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Brig. Deepak Sinha (Retd.) was Visiting Fellow at ORF.
Brig. Sinha is a second-generation paratrooper. During his service, he held varied command, staff and instructional appointments, and has extensive experience in airborne special operations forces and counterinsurgency operations in the Northeast and Jammu and Kashmir. He has also commanded India’s only rapid deployment force, 50th (Independent) Parachute Brigade, as well as the Parachute Regiment Training Centre.
He has been directing staff at the Defence Services Staff College, Wellington, and an instructor at the National Defence Academy, Pune, and at the Wangchuk Lo Dzong Military School, Bhutan. After proceeding on premature retirement, he headed the Indian subsidiary of an MNC for three years before joining the Observer Research Foundation as a consultant from 2012 to 2021.
Brig. Sinha writes extensively for The Pioneer, The Times of India, and in his blog ‘Para Phrase.’ He held the Field Marshal Cariappa Chair of Excellence at the USI of India in 2003-04 and is the author of the book — Beyond the Bayonet: Indian Special Operations Forces in the 21st Century (Gyan Publishers, Delhi, 2006).
1 Contribution
Commentaries
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Apr 23, 2023अग्निपथ योजना कागदावर व्यवहार्य पण..
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Apr 04, 2022ভারতের বড় স্বপ্ন বা নেহাত বিভ্রম
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Mar 10, 2022India’s big dreams or plain hallucination?
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Feb 26, 2022ইউক্রেন সঙ্কট: ভারতের উপর তার প্রভাব
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Feb 22, 2022The Ukraine crisis: Its impact on India
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Oct 26, 2021Military leadership: In the eye of storm
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Oct 02, 2021आपल्या सैन्यासाठी अफगाणिस्तानचे धडे
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Sep 24, 2021The Afghan Disaster: Lessons our Military must Heed
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Mar 15, 2021Response to Chinese Assertiveness
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Nov 30, 2020Putting the defence pension narrative in perspective
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Aug 10, 2020Unending Ladakh story
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Jul 30, 2020Need bravery, not bravado
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Jun 25, 2020Lessons from history
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May 28, 2020Sino-Indian Stand Off: A Case of Russian Roulette
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Jan 27, 2020अमेरिकेच्या बंदुकीचा नेम चीनकडे
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Jan 18, 2020Tectonic shift in US’ attitude
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Jan 04, 2020A new paradigm for conduct of CI operations in Jammu & Kashmir: Vision 2020
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Dec 27, 2019Perspectives on dealing with illegal immigration
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Nov 04, 2019Just a poster value
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Jul 08, 2019Understanding the rationale for toxic decision making within the Army
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Jun 19, 2019Avoiding catastrophe of a war
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May 29, 2019Foot in mouth: A disease we can do without
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May 07, 2019New front in war on terror
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Apr 18, 2019Riding the tiger
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Apr 15, 2019Douse the anger within
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Apr 09, 2019Disarming a Political Time Bomb
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Mar 20, 2019The politics of Balakot
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Mar 06, 2019Reaping the whirlwind: Pulwama and Doklam
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Mar 05, 2019Stifle the jihadi network
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Feb 11, 2019राफेल सौद्यातल्या गुंतागुंतीच्या पलिकडे
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Feb 04, 2019Looking beyond the Rafale imbroglio
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Feb 01, 2019Honour the forgotten Army
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Dec 17, 2018When democracy is not enough
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Nov 30, 2018Disempowering the soldier
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Nov 21, 2018Look beyond politics on N-issue
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Nov 02, 2018Learn lessons from the CBI fiasco
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Nov 02, 2018Avoiding the ideology trap: Learning from history
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Oct 23, 2018Amritsar tragedy: Face hard truth
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Oct 16, 2018Humanising the Rafale deal
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Aug 22, 2018Reaping the whirlwind
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Aug 09, 2018National security: A call to arms
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Jul 16, 2018Atlas chained: Understanding India’s strategic constraints
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Jul 04, 2018The military and four years of the current govt: The need for course correction
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Jun 16, 2018Civil military relationship: The way forward
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Jun 11, 2018Lost victories for the military
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Jun 11, 2018No country for servicemen
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Jun 05, 2018The big picture of the military and four years of Modi
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May 21, 2018Untying the Gordian knot in Kashmir
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May 11, 2018Unending politics of portraits
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May 04, 2018Diplomacy on bended knee
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Apr 23, 2018Using committees to demean the military
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Mar 16, 2018Silencing the services
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Feb 27, 2018Viral whataboutism in Indian politics
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Feb 26, 2018Making mountains out of molehills
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Feb 14, 2018Will the brouhaha over Major Aditya help the Army?
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Feb 12, 2018The Indian Army’s trial by fire
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Feb 01, 2018Beating retreat or beating a retreat: Which will it be?
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Jan 29, 2018Consequences of disempowering the military
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Jan 02, 2018Requiem to the fallen soldier. But why so many deaths?
