Col RS Sidhu, Sena Medal is a post graduate in History from Delhi University, and a veteran from the Army’s Mechanised Infantry Regiment with extensive operational service in varied terrain. He also has hands-on experience of dealing with varied facets of IPKF operations from 1987 to 1990 in Sri Lanka, where he had the rare opportunity to serve in all the four sectors.He is a strategic thinker and an author, and his write-ups on strategic affairs have been published in magazines and journals of repute and can also be accessed at his blogspot - Valleysandvalour.He is also the author of three books, ‘Success from Being Mad’ on novel entrepreneurship ventures by Indian armed forces veterans, ‘Elephant on the High Himalayas’ a discourse on way forward for India against an aggressive and dominant China, and co-author of ‘Ladakh Through The Eyes of Whimsicals’ a picture book on a motorcycle odyssey by four military veterans to the remote peripheries of Western Himalayas and the Great Karakoram in Ladakh.
