Maj Gen Ashok Mehta on the battle for Baghdad

The war was one week old yesterday. The ground war in the '91 Gulf Warlasted only four days. There are big battles brewing around Baghdad and Basra. As US troops close in on Baghdad, the images of......

Praful Bidwai: US Goofs Up In Iraq

This is written as the Iraq war runs into its third week and the world watches its increasingly savage human consequences, and the incredible ineptitude and wooden-headedness of the leaders of......

Cherchez les bureaucrats

No matter what America's politicians and generals are saying now, it is evident that Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's shock-and-awe theory envisioned one combat division coolly strolling into......

Lt Gen K S Randhawa: 'Saddam will never surrender'

Lieutenant General (retired) Kirpal Singh Randhawa, commissioned into the 7th Light Cavalry in 1952, headed a team of Indian Army officers that trained Iraqi officers in the 1970s. The training......