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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
India China Relations Will Never be Free from Tension
A year after Doklam crisis was resolved, India and China are consciously attempting several confidence building measures but long term suspicion will remain, says Nitin A. Gokhale in this vi... Read more
Is the Indian Army doing away with Brigadiers?
The Indian Army has undertaken a comprehensive time-bound set of four different studies to achieve (a) An agile structure for field formations, (b) A responsive mechanism at the army headqua... Read more
Indian National Security Strategy Crystallising at a Fast Pace
India’s freshly-minted National Security Strategy (NSS) document is currently under review and is likely to be adopted in coming weeks, informed sources have told. The review, undertaken at... Read more
Imran Will be as Autocratic as Nawaz and Benazir, Says Pakistan Expert Tilak Devasher
Nitin A. Gokhale in conversation with Tilak Devasher a former Cabinet Secretariat officer who has authored two books on Pakistan. The recent one being Pakistan: At the Helm. This interview m... Read more
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