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Bio
Sunil Ram is a military and security expert with Alexis International, an international consulting firm. He is the Contributing Editor of SITREP, the private defense journal of the Royal Canadian Military Institute, and has served in the Canadian Forces as both a soldier and officer between 1980-86 and 1997-99. Sunil also served as a military adviser to the Saudi Royal Family for over ten years, including involvement in the 1991 Gulf War and the Yemeni conflict in the 1990s. He has won a series of awards, including the UN Global Citizen Award presented to him in 1995 by the UN. He has also published a variety of articles and books and has had columns on military affairs published in newspapers, such as Canada’s Globe and Mail.
Precis
Security consultant Sunil Ram continues in part 2 of this interview with Paul Jay to discuss the planning of the Mumbai attacks. They talk about how an operation of such a scale was orchestrated and about its effects in devastating Mumbai's security and emergency forces. According to Ram, Pakistan's raison d'etre has always been the war with India over Kashmir. Obama has articulated he hopes Pakistani-Indian fighting would calm so that the Pakistani military would be freed to assist the US Forces in Afghanistan. Ram says Pakistan won't withdraw its heavy military presence in Kashmir until India does. He also says India cannot withdraw forces first because the Mumbai attacks have been linked to radical Islamist group Lashkar-e-Taiba, which originates in Kashmir.
