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Ashok K Mehta
Ashok K Mehta is a retired Lt General of the Indian Army. He writes extensively on defence matters and anchors Defence Watch on Doordarshan
Engage with Taliban
While the US has made several U-turns in brokering peace in Afghanistan, India’s biggest policy failure has been the inability to make its only military base in Tajikistan operational The Afghanistan peace process has undergone nuanced changes and several U-turns under the Trump dispensation. These are worth reflecting upon. It is no...
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Nobody joined the dots
08 May 2019 | Ashok K Mehta -
Nurture ties that bind
29 April 2019 | Ashok K Mehta -
Thinking global, acting local
24 April 2019 | Ashok K Mehta -
Stop milking the Army
10 April 2019 | Ashok K Mehta -
Don’t politicise forces
27 March 2019 | Ashok K Mehta -
Don’t misuse our forces
13 March 2019 | Ashok K Mehta -
Calling Pakistan’s bluff
28 February 2019 | Ashok K Mehta
The soldier’s caretaker
George Saab was one of the best Defence Ministers for whom the welfare and well-being of the Army personnel came first. Unfortunately, he wasn’t given his due For a former Defence Minister, even the most unlikely, George Fernandes was laid to rest without the traditional military honours due to him...
Chill in the Valley
The non-initiation of dialogue is an immense disservice to our security forces. The momentum of internal talks must be matched by reviving the same with Pakistan A deeply poignant moment of the 70th Republic Day parade was the spellbinding citation of Lance Naik Nazir Ahmad Wani for the award of...
A fractured negotiation
It is the Americans who are in a hurry to withdraw, not the Taliban. They can outwait them indefinitely. But what about the peace process? From an Indian perspective, Afghanistan turned out to be the flavour of the fourth edition of the Raisina Dialogue at New Delhi, which, compared to other...
The Afghan quandary
US Defence Secretary James Mattis’ resignation over troops pullout may be less justified than his abject failure to make his ‘last chance’ threat for Pakistan work Late in the last week of December 2018, for a full one week, reverberations from US President Donald Trump’s surprise announcement to cut 14,000 American...
