Showing results for "1971" in Military

An under-strength Gorkha battalion undertakes the Indian Army's first heliborne operation deep behind enemy lines, defeating a Pakistani force twenty times its strength. Fighters of the Indian Air force target the Government House in Dhaka in a daring air raid, forcing the Pakistani...

The year 1971 exists everywhere in Bangladesh-on its roads, in sculptures, in its museums and oral history projects, in its curriculum, in people's homes and their stories, and in political discourse. It marks the birth of the nation, it's liberation. More than 1000 miles away, in Pakistan too...

१९७१ चे भारत पाकिस्तान युद्ध हे जागतिक पातळी वरील गाजलेल्या युद्धांपैकी एकमेव असे युद्ध असेल जे जगात शांतता नांदावी या उच्च विचारसरणीला अनुसरून आपल्याच शेजारील देशात शांतता प्रस्तापित करण्यासाठी लढले गेले. या ऑडिओबुक मध्ये ऐका या युद्धाची पार्श्वभूमी , जागतिक राजकारण आणि निवडक शौर्यकथा ...

The incredible story of a braveheart. Chunni Lal grew up among heroes. And at the age of nineteen, he became a hero himself. In the 1987 Siachen attack, he was the first to reach the enemy post and was, subsequently, awarded the Sena Medal. Lt Gen. Satish Dua (Retd.) was his commanding officer...

In May 1999, the Kargil insurgency was still being viewed as a routine affair. No one quite understood the magnitude of the situation. However, it soon emerged that infiltrators had captured high-altitude posts vacated by Indian soldiers during the winter months and thus had a tactical upper...

A vivid account of the largest act of civil disobedience in US history, in Richard Nixon’s Washington They surged into Washington by the tens of thousands in the spring of 1971. Fiery radicals, flower children, and militant vets gathered for the most audacious act in a years-long movement to...

The ‘Liberation of Bangladesh’ remains one of the grandest geopolitical events of the 21st Century for which the Indian Armed Forces can be justifiably proud, and the battles of Hilli and Bogra played a pivotal role towards ultimate victory.

The rugged routes to Kabul teemed with worldwide youth in search of cheap drugs and enlightenment. With the idyllic dreamers came hard core criminals. Sent to Kabul to take on the criminals was Federal Narcotics Agent, Terrence Burke. Working undercover, often without backup, Burke dismantled smuggling operations in Afghanistan and India. The issues he portrays in Afghanistan are still confronting us today.