Lieutenant General Gautam Banerjee, PVSM, AVSM, YSM (Retd) has served in all of India's remote border areas and has participated in all operations undertaken by the Army since 1971. In the later part of his career, Gen Banerjee was the Chief Engineer, Western Army Command, the General Officer Commanding of the Madhya Bharat Area and the Chief of Staff, Central Army Command. Before superannuating after forty years of distinguished service, he was the Commandant of the Officers' Training Academy, Chennai. Besides authoring over one hundred articles and papers on military strategy, organisation and history, he has so far published three books. He is a Member of the Executive Council of the Vivekananda International Foundation, New Delhi, a Mentor with the United Services Institute, New Delhi and a Consulting Editor with a defence journal, the Indian Defence Review.