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The Anglo Sikh wars (1846-49) were the most ferocious battles faced by the British in India. These battles deeply affected the British psyche, with the result they started an association that lasted more than a 100 years. The Sikhs later became the...

The Asian mainland has 2 powers, who will decide the future of Asia. One is China and the other is India. Japan is the third power, but it is not part of the Asian mainland. Recently at the Police and Military club in  Abu Dhabi an interesting...

The Second World War has many exciting tales, but most of them concern the 2 major theaters namely Europe and the Pacific. Very little is publicised about the operations in the Indian state of Assam. This is often described as the " Forgotten...

Mahmud of Ghazni is a much reviled character in Hindu literature, while Muslims bring out the fact that he defeated the " Hindus", the Hindu  writers portray him as a destroyer of temples. No wonder the Pakistanis have named one of their...

Indian military history records that from ancient times the elephant was the main instrument of the army as a weapon of war. Indian kings had large corps of elephants who led the charge in a battle. In 326 BC at the battle of Hydespes, when Raja...

The Roman Empire was one of the great Empires of history, perhaps the greatest empire of all time and  maybe matched only by the Ottoman Empire. It was an empire that straddled 3 continents  and reading about this empire makes a...

Much has been written about the Imperial navy of Japan and the C in C of the fleet Admiral Yamamoto. However though, the Japanese Navy was an extremely professional force, it was apt to fritter its energy in unproductive operations. One such...

In 1950 the peoples liberation army  on orders of the Central Committee of the Communist party invaded the state of Tibet which was earlier an independent state and was recognized so by the British. It acted as a buffer between British India...

The battle of Dien Bien Phu in Vietnam in 1954 is generally considered a classic battle which shows the conversion of a guerrilla war into a conventional war. The battle is thus a matter of study for students of military history. Before we discuss...

Burma is India's eastern neighbour and became free at about the same time as India. It was also under British rule and much of Burma including rail and other developments is courtesy the British Raj. the population of Burma is 53 million and 90% of...