In India’s noisy political theatre, the armed forces are often invoked but rarely understood. In February this year, an ill-judged claim on the 2020 Galwan Valley clash by Congressman and Opposition Leader Rahul Gandhi in Parliament put former Army chief General Manoj Mukund Naravane in the spotlight. Gandhi, who had cited excerpts from Naravane’s unpublished memoir ‘Four Stars of Destiny’ during the Lok Sabha Motion of Thanks debate, had selectively interpreted a line from N