Few days back, Indian Army carried out invasive foray on the terrorist camps across the line of control in Pakistan occupied Kashmir slaying 35 terrorists. Few months back, Indian Army launched an operation to capture the insurgent group leader of Manipur and crossed the International border and entered Myanmar and dragged him back successfully in own territory. What was common in both the operation? Nil casualties! After the famous surgical strike, the war clouds are in the sky, and both the countries are preparing for conventional war. This also kindled a deliberation among military sages and correspondents that considering intimidation of China, should India go on war? China has come in sustenance of Pakistan by issuing menace of launching attack on the eastern front of India, in case of war with Pakistan. China cannot think of going on war with India and it has several ins and outs. I know what you are thinking, ‘oh come on’, but I request you to give me your next ten...

Finally, the wait for the 7 th pay commission ends soon and all the speculations and rumours about the pay hike has reached a conclusion. The seventh pay commission has recommended various bonanzas for central government employees as well as pensioners. Following are the highlights of 7 th pay commission. 1. 23.55 % increase in salary, allowances and pension. Presently, under 6 th pay commission, the CTC of a lieutenant in Indian army is approx. Rs 80000 per month. After 7 th pay commission implementation the CTC of a lieutenant will reach Rs. 98840 per month. Lieutenant is the entry rank after commissioning in Indian Army. 2. One-rank-one-pension will be implemented for civilian government employees working under central government. 3. Minimum basic pay of Rs. 18000 per month will be implemented and the maximum bar is kept as Rs. 2.5 lakhs per month. 4. 7 th pay commission will also benefit the staffs of autonomous bodies, public sector units and u...

As a youngster, you should hangout more with oldies. The interaction with the seniors is a learning experience which also helps to grow in life. In the army, senior officer want their youngsters to interact with them. Here is the story of young Lieutenant who was made to interact with the seniors on the raising day. Our newly commissioned Lieutenant was unaware about the bombshells which he is going to face in the unit. To his good luck, Unit was about to rejoice the raising day and all the veterans were invited.  On the evening of the raising day party, the Lieutenant was keeping his mouth impenetrable and observing things going around. He was placed among the retired officers, most of them were Generals. When the veterans came to know that the baby of the battalion is newly commissioned then the discussion took a turn. Everybody started recalling their old days of pre-commissioning training in the academy. One veteran asked the baby of the battalion th...

Chankya had said that a woman is the mortal deterrent. Commander can use it against the enemy or can rescind himself by misusing it. Over the years nations had use female agents to obtain gen against the intimidating nation and the end result was prodigious. Over the years ISI of Pakistan has made several efforts to leak out the info from Indian Territory. They had employed agents in cities like Agra, New Delhi, Kanpur and several cantonments to obtain classified gen. Majority of them were male undercover or the misguided youth of India. Pay very cheap amount and obtain the information which the youngster will feel that how it can be important to anyone. Taking advantage of innocent and immature people was the tactics of intelligence agency. The intelligence gathered is always bits and parts. ISI follows the modus operandi of chaos theory. Random things and in the end a big picture appears. Now, it is 21 st Century and ISI needs a new modus operandi to effectively ob...

Few years ago lead petitioner Lt Col P K Choudhary had filed petition in Supreme Court against Indian Army regarding the promotion discrimination among arms and services from the rank of Lieutenant Colonel to Colonel. He quoted that officers of services are overlooked during the promotion to Colonel. Finally, Supreme Court has delivered the judgement. Following are the highlights of the judgement. 1. Defence ministry accepted that they had done the mistake by designing current promotion system. 2. Present promotion system was designed after introspection after 1999 Kargil operation. 3. After 1999, it was realised that Indian army battalion commanding officers used to age above 40+.     Whereas that of Pakistan and China were comparatively young just above 37+. 4. In order to lower the age of battalion commanding officers, additional 1484 Colonel Posts were           produced but distributed only among the combat arms. 5. T...

I am ready to bet that these facts will surprise you and I am sure you were not aware about it.  1.        Major Kuldeep Singh Chandpuri was the company commander of one of the companies of 23 rd Battalion of Punjab regiment which took defences in Longewala. It was a detached company which implies that rest of the battalion had taken up defences far away from the location. 2.        The distance between Longewala and the 23 Punjab Battalion location by road was approximately 26 kms. This meant that in case Longewala was attacked then it would be difficult to reinforce the Longewala defences on time. 3.        Tactical commanders considered Longewala as less important location, and this was the reason to employ just one detached company. 4.        Pakistanis entered India from a place called Ghotaru which is 40 kms by road away fr...