Brig. Deepak Sinha (Retd.) is Visiting Fellow at ORF.
Brig. Sinha is a second-generation paratrooper. During his service, he held varied command, staff and instructional appointments, and has extensive experience in airborne special operations forces and counterinsurgency operations in the Northeast and Jammu and Kashmir. He has also commanded India’s only rapid deployment force, 50th (Independent) Parachute Brigade, as well as the Parachute Regiment Training Centre.
He has been directing staff at the Defence Services Staff College, Wellington, and an instructor at the National Defence Academy, Pune, and at the Wangchuk Lo Dzong Military School, Bhutan. After proceeding on premature retirement, he headed the Indian subsidiary of an MNC for three years before joining the Observer Research Foundation as a consultant from 2012 to 2021.
Brig. Sinha writes extensively for The Pioneer, The Times of India, and in his blog ‘Para Phrase.’ He held the Field Marshal Cariappa Chair of Excellence at the USI of India in 2003-04 and is the author of the book — Beyond the Bayonet: Indian Special Operations Forces in the 21st Century (Gyan Publishers, Delhi, 2006).
Commentaries
India’s big dreams or plain hallucination?
The Ukraine crisis: Its impact on India
Military leadership: In the eye of storm
The Afghan Disaster: Lessons our Military must Heed
Response to Chinese Assertiveness
Putting the defence pension narrative in perspective
Unending Ladakh story
Need bravery, not bravado
Lessons from history
Sino-Indian Stand Off: A Case of Russian Roulette
Tectonic shift in US’ attitude
A new paradigm for conduct of CI operations in Jammu & Kashmir: Vision 2020
Perspectives on dealing with illegal immigration
Just a poster value
Understanding the rationale for toxic decision making within the Army
Avoiding catastrophe of a war
Foot in mouth: A disease we can do without
New front in war on terror
Riding the tiger
Douse the anger within