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Air Force Station Thoise & The Pakistan-China Two Front Threat: Don’t Miss Himalayan Frontier Part X

The significance of Air Force Station, Thoise in Ladakh against India’s Pakistan-China two-front threat. Don’t Miss ‘The Himalayan Front’, Part X. Coming Up on Friday, March 22, 2024. In this episode, we film the Indian Air Force’s aircraft and helicopters at the strategically located base. It is critical for the Indian Army’s deployment at the Siachen Glacier. The Thoise Air Force Station is an essential part of the military’s deterrent all along the AGPL- the Actual Ground Position Line and the LOC- the Line of Control with Pakistan as well as along the LAC- the Line of Actual Control with China.

Don’t Miss Episode X
Continuing our series on India’s Pakistan-China two-front threat, ‘The Himalayan Frontier’, our team of Amitabh P. Revi, Rohit Pandita, and Karan Marwaha also visits the Army Medical Corps’ ‘Siachen Healers’, who save lives and limbs in the sector. And the Indian Army’s ‘Veer Marathas’. We also meet local schoolchildren, on their first trip outside Ladakh, thanks to the Indian Army’s Operation Sadhbhavna and an Indian Air Force Il-76.

The Himalayan Frontier Series

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Other episodes in the series:

An exclusive interview with the then Northern Army Commander, now Vice Chief of the Army Staff, Lt Gen. Upendra Dwivedi. In Episode I, he tells StratNews Global Editor-in-Chief Nitin Gokhale that the “situation is stable but sensitive and not normal”. The Indian Army Chief, General Manoj Pande speaks to Nitin Gokhale in an exclusive interview in Episode II. He points out that talks with China are continuing at both military and diplomatic levels but also notes India is maintaining a robust posture along the LAC. Part III documents India’s Infra Thrust To Ladakh In Countering China & Pakistan in a ground report. Episode IV documents The Nimu-Padam-Darcha (NPD) Road: Critical Connectivity To The China-Pakistan Himalayan Fronts In Ladakh. Also, in Part V: The Director General of the Border Roads Organisation, Lt General Raghu Srinivasan speaks to us on the frozen Zanskar River ‘Chadar’ trail.

Additionally,  Episode VI is on The Indian Air Force & The China, Pakistan Two-Front Ladakh Threat. An interview with the Air Officer Commanding, Air Force Station, Leh, Air Commodore D.S.Handa. Part VII is an on-the-ground report on The Indian Air Force’s China Challenge In Ladakh And A Slice Of Tibet. In Episode VIII: The Chief of Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal V.R. Chaudhuri speaks exclusively to Nitin A. Gokhale. And, in Part IX, we document the Siachen Glacier—A Triangular Wedge In The Pakistan, China Threat At The World’s Third Pole.

Amitabh P. Revi

Russian language speaker and conflict journalist. Amitabh Revi has been there, done that—from the battlefields of Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan to sublime Russia, Australia and the United States. Along the way he's picked up the Dag Hammarskjöld Distinguished Journalist Fellowship, the Ramnath Goenka award for coverage of the Iraq War and RT's Khaled Alkhateb Award for his reporting from Palmyra, Syria.

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