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Air Chief Marshal VR Chaudhari, in conversation with Nitin Gokhale, during Bharat Shakti’s annual marquee event India Defence Conclave, touched on topics such as indigenization, acquisition and upgrading of systems, training, tactics, and the immense value that the Indian Air Force is acquiring by taking part in joint exercises across the globe.
The first edition of the Defence Attaches’ Conclave started small at the Manekshaw Centre in 2015. Since then, in each of the Editions, all of you—stakeholders in the Indian Defence Sector—have been steadfast and generous in supporting our endeavour. This year, we are changing the name of our annual marquee event to India Defence Conclave to reflect the broader focus we are attempting to bring to the platform that witnesses everyone connected to the Indian Defence Sector coming together.
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
