War Despatches: Indo-Pak Conflict 1965 - Hardcover

Singh, Harbakhsh

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9788170621171: War Despatches: Indo-Pak Conflict 1965

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ISBN 10: 8170621178 ISBN 13: 9788170621171

Publisher: Lancer Pubs Llc, 2012

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The conflict was short and limited, packed with intense activity, major movement, heavy fighting, and crucial decisions. The initiative rested with Pakistan to commence hostilities, which they did with a mix of irregular and regular troops and tactics. This is a story of anticipation, of impending actions, of virtual equality of forces engaged in a savage battle of attrition in which no quarter was given or asked. The author provided an unflappable presence under whose command the army imposed unacceptable levels of losses on the enemy, first toning down their rhetoric, then their confidence, and last their ability to sustain very high levels of material losses. There is very little material or records to draw upon for our military studies of warfare in and around the Indian subcontinent. War Despatches narrates, for the first time, the inside story through original dispatches by the army commander from the war zone. To maintain the authenticity of the dispatches, the military style of writing has been followed in the text as far as possible.

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Born in October 1913, Lt. Gen. Harbakhsh Singh was among the first batch of officers commissioned from the Indian Military Academy, Dehradun. His military career of nearly thirty-five years was acknowledged for his distinguished service of exceptional order on various rungs of the ladder. During his long service with the army, he had the rare distinction of having combat experience in command of troops of, or against, many nationalities, at all levels of command, from a platoon of forty men to an army group consisting of 400,000 military personnel.

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