November 28, 2019 06:41 am | Updated June 08, 2020 01:56 pm IST - New Delhi
The former Naval Chief, Admiral Sushil Kumar (left), former Army Chief, General O.P. Malhotra and former Air Chief, Air Chief Marshal O. P. Mehra releasing a book "Kargil" - From Surprise to Victory, by General V.P. Malik (right), at a function, in New Delhi on April 27, 2006. Photo: Shanker Chakravarty
Former Navy Chief Admiral Sushil Kumar passed away on Wednesday at the Army’s Research and Referral Hospital in Delhi. He was 79. Admiral Kumar was the 16th Chief of Naval Staff and oversaw Naval operations during the Kargil conflict of 1999.
He recently authored a book, A Prime Minister to Remember- Memories of a Military Chief , on Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, in which he credited Mr. Vajpayee for turning a “strategic tactical loss into a massive victory”.
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