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The great Indian dilemma: Can Indian military prepare to confront China in 2027 all on its own? (Part 2)
December 28, 2020, 2:00 PM IST
Dr. Maj Gen (Retd) Anil Kumar Lal is a Defence Analyst who has authored many path-breaking concepts on Nuclear and Space Warfare strategies. He feels that the future Military Forces would be dictated by a new concept of Strategic detterence which would be a combined effect of Nuclear and Space detterence.
He is a third generation Indian Army Officer, who has participated in the many India-Pakistan battles including the Kargil conflict, 1999. A captured ‘Defence Post’ has been named after him on the LOC. He has been Commanding General in the Siachen/Ladakh sector and had been Director Nuclear warfare in the Army Headquarters during the Pokhran-II test. He has held Fellowship at the IDSA and the Chair of Excellence twice at the USI of India. He has authored six books on National Security issues including a book on ‘Space warfare and Military Strategy.’ He had raised the Integrated Space Cell for India and pioneered the path-breaking document called the “Indian Space Defence Vision”.