Sanjiv Krishan Sood
Joined: July 10, 2020
Sanjiv Krishan Sood retired as an additional director general of the Border Security Force. He has served along India’s borders Pakistan and Bangladesh, including sensitive and volatile sectors, in his 38 years of meritorious service in the force.
In the wake of the defence minister and senior Army officers talking about taking Pakistan-occupied Kashmir back, former ADG BSF SK Sood writes on if it is possible for India to do so. He analyses the various factors that would come into play, in case India launches a military campaign to wrest back #POK.
2 YEARS AGO
The modernization of border-guarding forces should be planned for all spheres of activities, including operations, training, and administration. A proactive approach will keep the forces in readiness to adapt to the challenges emanating from the changing security environment.
3 YEARS AGO
The IED blasts by Maoists on February 25 in Bihar’s Gaya district targeting CRPF soldiers, which led to serious injuries to the soldiers got little or no coverage in the media and hardly any condemnation by a national political leader. This once again proves that the media and the establishment continue to neglect the CAPFs.
3 YEARS AGO
The border-guarding forces have attained adequate expertise. The internal leadership of these forces is well experienced and adequately trained at all levels to guide their troops. Placing the border-guarding forces under Army control, therefore, makes no value addition.
3 YEARS AGO
All posts in the CAPFs being operational posts, the orientation of entire chain of command must be towards operations. Therefore, the argument for continued appointment of officers from other services in these forces can no longer be justified.
3 YEARS AGO
I have all along been a strong votary of use of technology to ease the hardship of troops. I rue the fact that in spite of my almost four decades of experience of border guarding this simple indigenous solution never occurred to me.
4 YEARS AGO
The April 3 Maoist attack on the security forces, in which 22 soldiers lost their lives, should be a wakeup call for the establishment to carry out an overhaul of the management policy of central armed police forces or the CAPFs.
4 YEARS AGO
The contributions of BSF, still in its infancy in 1971, did not find any recognition during the celebrations of the 49th anniversary of resounding victory of India over Pakistan in the Liberation War of Bangladesh. Here is the little-known story of how the BSF played a critical role in the 1971 war.
4 YEARS AGO
The recent detection of tunnel in Samba area of India-Pakistan border has generated a lot of brouhaha, and allegations of laxity and/or incompetence on part of Border Security Force are being levelled thick and fast. This is not a perfect world and every organization achieves some successes and faces failures too.
4 YEARS AGO
The government has been going wrong in appointing the heads of critical central armed police forces, like the BSF. Sometimes, these part-time leaders of the forces have done more harm than good to the organizations.
4 YEARS AGO
26th July is celebrated as Kargil Vijay Diwas. However, circumstances that led to this Kargil war and brought two nuclear-armed neighbours to the precipice remain mired in mystery.
4 YEARS AGO
The adversary is continuously evolving its tactics in order to outmanoeuvre the border-guarding forces. The leadership therefore has to be mentally mobile and have deep insight of the prevailing security environment along the borders to face up to these challenges.
4 YEARS AGO
The efforts of Indian Police Service to retain their hegemony over the senior posts in central armed police forces is like the events leading to the epic battle of Mahabharata where the mighty Kauravas employ all tricks of trade to deprive the Pandavas of their rightful dues.
4 YEARS AGO
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