Vaibhav Agrawal Vaibhav is a Defence Correspondent at Mission Victory India. He has words in Frontier India, and Indian Aerospace & Defence (Magazine). Mumbai 37 posts Twitter
Dissolving 62 Cantonment Boards: The Debate Continues "Doing away with Cantonments is a step in the right direction" - Col RS Khandpur "There should be no laments for a legacy that's outlived its time"- Maj Gen Raj Mehta "The problem will be in carving out the military stations from the Cantonments" - Brig Pradeep Sharma Colonel Vinay Dalvi (Retd), Vaibhav Agrawal 9 May 2023 Read more
Implications Of Dissolving 62 Cantonment Boards: A Debate "Were cantonments being badly managed and will municipal corporations do a better job? This itself is debatable!" - Maj Gen Rajan Kochhar "It is far better to have purely military stations and let the civil areas come under the municipal authorities" - Maj Gen Rana Goswami Colonel Vinay Dalvi (Retd), Vaibhav Agrawal 4 May 2023 Read more
Women In Indian Military - Debate Continues "The word 'Debate' in an article is enough to steer the conversation on two extremes. The responses need to be fact based and objective and not subjective. Additionally, these responses need to be backed by data and not anecdotal" - Opines Capt Shilpa Saxena Colonel Vinay Dalvi (Retd), Vaibhav Agrawal 27 Apr 2023 Read more
While Nation Awaits Answer Angry Veterans Debate Poonch Terror Attack "After 2016 strikes and Balakote we have not done much to instill fear into the Pakis. A coherent strategy is required. Challenges are tremendous but not beyond us. Our forces can do it!"- Opines Maj Gen Rajan Kochhar Colonel Vinay Dalvi (Retd), Vaibhav Agrawal 24 Apr 2023 Read more
Review Of Role Of Women In Indian Military: A Debate "Women officer candidates ought to be adjudged in all military aspects in total parity from Academy days right up to Lt Col. There cannot be partiality for or against. Similarly postings must also be similarly handed" - Opines Lt Gen Rakesh Sharma, former Adjutant General Colonel Vinay Dalvi (Retd), Vaibhav Agrawal 13 Apr 2023 Read more
Securing Of Indian Ocean & World Trade Shipping Routes: A Debate "Proportion and prosperity are among the best secrets of domestic wisdom, and there is no surer test of wisdom than a well-proportioned expenditure, both in matters of defence and domestic progress." Opines Brig BL Poonia Colonel Vinay Dalvi (Retd), Vaibhav Agrawal 7 Apr 2023 Read more
Re-Opened Disability Pension Debate Anger Veterans "Great strategy of taking media and officials to create fake projection in the environment and to avoid disability pensions" - Opines Col Amit Kumar Colonel Vinay Dalvi (Retd), Vaibhav Agrawal 1 Apr 2023 Read more
Debate: Has The IAS Failed The Nation? Have The Armed Forces Performed Better? How To Improve Both? "Higher leadership which is selected by the ignorant politician and advice of an IAS officer. They tread with caution appease the politician at the cost of organisational interests. Many a times even national interest" - Opines Brig Pradeep Sharma Colonel Vinay Dalvi (Retd), Vaibhav Agrawal 22 Mar 2023 Read more
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 Read more
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 Read more
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 Read more
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 Read more
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 Read more
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 Read more
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 Read more
'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 Read more
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 Read more
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 Read more