Bharat Rakshak

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https://i.postimg.cc/gJT8QPLY/Cover-The-Other-Side-of-a-Soldier.jpg Link Sharing some excerpts with the permission of the author A young Lieutenant Faraz had just been commissioned into a battalion of the Sikh Regiment, which moved to the Line of Control shortly thereafter, even as he moved on for ...

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https://i.postimg.cc/gJT8QPLY/Cover-The-Other-Side-of-a-Soldier.jpg Link Sharing some excerpts with the permission of the author It so happened that a young, newly married Captain Subhajit had just reported back to his unit in Kota, Rajasthan with his young bride still new to the ways of the army. ...

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https://i.postimg.cc/gJT8QPLY/Cover-The-Other-Side-of-a-Soldier.jpg Link Sharing some excerpts with the permission of the author It so happened that a young, newly married Captain Subhajit had just reported back to his unit in Kota, Rajasthan with his young bride still new to the ways of the army. ...

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Carrying on from the above post Cruising along, we were soon in the semi-finals, pitched against a local team of a Garhwal Rifles battalion who gave us a good run for our money that Friday evening! Oh, by the way, the Centre-Forward of my battalion team had scored three goals in the tournament by th...

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Carrying on from the above post Cruising along, we were soon in the semi-finals, pitched against a local team of a Garhwal Rifles battalion who gave us a good run for our money that Friday evening! Oh, by the way, the Centre-Forward of my battalion team had scored three goals in the tournament by th...

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Cross Posting from Books Folder. https://i.postimg.cc/gJT8QPLY/Cover-The-Other-Side-of-a-Soldier.jpg Link Sharing some excerpts with the permission of the author While writing this book, I didn’t have a title in mind, so I titled the word document during its creation phase as ‘Story Book’. Looking b...

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https://i.postimg.cc/gJT8QPLY/Cover-The-Other-Side-of-a-Soldier.jpg Link Sharing some excerpts with the permission of the author While writing this book, I didn’t have a title in mind, so I titled the word document during its creation phase as ‘Story Book’. Looking back today, after finishing this ...

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Primus wrote:
ramana wrote:Try Amazon India
I usually do that, but did not have time to order and wait for shipping. Generally I order before I leave the US and have them ship it to a relative. Too late this time.

Primus Ji, this one is available as paperback on amazon.com as well!

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https://i.postimg.cc/KYhPkbcB/41-Ilf-OV75-LL.jpg Carrying on from the previous post, adding one more sequence of excerpts from the Swift Retort chapter with the author's permission. Visual. And locked. - Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman, Vir Chakra, 27 Feb 2019 [91] The morning of 27th February ...

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Cross Posted from the Books Folder ... Ji, this is all very interesting stuff, and your efforts to popularize the book are appreciated, but are you sure you're not violating copyright by posting the book here one chapter at a time? From your excerpts, the book certainly seems like an absorbing read...

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Cross Posted from the Books Folder ... Ji, this is all very interesting stuff, and your efforts to popularize the book are appreciated, but are you sure you're not violating copyright by posting the book here one chapter at a time? From your excerpts, the book certainly seems like an absorbing read...

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Cross Posted from the Books Folder https://i.postimg.cc/KYhPkbcB/41-Ilf-OV75-LL.jpg Carrying on from the previous post This is exactly what happened with the Pakistani ‘Information Warfare’ campaign in the aftermath of the Balakot strike and the subsequent aerial battle a day later. For every myth p...

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https://i.postimg.cc/KYhPkbcB/41-Ilf-OV75-LL.jpg Carrying on from the previous post This is exactly what happened with the Pakistani ‘Information Warfare’ campaign in the aftermath of the Balakot strike and the subsequent aerial battle a day later. For every myth propagated by the Pakistani establi...

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Cross Posted from the Books Folder https://i.postimg.cc/KYhPkbcB/41-Ilf-OV75-LL.jpg Another lie that went hand in hand with the above lie was that there was no such terror camp at the site. Instead, Pakistan claimed it was just another madrasa, like the hundreds of thousands of others dotting that c...

