Today's guest is retired Indian Air Force General Dr. Arjun Subramanium. Arjun is the President’s Chair of Excellence & Mentor at National Defence College, New Delhi, and a former Air Vice Marshal of the Indian Air Force. He commissioned as a fighter pilot in the Indian Air Force in 1981 and accumulated more than 3000 flying hours in fighter aircraft, including all variants of the Mig-21 and Mirage-2000. He is a graduate of the Defence Services Staff College and the National Defence College, New Dehli, and also served as senior faculty at the National Defence College. Arjun earned his B.A. in History and Humanities at Jawaharlal University, a Masters in Defence and Strategic Studies at the University of Madras, and a Ph.D. in Defence and Strategic Studies at the University of Madras.
Arjun has published widely, including A Military History of India Since 1972: Full Spectrum Operations and the Changing Contours of Modern Conflict (University Press of Kansas, 2021), Full Spectrum: India’s Wars 1972-2020 (Harper Collins, 2020), India’s Wars: A Military History 1947-1971 (Harper Collins, 2016, Published in the US with US Naval Institute Press in 2017). He also writes op-eds for a variety of publications, including India Today, Times of India, Indian Express, and The Tribune.
Arjun has held visiting professorships at the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy at Tufts University, Ashoka University, and the Jindal School of International Affairs. In addition, he held fellowships at Harvard University’s Asia Center, the University of Oxford’s Changing Character of War Programme, and the D’Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University in Boston. He's also done his own podcast - Wars and Warriors! Arjun brings an array of diverse experiences and perspectives on military history to the table, and has solid recommendations on Indian food, beer, and film, as well as a surprise BBQ preference and brief review of Top Gun! Follow Arjun on Twitter @rhinohistorian! We are delighted and honored to have our first general officers and fighter pilot on the pod!
Rec.: 05/31/2022
