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unusual facts about Indian Military



Sainik School

They were conceived in 1961 by V. K. Krishna Menon, the then Defence Minister of India, to rectify the regional and class imbalance amongst the Officer cadre of the Indian Military, and to prepare students for entry into the National Defence Academy (NDA), Khadakwasla, Pune and Indian Naval Academy.


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Chail Military School

The King George Royal Indian Military College was renamed as King George’s School and shifted to Nowgong (Bundelkhand) in August 1952 where it was housed in ‘Old Kitchner College buildings’.

Ohio Army National Guard

The decisive victory of General "Mad" Anthony Wayne at the Battle of Fallen Timbers (1794), outside of present day Toledo and the subsequent Treaty of Greenville (1795) removed the combined British-Indian military threat to Ohio settlers for the time being.

Quadrilateral Security Dialogue

Active U.S.-Indian military cooperation expanded in 1991 following the economic liberalization of India when American Lt. General Claude C. Kicklighter, then commander of the United States Army Pacific, proposed army-to-army cooperation.

Sarabjit Singh Dhillon

An alumnus of the prestigious rashtriya Indian military college,dehradun the National Defence Academy, Lt Gen Dhillon was commissioned to the Grenadiers regiment in 1968.

Wahid Baksh Sial Rabbani

He completed his B.A. and then joined the Bahwalpur State Forces and qualified at the Indian Military Academy Dehra Dun (India) in 1933.