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 >

A combination of various factor - military, organisational, political and psychological - enabled the Indian Army to make steady progress on almost all the fronts in ...Read more >

The genocidal repression let loose by the West Pakistani Army in East Pakistan in March 1971, led to spontaneous outburst of sympathy and support in India for the East Bengalee struggle for ...Read more >

For India, the armistics was not the end of the problem. she now had other tasks to deal with. Bangladesh urgently required a massive reconstruction programme. ...Read more >

The detailed wide ranging account of a multi-dimensional and major historic event often obscures the overall picture. The trees hide the wood. It may be useful, therefore, to recapitulate briefly the salient features of the 1971. ...Read more >

Read and re-read the campaigns of Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar, Gustavus adolphus, Turenne, Eugene and Fredrick take then for your model : that is the only way of becoming a great caption to obtain the secret of the art of war. ...Read more >

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India won a glorious victory against Pakistan in the 1971 war. It was her first decisive victory in a major war in ...Read more >

However, when the election results completely belied hopes of the President, he found himself on the horns of a ...Read more >

The reign of terror, death and destruction imposed by the West Pakistani military junta from 25/26 March 1971 - "Operation Searchlight" - wrought havoc on East Bengal and its ...Read more >

The propect of the establishment of a democratically elected, representative goverment in Pakistan after December 1970 elections was a welcome development from the point of view of ...Read more >

The name "Mukti Bahini" was a generic term which comprised various categorised of freedom (FF). At the time of its inception, it was known as Mukti ...Read more >

As the long rain-sodden months of the tropical mansoon drageed by, East Bengal s terrible travail continued ...Read more >