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Dec 19, 2017Revisiting counter-insurgency operations in J&K
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Dec 08, 2017Move the wheels of justice
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Nov 20, 2017Securing our borders with blinders on
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Nov 02, 2017Building bridges with the military: The long road to perdition
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Oct 23, 2017Political interactions with the services: Just symbolism?
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Oct 12, 2017Downgrading the military: Conspiracy theory or fact
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Oct 09, 2017Mumbai stampede searching for scapegoats
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Sep 26, 2017Sweeping the armed forces away
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Sep 18, 2017The angry Indian
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Sep 12, 2017Taking the bull by the horns: A case for pro active defense to counter potential Chinese aggression
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Aug 28, 2017As you sow, so shall you reap
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Aug 21, 2017The dilemma that Charlottesville poses for us
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Aug 16, 2017Supine leadership and its consequences
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Aug 16, 2017Why we need better leaders
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Aug 16, 2017Indian armed forces and 70 years of independence
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Aug 04, 2017The Doklam crisis & beyond
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Jul 13, 2017Nothing upright about Adarsh
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Jul 10, 2017Let’s cut China some slack
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Jul 04, 2017A different India but an unchanged ministry of defence
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Jun 26, 2017Revisiting the Pathankot air base fiasco
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Jun 19, 2017Fancy hats and General Dyer: Let’s get real about the Army
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May 30, 2017Saving Major Gogoi from armchair warriors
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May 30, 2017Making sense of OBOR response
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May 16, 2017Strengthening the defender
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May 08, 2017The illusion of accountability
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Apr 25, 2017Implications of CRPF restraint
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Apr 12, 2017Playing hardball: Confronting Chinese hegemonic designs in South Asia
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Apr 10, 2017Old war with no gains in sight
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Mar 30, 2017Trump’s world and its impact on India
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Mar 21, 2017Is pathetic poll show by Sharmila a vote for continuance of Afspa in Manipur?
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Mar 07, 2017One huge mockery of justice
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Feb 27, 2017Winning hearts and minds in J&K: At whose cost?
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Feb 07, 2017Merit must reign in the armed forces
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Jan 18, 2017Money matters in the military
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Dec 29, 2016The impact of the Agusta Westland controversy
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Dec 23, 2016Brewing storm in a teacup
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Dec 12, 2016Overhauling defence bureaucracy
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Oct 28, 2016Military cares; does the State?
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Oct 03, 2016The Uri aftermath: A game of snakes and ladders
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Sep 28, 2016The Uri fiasco and ensuring accountability
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Sep 28, 2016Terror from across: Well-considered action needed
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Sep 15, 2016Human rights and the military
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Aug 29, 2016Missing the big stick in Kashmir
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Jul 12, 2016Dealing with the "business of insurgency"
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Jun 27, 2016Once an empire, now an island
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Jun 22, 2016What US must do after Orlando
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Jun 13, 2016IPS well past its expiry date?
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Jun 07, 2016Sen corker and his glass house
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May 24, 2016Rightsizing the military: The need for a comprehensive examination
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Apr 26, 2016Whither our national security?
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Apr 11, 2016Why faux patriotism is all the rage
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Mar 30, 2016Guidelines for Army's 'aid to civil authorities'
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Mar 21, 2016Politics on everything. Period
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Mar 05, 2016Pathankot operation: Unmitigated disaster?
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Feb 10, 2016Need to maintain sanctity of combat dress
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Jan 29, 2016Power, patronage and politics
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Jan 18, 2016Revamp National Security Guard
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Jan 07, 2016All that went wrong with the Pathankot Operation
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Dec 31, 2015Decoding the Lahore stopover
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Nov 16, 2015Is the Sangh Parivar right in attacking Tipu Sultan?
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Nov 06, 2015Are combat roles for women suitable in Army and Navy?
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Sep 24, 2015Time to call Pakistan's bluff
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Aug 04, 2015Why Gurdaspur attack was no 26/11
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Aug 04, 2015Why Gurdaspur attack was no 26/11
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Jul 31, 2015Our crumbling judicial system
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Jul 13, 2015ISIS: Neither death cult nor just a terror group
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Jun 23, 2015Some things are best left secret
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Jun 18, 2015Raw deal to special operations
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May 27, 2015Heroes Humiliated in the name of Security
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Apr 22, 2015A largely inconsequential Lakhvi
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Mar 30, 2015Focus on pilots selection, training
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Feb 04, 2015Women power and the Armed Forces
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Jan 22, 2015Cleaning DRDO's Augean stables
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Jan 02, 2015Assam killings: Quick-fix solutions will not work
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Dec 11, 2014High time to assess internal security structures
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Dec 02, 2014Special powers for special needs
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Nov 26, 2014Lessons from the neighbourhood
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Oct 13, 2014Getting India to talk with a gun to its head will not work now
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Jul 24, 2014Ineffective strategy to fight insurgency
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Jun 11, 2014US read the script wrong
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Jun 06, 2014The hypocrisy of Tamil outrage