Brig Sushil Tanwar, VSM, is an alumnus of the Military School (Ajmer) and National Defence Academy. Brigadier Sushil Tanwar has had a distinguished career spanning over twenty-five years in which more than fourteen years have been spent in Counter Insurgency environment in Jammu & Kashmir. He is highly decorated & has served in many prestigious appointments including the UN Peacekeeping Mission in Sudan. Brigadier Tanwar has also been associated as a senior research fellow with the Centre for Air Power Studies (CAPS), New Delhi