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A STONE WITH MY NAME – MAJOR GAURAV ARYA (VETERAN)
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MAJOR GAURAV ARYA (VETERAN). A soldier's perspective on defence and national security issues. A STONE WITH MY NAME. Some soldier with a funny bone at 102 Infantry Brigade (Base Camp) will tell you that Siachen means ‘Rose Garden’. Its true. Maybe its funny, in a self-deprecating sort of way. Most soldiers crack jokes, which only they can understand. When the situation seemed hopeless, he would simply say Yeh Major Shaitan Singh aur Major Somnath Sharma ki Regiment hai . These words were enough. 1...I wan...
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THE RIPPLE EFFECT – MAJOR GAURAV ARYA (VETERAN)
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MAJOR GAURAV ARYA (VETERAN). A soldier's perspective on defence and national security issues. In the last 48 hours, the Indian Army has lost 7 brave hearts at Nagrota. It is with deep grief, immense helplessness and cold anger that I tell you today; we will lose many more, unless we realize that our response to Pakistan is woefully short of effective, and altogether wrong. We are applying Band-Aid, where chemotherapy is urgently needed. We are solving the wrong problem. There has been another attack .
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A RED MOTORCYCLE AND A COUNTRY – MAJOR GAURAV ARYA (VETERAN)
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MAJOR GAURAV ARYA (VETERAN). A soldier's perspective on defence and national security issues. A RED MOTORCYCLE AND A COUNTRY. General Sam Manekshaw paced up and down his office, his furrowed brow almost touching the center of his forehead. His lean frame was ramrod straight, his gait long and striding, typical of infantrymen who spend their lifetime walking over harsh terrain. He knew that his army was plunging headlong into war. It was only a matter of time. The Indian Cabinet wasn’t making things any e...
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THE GREEN CRESCENT – MAJOR GAURAV ARYA (VETERAN)
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MAJOR GAURAV ARYA (VETERAN). A soldier's perspective on defence and national security issues. When did it exactly start? No one knows. But it can be said with a degree of certainty that in the early nineties when the Pakistanis decided that JKLF or Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front, a pro-azaadi terror outfit in Kashmir, should cease to exist, it was the beginning of Islamic Jihad in the Kashmir valley. From the Pakistani perspective, ‘azaadi’ for Kashmir would be the legitimate cover. That would help l...
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PAKISTAN ARMY PVT LTD – MAJOR GAURAV ARYA (VETERAN)
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MAJOR GAURAV ARYA (VETERAN). A soldier's perspective on defence and national security issues. PAKISTAN ARMY PVT LTD. August 1947, two nations were created. And two armies were carved out of the British Indian Army. On the day of creation, both armies were twins in every way. The commands, language, training, indoctrination, weaponry, ideology and ethos were carbon copies of the other. It craved Arabian roots, abhorring its actual sub-continental identity. A Pakistani would take (and still takes) grea...
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