Maritime Museum C-443 Defence Colony. New Delhi.

IDF’S REVELATIONS 50 YEARS ON !! ON 30th DEC 1971 UNDER SOVIET & US PRESSURE DP DHAR ORDERED GENS MANEKSHAW & CANDETH TO GO DEFENSIVE WITH PAKISTAN—ARMY OP PLANS & DEPLOYMENTS HAD TO BE ALTERED & 1 ATTACK CORPS HIBERNATED AT GURDASPUR. NAVY CLAIMED THE KEMARI TANKS ON 4TH NIGHT THOUGH IAF HAD ATTACKED THE OIL TANKS THAT MORNING. HISTORY NEEDS RIGHTING IN SWARNIM VIJAY VARSH.

Ranjit Rai Dec 17, 2021 204 Comments

Ranjit B Rai IDF celebrates India’s 50TH 1971 Bangladesh War ‘Swarnim Vijay Divas’ on 16th December. IDF salutes and posts an analysis how the Indian Army at the last minute…

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PAKISTAN HAS RELEASED ‘HANGOR’ A’ TELEFILM BASED ON THE SINKING OF INS KHUKRI IN THE 1971 WAR & IDF POSTS THE CONNECTION WITH A LIVE UTUBE ON INDIAN NAVY’S 1971 WAR

Ranjit Rai Dec 15, 2021 203 Comments

Pakistan’s ARY, has made a Telefilm on the Daphne submarine PNS Hangor’s kill on INS Khukri, and released it on Pakistan TV on 9th December as it was on that…

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CNS ADMIRAL HARI KUMAR CELEBRATES GOLDEN JUBILEE NAVY DAY ON 4TH DECEMBER WITH C-in-Cs IN PLACE GROOMED WITH CONINUITY BY ADMIRAL KARAMBIR SINGH BEQUEATHING A PRAGMATIC NAVAL ATAMNIRBHAR BUILDING & OPERATIONS STRATEGY IN PLACE.

Ranjit Rai Dec 3, 2021 74 Comments

With Shan No Varuna, India’s Navy will celebrate Navy Day on 4TH December at CNS’s residence commemorating the ingenious attack in the opening bell of the war for BanglaDesh in…

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CNS ADMIRAL KARAMBIR SINGH DISCUSSED THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE MARITIME CHALLENGES INDIA FACES IN THE INDO-PACIFIC AT THE USI IN NEW DELHI

Ranjit Rai Aug 29, 2021 3 Comments

On 28th August the United Service Institution(USI) hosted the Chief of the Naval Staff Admiral Karambir Singh, the last in the series of lectures by the Chiefs of the services.…

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AS US TROOPS ABANDON AFGHANISTAN TO CHAOS & TALIBAN & ANTI TALIBAN FORCES AMBASSADOR TANDON FLED KABUL FEARING HOSTILE ACTIONS BY PAKISTAN’S ISI & LET AGAINST INDIA WHICH MAY REOCCUR

Ranjit Rai Aug 26, 2021 1 Comments

This is an IDF analysis based on William Darlymple’s essay for Brookings titled, A DEADLY TRIANGLE, on the War in Afghanistan and it’s aftermath as he has included extracts from…

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USA’S POLE POSITION IS BEING CHALLENGED BY CHINA’S ASCENDANCY AS TALIBAN 2.0 RETURNS WITH PLANS FOR A PENTAD TO TAKE ON THE QUAD—————————-QUO VADIS INDIA ?

Ranjit Rai Aug 21, 2021 4 Comments

This is an IDF analysis of President Xi Jinping’s Great Game in the East that IDF had analysed from a BRI and CPEC perspective. The GREAT GAME is propped on…

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AFTER JINPING’S SPEECH US CHINA COMPETITION IS ABOUT ECONOMICS—TALIBAN IS RISING….EAM JAISHANKAR SAYS CHINA IS REDRAWING THE LAC & PAKISTAN PLANS ELECTIONS IN POK TO MEET 370 ..…ALL COULD IMPACT INDIA

