Nitin A. Gokhale Articles 155
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
The Art And Craft of Espionage: In Conversation With Vikram Sood
Editor-in-Chief Nitin A Gokhale spoke to Vikram Sood, a career intelligence officer for 31 years who retired in 2003 after heading India’s external intelligence service, the Research a... Read more
Reporting From Kargil – Down Memory Lane (Part II)
19 summers ago the Kargil conflict was declared closed after India evicted all the intruders from the various peaks spread across Kargil, Drass and Batalik. I was there to report the conflic... Read more
India Planning to Ease Defence Exports
The Indian Ministry of Defence (MoD) has proposed a new scheme similar to the FMS (Foreign Military Sales) followed by the United States in facilitating sale of Indian military equipment to... Read more
Australia-India Relations Need Careful Nurturing
I was in Australia at the invitation of DFAT and AusHCIndia in mid-June. This is a second of the series of video blog on what I learnt and observed. Read more
To Save Time Govt May Bypass Field Trials in MMRCA 2.0
The Indian Air Force (IAF) is working on formulating a set of QRs (qualitative requirements) against which it is likely to benchmark the bids submitted by six major aircraft manufacturers fo... Read more
Big Changes Underway in Australian Defence Sector
I was in Australia at the invitation of DFAT and AusHCIndia in mid-June. This is a first of the series of video blog on what I learnt and observed Read more
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