Major General Vinod Saighal retired from the Indian Army in 1995 from the post of Director General Military Training. Currently he is the Executive Director of Eco Monitors Society (EMS), a NGO concerned with demography and ecology. Saighal has published many articles in the leading national media and wrote the internationally acclaimed book 'Third Millennium Equipoise'. His most recent book is Global Security Paradoxes - 2000-2020.