Bharat Rakshak

Dear Vivek, I received my copy from Amazon on Friday and by last night had finished reading it. It still was a gripping thriller though I knew the outcome based on your posts on BRF. I shall write up a review for Amazon by next weekend. There still are some minor typos that I can send to you, if you...

Dear Vivek-ji A brilliant book has been written. I ordered it from Amazon last night and cannot wait till I receive it. I will be happy to buy a few extra copies and have them donated to our defense forces institutions as this would be great reading for all Thanks for all your hard work and the open...

1 for now and 5 when the time is ripe in order to protect 1.2 billion Indians and potentially the world's 3rd largest economy of the future

Gen Sinha's article has been reproduced below http://reportmysignalpm.blogspot.com/2012/05/siachen-article-by-gen-sinha.html As the only living member of the team that negotiated the LOC and having served as Governor of J&K lets see what he says Quote: A straight line north from NJ 9842 makes ha...

The situation is the Pakistan is not going to authenticate the GPL at the Saltoro ridge- as Foreign Secretary Shamshad Ahemd writes in his OpEd that I quoted earlier. So the question is should we withdraw if the do not authenticate it. My vote is No. If they autenticate it then we have a different d...

Sudeep Ji, The forces we have are a fixed cost whether they are based in Siachen or Bhopal or Secunderabad. The costs like equipment etc are sunk costs as they have been spent - from an investment standpoint. The key costs are incremental costs - in terms of what else we are putting in place for the...

I have- as some of you - viewed the suggestion of a withdrawal from the Saltoro range with alarm. Some thoughts in my IMHO of why we should not leave at all. 1. Its high time we renamed this topic and debate as "the Saltoro range" as that is where the forces are - and not on Siachen - glac...

Could the US/NATO strike be a 'quid pro quo' for the Haqqani hit on the US Embassy in Kabul? Intriguing argument- amongst others made here by Tariq Ali - a well known writer of ? origin http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2011/11/29/what-is-next-for-pakistan/ Quote: So why do it? Was it intended as a p...