India-China disengagement: Analyses of the four main drivers to have ushered this detente – Part 1
February 28, 2021, 7:49 PM IST
Dr. Maj Gen (Retd) Anil Kumar Lal is a Defence Analyst who has authored many path-breaking concepts on Nuclear and Space Warfare strategies. He feels that the future Military Forces would be dictated by a new concept of Strategic detterence which would be a combined effect of Nuclear and Space detterence.
He is a third generation Indian Army Officer, who has participated in the many India-Pakistan battles including the Kargil conflict, 1999. A captured ‘Defence Post’ has been named after him on the LOC. He has been Commanding General in the Siachen/Ladakh sector and had been Director Nuclear warfare in the Army Headquarters during the Pokhran-II test. He has held Fellowship at the IDSA and the Chair of Excellence twice at the USI of India. He has authored six books on National Security issues including a book on ‘Space warfare and Military Strategy.’ He had raised the Integrated Space Cell for India and pioneered the path-breaking document called the “Indian Space Defence Vision”.