Warring Navies – India and Pakistan
Publisher: Frontier India Technology
Published: 2014
Place of publication: India
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9788193005545
Description: International Edition
Table of contents: title: All of India’s war’s – against military, political and international backdrops – are the compass of this book, with an accent on the naval maneouvres, many hitherto less known. In covering the major and 1965 and 1971 wars, the author brings out operational frustrations in conducting military operations, when fought ‘sans strategy or local intelligence’. By contrast, there are insights into success factors arising from detailed and superb planning, as in the Liberation of Goa 1961 bequeathed by the British, and the 1971 Bangladesh War by Gen Sam Manekshaw as a CDS and able and gutsy Naval Chief Admiral SM Nanda and a calculating brain Air Chief Marshal P C Lal, depicting the need for the highest command structure to coordinate the three forces, and an effective overseeing strategic security agency. This is currently deficient.; title: The readers will encounter a gamut of characters in uniform – including – gung-ho chiefs – and war situations that would give a Forsyth or Clancy exciting plot material. There are with the historical narratives, stories of professional and personal glory – ambitious moves and astute machinations, insinuations, bravado and folly, as brave commanders and political masters – local and superpower – plot their balance of power stances and fighting moves between belligerent neighbors, within this vast South East Asian geographical arena.