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Podcast: A Better Peace: The War Room Podcast
Episode: PRESERVING MILITARY HISTORY: AN INDIAN PERSPECTIVE
Description: Military history has been seen [in India] by the political and academic establishment as a forgettable legacy of our colonial past.
WAR ROOM welcomes special guest Air Vice Marshal (Dr.) Arjun Subramaniam, who retired from the Indian Air Force after 36 years of service, to provides his perspectives on relationships between India and the U.S., and discuss the importance of preserving a nation's military history. His well-researched and thought-provoking book India’s Wars: A Military History 1947-1971 shows the importance of India's military in sustaining its young democracy, and that its military history belongs in the mainstream of historical discourse. U.S...