When India's Army Was Ready for 'All Out War' With Pakistan

In a week of fresh military casualties in a terror strike in Jammu- the sixth this year- the revelations in former Army Chief NC Vij's memoirs, 'Alone in the Ring' are even more important. The memoirs take us deep inside India's strategic responses to national security challenges. From the Kargil war, when the military was under orders not to cross the line of control to the Operation Parakram after the attack on Indian Parliament, when mass mobilization of troops made the army draw up a plan of "all out war' with Pakistan, only to never proceed; the books reveals how decisions are taken at the highest level.