about Maj Gen Nitin P Gadkari (RETD)
Maj Gen Nitin Gadkari has had a distinguished career for 37 years in the army.He was commissioned into the Regiment of Artillery in June 1977. He commanded an artillery Regiment during Kargil operations in the strike corps in the western sector and an artillery brigade in a counter-terrorism role in the state of Jammu & Kashmir. He specializes in J&K and has done his PhD on “Motivation for Terrorism- A Study, focusing primarily on the J&K. He has a keen interest in security matters and has written in number of defence journals on allied subjects. He headed the prestigious College of Defence Management (CDM) Secunderabad.He retired on 30 June 14 from the Army War College, Mhow.
He has distinguished academic credentials. His qualifications are : BA from Jawaharlal Nehru University, MA (Economics) from Pune University, MSc (Defence Studies) from Madras Univ, MBA from Symbiosis Institute (Defence) Pune, and a PhD from Osmania Univ, Hyderabad.
He has authored two books: Growing Sino Nepal Relations and Policy Implications on India, a book which came out of the research work he had done for CASS and his second book is a work of fiction; Oscar Tango (On Target), for which we are going to have a book launch in the second part of the session today.