AVM Arjun Subramanium (Retd) Articles 3
Air Vice Marshal Arjun Subramaniam is a retired fighter pilot from the IAF who has flown MiG-21s and Mirage-2000s. He is also a military historian, academic, strategic commentator and mentor. He has been a Visiting Fellow at Harvard and Oxford universities and Visiting Professor at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Ashoka and Jindal Universities. He has lectured extensively at war colleges in India and the US and at a wide range of Universities and think tanks in the US and UK including Harvard, MIT, Georgetown University, Oxford, Carnegie Endowment, RUSI and IISS.He is the author of ‘India’s Wars: A Military History: 1947-1971’ and will soon be is publishing the sequel. He writes extensively in the public domain on diverse military history, strategic and national security issues.
He can be reached at: arjun.subramanium@bharatshakti.in
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