Mountain warfare and the Indian army : towards an effective deterrence capability

By:

Das, Gautam

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New Delhi G.B. Books 2018.Description: 262 pISBN:

9789383930746

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

356.1640954 DAS

Summary: This book examines the historical perceptions, and the organisational methods which have shaped and provide the rationale for India's current mountain operational practices. The author has reviewed the existing open-source literature on mountain war- fighting by independent India, from the India- Pakistan Kashmir war of 1947-48 right up to the India-Pakistan Kargil border war of 1999. He has also discussed at length with retired officers with experience of actual mountain warfare and of defensive mountain deployments, and drawn on his own mountain experience as a former infantry officer to review and analyse India's mountain warfare experience.

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This book examines the historical perceptions, and the organisational methods which have shaped and provide the rationale for India's current mountain operational practices. The author has reviewed the existing open-source literature on mountain war- fighting by independent India, from the India- Pakistan Kashmir war of 1947-48 right up to the India-Pakistan Kargil border war of 1999. He has also discussed at length with retired officers with experience of actual mountain warfare and of defensive mountain deployments, and drawn on his own mountain experience as a former infantry officer to review and analyse India's mountain warfare experience.

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