In a podcast with Smita Prakash, Editor-in-Chief, ANI, Naravane pointed out how the Chinese troops have been indulging in mobbing incidents but that India as a country showed to the world that it is possible to take on the "neighbourhood bullying". The former Army chief also said that bas
Asked about his remarks on "rebalancing", he said Indian Army has plans where some troops could go from the western front to the eastern front and vice versa.
Former Indian Army Chief General Manoj Mukund Naravane on Wednesday repudiated former Pakistan Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa's diction that the 1971 Bangladesh war debacle was a political defeat and not the defeat of the Pak military.
"The fact is that we have said that if you do something to us we will do something to you and that will be proportionate even more than what you have done to us. That is the message that is gone across and which is the important message. The larger picture and the message that has gone is
General Naravane said that during briefings, the Indian Army gives a clear and fair picture of what had happened in an incident to the political leadership.
Asked about if India's retaliation to China during the Galwan clash diminished its stature at the global stage, General Naravane said, "Not only the PLA itself, it diminished the stature of China as a country in the global eyes. After this clash occured and we showed that it is possible t
General Naravane asked if the Chinese army (People's Liberation Army) has gone down to the level of "prehistoric times" by using "clubs and barbed wires".
His remarks came days after the attempts by People's Liberation Army (PLA) troops to transgress the LAC in Yangtse area of Tawang Sector in Arunachal Pradesh with the Indian Army thwarting the attempt to change the status quo.
Washington [US], July 25 (ANI): Former Indian Army Chief General Manoj Mukund Naravane has been honoured by the US-India Strategic Partnership Forum (USISPF) for his role in strengthening ties between India and US.
Amritsar (Punjab) [India], May 11 (ANI): Former Army Chief General Manoj Mukund Naravane, who has spent the majority of his more than 42 years of service with the Sikh troops of his battalion, on Wednesday paid obeisance to the Guru Granth Sahib at the Golden Temple in his first visit post-r