Nitin A. Gokhale Articles 135
Author, thought leader and one of South Asia's leading strategic analysts, Nitin A. Gokhale has forty years of rich and varied experience behind him as a conflict reporter, Editor, author and now a media entrepreneur who owns and curates two important digital platforms, BharatShakti.in and StratNewsGlobal.com focusing on national security, strategic affairs and foreign policy matters. At the beginning of his long and distinguished career, Gokhale has lived and reported from India’s North-east for 23 years, writing and analysing various insurgencies in the region, been on the ground at Kargil in the summer of 1999 during the India-Pakistan war, and also brought live reports from Sri Lanka’s Eelam War IV between 2006-2009. Author of over a dozen books on wars, insurgencies and conflicts, Gokhale relocated to Delhi in 2006, was Security and Strategic Affairs Editor at NDTV, a leading Indian broadcaster for nine years, before launching in 2015 his own digital properties. An alumni of the Asia-Pacific Centre for Security Studies in Hawaii, Gokhale now writes, lectures and analyses security and strategic matters in Indo-Pacific and travels regularly to US, Europe, South and South-East Asia to speak at various international seminars and conferences. Gokhale also teaches at India’s Defence Services Staff College (DSSC), the three war colleges, India's National Defence College, College of Defence Management and the intelligence schools of both the R&AW and Intelligence Bureau. He tweets at @nitingokhale
He can be reached at: nitin.gokhale@bharatshakti.in
Ladakh Standoff: India Negotiating on Equal Terms with Outfoxed China
There is a military stalemate along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Ladakh. And China doesn’t like it. After nearly six months of attempted military coercion, the People’s Liberation Arm... Read more
Indian Army Alive to Chinese Plans; Taking Counter Measures
The Indian Army top brass is revisiting a tabletop exercise it carried out sometime in 2018, war-gaming possible Chinese moves all along the Himalayan frontier. This exercise, done in the wa... Read more
HAL Entering Naval Utility Helicopters Competition Will Erode Navy’s Operational Capability
One of the important policy reforms announcements done by the government in defence manufacturing in India last week was allowing foreign original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to invest up... Read more
The Raging Debate: Three Years Tour of Duty in Army
A furious debate has broken out in military as well as civil circles on the ‘Tour of Duty (ToD)’ or ‘Three Years Short Service’ proposed by Army HQ as a trial for recruiting a limited number... Read more
Indian Navy Launches Operation Samudra Setu to Repatriate Overseas Indians
Indian Navy Launches Operation Samudra Setu to Repatriate Overseas Indians Speaking exclusively to BharatShakti.in, Editor-in-Chief, Nitin A Gokhale, the Vice Chief of Naval Staff (VCNS), Vi... Read more
COVID-19 Crisis Can Lead to Reduced Dependence on Imports: Defence Secretary Ajay Kumar
EDITOR’S NOTE As India, and indeed the world, battles the Chinese virus pandemic, the Ministry of Defence (MoD), like every other arm of the government is contributing its resources i... Read more
What Indian Defence Industry needs Post-Covid-19
The Indian government, since 2014, has actively promoted setting up of a Defence Industrial base in the country. A number of policy directives have been issued to encourage Make in India and... Read more
Explained: What Chief of Defence Staff Means to India
In a path breaking move towards the integration of the all three defence services, the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) on 24th December approved the creation of a Chief of Defence Staff... Read more
Gen Bipin Rawat, Hot Favourite for CDS
With the announcement of the nominee for the post of Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), possibly just round the bend, some information on the CDS needs to percolate to the environment. I have bee... Read more
Won’t Do Anything That Will Harm India’s Interests: Gotabaya (Full text of interview)
Last Saturday, Sri Lanka’s newly-elected President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, sat down with Nitin A. Gokhale, Editor-in-Chief of BharatShakti.in and sniwire.com, two Indian digital platforms with a... Read more