Ranjit Rai Jul 17, 2021 22 Comments

A war over the South China Seas(SCS) with China will be catastrophic and that realization has come to the West, which hoped ASEAN would deal with China with a COC…

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CHINA HAS BECOME WORLD’S FRANKENSTEIN & FRIEDMAN DEBATES IS CHINA WINNING OVER USA WITH ITS INFRASTRUCTURE & POLITICAL STABILITY & IDF ASKS WITH 5G CURRENCY GAME & HARD POWER

Ranjit Rai Jul 13, 2021 284 Comments

Thomas Friedman, in an article in NYT last week titled *"The Seven Years of China and the United States” lucidly explains why China is winning without fighting over USA. The…

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AS INDIA FIGHTS COVID PLA(NAVY) COMMISSIONS 6th TYPE 55 DDG & 1st TYPE 75 LPH & 6th JIN SSBN AT SANYA — LESSONS FROM CHINA TAIWAN & USA

Ranjit Rai Apr 29, 2021 110 Comments

This is an IDF analysis with inputs from Prasun Sengupta of the fast expanding PLA(Navy) which celebrated its 72nd Navy Day on 23rd April 2021 by commissioning two large ships…

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REMEMBERING COL LESLIE SAWHNEY HIS WIFE RODABEH SISTER OF JRD & ADM KARMARKAR IN THE NAVY OF 1960s & THE HOUSE OF TATAS

Ranjit Rai Apr 28, 2021 126 Comments

IDF is back with a post from the draft from the book titled, A Sailor’s Odyssey And A Nation’s Navy At War 1971 And Indians Why We Are What We…

PAKISTAN HAS RELEASED ‘HANGOR’ A’ TELEFILM BASED ON THE SINKING OF INS KHUKRI IN THE 1971 WAR & IDF POSTS THE CONNECTION WITH A LIVE UTUBE ON INDIAN NAVY’S 1971 WAR

CNS ADMIRAL HARI KUMAR CELEBRATES GOLDEN JUBILEE NAVY DAY ON 4TH DECEMBER WITH C-in-Cs IN PLACE GROOMED WITH CONINUITY BY ADMIRAL KARAMBIR SINGH BEQUEATHING A PRAGMATIC NAVAL ATAMNIRBHAR BUILDING & OPERATIONS STRATEGY IN PLACE.

CNS ADMIRAL KARAMBIR SINGH DISCUSSED THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE MARITIME CHALLENGES INDIA FACES IN THE INDO-PACIFIC AT THE USI IN NEW DELHI

AS US TROOPS ABANDON AFGHANISTAN TO CHAOS & TALIBAN & ANTI TALIBAN FORCES AMBASSADOR TANDON FLED KABUL FEARING HOSTILE ACTIONS BY PAKISTAN’S ISI & LET AGAINST INDIA WHICH MAY REOCCUR

USA’S POLE POSITION IS BEING CHALLENGED BY CHINA’S ASCENDANCY AS TALIBAN 2.0 RETURNS WITH PLANS FOR A PENTAD TO TAKE ON THE QUAD—————————-QUO VADIS INDIA ?

AFTER JINPING’S SPEECH US CHINA COMPETITION IS ABOUT ECONOMICS—TALIBAN IS RISING….EAM JAISHANKAR SAYS CHINA IS REDRAWING THE LAC & PAKISTAN PLANS ELECTIONS IN POK TO MEET 370 ..…ALL COULD IMPACT INDIA

CHINA HAS BECOME WORLD’S FRANKENSTEIN & FRIEDMAN DEBATES IS CHINA WINNING OVER USA WITH ITS INFRASTRUCTURE & POLITICAL STABILITY & IDF ASKS WITH 5G CURRENCY GAME & HARD POWER

AS INDIA FIGHTS COVID PLA(NAVY) COMMISSIONS 6th TYPE 55 DDG & 1st TYPE 75 LPH & 6th JIN SSBN AT SANYA — LESSONS FROM CHINA TAIWAN & USA

REMEMBERING COL LESLIE SAWHNEY HIS WIFE RODABEH SISTER OF JRD & ADM KARMARKAR IN THE NAVY OF 1960s & THE HOUSE OF TATAS

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