Brigadier Sanjay Iyer (Retd.)
Geopolitics.
Security.
India and Germany.
Analysis from 36 years in the Indian Army, including service as Defence Attaché to Germany, Austria and Switzerland from 2019 to 2023.
- Graduate of National Defence College, New Delhi, 2018
- Directing Staff, Strategic Management Department in the College of Defence Management, Secunderabad
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
So sayeth Robert Heinlein’s character Lazarus Long in Time Enough for Love.
- Founder & Director, Iyer & Sellmer Consulting Private Limited
- Member, United Service Institution of India
- Member, National Maritime Foundation
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Five subjects
In the media
“…equal importance be paid to quality standards – otherwise ‘India will have re-created the Kargil problem with a better rifle’.”
India targets weapons self-reliance with fully local assault rifle
South China Morning Post (This Week in Asia) · 3 September 2026 · Read at the publication · Free to read
Off duty
The name and the mark
A lamp inside crosshairs.
The Indian diya represents knowledge. The crosshairs represent the targeting and acquisition of knowledge and competence to achieve success.
The lamp shines in the colours of the Indian flag, while the flame burns bright in the German colours, signifying the symbiotic relationship between India and Germany.
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