Lt Gen Anil Ahuja, is a former Deputy Chief of Integrated Defence Staff for Policy Planning and Force Development. He commanded an operational Corps and a Mountain Division in Arunachal Pradesh, along the Northern borders with China. He has also been the Commander of a brigade deployed for counter terrorist (CT) operations in J&K.

Amongst his other assignments, he has been the Additional Director General Military Operations; was the Defence Attaché to Vietnam, Cambodia, Lao PDR during the period 2002 – 2005; and a UN Military Observer in Angola.

He was the founding co- chair of India – US Defence Technology and Trade Initiative (DTTI) Inter Agency Task Force (DIATF) and has been the member Secretary of the Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) during the period 2014 – 2016. Since retirement, in Aug 2016, he is a Distinguished Fellow at the Vivekanand International Foundation (VIF). He has also been associated with the Delhi Policy Group and United Service Institution of India (USI).

He writes extensively for various think-tanks on issues related to defence capability development, defence technology, indigenisation, defence industry, and defence diplomacy.

Post retirement he is settled at Panchkula. Contact: anil79er@gmail.com Tweets @anil79er