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• Shashwat Army top brass exposed

  The book starts with Gautam Das writing the Army top brass in service during 1987 behaved like amateurs, including then army chief Late Gen K Sundarji. Nothing can be more summarising than this. In fact the same was evident even on the field in context with LT Col M K Gupta Ray's writing on thwe 41 Inf Brigade COmmander, Brig Manjit Singh. Despite moving in armoured cars like a coward fearing for his life, he got himself a MVC or Maha Vir Chakra - the second highest gallantary award in the country. His achievement - to force soldiers fight under broad day light without providing adequate logistical support to the troops. Instead of appreciating the 16 Sikh and 14 Raj Rif for clearing LTTE bastion Jaffna Fort, he "punished" the soldiers for their valour by making them sit under hot sun. No wonder inspite of winning a MVC, he was asked to go home. A very well written piece, though sometimes repetitive interms of lessons learnt. Col Gupta Ray should have restricted himself upto the lessons from command and control failure at the ground level. While Gen Sardeshpande, by virtue of his rank was justified commenting on the entire polirtical decision making and the reactions by army top brass. People Gen Kalkat and Dipender Singh also should have been involved in getting their comments.

• S. BHARDWAJ Enlightning

  Reading this book was an experience in it self. The authors have written it in such a way that one can visualise each word, para, chapter and the entire book clearly. Though the subject of this book is IPKF vs LTTE; The essential essence is the plight of any foreign army fighting for causes not close to there hearts that too in a foreign land . This book clearly depicts that how a soldier suffers for the political games there leaders play! This book is incredible, so grab a copy and enjoy.