Brig Gurmeet Kanwal (Retd.) is Distinguished Fellow at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA) and former Director, Centre for Land Warfare Studies, New Delhi. Click here for details profile [+}
Distinguished Fellow, IDSA, Brig Gurmeet Kanwal’s article on review of India’s nuclear policy, titled ‘Good idea for India to review nuclear doctrine, it should do it every 5 years’ was published in Times of India on November 20, 2016.
Distinguished Fellow, IDSA, Brig Gurmeet Kanwal’s article on Pakistan Army’s atrocities on LoC, titled ‘Pakistan’s Rogue Army must be Punished’, was published by rediff.Com on November 14, 2016.
Distinguished Fellow, IDSA, Brig Gurmeet Kanwal’s article on US President elect, Donald Trump, titled ‘Can Donald Trump launch a nuclear attack?’ was published in ‘Daily O’ on November 9, 2016.
Distinguished Fellow, IDSA, Brig Gurmeet Kanwal’s article on comprehensive national power (CNP), titled ‘Demographic dividend should not turn into a disaster’ was published in Deccan Herald on November 1, 2016.
'The government has sent a clear message to Pakistan: It is no longer business as usual.'
'The rules of the game have changed and a new game is at play,' says Brigadier Gurmeet Kanwal (retd).
Like panthers prowling in the dead of night, several teams of the Special Forces of the Indian army crossed the Line of Control (LoC) on the night of 28 September. They struck with deadly effect and, as quietly as they had come in, they exfiltrated back across the LoC.
In his briefing after the attack in Uri on 18 September, the DGMO had said that the army “reserves the right to respond” to the terrorist strike at Uri at a time and place of its choosing. It took ten days to plan the operation, which was based on accurate intelligence.
The advocacy by Pakistani analysts of the Indian disinclination to retaliate massively in response to their use of TNWs on their own soil indicates either a flawed analysis or a bluff that the Indian armed forces would be inclined to call.
Distinguished Fellow, IDSA, Brig Gurmeet Kanwal’s commentary on India’s reaction to recent attack in Uri, titled ‘Pakistan blew it this time: India will see to it that it becomes the pariah of the world’ was published in Times of India on September 26, 2016.
Distinguished Fellow, IDSA, Brig Gurmeet Kanwal’s commentary on the terrorist attack on an Army camp in Uri was published in Hindi Daily ‘Rajasthan Patrika’ on September 20, 2016.