attack the next day. They have no idea that...
'We were firing at Patton tanks that were moving towards India.''Fighter...
'Both Abdul Hamid and the enemy tank place each other in their sights and...
Warning India of "unbearable damage" in case of a war, Pakistan's army chief...
Lieutenant General Harbakhsh Singh, GOC, Western Command, disobeyed the then...
In spite of being wounded in battle, Lieutenant Colonel A B Tarapore fought...
'On June 15, 1965, Major A K Afridi of the Pakistan army was captured by...
The 1965 war teaches us that war by escalation is a real possibility. Despite...
The court then directed the government to pay the salary and retirement...
Speaking at a tri-service seminar on the 1965 India-Pakistan war in New...
Declassified US documents of the era indicate.
'India was in no position to wage another war in 1965, having suffered a...
Fifty years ago, India and Pakistan fought a short but bloody war. The author...
A group of ex-servicemen on Monday announced that they will boycott all...
Exactly 50 years ago, the first Indian team, led by Manmohan Singh Kohli,...
In super-human acts of valour, Havildar Abdul Hamid personally knocked out...
'As the IAF kicks off another round of myth-making -- launching a year-long...
As many as 54 Indian soldiers, who were captured as prisoners of war during...
BSF officials successfully conducted Operation Alert in Barmer during which...
Fifty-four defence personnel, including a BHorder Security Force trooper,...
The umbilical cord between Lahore and Amritsar was shattered after 1965...
Colonel (Dr) Anil Athale remembers the contributions of military historian S...
Strategic guru K Subrahmanyam, who passed into the ages recently, discusses...
With the incremental improvement in ties with Pakistan, the proposal to open...
When Robert Gates, the present US defence secretary, was the director of the...
Hameed was awarded Param Vir Chakra posthumously for his gallantry in the...
An exclusive interview with Admiral S M Nanda, who led the Indian Navy during...
Recently, former Army chief general J J Singh, before laying down office, had...
Releasing the book 1965 War: The Inside Story by former Governor R D Pradhan,...
His statement was regarded significant as a Pakistani or PoK politician...
The all parties' meeting was convened by Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad to...
The award of Colours and Standard by the President is a great honour bestowed...
An exclusive interview with Admiral S M Nanda, who led the Indian Navy during...
Only seven other US women and a single Russian woman have participated in the...
'He was the first captain of independent India's navy to go down with his...
Tamil Nadu leader Vaiko on why he supports the struggle for a separate Eelam...
Dr Y S Rajan, President A P J Abdul Kalam's close friend for over 40 years,...
Musharraf states that no other country's weapons have been labelled in such a...
"The much stronger condemnation by the world in 1998 was surely because...
Musharraf said he was 'emotionally hurt' and 'literally wept' when he heard...
'Parulkar was lucky. He was crouching to peer thru the gunsight when the...
The four Sabres - from Sargodha's 17 PAF Squadron - were being led by their...
What became the real source of contention was the Indian counter-offensive on...
There has been a lot written about the intelligence failures in 1962, but...
'The war devastated Ayub; shattered martial myths; highlighted societal...
It tremendously increased the pressure on Shastri and his government, forcing...
Marshal Arjan Singh on the 1965 War.
The first Marshal of the Indian Air Force Arjan Singh looks back at the 1965...
'India did not initiate steps to raise Special Forces trained to detect and...
This war took place at a time when the commanders on neither side had much...
'Fortunately for us, the Indians had been over cautious when the opportunity...
Perhaps if Akhnur had been captured and the Indian lines of communication...
A former Pakistan soldier reflects on the 1965 war.
Former Air Marshal Nur Khan accused former military ruler Ayub Khan and his...
The 1965 war proved that Indian unity was solid while Pakistan was vulnerable...
The group editor of Jang revisits the 1965 war, through Pakistani eyes.
Noted columnist Kuldip Nayyar on Friday said former Prime Minister Lal...
Former ruler Ayub Khan launched a secret operation in 1965 to send...
The Army Chief Gen J J Singh chaired a high level meeting at the army...
What is the guarantee that some future Pakistani general/president will not...
'If, as Gohar claims, Pakistan had in its possession the Indian plan, then...
The government will investigate the claim of former Pakistani dictator Ayub...
Here is a man who has been humiliated thrice in war by India. What has...
Is Lal Bahadur Shastri who epitomised honesty and sincerity in public life...
'India's greatest tragedy is, every battle won by the soldier turned into a...
India did not realise the strategic importance of the pass, the leader of the...