Lieutenant General PG Kamath (Retd) Lt Gen Kamath is a highly distinguished general who has held some of the most coveted appointments in the Indian Army. He is a notable commentator on Defence & National Security issues Bangalore 17 posts Twitter
Reading Ramayana To Valmiki: Nationalising The Indian Army It is the sacred duty of the military leadership to cultivate and nurture ‘HONOUR & PRIDE’ among its Officers and soldiers. For heaven’s sake, the government should not play around with it. Lieutenant General PG Kamath (Retd) 9 Oct 2022 Read more
Surgical Strikes By Judiciary On The Armed Forces - Redux The role of the Armed Forces is to preserve and defend our country and ensure its constitutional writ runs within the geographical borders of the country. Lieutenant General PG Kamath (Retd) 9 Sep 2022 Read more
Agnipath: A Path Towards Self-Immolation? Dreams of lakhs of youth who are aspirants to join the armed forces having waited for two years were destroyed with the announcement of Agnipath. The initial age stipulations had kept all of them out. Lieutenant General PG Kamath (Retd) 21 Jun 2022 Read more
AFSPA: Blaming The Rooster For The Dawn "After the recent killings, however, regrettable and sad, a number of articles are floating in the print and internet media clamouring for the abrogation of AFSPA. It is sheer ignorance. It is like blaming the rooster for the dawn." Lieutenant General PG Kamath (Retd) 2 Jan 2022 Read more
Surgical Strikes by Judiciary on The Armed Forces "Lordships can borrow my last sentence to use in their next judgement while convicting an officer or a soldier of the Armed Forces for eliminating a dreaded terrorist." Lieutenant General PG Kamath (Retd) 14 Sep 2021 Read more
Will Any Heads Roll in Indian Intelligence Community? "Why were our intelligence agencies not knowing the plans of the Taliban? If we had put all our eggs in ‘Ghani Basket’; we should have at the least known as to when he was fleeing the country?" Lieutenant General PG Kamath (Retd) 4 Sep 2021 Read more
Philosophy Alone Cannot Win Wars: Where is our National Security Strategy? "Thank you, China, for coming to the rescue of the Indian Armed Forces for the second time. It had done us a great favour in 1962 when it stopped our government from winding down the armed forces." Lieutenant General PG Kamath (Retd) 25 Feb 2021 Read more
We Have to Love Our Nation: If We Do Not, Who Else Will? "I want to ask my liberal friends(?) whether they realise the value of the freedom that they enjoy?" Lieutenant General PG Kamath (Retd) 30 Dec 2020 Read more
Don't Kill the Civilisational Pride in the Profession of Arms! "It is this (martial) culture that endures our country to be what it is, in spite of being surrounded by hostile nuclear neighbours, plagued by persistent insurgencies, tormented by terrorism and incessant chicaneries of antinational insiders who want to destroy the country from within." Lieutenant General PG Kamath (Retd) 11 Nov 2020 Read more
No Time for the Soldier on the Frontlines to be in the Headlines? "Where indeed is the time for the poor soldier on the frontlines to be in the headlines? He is steadfast and does his duty; unhonoured, unsung and unpraised. Who said it? Freedom is never Free! We honour the dead best by treating the living well." Lieutenant General PG Kamath (Retd) 31 Oct 2020 Read more
QUAD Meeting; India's Pusillanimity & Lost Opportunity In the recently concluded ‘Quad’ meeting of the Foreign Ministers; it was only Mike Pompeo who called out on the belligerence of China by specifically naming it. Lieutenant General PG Kamath (Retd) 11 Oct 2020 Read more
Modi, Armed Forces and J&K "To the PMO all are welcome but having a serving or veteran member of the armed forces is a taboo. Of the 46 officers in the PMO, not one is from the Armed forces or a veteran. The sole advice he gets for the disastrous policy on J&K is from his NSA" Lieutenant General PG Kamath (Retd) 4 Oct 2020 Read more
China Lies; India Believes & the Road Ahead "India is like a blind elephant that is rushing into the forests; it crushes weak trees, demolishes branches, crushes whatever comes in front of it, dashes against huge trees, stumbles into pits and ponds and gets up and pushes again till it finally slumps out of exhaustion and falls asleep." Lieutenant General PG Kamath (Retd) 7 Sep 2020 Read more
If China Does Not Restore the Status Quo: What Next? "It is high time India makes a statement not recognising the Chinese claims on the South China Sea and stress on its importance as International Waters to facilitate world trade, sustain the global economy and ensure peace and prosperity." Lieutenant General PG Kamath (Retd) 8 Aug 2020 Read more
Transformation of the Indian Bureaucracy: Steel Jacket to Steel Frame "Please for heaven’s sake let us support the NPC and NRC so that our own migrants get jobs and not the Bangladeshis." Lieutenant General PG Kamath (Retd) 26 May 2020 Read more
Coronavirus; A Surprise Weapon in Biological Warefare? "I will not be surprised if the forbidding regime has already developed a vaccine for the pandemic before they unleashed it across the world?" Lieutenant General PG Kamath (Retd) 16 May 2020 Read more
Rescind Orders Opening Cantonment & Preserve the Fighting Forces Posterity can only tell whether the Chinese had really launched the Third World War with Covid-19 as its biological weapon? Without firing a single bullet, it has ensured that all its adversaries are reeling under economic depression with millions dying and billions losing their livelihood. Lieutenant General PG Kamath (Retd) 10 May 2020 Read more