Air Marshal (Dr) Diptendu Choudhury is an alumnus of the Royal College of Defence Studies UK, MA from King’s College, London, M Phil and PhD. An experienced fighter pilot who has commanded several combat units, held various appointments involved with air operations at strategic, operational and tactical levels, and policy formulation and strategy development, and led three international air exercises with the US, France and UAE. He retired as Commandant of National Defence College, New Delhi, and is an avid air power scholar, writer and speaker, on strategy, air power, national and international security matters. He has authored the book- Indian Air Power: Contemporary and Future Dynamics.
The largest-ever International Air Exercise that mainland Asia has seen in over six decades is underway as the Indian Air Force hosts friendly foreign Air Forces from thirty nations, ten as active participants, and the rest as observers. Exercise Tarang (Wave) Shakti completed its extremely successf
The recently initiated renaming of the Indian Air Force to Indian Air and Space Force has drawn attention from many quarters. It is exactly a decade ago that one of India’s leading strategists, Jasjit Singh, wrote - ‘Modern air power would remain sub-optimal if it does not start to link up with