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Journalism of Courage
One of the biggest challenges during Operation Parakram was to restrain the three service chiefs who wanted to have a crack at Pakistan in the aftermath of the attack on Parliament in December 2001,former external affairs minister and senior BJP leader Jaswant Singh has written in a new book.
Singh,who was in the thick of things as a member of the Cabinet Committee on Security,has written that India had three aims in mobilising the army to the border defeating cross border terrorism without conflict,containing the national mood to teach Pak a lesson and in the case of war,degrading the neighbouring nations war fighting capabilities.
The book captures Singhs views and personal experiences on most matters relating to national security that the nation has faced since Independence. It borrows extensively from his experience as a cabinet minister in the NDA government and identifies mistakes,misconceptions and misadventures of security policy.
In a chapter that includes recollections about the Kargil war,he recalls how in the initial days the army was unable to gauge the depth of the situation,believing it to be an attack by irregulars and terrorists. Singh says that initially,he was against the use of the air force to evict the infiltrators as it would escalate the conflict and the loss of an aircraft would become an issue that catches the public eye.
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