At 60, Hon. Major Deepak Rao Continues to Contribute to Indian Army With His Battle Techniques – News18
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Dr Rao has been called to help improve Army Martial Arts Routine (AMAR), which was developed after the Galwan skirmish between India and China.
Honorary Major Dr Deepak Rao has spent 25 years of his life, helping the Indian Army with modernisation of close quarter commando training.
Honorary Major Dr Deepak Rao, the pioneer of military training, continues to contribute to the Indian Army at the age of 60 years. Dr Rao has been called to help improve Army Martial Arts Routine (AMAR), which was developed after the Galwan skirmish between India and China.
The Indian Army had in 2022 founded its own martial art following the Galwan hand-to-hand skirmish with Chinese soldiers, in which India lost one commanding officer and 20 troops. The Indian Army developed its own indigenous and efficient martial arts system AMAR at the Army Institute of Physical Training (AIPT) in Pune in 2022-23.
In October 2023, Major Dr Deepak Rao met the then Army Chief General Manoj Pande and proposed that to review the AMAR module. In 2023, the Army Chief sent Major Deepak Rao to review the AMAR curriculum at AIPT. Rao submitted a report that stated that AMAR was very efficient but it needed newer termination skills to make it deadlier.
Rao had developed these quick termination skills with his 25-year research in training various Indian forces. Such killing methods were aimed at annihilation of enemy with bare hands by choking their windpipe, strangulating blood supply to brain and disruption of spinal cord. Rao called these methods ABC – Army Battle Combatives.
In 2024, Major Deepak Rao was sent by General Pande to AIPT to help improve AMAR by adding the ABC method of termination. That added another weather in Major Rao’s cap as he helped Indian Army improve AMAR and make it deadlier as a senior citizen at the age of 60 years.
It is to be noted that Rao spent 25 years of his life, helping the Indian Army with modernisation of close quarter commando training, for which he was made Honorary Major in Indian Army alongside MS Dhoni and Abhinav Bindra in Nov 2011. The only other Indians who have received Honorary ranks are Kapil Dev, Sachin Tendulkar and Mohanlal.
India-China Disengagement Years After Galwan Valley Skirmish
Meanwhile, disengagement at the Line of Actual Control has started under an agreement between India and China to end the nearly four-year military standoff in eastern Ladakh. The situation had remained tense after the 2020 clash between the Armies of India and China in Ladakh’s Galwan.
The agreement, while promising, represents just the first step in a complex process of normalising relations along the disputed border. Defence officials emphasise that on-ground implementation will take time, with multiple aspects still requiring detailed discussion and agreement between both sides.
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