Well for an army Commander of a corps in 1971 Bangladesh Gen ML Thapan's interview to Sri Sengupta is atleast informative, and educative experience.His views on Indian Army and its capacities to defend Indian Polity are based on his experience as an Army-officer in 2nd World War,
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&1965, 1971 other observations on immature intervention of Indian Armed forces in Sri-Lanka in 1987 by Rajiv Gandhi on Jayvardhane's egging. Of course Rajiv had unfortunately paid
with his untimely killing by LTTE suicide bomb -Blaster ,without making any solution to Tamil-Singhalese divide in the island Nation!
Gen Thapan is rambling , though he says he wrote for statesman of Kolkata for decades and more .He does not have any answer , to the rampant sycophancy and sleaze in the officer classof Defence Forces of over the colonial and so -called national period.Lately ,open career manipulations , rank fake encounters and seeking cuts through agents in Defence deals
since the time of Bofors, Jeeps ,AK Rifles and sub-marines is hardly news. In that sense Thapan like any other gentlemen when cornered takes on the Indian culture and its perversions. Yes. But the Military elites are now no longer true to their old colonial Paradigm set by Field Marshal Philip Chetwode who gave the formula :"your country first, Men who work under you ,next, your own comfort and convenience always, Last.." Army is now the same chip of the sleaze that we blighters civilians in India are , after all.D.Goel..
