HULL DOWN
A Tank, A Recoilless Gun and Two Brave Men A military war exercise was going on and the corps commander was peering through Bushnell binoculars. The tanks were grinding forward in the wide [...]
THE PRAETORIAN GUARDS
Excerpts from the Autobiography of Captain Dick Head, a peerless Army Officer That tenure of duty was like a dream sleep in a sunlit garden. My mud hut was some shepherd’s sheep yard of old. It [...]
Impressions: Pugal
The Legend of a Fort in the Desert Pugal is at first glance a small unimpressive village and the fort at Pugal appears even more so. To the casual visitor or tourist ticking off tourist spots in [...]
GENERAL INVICTUS
The Making of a True Leader Generals come in all shapes and sizes. Some never jump from the millimetre board and some never quite tire of jumping from ten thousand metres up in the sky. Some go [...]
AT THE GATES OF TIBET
Two Years on the Gates to the Roof of the World The dominant feeling of those two years in the mountains was one of loneliness and boredom pierced by the glorious white panorama of great [...]
Armoured Thrust in the East 1971
The Untold Story of the Tankmen in Bangladesh The popular narratives on the Bangladesh War of 1971 carry only passing mention of tanks in action here and there, which does not do justice to the [...]
