Kargil War: Reflections on the Tenth Anniversary

  • Volume:33
    Issue:3
    Reflections on the Kargil War

    Ten years later, the Kargil War still arouses deep emotions turning around Pakistan’s gross perfidy, an intelligence failure, great heroism, military improvisation and innovation, a national upsurge, a most open inquiry leading to a comprehensive review of vital issues long closed to scrutiny and reform. Its report, prepared in record time, was uniquely presented to the nation as a commercial publication. (From Surprise to Reckoning: The Kargil Review Committee Report, Sage, New Delhi, December 1999.)

    Posted on: May 1, 2009

    Keywords: India, Kargil War May 2009 | Strategic Analysis