Monday, May 3, 2010

Kargil: A True Story

General V.P. Malik was the Chief of the Army Staff (India) from 1 October 1997 to 30 September 2000. Concurrently, he was chairman, Chiefs of Staff Committee, from 1 January 1999 to 30 September 2000. in both these posts, he played a vital role in planning, coordinating and overseeing the military operations that enabled India to evict the Pakistani intruders in Kargil and thus turn the tables on Pakistan.

A graduate from the Defence Services Staff College and Madras University, General Malik is an alumnus of the National Defence College, New Delhi. He has been a member of India’s National Security Advisory Board and has delivered lectures in many prestigious civil and military institutions in India and abroad. Currently, he heads the Institute of Security Studies in the Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi.

An incisive and hard-hitting narrative that reveals the behind-the-scenes activities affecting the Kargil war.

In the garb of jehadi militants, Pakistan Army personnel infiltrated into the Indian Territory of Kargil and triggered off a limited conventional war between the world''s newest nuclear weapon states.The Pakistan Army achieved a tactical surprise but failed at the strategic level. The outbreak of war in Kargil also revealed that Pakistani political leadership was out of synch with the thinking and planning of its military brass. The author seeks to analyse the reasoning behind the Pakistani Army''s strategy and tactics and also focuses on the people responsible.

This volume seeks to answer questions such as: What was the rationale for India''s grand strategy of restraint despite being a victim of aggression? How was the war managed? How were battles planned, and executed, to recapture the strategically important high altitude mountaintops?

ISBN: 9788172236359
Published by: Harper Collins Publishers India
Original Price(HB) : Rs. 595.00
Special Sale Price of(HB) : Rs. 535.00

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