Rattan Chand Sharma
Joined: December 21, 2022
The author retired as a commandant in the Border Security Force. Before joining the BSF, he served in the Indian Army as a short service commissioned officer. After retirement, he had a brief stint in the academia. Currently, he is a commentator on security and strategic issues and regularly contributes to various well-known journals.

Manipur needs immediate central intervention to restore order

In this op-ed, RC Sharma, veteran BSF commandant, discusses the escalation of the Manipur ethnic strife with the recent use of drones and rockets and gives a 4-point formula to restore peace.

14 HRS AGO

Robust HUMINT network is the key to defeat militancy in Jammu & Kashmir

Robust human intelligence network is the key to defeat militancy in Jammu & Kashmir

In this op-ed, RC Sharma, veteran BSF commandant, highlights the importance of human intelligence in counterinsurgency operations in Jammu & Kashmir and ways to strengthening it.

A WEEK AGO

Bangladesh crisis: India’s security challenges, strategy to tackle them

Bangladesh crisis: India’s security challenges and strategy to tackle them

In this op-ed, veteran BSF commandant RC Sharma writes that the India-Bangladesh border is among the most difficult to guard, control, and manage, and suggests ways to meet the challenges.

A MONTH AGO

Spike in J&K militant attacks: Time to reanalyse and restrategize

Spike in Jammu & Kashmir militant attacks: Time to reanalyse and restrategize

In this op-ed, former BSF commandant RC Sharma discusses the unprecedented spike in militant attacks on security forces in the Jammu region and lays down a framework on how to contain the situation.

2 MONTHS AGO

National security and India-US convergence

In this op-ed, former BSF commandant RC Sharma discusses the implications of India-US security cooperation will likely to have for New Delhi in the rapidly changing geopolitical dynamics, especially in the Indo-Pacific region and its neighbourhood.

4 MONTHS AGO

Restrategizing anti-Naxalite ops is key to end Maoist insurgency

Restrategizing anti-Naxalite operations is key to end Maoist insurgency

In his latest op-ed, veteran BSF commandant RC Sharma writes that the momentum gained by the recent success by a joint BSF and DRG operation in Bastar’s Kanker against Naxalite insurgents must be maintained by restrategizing future operations.

4 MONTHS AGO

Need ethics code and cooling-off period for veterans joining politics

In this op-ed, veteran BSF commandant RC Sharma writes that we must welcome veterans in politics, but there must be a cooling-off period for them before joining and an ethics code must govern their conduct.

5 MONTHS AGO

India-Myanmar Border: Build fence, strengthen free-movement regime

India-Myanmar Border: Construct fence and strengthen free-movement regime

In this op-ed, veteran BSF commandant RC Sharma writes on the India-Myanmar border and presents a strong case to build a fence and to bring back the free-movement regime.

7 MONTHS AGO