 | BOOK REVIEW : LT GEN JOHN RANJAN MUKHERJEE, ‘A SOLDIER FOR LIFE – MY STORY’, VIJ BOOKS INDIA PVT LTD, DELHI, 2021, PAGES 396, RS 995/-, ISBN: 978- 93-90917-72-3 By Maj Gen PK Mallick, VSM (Retd)
This is a story of the experience of one of the most illustrious General Officers of the Indian Army of
recent time: the experiences in the Assam Regiment, India-Pakistan 1971 War, India’s North East, Jammu
& Kashmir and India’s Tibet Border. The author has written the book encompassing his life experiences
based on 44 years in uniform in a profession that he “enjoyed, loved and sometimes found ...Read more > | 5 Pages 252.44 KB |
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 | MILITARY CIVIL FUSION IN CHINA By Maj Gen PK Mallick, VSM (Retd)
Military-Civil Fusion (MCF) is an aggressive national strategy of the Chinese Communist Party (CCI) pursues its MCF Development Strategy to fuse its security, economic and social development strategy integrated national strategic system and capabilities. The Party’s leaders see MCF as a vital element of th
China to become a “great modern socialist country” which includes developing a “world-class” most
advanced military and becoming a world leader in science and technology (S&T). To ...Read more > | 7 Pages 702.17 KB |
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 | CHINA S CYBER ESPIONAGE OPERATIONS By Maj Gen PK Mallick, VSM (Retd)
In the Annual Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community
published on February 7, 2022, it is stated that "We assess that China
presents the broadest, most active and persistent cyber-espionage threat to
U.S. Government and private sector networks. China s cyber-espionage
operations have included compromising telecommunications firms, providers
of managed services and broadly used software, and other targets potentially
rich in follow-on opportunities for intelligence ...Read more > | 27 Pages 1.19 MB |
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 | INDIA PAKISTAN WAR By Agha H. Amin
The tribesmen were brought from the NWFP tribal areas on
trucks requisitioned by Government of Pakistan and
concentrated in Batrasi north-east of Abbottabad. The
invasion was to commence from 20th October 1947 the
main northern tribal force invading Kashmir under Khurshid
Anwar on Abbottabad-Garhi Habibullah-MuzaffarabadSrinagar axis with a smaller auxiliary force advancing along
Murree-Kohala-Muzaffarabad axis. ...Read more > | 195 Pages 10.15 MB |
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 | 1965 WAR ANALYZED By Agha H.Amin
Havelock said that "In philosophy,it is
not the attainment of the goal that
matters,it is the things that are met with
by the way".So it is with war.The most
important thing for the student of
military history or the art of war is not
whether a country lost or won the war
but how it was fought,how units
performed in action,how decisions were
made in ...Read more > | 234 Pages 5.08 MB |
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 | WHY INDO-PAK ARMIES FAILED IN WAR By A H AMIN
The Chamb Sector in 1965 was a very weakly held sector held by three dispersed Indian infantry
battalions supported by a tank squadron of AMX-13 tanks which were like matchboxes as compared to
the Pattons held by the two opposing Pakistani tank regiments i.e a superiority of 6 to 1 in tanks. Further
Pakistan had immense artillery superiority both numerical and material of 6 to 1. Pakistani 8 Inch Guns
were phenomenally superior to anything that the Indians had. Unfortunately, the Pakistani ...Read more > | 24 Pages 3.49 MB |
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 | 1965 WAR ANALYSED By Agha H. Amin
1965 was a watershed in Indo-Pak history! The war
instead of being dispassionately analysed became a
ground to attack and condemn political opponents!
Complete books were written out of sheer motivation
based on pure and unadulterated venom! To date the
trend continues at the cost of serious research and history
writing! Most of these books were written by beneficiaries
of the usurper Ayub or Bhutto haters! Men with a naive ...Read more > | 37 Pages 3.20 MB |
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 | THE WESTERN THEATRE IN 1971 - A STRATEGIC AND OPERATIONAL ANALYSIS By A.H Amin
The Western Front in 1971 War has not received the due attention that it deserved
from the point of view of lessons learnt and generalship in action. The obvious
reasons for this reason lie in the fact that the East Pakistan crisis was the focus of
attention and the surrender a Dacca was too large an historical event! The war on the Western Front is an invaluable study in terms of strategy, operational
leadership and battle tactics. The future reorganisation of Pakistan and Indian Army
was ...Read more > | 41 Pages 2.02 MB |
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 | DECODING RUSSIA’S ‘MISSING’ CYBERWAR AMID WAR IN UKRAINE By Maj Gen PK Mallick, VSM (Retd)
Predicting future war is difficult. It was envisaged that cyber operations would
take a very big lead in the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. Before Russia started
invasion in Ukraine on February 24, experts predicted cyber attacks to play a
crucial role in the conflict. Despite Russia’s strong cyber capabilities, however,
there has been relatively little visible action against Ukrainian systems via
cyberattacks. The Ukrainian Army’s command-and-control communications
systems is ...Read more > | 23 Pages 1.03 MB |
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.jpg) | INDIA’S OPTIONS AGAINST CHINA’S DEVELOPING CYBER CAPABILITIES By Maj Gen PK Mallick, VSM (Retd)
If countries go to war, cyber-attacks will be a
part of it. Cyber operations are a new way to
exercise national power. How countries will
use cyber operations is determined by their
existing strategies, larger interests, risk
tolerance, experience and institutions.
China is increasingly using cyber capabilities
including cyber espionage, attack and
influence to seek political, economic and
military advantage over its adversaries. Like
the internet, cyberspace and the ...Read more > | 23 Pages 716.29 KB |
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