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A Coup That Wasn’t ….. A Threat That Remains
Article by Col Sushil Tanwar (Col Sushil Tanwar is a well decorated officer serving in the Indian Army) On a dreary September afternoon in 1995, the Customs officials manning the Check post near Attock waved at a Pakistan Army Staff car coming from Peshawar and brought it to a grinding halt. While it is not…
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A Story Of Betrayal of Upa-Gana-stan ( Afghanistan)
By Col Abhi Athavale (veteran) The name “Afghanistan” comes from “Upa-Gana-stan” which means in Sanskrit “the place inhabited by allied tribes”. A LITTLE TIME TRAVEL MORE THAN A MILLENNIUM IN THE PAST, What was the history of Afghanistan before the arrival of Muslim invaders, like Ghazni to India?The year 980 C.E. marks the beginning of the…
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Two Presidents and Two Generals – Iraq and Afghanistan in Retrospect
As Taliban takes over Afghanistan, US Military is in spotlight for their failure to win the ‘forever war’. This is to surmise the contrast in Political-Military Strategy of US in Iraq and Afghanistan–a study of 2 Wars, 2 Presidents (Bush n Obama) and 2 Generals (Petraeus n McChrystal).