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Author : Damini Punia
Release : 2021
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 369/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Operation Khukri by : Damini Punia
Download or read book Operation Khukri written by Damini Punia. This book was released on 2021. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rajpal Punia
Release : 2021-07-26
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 985/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Operation Khukri by : Rajpal Punia
Download or read book Operation Khukri written by Rajpal Punia. This book was released on 2021-07-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did you know that 233 soldiers of the Indian Army were cordoned off for almost three months without food in the jungles of Africa? How did a UN peacekeeping mission turn into a war for dignity, a war for the Indian tricolour? The year was 2000. Sierra Leone, in West Africa, had been ravaged by years of civil strife. With the intervention of the United Nations, two companies of the Indian Army were deployed in Kailahun as part of a United Nations peacekeeping mission. Soon, the peaceful mission turned into a war-like standoff between Major Punia's company and the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) rebels in Kailahun, with the Indian peacekeepers cordoned off for seventy-five days without supplies. The only way home was by laying down their weapons. Operation Khukri was one of Indian Army's most successful international missions, and this book is a first-hand account by Major Rajpal Punia, who, after three months of impasse and failed diplomacy, orchestrated the operation, surviving the ambush of the RUF in a prolonged jungle warfare twice, and returning with all 233 soldiers standing tall.
Author : Major General Ian Cardozo
Release : 2006-12-01
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 993/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Sinking of INS Khukri: Survivor's Stories by : Major General Ian Cardozo
Download or read book The Sinking of INS Khukri: Survivor's Stories written by Major General Ian Cardozo. This book was released on 2006-12-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 9 December 1971. 8.45 p.m. Torpedoed by a Pakistani submarine, the INS Khukri sank within minutes. Along with the ship, 178 sailors and 18 officers made the supreme sacrifice. Last seen calmly puffing on his cigarette, Captain Mahendra Nath Mulla, captain of the Khukri, chose to go down with his ship. This defining moment of the 1971 war between India and Pakistan is the basis of Major General Ian Cardozo's attempt to understand what happened that day and why. Major General Cardozo brings fresh insight into the hellish ordeal by including the heartfelt accounts of the survivors and of the members of their families. These accounts transform the stereotypical understanding of the incident; they also supplement it. We glimpse fear, trauma and death at first hand. In the annals of war writing, General Cardozo humanizes this cataclysmic event as never before.
Author : William J. Durch
Release : 2006
Genre : Political Science
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Book Rating : 916/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Twenty-first-century Peace Operations by : William J. Durch
Download or read book Twenty-first-century Peace Operations written by William J. Durch. This book was released on 2006. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This superbly edited volume addresses the question of what has been accomplished and what lessons have been learned from ten years of peace operations in post-conflict societies.
Author : Shashank Joshi
Release : 2017-07-14
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 799/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Indian Power Projection by : Shashank Joshi
Download or read book Indian Power Projection written by Shashank Joshi. This book was released on 2017-07-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While India is growing into one of Asia’s most important military powers, accounts of this rise have been impressionistic and partial. Indian Power Projection assesses the strength, reach and purposes of India’s maturing capabilities, offering a systematic analysis of India’s ability to conduct long-range power projection. The study finds that India’s power projection is in a nascent stage but that, nevertheless, it may be the case that India will find itself using military force beyond its land borders.
