CONTENTS: Part One: BASIC CONSIDERATIONS: DERIVED FROM INDIAN MILITARY HISTORY: 1. Introduction, 2. The Indian 'Military Competence Cycle', 3. Concerns that Need to be Addressed, Part Two: INDIAN MILITARY OPERATIONS FROM 2025 BACK TO 1947: 4. 'Operation SINDOOR', 5. East Ladakh 2020 Summer: Galwan River and the Kailash Range, 6. 'Operation PARAKRAM': December 2001-December 2002, 7. 'Operation Gone Sour' Pyradiwah and Boroibari: April 2001, 8. Kargil 1999 'Operation VIJAY', 9. Kashmir 1987-2005: 'Operation RAKSHAK', 10. 'Operation MOUSETRAP' 1991 July and 9th September, 11. Exercise BRASS TACKS' 1987, 12. Sri Lanka Intervention: Indian Peace-Keeping Force (IPKF)-Sri Lanka 1987-1990 'Operation PAWAN', 13. 'The God Who Failed', 14. 'India's Vietnam', 15. The Sequence of Events, 16. Indo-Pakistan War 1971, 17. The Battle of Chhamb (Southern J&K) and Withdrawl by 5 SIKH, 18. Mizoram 1966: 'Operation JERICHO', 'Operation LITTLE JOHN' and Grouping of Villages, 19. India-Pakistan War 1965, 20. The 1962 Sino-Indian Border War, 21. 'Operation LEGHORN', 22. The Battle ofNamka Chu, 23. The Battle of Bumla (Tawang), 24. The Sela and Bomdila Debacle, 25. The Western Sector, 26. The End of the War, 27. Naga Secessionism: 18th October 1952 Onwards and 'Operation ORCHID', 28. Kashmir 1947-49, 29. Examples of Whimsical Behaviour, 30. Kashmir Continues, Part Three: CONCLUSION, 31. Pakistan-related, 32. China-related, 33. Bangladesh-related, 34. The Last Word, Bibliography, References, Index.