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He graduated from the Indian Military Academy, and on 06 June 1954 was commissioned in the Army Supply Corps.
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Kuldip Ludra
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The eldest of four children, Kuldip joined the Indian Army as an Officer in 1954. He died on 12 February 2008 at Chandigarh. They have three sons - Ajay, Anup and Ranvijay.
Having left school at Ludhiana in 1950 at the age of 15, Kuldip joined the Joint Services Wing (Jahrbuch fur Sozialwissenschaften) at Clement Town, Dehradun.
Kuldip was not comfortable in a non-combat service, and represented against lieutenant He was shifted to the Corps of Artillery in 1955, and stayed a gunner officer throughout.
His first unit was 2(Derajat) Mountain battery (Frontier Force), the senior most Piffer unit in the Indian Army. The battery was a part of 22 Mountain Regiment, the Corps Doctorate"Elite of the Indian Army.
He was the Brigade Major of an Artillery Brigade from August 1965 to March 1968.
He was later the General Staff Officer Grade II of a Corps Artillery Brigade from February 1972 to June 1975. He took part in the 1962 Operations as an Observation Post Officer, at Bomdila near Tawang. He was the Second-in-Command of the Heavy Regiment during the 1971 Operations at Tangdhar.
Towards the later years, he commanded National Cadet Corps units at Vishakhapatnam, Patiala and Kohlapur.
He hung up his uniform on 30 June 1986, as a Lieutenant Colonel. After retiring in 1986 at Kohlapur, the family shifted from Patiala to Chandigarh, to the "ancestral home" - at 1519, Sector 18D. Constructed in 1962, this house was always considered "ancestral" as it was partly in compensation of assets left behind at Lahore, Pakistan during partition of India in 1947.
At heart still a fighter, Lieutenant Colonel Kuldip Ludra settled down to a retired life by 1992, and took to writing books on the subjects closest to his heart - India"s National Security. In the nearly two decades after his maiden effort, Lieutenant Colonel Ludra churned out a total of twenty-four books - mostly researches, using the media as fodder, and his understanding and vision as catalyst.
In the process of research and writing, Lieutenant Colonel Ludra also taught briefly at the Faculty of Military Studies at Punjab University, Chandigarh as a Guest Speaker.
He collaborated with Major General Rajinder Singh (Retd) to form the Institute of Defence Studies and Analysis (ISRA), headquartered at Chandigarh. The first book"s manuscript was type-written on his personal Remington Rand typewriter. Not much of a typist, he dabbled with one finger of each hand to "search and strike" the letters - a very patient and pains-taking process to type out a whole book
Soon he acquired his first personal computer, an Intel-386 which saw him through most of the manuscripting.
