Nitin A. Gokhale Articles 133
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
Government Determined to Corporatise OFB Despite Opposition
The recent deadlock between employees of the Ordnance Factory Board (OFB), who struck work to protest the proposed corporatisation of its factories, and the Defence Ministry may have led to... Read more
CDS to Bring Doctrinal Coherence in the Indian Military
Prime Minister Narendra Modi took everyone—or let me say at least the strategic community—by surprise by announcing the appointment of a Chief of Defence Staff from the ramparts of the Red F... Read more
Army’s Three Rs Plan Gets Going
Restructuring, resizing and reorganisation of the Indian Army, conceived and debated since 2016 (the DB Shekatkar Committee report, four different studies undertaken by Army HQ) is now getti... Read more
BAE Systems Aims to Strengthen Supply Chain Network in India: Paul Smith, Chief Procurement Officer
EDITOR’S NOTE BAE System ranks among the first few global defence and aerospace companies to establish roots in India. The long list of their India specific endeavours include building... Read more
India-Pakistan Dogfight: The Little Known Role of a Woman Fighter Controller
An alert and calm woman fighter controller of the Indian Air Force (IAF) played a key role in thwarting the major Pakistan air attack on the Nowshera sector in Jammu and Kashmir on 27 Februa... Read more
Bruised by the Indian air strike on the Jaish terror camp in Balakot and desperate to salvage some sense of pride, a defensive Pakistan is building up along the Line of Control by deploying... Read more
Air Marshal SBP Sinha was head of the Indian Negotiating Team for the crucial first six months when the process to procure 36 Rafale fighter jets on a government to government basis began in... Read more
The Indian Army is currently discussing ways to rightsize the force, cut unproductive and outdated units and become future ready. How will the plan work? How soon should it be done? Our Edit... Read more
2019 could be critical for the Indian Army with its plans to restructure and resize the force. How would it go about implementing the plan? What are the implications for the future? Nitin A.... Read more
2018 Was All about Balancing Major Power Relations Read more