Kargil Review Committee

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Committee

  • headed by K Subrahmanyam, one of the nation’s leading strategists,

History and aftermath

  • The Indian Army captured features like Tololing, Tiger Hill, Jubar, Bajrang and the equally famous battle of Point 5140
  • Twenty-five years ago, 527 soldiers made the supreme sacrifice while recapturing the Kargil heights.
  • on 26 July 1999, the Indian Army, as is the norm, invited the Defence Attaches (DA) of various nations stationed in their respective Embassies and High Commissions in Delhi to visit Kargil-Drass-Kaksar-Batalik to brief them on the Kargil War.
  • One of the DAs from a Western army, in awe and disbelief, said,

“You have to be crazy to even attempt to attack these high features—we would have just nuked them.”

Backdrop of the politico-diplomatic initiatives of February 1999

  • Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s bus journey to Lahore

  • signing of the Lahore declaration on 21 February 1999.

  • & old army dictum—“The difficult we do immediately, the impossible takes a little longer”. Print

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