Kargil : Blood on the Snow : Tactical Victory Strategic Failure

Major General Ashok Kalyan Verma, AVSM, was commissioned in the Rajput Regiment in June 1956. He commanded the 18th Battalion during the 1971 war and was mentioned-in-despatches for his role in the battle of Akhaura. He commanded a brigade in Ladakh and the prestigious 26 Infantry Division in J&K. He was earlier a staff officer in the Military Wing of the Cabinet Secretariat, and Brigadier-in-Charge Administration in Jalandhar during 1984-85. He was later in charge of Operation Logistics at Army Headquarters as a Major General. While at College of Combat, Mhow, during 1988-90 he was associated with the conduct of map exercises and war games at the highest levels in an academic environment. He was Colonal of the Rajput Regiment from 1986 until his retirement in November 1991. General Verma is also the author of Rivers of Silence which deals with battles of Nam Ka Chu during 1962 and the dash to Dhaka from Tripura in the Bangladesh war of 1971.