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Atul Kochhar

Lieutenant Colonel Atul Kochhar, MSc (Defence Studies), PGDM, was commissioned into First Jammu and Kashmir Light Infantry in June 1986. He is an alumnus of NDA and DSSC. He was part of his unit in the Indian Military Training Team (East), Bhutan, for imparting training to the Royal Bhutan Army. He has served in all major areas/theatres of operations, including Op Chequerboard, Op Pawan, Op Parakram, Op Rakshak and Op Vijay. He was posted in Jammu and Kashmir Light Infantry Regimental Centre as a Training Major, DAQMG of 123 Infantry Brigade in Op Vijay, and as an Instructor in NCC Officer TraRead More...

Lieutenant Colonel Atul Kochhar, MSc (Defence Studies), PGDM, was commissioned into First Jammu and Kashmir Light Infantry in June 1986. He is an alumnus of NDA and DSSC. He was part of his unit in the Indian Military Training Team (East), Bhutan, for imparting training to the Royal Bhutan Army. He has served in all major areas/theatres of operations, including Op Chequerboard, Op Pawan, Op Parakram, Op Rakshak and Op Vijay. He was posted in Jammu and Kashmir Light Infantry Regimental Centre as a Training Major, DAQMG of 123 Infantry Brigade in Op Vijay, and as an Instructor in NCC Officer Training Academy Gwalior. He fulfilled his Executive MBA from IIM Indore in 2007. His last leg of service was in HQ 16 Corps in J & K as Staff Officer Grade 1 (Internal Security) from 2007 to 2008, before he took premature retirement, after 22 years of service. He worked with a waste management company and later un Cairn Oil and Gas/Vedanta from 2009 onwards for over 10 years, while managing the security of the oil pipeline both in a corporate role and in the field, in Gujarat and Rajasthan. He is settled in Noida and can be reached out at armyuncle@gmail.com [link removed]. He is now closely associated with resurrecting the legacy of the IPKF.

Lieutenant Colonel B R Nair was commissioned into the Regiment of Artillery (Field Wing) after graduating from the Centre for Russian Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, in September 1974. He is an alumnus of the Officer’s Training School, Madras – now the Officer’s Training Academy, Chennai. One of the last artillery officers to be commissioned into a Mountain Pack Regiment being reorganised into what later came to be known as the ‘Light regiment’; he was transferred to the Intelligence Corps, after a stint as a General Staff Officer Grade 3 in the Military Intelligence Directorate of Army Headquarters. Subsequently, he served in counter-insurgency operations in the North East (Mizoram & Agartala), in intelligence gathering operations on the Western borders, counter-intelligence operations in Central India, as a Staff Officer Grade 2 in Military Intelligence Directorate, and as a Grade 1 Intelligence Staff Officer, in a corps headquarters on the western border. While posted in a counter-intelligence role in the Andaman & Nicobar Islands, he was moved to Sri Lanka to raise and operate an ad-hoc counter-intelligence company that was also to provide operational intelligence to formations/units engaged in peace enforcement duties in Sri Lanka. He was awarded the Chief of Army Staff Commendation Card in 1990, for exceptional services rendered during Op Pawan. He retired from the army in July 2004, after a stint with the NCC, both at its Directorate in New Delhi as well as commanding a unit and a Group Headquarters in Tiruchirapalli, TN.

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RESURRECTING THE IPKF LEGACY

Books by Lt Col Atul Kochhar & Lt Col BR Nair

A comprehensive treatise on international military interventions.

A hand-to-hand fight by a young officer against the LTTE and another unit’s bloody pitched battle while encircled by LTTE cadres, facing certain annihilation. An officer and a jawan have a premonition of their impending death.

The unit’s unflinching support mitigates a widow’s trauma of losing her husband in the face of a callous state government. A brigade commander, a sta

RESURRECTING THE IPKF LEGACY

Books by Lt Col Atul Kochhar & Lt Col BR Nair

A comprehensive treatise on international military interventions.

The unit’s unflinching support mitigates a widow’s trauma of losing her husband in the face of a callous state government. A brigade commander, a sta

Valiant Deeds, Undying Memories

Books by Lt Col Atul Kochhar & Lt Col BR Nair

The 32-month tryst of the Indian Peace Keeping Force with LTTE in Sri Lanka, between July 1987 and March 1990, was the first out-of-country overseas assignment since independence for the Indian Armed Forces under the national banner.

For the soldier who laid down his life and limb, all wars are the same. The ‘IPKF syndrome’ has been casting its long melancholy shadow over decision-makers ever since the withdrawal of this force in 1990. The book reco

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Lieutenant Colonel Atul Kochhar, MSc (Defence Studies), PGDM, was commissioned into First Jammu and Kashmir Light Infantry in June 1986. He is an alumnus of NDA and DSSC. He was part of his unit in the Indian Military Training Team (East), Bhutan, for imparting training to the Royal Bhutan Army. He has served in all major areas/theatres of operations, including Op Chequerboard, Op Pawan, Op Parakram, Op Rakshak and Op Vijay. He was posted in Jammu and Kashmir Light Infantry Regimental Centre as a Training Major, DAQMG of 123 Infantry Brigade in Op Vijay, and as an Instructor in NCC Officer Training Academy Gwalior. He fulfilled his Executive MBA from IIM Indore in 2007. His last leg of service was in HQ 16 Corps in J & K as Staff Officer Grade 1 (Internal Security) from 2007 to 2008, before he took premature retirement, after 22 years of service. He worked with a waste management company and later un Cairn Oil and Gas/Vedanta from 2009 onwards for over 10 years, while managing the security of the oil pipeline both in a corporate role and in the field, in Gujarat and Rajasthan. He is settled in Noida and can be reached out at armyuncle@gmail.com [link removed]. He is now closely associated with resurrecting the legacy of the IPKF.
 
Lieutenant Colonel B R Nair was commissioned into the Regiment of Artillery (Field Wing) after graduating from the Centre for Russian Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, in September 1974. He is an alumnus of the Officer’s Training School, Madras – now the Officer’s Training Academy, Chennai. One of the last artillery officers to be commissioned into a Mountain Pack Regiment being reorganised into what later came to be known as the ‘Light regiment’; he was transferred to the Intelligence Corps, after a stint as a General Staff Officer Grade 3 in the Military Intelligence Directorate of Army Headquarters. Subsequently, he served in counter-insurgency operations in the North East (Mizoram & Agartala), in intelligence gathering operations on the Western borders, counter-intelligence operations in Central India, as a Staff Officer Grade 2 in Military Intelligence Directorate, and as a Grade 1 Intelligence Staff Officer, in a corps headquarters on the western border. While posted in a counter-intelligence role in the Andaman & Nicobar Islands, he was moved to Sri Lanka to raise and operate an ad-hoc counter-intelligence company that was also to provide operational intelligence to formations/units engaged in peace enforcement duties in Sri Lanka. <a name="_Hlk85962140"></a>He was awarded the Chief of Army Staff Commendation Card in 1990, for exceptional services rendered during Op Pawan. He retired from the army in July 2004, after a stint with the NCC, both at its Directorate in New Delhi as well as commanding a unit and a Group Headquarters in Tiruchirapalli, TN.

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Atul Kochhar

RESURRECTING THE IPKF LEGACY

Books by Lt Col Atul Kochhar & Lt Col BR Nair

RESURRECTING THE IPKF LEGACY

Books by Lt Col Atul Kochhar & Lt Col BR Nair

Valiant Deeds, Undying Memories

Books by Lt Col Atul Kochhar & Lt Col BR Nair

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