The Author: P.K. GAUTAM

Col. P. K. Gautam (Retd) is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA), New Delhi since August 2005. He was commissioned in the Regiment of Artillery in 1970. Col. Gautam was a gun position officer with 24 Medium Regiment comprising Sikh troops in the 1971 Indo-Pakistan war in Bangladesh and also an observation post officer with the infantry.
A Staff College and Long Gunnery Staff Course graduate, he has been an instructor twice at the School of Artillery. His last assignment was in the Faculty of Studies at the School of Artillery, from where he took premature retirement in 2000.
He is the author of three books, Environmental Security (2003), National Security: A Primer (2004), and Operation Bangladesh (2007). His articles on military history, nuclear strategy, military and naval strategy, military sociology and environment have featured in a number of national and international journals, and books. He was on the editorial staff at the United Service Institution of India from 2002 to mid-2005.

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