Colonel Nagender SP Bisht, a serving second generation Infantry officer was commissioned into the Jammu and Kashmir Rifles in 1990. He has served on the LC with Pakistan, LAC with China and participated in Op VIJAY in Kargil. He has a vast experience of counterinsurgency operations in South Kashmir as he commanded a Rashtriya Rifles company and Battalion in this area. In the course of his service he has tenanted all important command and staff appointments from a Brigade to Army HQ. This project on PLA Modernization was completed by him while he was at the USI of India as a Senior Research Fellow.