Amrita Jash Author

Lt Gen (Dr.) VK Ahluwalia, PVSM, AVSM, YSM, VSM (Retd), is the Director of Centre for Land Warfare Studies (CLAWS). Lt Gen Ahluwalia superannuated as Army Commander, Central Command in March 2012. Thereafter, he served as a Member in the Armed Forces Tribunal (AFT). The General Officer commanded an infantry brigade in Uri- Baramulla, mountain division in Kargil sector and corps in Leh-Ladakh sectors. As the GOC-in-C, his Division was awarded the National Green Governance Award (BNHS) by the Prime Minister of India on 10 November 2005, for conceiving and implementing the unique strategic concept–‘Operation Green Kargil’. He has authored a book titled Red Revolution 2020 and beyond and has co-edited a book on Kargil titled Surprise, Strategy and Vijay: 20 years of Kargil and beyond.

Dr. Amrita Jash, is Research Fellow and Managing Editor of CLAWS Journal at the Centre for Land Warfare Studies. She is a Pavate Fellow and has been a Visiting Fellow at the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge. Dr. Jash holds a Ph.D in Chinese Studies from Jawaharlal Nehru University. She has been a UGC Graduate Fellow (2012-2017); a US-INDIA-CHINA Initiative Fellow at SAIS-Johns Hopkins University (2013); a researcher under China`s Ministry of Commerce (2014) and under Harvard-Yenching-Nanching Programme (2015). In 2019, she has been awarded by the COAS Gen Bipin Rawat for her contribution to Chinese Studies.