I had been invited by some NGO'S to address a seminar at the JNU recently. While interacting with the participants I realised that they were generally curious to know about the Armed Forces. The flip side was for an informed set of highly educated members of society, that, how little they knew and what they did know was no where near reality.

I therefore decided to write this informatory blog and bring the basics of information to the know of the citizen with two aims in min. Firstly the fact that they should know more about their armed forces as being income tax payers they become stake holders in this huge expenditure out of our GDP, and secondly that the Armed Forces need public support for issues where they feel they are being short changed by the powerful neta-babu nexus. For example the case of OROP, or the fallout after the unjust awards of the 7th CPC.

I feel this will be of great use to students on military history, defence correspondents of various media houses and the average working class Indian. Please note that what will appear on this blog will be from information already available in the public domain but packaged and concisely put together in one document.  It also may be noted that any information of classified nature will neither be posted nor replied too.  

I wish all readers a terrific festive season in advance. Happy Reading.