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Military Digest | The story behind Gen V N Sharma’s regiment choice: 'No relatives in it'

August 02, 2026 4:12 pm

Former Chief of Army Staff General V N Sharma died on July 31. This is the fascinating story of how the 1950-commissioned officer intentionally chose the 16th Light Cavalry to forge his own path away from family influence.

Military Digest | Haze on Kargil lapses, skewed view on intrusions persist

July 26, 2026 12:58 pm

While the battalions’ courage and junior leaders’ performance are widely recognised as decisive, a deeper review of operational-level leadership and the circumstances enabling the intrusions is needed for institutional learning.

Military Digest: How Nehru sought early India-China military ties before 1962 war

July 19, 2026 4:07 pm

Archival documents reveal that Jawaharlal Nehru personally selected Brigadier Kochhar as Military Attaché in Beijing and challenged Western monopolies during Indian Army exercises.

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Military Digest: The Pakistani soldiers still buried on Indian soil 27 years after Kargil war

July 13, 2026 6:02 am

From radio pacts to burials with Islamic rites, discover how the Indian Army ended up honouring the enemy soldiers that Pakistan abandoned.

Military Digest | Echoes of late 19th-century Jat Sikh hiring crisis in today’s Sikh Regiment shortage

June 15, 2026 10:30 am

The Sikh Regiment recruitment shortage has historical roots, with Army archives from 1898 documenting difficulties in attracting Jat Sikh recruits to frontier regiments.

Military Digest | 'Sledgehammer to crack a nut’: How secret UK advice differed from India’s final plan in Operation Blue Star

June 07, 2026 3:43 pm

Details from declassified UK files shed light on British involvement before Operation Blue Star and how the final military strategy diverged from early recommendations.

Military Digest | Blocking weddings, secret subversion: How freedom fighters forced desertions from armed forces

May 31, 2026 5:31 pm

Uncovered documents from the National Archives of India shed light on a forgotten dimension of the freedom struggle: the intense political pressure exerted by Congress and Akali workers on British Indian Army jawans.

Gen P N Thapar was the the Army chief during the 1962 war.

Military Digest | The 1962 cover-up: Archival letters say Nehru blocked former Army Chief from seeing blistering war report

May 27, 2026 1:37 pm

Henderson Brooks report secrecy resurfaced after letters revealed Nehru and the defence ministry refused to share the inquiry findings with Gen P N Thapar.

Military Digest | ‘Old soldiers never die’: 75 years of Truman sacking General Douglas MacArthur dramatically

May 17, 2026 12:47 pm

General Douglas MacArthur first drove North Korean forces past the 38th parallel during the Korean War in 1951, but controversially pushed farther north and proposed bombing Chinese cities thought to be aiding North Korea.

Military Digest | Officers 'indulge far too much': Nehru’s push to curb alcohol in Indian Army

May 10, 2026 3:12 pm

Letters from 1948 show PM Jawaharlal Nehru pushing the Indian Army toward prohibition. He warned that "expansive" officers under the influence could not be trusted with state secrets.