Colonel Vinay Dalvi (Retd)

Col Dalvi, ex Maratha LI, ex APTC is the Founder & Director of 'Mission Victory India.' He is a combat veteran of the '71 war, an author, & is the foremost authority on military selection & trg issues

111 posts

Going Beyond The Nicobar Choke: Part 2 Debate
"China is India's prime adversary, we are not China's main adversary; it is USA. Indian Military is divided and lacks synergy. Militarily weaker and developing nations can follow a strategy of denial" - Opines Lt Gen Harbhajan Singh, 1st Course JSW/ NDA

Colonel Vinay Dalvi (Retd), Vaibhav Agrawal

17 Mar 2023
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Relevant Subjects For Studies, Projects & Dissertations At Officer Training Institutions & Civil Defence Universities
Dear Sir, Kindly peruse two u/m (att) documents: Subjects for Dissertations, Projects & Studies for Officer Training Institutions by Col Vinay Dalvi, Chapter 2 of book 'Mission Victory India'

Colonel Vinay Dalvi (Retd)

7 Mar 2023
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MVI Debate: 1st Anniversary Of Russia-Ukraine War: Who's To Blame & How Will This War End?
"The Ukrainians are fighting on borrowed arms and ammunition. Ukraine does not have a military logistical infrastructure which can support a military operation" - Lt Col Yeshwant Umralkar

Colonel Vinay Dalvi (Retd)

6 Mar 2023
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A Visit To Remember: A Tribute To Lt Col JJ Fonseca, The Pioneering Army Sports Specialist
The visit of Mrs Blossom Fonseca accompanied by her son Bob brought back vivid and nostalgic memories to both of them. It was my pleasure and privilege to conduct them around AIPT campus to recall and revive their nostalgic memories of 6 by gone decades!

Colonel Vinay Dalvi (Retd)

22 Feb 2023
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The Reality Of India-China LAC: A Debate Triggered by 'Crumbling State Of Denial' By Lt Gen PC Katoch
"China has become bold enough to tinker with the LAC as and when the Chinese Communist Party Chief wants to score a point before the Politburo. The Chinese are actually practicing the dictum' offence is the best form of defence"

Colonel Vinay Dalvi (Retd), Vaibhav Agrawal

28 Jan 2023
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APTC Platinum Jubilee & 6th Re-Union
"Nations have passed away and left no traces, And History gives the naked cause of it-- One single, simple reason in all cases; They fell because their peoples were not fit." - Rudyard Kipling

Colonel Vinay Dalvi (Retd), Vaibhav Agrawal

21 Jan 2023
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Debate On Theaterisation Continues
"India ,so far, has been dithering and the reason could be only few, either we don't have the competence at the top to produce such a document or we don't have the will to do so deliberately and a third one is that we don't have neither the will nor the competence to produce it."Opines Col LJ Singh

Colonel Vinay Dalvi (Retd), Vaibhav Agrawal

6 Jan 2023
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Reality Of A Military Defeat Of 1962 India-War, Part 2
What made Nehru to ask the Indian Army to 'throw out the Chinese' from Thagla Ridge (their own area), an area five kms across the McMahon Line? It was only to pacify the public opinion. The govt had become a prisoner of its own facile pronouncements and drawing of boundary lines unilaterally.

Colonel Vinay Dalvi (Retd), Vaibhav Agrawal

1 Jan 2023
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Re-Opening The Debate On Theaterisation
"This debate is done and dusted. These aspects had emerged when the theaterisation issue first came up. A lot has happened since then. There needs to be a realisation of the very changing nature of warfare itself"- Opines Maj Gen Rajan Kochhar

Colonel Vinay Dalvi (Retd), Vaibhav Agrawal

30 Dec 2022
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Born to Battle “The 38th NDA Course”, Celebrates Golden Jubilee
It was those three momentous and eventful years that forged the steel of their bonding that has given them their friendship and relationship coveted over the next 50 glorious years and more.

Colonel Vinay Dalvi (Retd), Vaibhav Agrawal

22 Dec 2022
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'Reality Of A Military Defeat Of 1962 India - China War 'By Parth Satam For EurAsian Times Countered Strongly By Angry Veterans
"The world is full of postmortem experts. Mainly from the multitude who never fired a shot nor were ever under fire. Should be consigned to the dustbin of history"

Colonel Vinay Dalvi (Retd), Vaibhav Agrawal

20 Dec 2022
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Why Should Armed Forces Officer Selection System Be Reviewed? A Debate
"As they go up the ladder, the closeness with troops and junior lot of officers becomes thinner and appeasement of their IO/ RO as well as environment gains precedence over everything else. Now one can clearly see the I,ME&MYSELF "

Colonel Vinay Dalvi (Retd), Vaibhav Agrawal

6 Dec 2022
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DSSC: The News Maker - Debate Part 3
"The changes need to be internally driven. The degeneration of Indian Army's military thought process commenced the day we started emulating the western models of doctrine and training."

Colonel Vinay Dalvi (Retd), Vaibhav Agrawal

1 Dec 2022
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DSSC: The News Maker - Debate Part 2
"We must know that Change can never be 'agenda - driven'. Such an attempt often meets inner resistance and takes a path , contrary to the alleged 'agenda'"

Colonel Vinay Dalvi (Retd), Vaibhav Agrawal

30 Nov 2022
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Military Administrative Tribunal (MAT)
In a highly pyramidical structure, supercessions are to be treated as a norm. It is not a stricture on your performance. Berths on upper floors of service hierarchy are very few. Only the most competent from a group of otherwise competent people shall occupy those and rightly so.

Group Captain TP Srivastava (Retd), Colonel Vinay Dalvi (Retd)

27 Nov 2022
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Remembering & Reviewing 1962 Indo - China War After 60 Yrs - Debate Part 3
We should stop war mongering. We need to extend a sincere honourable plan for disengagement with the Chinese. Draw MOUs where war is not an option and peaceful co-existence is. We should let the MEA do it’s job while we maintain the sanctity of our borders.

Colonel Vinay Dalvi (Retd), Vaibhav Agrawal

25 Nov 2022
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Henderson Brooks Report & 1962 Himalayan Blunder
Why do you want to see the HB report when enough revelations have been made in Himalayan Blunder by Brig. JP Dalvi? We must also know that Terms of Reference of Henderson Brooks investigations were very limited. Therefore he could not have done full justice to it.

Colonel Vinay Dalvi (Retd), Vaibhav Agrawal

24 Nov 2022
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Remembering & Reviewing 1962 Indo - China War After 60 Yrs - Debate
"The truth lies buried in 'Henderson Brooks Report' which no government in power including the BJP dares to declassify" Opines Brig BL Poonia in MVI Debate

Colonel Vinay Dalvi (Retd), Vaibhav Agrawal

19 Nov 2022
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