Lt Gen PN Hoon says in his book"The Untold Truth", “Brasstacks was no military exercise, it was a plan to build up a situation for a fourth war with Pakistan. And what is even more shocking is that the then Prime Minister, Rajiv Gandhi, was not aware of these plans of a war.” The author goes on to say that the operation was General Sundarji’s (the then chief of army staff) and minister of state for defence Arun Singh’s plan to provoke Pakistan “into launching an offensive in Kashmir”. And all this to grab to power. One man's hunger for power could have led to thousands of people being killed and a potential nuclear attack that could have destabilised the whole world.
