29 May 2020 19:10 Hours IST New Delhi, India PM Bisht was about to leave for his home after a long day in the office. His security detail was going over the last minute checks as he waited inside the air-conditioned office avoiding the humid weather. There was a knock on his door and chief […]
Author: Jaidev Jamwal
Lessons for India about drone warfare in Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict
Few thoughts over so much “analysis” of Armenia-Azerbaijan war, effect of drones on modern warfare & how it figures in Indian context. First, Armenia which was on receiving end: 1. Armenia had only ancient Soviet era defense systems Strela, Buk & Osa, that too in very small numbers spread over a very large area. Their […]
Kaalkut. Chapter 20
9 February 2020 Pokhra, Nepal. Padam Giri took an appreciative bite of Tbetan Balep bread smothered with butter and chased it down with hot butter tea at his cousin’s small guesthouse in the hills. Normally, it’d be full of tourists but Corona virus related restrictions had been bad for business. Only two servants, one cook […]
Pakistani Armed Forces Order of Battle (ORBAT)
I first wrote and published this as a single article. But owing to large amount of data collected afterwards, split it in to multiple sections listed below. So ORBAT of Pakistan Armed Forces is now a multi-part series with different articles for Army, Navy and Air Force. You can read Chinese Armed Forces ORBAT here […]
Kaalkut. Chapter 11
There was a notification on Safi’s phone and he got up to stretch his limbs. He walked to Butt and offered him a cigarette. Butt could barely read, but he recognised the expensive Davidoff
Kaalkut. Chapter 10
At some distance from the bunker on hill, a Swati Weapons Locating Radar (WLR) collected data about trajectory of the mortars and artillery shells and fed it into the specialised computer which calculated position of the mortar tubes and artillery guns
Kaalkut. Chapter 9
“President of China for life ! Was it only because of my support ?” Lu spat angrily. “All three of us supported him for this. Both of you financed his “campaign” and the constitutional amendment. Do not put this on me.”
Kaalkut. Chapter 8
Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) Rajinder Singh had read the briefing from NSA and had some more information from his own office which had a few more details about Chinese support for terrorist organisations in India, Myanmar and Bangladesh.