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https://i.postimg.cc/KYhPkbcB/41-Ilf-OV75-LL.jpg Another lie that went hand in hand with the above lie was that there was no such terror camp at the site. Instead, Pakistan claimed it was just another madrasa, like the hundreds of thousands of others dotting that country. Satellite images too showe...

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Cross posting from the Books Folder thread https://i.postimg.cc/KYhPkbcB/41-Ilf-OV75-LL.jpg THE PAKISTANI (MIS)INFORMATION WARFARE History bears witness to the fact that physical warfare has been accompanied with disinformation and deception. From ‘Ashwatthama is Dead’ in Mahabharat, to Goebbels and...

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https://i.postimg.cc/KYhPkbcB/41-Ilf-OV75-LL.jpg THE PAKISTANI (MIS)INFORMATION WARFARE History bears witness to the fact that physical warfare has been accompanied with disinformation and deception. From ‘Ashwatthama is Dead’ in Mahabharat, to Goebbels and ‘Baghdad Bob’ in more modern times, lies ...

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https://i.postimg.cc/KYhPkbcB/41-Ilf-OV75-LL.jpg THE ‘NOT SO SUBTLE’ PUSHING OF THE ENVELOPE The ‘Sleeping Giant’ slowly started to come out of its slumber sometime in 2014. Thus far, Pakistan had pretty much gotten away with murder, and much worse, as has been recounted in the previous section of ...

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https://i.postimg.cc/KYhPkbcB/41-Ilf-OV75-LL.jpg [/url] THE ‘NOT SO SUBTLE’ PUSHING OF THE ENVELOPE The ‘Sleeping Giant’ slowly started to come out of its slumber sometime in 2014. Thus far, Pakistan had pretty much gotten away with murder, and much worse, as has been recounted in the previous sect...

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https://i.postimg.cc/KYhPkbcB/41-Ilf-OV75-LL.jpg Carrying on from the excerpts posted above The aftermath of the hijacking of IC-814 flight in December 1999 wherein personnel of Pakistan Embassy in Kathmandu were revealed to have provided material assistance to the hijackers further bolstered this ...

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https://i.postimg.cc/KYhPkbcB/41-Ilf-OV75-LL.jpg WHAT IS COERCIVE MILITARY DIPLOMACY? ‘War is Continuation of Diplomacy by Other Means’ - Carl von Clausewitz The quote above may seem a simple one, but it holds a really deep meaning indeed. It is a simple enough quote for the times that Clausewitz l...

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https://i.postimg.cc/KYhPkbcB/41-Ilf-OV75-LL.jpg WHAT IS COERCIVE MILITARY DIPLOMACY? ‘War is Continuation of Diplomacy by Other Means’ - Carl von Clausewitz The quote above may seem a simple one, but it holds a really deep meaning indeed. It is a simple enough quote for the times that Clausewitz l...

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https://i.postimg.cc/KYhPkbcB/41-Ilf-OV75-LL.jpg WHAT IS COERCIVE MILITARY DIPLOMACY? ‘War is Continuation of Diplomacy by Other Means’ - Carl von Clausewitz The quote above may seem a simple one, but it holds a really deep meaning indeed. It is a simple enough quote for the times that Clausewitz l...

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Karan'ji, it is available on Amazon US as kindle edition and amazon India as paperback https://www.amazon.com/India-Pakistan-Tango-Coercive-Military-Diplomacy-ebook/dp/B09L6YVQZ5/ref=sr_1_1?qid=1636573874&qsid=137-2126450-4429665&refinements=p_27%3AColonel+Harpreet+Singh+Kohli&s=digital...

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If the preface is so stirring, what’s the book like? This is how the book is structured - Table of Contents 1. Preface 2. What is Coercive Military Diplomacy 3. The ‘Not So Subtle’ Pushing of the Envelope 4. The October 2014 Border Crisis 5. The Interregnum – Before the Surgical Strikes 6. The Surg...

