Associate Editors
Air Marshal (Retd) Bharat Kumar, PVSM, AVSM, a fighter pilot, commissioned in 1959, commanded a MiG-21 squadron and two major operational bases. A graduate of the Vorosholov General Staff Academy, Moscow, he was Director Plans and Director Operations, Assistant Chief of Air Staff (Inspection) and Air 1 and Senior Air Staff at HQ of Operational Commands. Air Marshal Bharat Kumar was AOC HQ Maritime Air Operations and AOC-in-C Southern Air Command before retirement in 1997. He is a Fellow of Aeronautical Society of India and Indian Management Association. Kumar has authored three major books besides contributing chapters to other books. The books authored by him are “An Illustrated Dictionary of Aviation”; “An Incredible War: Indian Air Force in Kashmir War of 1947-48”; and “Courage and Devotion to Duty: A Chronicle of IAF's Honours and Awards (1932-2008).”

Maj Gen (Retd) Deepak K Mehta held key appointments in the Army from 1972 to 2009 before retiring as Chief of Staff of the Desert Corps. Earlier, he commanded 20 Infantry Division on the border with China in the East. Mehta commanded a brigade during Operation Parakram. After command of an infantry brigade, Mehta had been Brigadier Personnel & Logistics as well Brigadier General Staff Information Warfare in HQ Northern Command. Mehta is a post-graduate in Defence Studies and has attended the Defence Services Staff College Course at Wellington and the Advanced Management Programme at MDI, Gurgaon. He was also an instructor at the Army War College, Mhow, specializing in low intensity operations. Before joining Indian Military Review Mehta was General Manager Administration of a super multi-speciality hospital in Delhi. Maj Gen (Retd) Deepak K Mehta held key appointments in the Army from 1972 to 2009 before retiring as Chief of Staff of the Desert Corps. Earlier, he commanded 20 Infantry Division on the border with China in the East. Mehta commanded a brigade during Operation Parakram. After command of an infantry brigade, Mehta had been Brigadier Personnel & Logistics as well Brigadier General Staff Information Warfare in HQ Northern Command. Mehta is a post-graduate in Defence Studies and has attended the Defence Services Staff College Course at Wellington and the Advanced Management Programme at MDI, Gurgaon. He was also an instructor at the Army War College, Mhow, specializing in low intensity operations. Before joining Indian Military Review Mehta was General Manager Administration of a super multi-speciality hospital in Delhi.

Cmde (Retd) Rajeev Sawhney, an alumnus of the DSSC Wellington, College of Defence Management and the National Defence College, is also the Deputy Director Research and Head of the Centre for Strategic Studies & Simulation at the United Service Institution of India. He was earlier at the National Maritime Foundation, New Delhi, as its first Executive Director. He was a visiting senior fellow at the IDSS Singapore in 2006.

Sawhney specialised in Navigation and Aircraft Direction and held a number of specialist assignments both afloat and ashore including training assignments at the National Defence Academy, Midshipmen's Training Ship, the Navy's Navigation & Direction School, and the Warship Workup Organisation. He was also a Directing Staff at DSSC, Wellington. Sawhney is a post-graduate in Defence Studies and Management Sciences. He has attended the Executive Business Management Programme at MDI Gurgaon.

Sawhney commanded the first indigenous Delhi class destroyer INS Delhi, two indigenous Leander class frigates and a minesweeper. Other important appointments included Fleet Operations Officer, Eastern Fleet, Director of Naval Operations at Naval HQ and Deputy Asst Chief of Integrated Staff Maritime Weapons and Systems at HQ Integrated Defence Staff.

Consulting Editors
Vijay Mahajan is a consulting editor at Indian Military Review for National Security linkages with Development and Livelihoods. Vijay is a graduate and Distinguished Alumnus of IIT, Delhi, post-graduate of IIM, Ahmedabad and was a mid-career Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, USA. He worked with Philips, the electronics multinational, for four years. In 1983, he established an NGO, PRADAN which works with over 150,000 poor households, promoting livelihoods and community institutions. In 1996, Vijay set up BASIX as a "new generation livelihood promotion institution", which has helped support the livelihoods of over a million poor households by extending micro-credit worth over Rs 2000 crore (US$425 million). Vijay was a member of the Raghuram Rajan Committee on Financial Sector Reforms. He is a member of the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDA) and the Rajasthan Mission on Livelihoods. He serves on the Boards of several NGOs and Institutes of Management, and the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP), the global microfinance apex hosted by the World Bank. Vijay was selected as one of the 60 "Outstanding Social Entrepreneurs" at the World Economic Forum (WEF), Davos in 2003 and is Co-Chair of the WEF’s Global Advisory Council on Social Entrepreneurship.

Sameer Narula is a consulting editor at Indian Military Review for Information Technology, Communications and Science. Over a varied IT career spanning close to 20 years, Sameer has been an entrepreneur and a technologist. He currently serves as co-founder and Managing Director of Openrialto Solutions, a startup venture that offers Enterprise Asset leverage services in peer-collaboration model. He had earlier co-founded ASAP Solutions, Inc in USA, which offered productized Enterprise Application Integration services to business Enterprises.

After five years of successful operations, ASAP Solutions was acquired by MindTree Limited, where he continued to manage their ERP Integration Practice for four years before starting Openrialto. Prior to starting his entrepreneurial journey, he spent several years providing technology consulting services to large enterprises like Bristol Myers Squibb, Johnson & Johnson, Bell Labs and others in the US.

Sameer holds a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering and a post graduate diploma in Entrepreneurial Management from IIM Bangalore.