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Lt General SPS Pannu (retd)

Lt General Pannu is former Deputy Chief Indian Integrated Defence Staff (Operations). He raised the Defence Space, Defence Cyber Agency, and the Special Forces Division.

How a defence satellite could have saved Captain Saurabh Kalia

By Lt General SPS Pannu (retd) 2026-04-27

Wars are going to be dependent on space. On May 15, 1999, a 23-year-old officer named Captain Saurabh Kalia was asked to investigate information given to us by grazers in the Kargil sector. Continue Reading