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'''Ashok K. Mehta''' is a former [[major general]] of the [[Indian Army]], as well as a radio and television commentator and a columnist on defence and security issues.<ref name="slguardian">{{cite web|url=http://www.srilankaguardian.org/2007/11/who-is-general-ashok-k-mehta.html | title=Who is General Ashok K. Mehta? | publisher=Sri Lanka Guardian | date=November 2007 | access-date=26 January 2012}}</ref> He was a founding member of the Defence Planning Staff in the [[Ministry of Defence (India)|Indian Ministry of Defence]]. He is also the elder brother of the renowned journalist and editor, [[Vinod Mehta]]. Ashok Mehta is married to journalist [[Aditi Phadnis]]. <ref>{{Cite web|url=http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/uncovering-the-war/1168571/00|title = Uncovering the War - Indian Express}}</ref><br />
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Maj. Gen. Mehta is an alumnus of the [[Rashtriya Indian Military College]] (RIMC), Dehradun, an Indian military prep school formerly known as the Prince of Wales Royal Indian Military College.<br />
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==Military career==<br />
Mehta joined the Indian Army in 1957 and was commissioned in the [[5 Gorkha Rifles (Frontier Force)|5th Gorkha Rifles]] infantry regiment the same year. Since then, he fought in almost all of the major wars India went into, with the exception of the [[Sino-Indian War]] of 1962, during which time he was on a peacekeeping mission in [[Zaire]]. <br />
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He undertook special military courses at the [[Royal College of Defence Studies]] in the United Kingdom in 1974 and at the [[United States Army Command and General Staff College|Command and General Staff College]] in the United States in 1975. He taught at the [[Indian Military Academy]] in Dehradun and at the [[Defence Services Staff College]] in Wellington, Tamil Nadu.<ref name="icsr">{{cite web|url=http://icsr.info/seminar/general-ashok-k-mehta-managing-indias-internal-security-challenges | title=General Ashok K. Mehta: Managing India's Internal Security Challenges | publisher=[[The International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence]] | date=1 October 2009 | access-date=26 January 2012}}</ref> Mehta's last assignment in the Indian Army was as Maj. Gen. [[Harkirat Singh (Major General)|Harkirat Singh's]] successor to the position of [[General Officer Commanding]] in the [[Indian Peace Keeping Force]] in Sri Lanka from 1988 to 1990.<ref name="iiss">{{cite web|url=http://www.iiss.org/about-us/intranet/training/south-asia/round-table-discussions/2004-round-table-discussions/major-general-ashok-k-mehta-retd/ |title=Major General Ashok K. Mehta (retd.) -The Maoist Uprising in Nepal: Trends and Implications |publisher=[[International Institute for Strategic Studies]] |date=26 February 2004 |access-date=26 January 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130415013040/http://www.iiss.org/about-us/intranet/training/south-asia/round-table-discussions/2004-round-table-discussions/major-general-ashok-k-mehta-retd/ |archive-date=15 April 2013 }}</ref> He took a premature retirement in 1991.{{fact|date=August 2020}}<br />
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==Post-retirement==<br />
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Following his retirement, he began serving as a regular radio and television commentator. He also began acting as a policy analyst and columnist on South Asian security affairs. He is an advisor to the Gurkha Memorial Trust and a member of the India-Nepal Track 2 Dialogue. He has also been a consulting editor in the [[Indian Defence Review]], a member of the [[Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses]], and the director of Security and Political Risk Analysis.<br />
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==Publications==<br />
Mehta is the author of several books:<br />
*''War Despatches: Operation Iraqi Freedom''<br />
*''The Maoist Insurgency in Nepal and the Royal Nepal Army''<br />
*''Operation Parakram: The Military Standoff of 2002''<br />
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==See also==<br />
*[[Indian Peace Keeping Force]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
*[http://www.india-seminar.com/1999/479/479%20mehta.htm Tackling the Tigers] Major general Mehta's speech at a symposium on low intensity conflicts (1999), about [[Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam]]<br />
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