Nitin A. Gokhale Articles 119
Nitin A. Gokhale is a media entrepreneur, strategic affairs analyst and author of more than half a dozen books on military history, insurgencies and wars. One of South Asia's leading strategic analysts, Gokhale started his career in journalism in 1983. In the past 36 years, he has led teams of journalists across print, broadcast and web platforms. A specialist in conflict coverage, Gokhale has lived and reported from India’s North-east for 23 years, been on the ground at Kargil in the summer of 1999 and also brought us live reports from Sri Lanka’s Eelam War IV between 2006-2009. 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 China, Europe, South and South-East Asia to take part in various seminars and conferences. Gokhale is also a popular visiting faculty at India’s Defence Services Staff College, the three war colleges, India's National Defence College, College of Defence Management and the IB’s intelligence school. He now owns and runs two important portals, bharatshakti.in and StratNewsGlobal.com (stratnewsglobal.com).
He can be reached at: nitin.gokhale@bharatshakti.in
Rashtriya Rifles: Masters of Counter Insurgency
Rashtriya Rifles (RR) is a unique force. This 60+ battalion force is perhaps the worlds largest and most experienced counter insurgency force. Since 1990, when they were raised this force ha... Read more
India’s Defence Diplomacy Gets a New Boost
Former DG DIA Lt Gen V G Khandare and Editor-in-Chief Nitin A Gokhale examine India’s recent efforts at enhancing its military diplomacy to strengthen trust and goodwill with its neigh... Read more
India-Seychelles Committed to Assomption Island Project But 2018 Pact Not Going Forward: Barry Faure, Foreign Secy., Seychelles
EDITOR’S NOTE Of late India has stepped up its Indian Ocean engagement by entering into various agreements with smaller but strategically located island nations in the IOR. These natio... Read more
Modi’s Balancing Act in a Multipolar World
Prime Minister Narendra Modi did not disappoint the vast gathering of defence ministers, strategic thinkers and the world media assembled in Singapore for the 17th Shangri La dialogue. Almos... Read more
Cooperation and Competition: India and China Re-Calibrate Their Ties
In international relations chemistry and real politic often matter more than numbers but sometimes statistics can also be an important indicator. So it is with the fact that Prime Minister N... Read more
Reporting From Kargil – Down Memory Lane
19 years ago this month the Kargil war had started making headlines. This is the story of how I—then based in the north-east—got a chance to be ar the frontline and how luck plays a part. Re... Read more
I am quite bullish in Strategic Partnership model, says top L&T executive
Mr Patil explains the present systems L&T has on offer and candidly informs of the future plans. The commissioning of the Offshore Patrol Vessel (OPV), warship building, the number of sh... Read more
Chief of the Naval staff Admiral Sunil Lanba in conversation with Nitin A Gokhale
Indian Navy Chief, Adm. Sunil Lanba, in an exclusive interview with Bharatshakti.in, has dispelled fears about India’s primacy in the Indian Ocean being challenged. India continues to be the... Read more
The New Defence Production Policy in the Making: Is it Overambitious?
At first glance, the government’s proposed new defence Production Policy (http://ddpmod.gov.in/sites/default/files/Draft%20Defence%20Production%20Policy%202018%20-%20for%20website.pdf), curr... Read more
Army’s New Promotion Policy Beneficial in the Long Run
There will be many achievements that the Indian Army will rightfully talk about today on the occasion of the Army Day 2018 but one small but significant tweaking of a long standing promotion... Read more