Air Marshal Diptendu Choudhury

Air Marshal Diptendu Choudhury (Retd) is former Commandant of India?s National Defence College, New Delhi. An experienced pilot with over 5000 sorties on fighters, he has extensive experience in strategy formulation, policy and doctrine development, planning and execution of air operations at Command, Air Force and Joint Operations levels. An MA from Kings College (UK) in International Security and Strategy, MPhil in National Security and Defence, and PhD from Osmania University on air power, he is a member of the Royal College of Defence Studies, and a distinguished fellow of the Centre for Air Power Studies, the United Services Institute, and the Vivekananda International Foundation. An avid air power scholar whose professional and academic contributions have been widely published in books, journals and newspapers. He also speaks extensively on national security, strategy and air power, in seminars, academic institutions and the media.