20 years since the Kargil victory, what are the lessons learnt? SNI Editor-in-Chief Nitin Gokhale reported for 45 days as the Indian Army and Air Force fought bitter battles to drive Pakistani intruders out. In this chat with SNI Associate Editor Amitabh P Revi, he recounts history and what has changed since then. Political leaders and different dynamics in the last two decades have allowed for a change in mindsets as well as decisions to be made that couldn't or weren't in 1999. Much has been debated on the Kargil intrusions that were ignored or dismissed as alarmist. Two decades on, Nitin Gokhale reveals how human intelligence sent back pictures from the Balakot camps, four days before the strike. He also discusses the nuclear dimension and the escalation ladder, the media's role and information warfare in today's perception battle.
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