Guest Editorial

Focus

• India’s Politico-Military Strategy for the 1971 India–Pakistan War

  – J.S. Cheema

• Politics in Pakistan and the Bangladesh Liberation War, 1971

  – Guru Saday Batabyal

• Language, Culture and the Creation of Bangladesh

  – Dorothy Deb

• 1971, the War as I Saw It

  – Shamsher M. Chowdhury

• Land Warfare in the Eastern Theatre: 1971 Indo-Pak War

  – P.K. Chakravorty

• The Battle of Garibpur

  – Vijay Yeshvant Gidh

• Eagle Unleashed: IAF Strategy and Operations

  – Diptendu Choudhury

• Sagat and Helicopters: True Pillars of Victory

  – Rajesh Isser

• Operational Aspects of the 1971 War in the Maritime Domain

  – Srikant B. Kesnur, M. Doraibabu and Ashish Kale

• The Protection of Sea Lines of Communication during 1971 War

  – Somita Chakraborty

• Planning and Impact of Special Operations during the 1971 Indo-Pak War

  – Vinod Bhatia

• The Mukti Bahini: Three Dimensional Guerillas

  – Sandeep Unnithan

• Role of the United States in the 1971 War: Implications for

  India–US Relations

  – Saroj Bishoyi

• Did Pakistan Learn from its Bangladesh Experience?

  – Ashok Behuria

• Mistakes on Repeat Mode: Pakistan’s Civil–Military Debacle

  – Karnika Jain

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