Watch CutTheClutter: How aerial warfare played out in Eastern Sector during 1971 War & IAF’s role

In Episode 1574, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at the changing face of warfare and how Indian society is still fighting in its mind the wars of the past.

New Delhi: In so many ways, the rocky decade of the ’60s defined the new Indian republic. There were half a dozen reasons and an equal number of occasions when India could have broken up or lost its identity. Certainly, the remarkably secure and united India that we live in today was then unimaginable.

When it comes to Indian military history, of all combat casualties suffered by Indian armed forces since Independence, nearly 80 percent came in the rough decade of 1961-1971.

Completing a two-part series on Indian Air Forces’ performance in the 1971 Bangladesh War—the last full-scale conventional war India fought—in Episode 1574 of #CutTheClutter, ThePrint Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at IAF’s role in the Eastern Front, the changing face of warfare and how Indian society is still fighting in its mind the wars of the past.