Major General Jagatbir Singh is an Armoured Corps Officer who commanded the First Armoured Division. He served in varied terrains and tenanted important command, staff and instructional appointments including a UN Peace Keeping Mission in Iraq and Kuwait. He co-authored ‘Armour 1971’ and edited ‘Valour and Honour’.
On 30 September the last US troops left Iraq, ending more than two decades of US military presence. Since the 2003 invasion, the US-Iraq relationship has been defined by their troop presence. Continue Reading
On 22 September the UN General Assembly began its annual meeting at a time when the Security Council is divided among its five permanent members with two waging wars of aggression. Continue Reading
The Makah Defence Agreement was signed between Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan on 07 August with a far-reaching clause akin to Article V of the NATO Agreement but within a month of its signing it has been tested. Continue Reading
Every major war reshapes how future wars are fought. Expose weaknesses that peacetime exercises fail to reveal, challenge long-held concepts embedded in military doctrine, Continue Reading
On 07 August. Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif signed the Makah Defence pact during the ‘Makkah Al-Mukarramah Summit for Joint Defence’.
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On 02 August fourteen people, including police officials, were killed and twenty-two others injured in a suicide attack on Swat’s Kabal Police Station in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa after a rally calling for lasting peace in the valley concluded. Continue Reading