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.
