Major General V K Shrivastava, VSM (Retd), an
alumnus of the National Defence Academy, Pune, was
commissioned in 1962 into the Rajputana Rifles. He
was in J&K during the Indo-Pakistan conflict of 1965
and was in Bangladesh in the 1971 war. A graduate of
the Defence Services Staff College, Wellington, he also
attended the prestigious National Defence College, New
Delhi. He has held a number of coveted command, staff
and instructional appointments. Post-retirement in
1998, he had a short stint as the Executive Editor of
the Indian Defence Review before Joining the Institute for
Defence Studies and Analyses, New Delhi, as a Senior
Fellow. From there he led many delegations for
interactions with think tanks abroad and was also a
member of the Indian team invited by the National
Defence University, USA, for strategic dialogue. He has
written researched text for four coffee table books, has a
published monograph on China, a prize-winning essay,
and a number of articles on matters military to his
credit. His latest book, "Manthan: Multifaceted
Reflections on the Indian Armed Forces", was released
in February 2021.