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https://i.postimg.cc/hv9zjHSt/41-Ilf-OV75-LL.jpg PREFACE The day was 9th June 2015. A group of 64 or so of men, who were amongst India’s finest Special Forces troopers made their way into a small, nondescript village on the India-Myanmar border. Interestingly, they had come into the village not fro...

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https://i.postimg.cc/hv9zjHSt/41-Ilf-OV75-LL.jpg Written by a serving Indian Army officer. Posting some excerpts here with the author's permission AUTHOR’S NOTE Not very long ago, I found myself serving in one of the many beautiful small towns that this great Nation of ours is blessed with, and wit...

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https://i.postimg.cc/hv9zjHSt/41-Ilf-OV75-LL.jpg PREFACE The day was 9th June 2015. A group of 64 or so of men, who were amongst India’s finest Special Forces troopers made their way into a small, nondescript village on the India-Myanmar border. Interestingly, they had come into the village not fro...

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https://i.postimg.cc/hv9zjHSt/41-Ilf-OV75-LL.jpg Written by a serving Indian Army officer. Posting some excerpts here with the author's permission AUTHOR’S NOTE Not very long ago, I found myself serving in one of the many beautiful small towns that this great Nation of ours is blessed with, and wit...

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Amazon Link Folks, the book is finally in print. Here's what the final cover looks like. https://i.postimg.cc/X7r63njV/69392068-1336827266482020-2800660156956803072-n.jpg For those who are looking for a paperback outside india, international shipping is available on the website of the publisher - L...

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You want to joke, Kaalsa? What is the pudding for tonight? I was stumped. Pudding was supposed to be served after the main course had been consumed. I had no way of even guessing what it might be. But Rishi Yadav came to my rescue, thanks, probably to the dose of entertainment. Abe Birsa, let him e...

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Thwack .. his hand landed on my back, nearly knocking out my spectacles! Ya Khalsa, Computer Science, huh?, he said, making no mention of my ‘meditation’. Yes Sir, I mumbled. Good. Study hard. Yes Sir. Good, he said and moved out on his rounds, apparently to ensure no one else was meditating! I was ...

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VipinM wrote:Purchased the book on amazon kindle and thoroughly enjoyed it.

PS: My first post after lurking for close to a decade

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What followed was another huge rush to take my second bath of the day, get ready, clean up my cabin and settle down for the two hour long study period – all of it in the next 15 minutes. Without waiting to think about the enormity of it all, I ran to the bathroom. It took me a good 20 minutes to acc...

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So we ran. And then we ran some more. Then came the stretching, followed by some more running because, well, warming up! Finally, when I was on the verge of collapse, we were allowed to pick up our hockey sticks and start hitting the balls. It looked like despite having last played hockey about four...

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Soon Birsa was back, standing on my head, this time with first termers Daljeet and Amit Sharma in tow, getting the stuff in my cabin organised in standard pattern. We worked hard for the next half an hour. Well, it was mostly Daljeet and Amit who were working, because I had no clue whatsoever as to ...

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‘Snacks’ done, we went to ‘Kapoor and Company’ that was next to the bakery (or was it the other way round?). This time no uniforms were issued, but they took a lot of measurements for the uniforms they would stitch for me – about 16 pairs in total of seven different types of uniforms – PT, Mufti, Sq...

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Thanks for the feedback, Gentlemen. The same has been conveyed to the author and he expresses his gratitude.
For those who are looking for a paperback outside india, international shipping is available on the website of the publisher - Link.
Will be continuing the story here for a bit more.

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Folks, the book is finally in print.
Here's what the final cover looks like.

Amazon Link

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Come back to reality , I prodded myself. Good Morning, Sir, I heard myself squeak once again, though this time directed at no one in particular as my eyes quickly darted from one officer to another, but finally settling in eye contact with the one who was in the Air Force uniform. My guess was corr...

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