Bharat Rakshak

Dear Brig Ray, A recent article in one of the papers mentioned how the Army Vice Chief appointment has kicked up a row. Lt Gen V K Singh (Eastern Army Commander) is being superseded (?) by Lt Gen PC Bharadwaj (Northern Army Commander). If this is factually correct isnt this setting a dangerous prece...

I have been a loooong time BR lurker ...almost a decade. In the very early years someone like Somnath would not even last 24 hrs on the forum based on what he has been posting . I guess it's acknowledging the supreme patience/tolerance the new mods have. The objective of having a forum is that every...

As far as the PA goes there are a bunch of decent folk (a rarity) but yes they do exist .....As someone in the thread mentioned Nachi was lucky he fell into sensible hands ..Ahuja and Saurabh were extremely unlucky.....not many know but out of Lt.Kalia's bunch also there were two men who were saved ...

Ray sir, I couldnt agree more with what you just wrote. Being a serving officer's son I have been witness to and fully understand the nuances/complexities surrounding the services especially the army,that's why I still have some hope. I have noticed a trend that an increasingly large number of servi...

I dont wish to join issue with Mr. Snow or Brig Ray ....all said and done Kargil was indeed a surprise for everyone all around .....a multitude of factors being responsible for it. We did come out victorious at the end ...that has never been in doubt but at what cost ? If one has talked to some of t...

Dhruv/Shek, Heartiest congratulations to both of you! Reading Dhruv's account of his AFSB at Mysore brought back fond memories. I gave the AF SSB at Mysore 11 years ago for NDA .....75 of us ...only 15 got through...the PABT was easy since it had the drum test and the dot -screen test. I passed the ...

Shishir, Gen Bhandari is from the Armoured Corps, if I recall he was originally from Hodson's Horse and then became Col of the regt for a couple of other armoured regts. The "belt" you see across his chest is known as a Cross belt and is worn by all Armoured Corps and Rifles Regts (Garwhal...

I made an inadvertent error when I said existings IABGs from 16 Corps could be taken to form a strike corps ...I meant an armored divison......couple that with two (partially mechanized) divs and you have a strike corps ready. Easier said then done I suppose :-) I am not sure why the newspaper menti...

YIP, According to the news article just above your post the new command is likely to have the following structure South Western Command 10 Corps(having 2 RAPID Divs) , ? Corps ( having 26 and 29 Divisions) and one strike corps (this could very well be the entire XXI strike corps or elements of it, i...

Arun, I did not see the article on India-Pakistan standoff you reference. I see 4 articles on various other issues. Can you please tell me what I'm doing wrong. Thanks, Ravi Ravi, Please copy and paste the link below into your web browser to access the document it might take a while to open but ulti...