Military – Page 2

Send in the Army

13 Nov 2016

The government shouldn’t hesitate to use the logistic and manpower resources of the Armed forces to alleviate sufferings of people over the Demonetisation

An Open Letter to Aakar Patel

06 Nov 2016

Dear Mr Patel, This is in response to your piece published in today’s TOI under a presumptuously named column ‘AakaarVani’. I’m writing this to correct you on some factual and a lot of perceptual errors that seem to behind almost every sentence in the piece. I’m writing in the hope that you may correct these,…

Heroes amongst us

04 Nov 2016

A small initiative by a colony in Delhi to honour heroes among them during Diwali is something that is worth emulating.

When the tail wags the dog

26 Oct 2016

Large number of support cadres are strangling the armed forces instead of supporting them

Aim before you shoot

10 Oct 2016

A military operation has tactical and strategic aims. What were the strategic aim of the strikes under UPA?

Another Wednesday

05 Oct 2016

On A Wednesday, a common man took on terrorists on celluloid. On another, the Indian Army took on many more in real life.

13 Sep 2016

What are the options before the service chiefs in view of MoD overruling their reservations on the 7th Pay Commission anomalies?

Browbeating of service officers by defence journalists

30 May 2016

This is a follow up of a prior post on the issue of online intimidation by journalists, specially of serving armed forces officers. I was witness to a similar incident, where a pair of journalists ganged up upon someone, apparently a serving officer. It started when the officer objected to one of them linking…

Biting the Tail

14 May 2016

There’s a need to redefine the ‘teeth’ and the ‘tail’ to carry out a meaningful reduction of flab in Ministry of Defence

Diesel Smoke

01 May 2016

The unique bond between a man and his steed is as old as time itself. More accurately, it goes back to the time when man first domesticated animals and, in addition to new source of food, found a better way to move around than walking. Very soon he realized that fighting from the back of…