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Nitin A. Gokhale is one of South Asia's leading Strategic Analysts. He is the founder of the defence-related website BharatShakti.in. and Strategic News International (sniwire.com). Now a media entrepreneur, Gokhale has worked across print, web and broadcast mediums since 1983. He has reported on India's North-East, the 1999 Kargil conflict between India and Pakistan and the Sri Lankan Eelam War IV. Author of six books on national security affairs, Gokhale is an alumni of the Asia Pacific Centre for Security Studies, Honolulu, Hawaii. He teaches and lectures at premier Indian defence training institutions like the National Defence College, the Army, Air Force and Naval War Colleges, the College of Defence Management and the Defence Services Staff College, besides being a popular speaker at various seminars and symposiums on civil-military relations, insurgency/terrorism, Asian Security Affairs and military-media relations.Operation Meghdoot was launched by the Indian Army on the barren and icy heights of the Siachen Glacier to thwart Pakistan from gaining control of this strategically located glacier. For three decades since then, Indian and Pakistani troops have been locked in an undeclared war on the world's highest - and coldest - battlefield.WhatdosoldiersdodifferentlyattheforbiddingheightsoftheSiachenGlacier?Howdotheyadapt totheharshestweatherconditionsontheplanet?Atminus50°Candaltitudesinexcessof18,000 feet how does the human spirit endure? What does it take for helicopters to fly in such extreme conditions? Whatdemands does the weather make on both man and machine ?Introduction
SECTION I: OPERATION MEGHDOOT - THE EARLY DAYS
Chapter I: Waking Up to Siachen
Chapter II: Weighing the Options
Chapter III: Getting Ready
Chapter IV: Race to Bilafond La
Chapter V: Staying Put
Chapter VI: The Conflict Widens
SECTION II: MASTERING THE MOUNTAINS
Chapter VII: The Air Warriors
Chapter VIII: Getting the Logistics Right
Chapter IX: The Intrepid Indian Soldier
Chapter X: The Tale Of Three Battles
Chapter XI: Medicine Men: Siachen Saviours
Chapter XII: A Civilian PerspectiveChapter XIII: Why India Cannot Give Up Siachen
Product Details
Title: | Beyond NJ 9842 |
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Author: | Nitin A Gokhale |
SKU: | BK0383344 |
EAN: | 9789384052058 |
Language: | English |
About Author
Nitin A. Gokhale is one of South Asia's leading Strategic Analysts. He is the founder of the defence-related website BharatShakti.in. and Strategic News International (sniwire.com). Now a media entrepreneur, Gokhale has worked across print, web and broadcast mediums since 1983. He has reported on India's North-East, the 1999 Kargil conflict between India and Pakistan and the Sri Lankan Eelam War IV. Author of six books on national security affairs, Gokhale is an alumni of the Asia Pacific Centre for Security Studies, Honolulu, Hawaii. He teaches and lectures at premier Indian defence training institutions like the National Defence College, the Army, Air Force and Naval War Colleges, the College of Defence Management and the Defence Services Staff College, besides being a popular speaker at various seminars and symposiums on civil-military relations, insurgency/terrorism, Asian Security Affairs and military-media relations.