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Senior Visiting Researcher: Brig Gurmeet Kanwal (RETD)Brigadier Gurmeet Kanwal, commanded an infantry brigade in the high-altitude Gurez Sector on the Line of Control with Pakistan (Operation Parakram, 2001-03) and an artillery field regiment in counter-insurgency operations in Kashmir Valley (Operation Rakshak, 1993-94). He has served as Deputy Assistant Chief of Integrated Defence Staff at HQ Integrated Defence Staff, New Delhi; as Director MO-5 in the Directorate General of Military Operations at Army Headquarters (dealing with threat, strategy and force structure); United Nations Military Observer in UNTAG, Namibia; Brigade Major of an infantry brigade and, as an Instructor-in-Gunnery at the School of Artillery, Devlali.
A former Senior Fellow at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA), New Delhi, Director Security Studies, Observer research Foundation, New Delhi and Visiting Research Fellow, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, USA, Brigadier Kanwal has authored several books including Nuclear Defence: Shaping the Arsenal; Pakistan’s Proxy War; Heroes of Kargil; Kargil ’99: Blood, Guts and Firepower and Artillery: Honour and Glory. He has recently completed a new book entitled “Indian Army: Vision 2020”. He has contributed extensively to Strategic Analysis, Indian Defence Review and other military journals of repute as well as leading national newspapers. He wrote a regular column on national security for The Statesman for over two years. He is also a keen photographer and has published a large number of photographs.
He opted for voluntary retirement to take up writing and strategic analysis full time. At present he is Senior Fellow, Centre for Air Power Studies, New Delhi and Visiting Senior Research Fellow South Asian Strategic Stability Unit (SASSU), U.K. (gurmeetkanwal@hotmail.com)
Presentations at talks given by Brig. Gurmeet Kanwal, London November 2006.- Demilitarisation of the Siachen Glacier - Implementation and Monitoring. Click here.
- India's Counter Insurgency Experience. Click here.