Full Spectrum - Arjun Subramaniam

Arjun Subramaniam

Category: History

Narrator: Surjan Singh

Tags: History, Military, Misc. Non-fiction

The armed forces have played a key role in protecting Indias sovereignty and raising its stature as a stable democracy and responsible regional power. Though the nations soldiers, sailors and airmen occupy a special place in peoples hearts, standard narratives of contemporary Indian history rarely cover the military dimension. In his first book, Indias Wars: A Military History, 1947-1971, Arjun Subramaniam attempted to set this right by taking readers on a journey until the liberation of Bangladesh in 1971. Full Spectrum: Indias Wars, 1972-2020 takes the story forward. It is a sweeping account of war and conflict in contemporary India over the past five decades. Covering every major operation that the armed forces have participated in - including insurgencies in the north-east, terrorism and proxy wars in Jammu and Kashmir, separatist violence in Punjab, the IPKF intervention in Sri Lanka, and the continued stress along the LoC and LAC - it fuses the strategic, operational, tactical an