Indian Army

 The First Indian Chief Of Independent India      Kodandera Madappa Cariappa, byname Kipper, (born January 28, 1899, Shanivarsanthe, Coorg district, Mysore [now Kodagu district, Karnataka state], India—died May 15, 1993, Bangalore), Indian military officer and the first chief of staff of the Indian army after India became independent of Great Britain. https://indianarmy14.blogspot.com/  Cariappa was born and raised in a hilly region of what is now southwestern Karnataka state and was one of six children of an official in the British colonial administration of India. He was educated in Indian schools and at the Presidency College in Madras (now Chennai) and was described as being an active student who was interested in tennis and field hockey. Cariappa received military training during World War I (1914–18) but did not serve any active duty. After the end of the war, Indian politicians began demanding that the British start incorporating Indian officers into the ...

 THE KARGIL WAR  Kargil is situated 204 km eastwards from Srinagar. Total population of this are is 81,000. It is spread over an area of 14,036 sq km and is 11,000 feet above the sea level. Therefore, it is covered with ice for 8-9 months of the year. https://indianarmy14.blogspot.com/   Kargil War   In Indian history Kargil will be remembered for 1999 tragedy. The Kargil war is also known as the Kargil Conflict. It was an armoured conflict between the forces of India and Pakistan which took place between May and July 1999 in the Kargil dictrict of Kashmir. The cause of the war was the infiltration of Pakistani soldiers and Kashmiri militants into positions on the Indian side of the Line of Control, which serves as the de facto border between the two nations.  Pakistan blamed the fighting entirely on independent Kashmiri insurgents; however, documents left behind by casualties and later statements by Pakistan's Prime Minister and Chief of Army Staff showed invol...

Bangladesh Liberation War   https://indianarmy14.blogspot.com/ The Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971 was for independence from Pakistan. India and Pakistan got independence from the British rule in 1947. Pakistan was formed for the Muslims and India had a majority of Hindus. Pakistan had two parts, East and West, which were separated by about 1,000 miles. East Pakistan was mainly the eastern part of the province of Bengal. The capital of Pakistan was Karachi in West Pakistan and was moved to Islamabad in 1958. However, due to discrimination in economy and ruling powers against them, the East Pakistanis vigorously protested and declared independence on March 26, 1971 under the leadership of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. But during the year prior to that, to suppress the unrest in East Pakistan, the Pakistani government sent troops to East Pakistan and unleashed a massacre. And thus, the war for liberation commenced Reasons For War Both the sides the East and West Pakistan remained uni...

Overall Analyses of 1965 Indo-Pak War   https://indianarmy14.blogspot.com/ Timing of the war This has been the subject of many  controversies and myths! In 1965 India w This has been the subject of many  controversies and myths! In 1965 India was recovering from the effects of the China War. Indian Army was engaged in a process of massive expansion with units and divisions half trained half novice! Something like the Austrian Army of 1809! Outwardly  expanding and larger but lacking the military virtue and military spirit identified by Carl Von Clausewitz as the key elements in an military machines effectiveness! There was no overwhelming Indian numerical superiority unlike 1971 and many parts of the Indo-Pak border like the vast bulk of Shakargarh bulge were unmanned on the Indian side!  Qualitatively Pakistan had a tangible superiority by virtue of possession of relatively superior tanks and artillery! The Centurion tank which was the backbone of Indian army w...

How It Started And What Happened?   https://indianarmy14.blogspot.com/ India never suspected that China would ever launch an attack, but it did. India was attacked on October 20, 1962 in what famously came to be known as Sino-India war of 1962. The belief of not ever being attacked by China did not let the Indian army prepare and the result was the standoff between 10,000-20,000 Indian troops and 80,000 Chinese troops. The war continued for about a month and ended on November 21, after China declared a ceasefire. How did it all started? With the independence of the Republic of India and the formation of the People's Republic of China (PRC) in the year 1949, one of the policies for the Indian government was that of maintaining cordial relations with China When China announced that it would be occupying Tibet, India sent a letter of protest proposing negotiations on the Tibet issue. China was even more active in deploying troops on the Aksai Chin border than any other Indian republic...

 This was the first war between India and Pakistan which was held in 1947-48.  Artilery movement during indo pak war 1947-48  The Indo-Pakistani War of 1947–1948, sometimes known as the First Kashmir War, was fought between India and Pakistan over the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir from 1947 to 1948. It was the first of four Indo-Pakistan Wars fought between the two newly independent nations. Pakistan precipitated the war a few weeks after independence by launching tribal lashkar (militia) from Waziristan,  in an effort to capture Kashmir, the future of which hung in the balance. The inconclusive result of the war still affects the geopolitics of both countries.  The Maharaja faced an uprising by his Muslim subjects in Poonch, and lost control of the western districts of his kingdom. On 22 October 1947, Pakistan's Pashtun tribal militias crossed the border of the state.  These local tribal militias and irregular Pakistani forces moved to take Srinagar,...

This Article is About the Army of British India (1895–1947). For the current army of the Republic of India.   https://indianarmy14.blogspot.com/ The British Indian Army was the principal military of the Brithis India Empire before its decommissioning in 1947. It was responsible for the defence of both the British Indian Empire and the princely states which could also have their own armies. The Indian Army was an important part of the  British Empire's forces, both in India and abroad, particularly during the  First World War and the  Second World War. The term "Indian Army" appears to have been first used informally, as a collective description of thePrecidency Armies (the  Bengal Army, the  Madras Army and the Bombay Army) of the  Precidencies of British India, particularly after the  Indian Rebellion. The first army officially called the "Indian Army" was raised by the government of India in 1895, exi...