Making Haste Slowly
Three years ago, on August 5th, 2019, the Modi government made a dramatic announcement of the removal of Article 370 which gave the state of Jammu and Kashmir a special status. The move not only stripped away the special status of the erstwhile state, but the Central Government also split the state into two Union […]
Along the China Frontier in the East: A Reporter’s Journal
Arunachal Pradesh: Travelling in India’s northeast is never easy. As someone who lived in and reported from the region between 1983 and 2006, Editor-in-Chief Nitin A. Gokhale knows it too well. But his time in the region also makes him passionate about the northeast. And if it is connected to the Indian military, it is […]
Along the China Front
Tawang Sector: In our series, ‘Along The China Front: Commanding The Tawang Heights’, Part III, we resume our journey at Se La, onwards to Tawang and upwards to the LAC at the Tibet border in Arunachal Pradesh, to the Indian Army’s Assam Hill post, the Subedar Joginder Singh (Param Vir Chakra) Memorial and Bum La. […]
Eastern Front Air Power
IAF Tezpur Base: In the second part of our series, ‘Eastern Front Airpower’, we document 24 hours in the professional life of the air warriors of Indian Air Force Station, Tezpur in the Eastern Air Command. After interviewing Air Commodore V.J. Singh, the Air Officer commanding the station, in Part II, the StratNews Global team […]
Notes From The Frontier
HIMACHAL PRADESH/LADAKH: India’s border infrastructure in Ladakh is getting a push, thanks to the ongoing standoff at the Line of Actual Control (LAC). There have been attempts to ensure year-round connectivity to Leh and beyond. The recently inaugurated Atal tunnel is one such endeavour. The Border Roads Organisation (BRO) has been working tirelessly, trying to […]
Himalayan Frontier
UDHAMPUR, J&K: More than three and a half years after the standoff between Indian and Chinese troops along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Eastern Ladakh began, the “situation is stable but sensitive and not normal,” says Northern Army Commander Lt Gen. Upendra Dwivedi. In the first of our ground reports in our series, […]