Hamid Hussain

Dr. Hamid Hussain is an independent analyst based in New York. For comments & critique coeusconsultant@optonline.net

Rare Footage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yq6E1luxLQQ This ten minutes clip of the Second World War captures an important chapter of the Indian army. War stories are usually focused on combat soldiers while support services though vital usually don’t get much attention. However, we all know that if supply corps does not send food in time, a hungry soldier cannot survive…

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Dark Territory

Fred Kaplan’s new book Dark Territory is a history of cyber war. It traces the origins of efforts to protect computers and networks from hostile intrusions and then development of offensive capabilities to eavesdrop and even sabotage adversary’s computers and networks. Fred introduces us to many diverse characters from computer geeks to senior government officials…

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The Monsoon War

Lieutenant General Tajindar Shergill and Captain Amarinder Singh’s book The Monsoon war is an encyclopedic work on 1965 India-Pakistan war. It is a detailed account of operations of all phases of 1965 war from the perspectives of junior officers. Authors have used extensive Indian material as well as Pakistani sources to provide a detailed picture…

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