Indian Defence Review Vol 26. 2


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The Indian Defence Review is a quarterly review read by senior Indian policy makers at senior bureaucratic, political and judicial levels. The IDR boasts that it is the 'most quoted Indian defence publication.'




Indian Defence Review Vol 26. 3


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The Indian Defence Review is a quarterly review read by senior Indian policy makers at senior bureaucratic, political and judicial levels. The IDR boasts that it is the 'most quoted Indian defence publication.'




Indian Defence Review


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IN THIS VOLUME: •Why New Delhi is Unable to Prevent Terrorist Attacks? • Indian Air Force: Into the Future • MMRCA and the Indian Air Force • Air-To-Surface Weapons • Submarines: Technologies and Trends •Aerospace and Defense News • India and the Afghan Imbroglio • The Darkness in Afghanistan • Peoples' Liberation Army: •Thrust on Integrated Joint War-fighting • The Military Must Find Its Voice • Cyber Warfare • Growing Strength of the PLAAF: Implications for the IAF • India's Offset Policy: Shipbuilding Sector • Indian Army Management of Human Capital




Indain Defence Review January/March 2011


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Indian Defence Review (IDR) is India's best-known defense journal. Over the year the journal has attained the "most quoted" status by defense & security analysts worldwide. The journal offers an incisive analysis of defense and politico-security affairs focused on Asia.




India's Wars


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India’s armed forces play a key role in protecting the country and occupy a special place in the Indian people’s hearts, yet standard accounts of contemporary Indian history rarely have a military dimension. In India’s Wars, serving Air Vice Marshal Arjun Subramaniam seeks to rectify that oversight by giving India’s military exploits their rightful place in history. Subramaniam begins India’s Wars with a frank call to reinvigorate the study of military history as part of Indian history more generally. Part II surveys the development of the India’s army, navy, and air force from the early years of the modern era to 1971. In Parts III and IV, Subramaniam considers conflicts from 1947 to 1962 as well as conflicts with China in 1962 and Pakistan in 1965 and 1971. Part V concludes by assessing these conflicts through the lens of India’s ancient strategist, Kautilya, who is revered in India as much as Sun Tzu is in China. Not merely a wide-ranging historical narrative of India’s military performance in battle, India’s Wars also offers a strategic, operational, and human perspective on the wars fought by independent India’s armed forces. Subramaniam highlights possible ways to improve the synergy between the three services, and argues in favor of the declassification of historical material pertaining to national security. The author also examines the overall state of civil-military relations in India, leadership within the Indian armed forces, as well as training, capability building, and other vitally important issues of concern to citizens, the government, and the armed forces. This objective and critical analysis provides policy cues for the reinvigoration of the armed forces as a critical tool of statecraft and diplomacy. Readers will come away from India’s Wars with a greater understanding of the international environment of war and conflict in modern India. Laced with veterans’ intense experiences in combat operations, and deeply researched and passionately written, it unfolds with surprising ease and offers a fresh perspective on independent India’s history.




Indian Defence Review


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Indian Defence Review (IDR) is India's best-known defense journal. Over the year the journal has attained the "most quoted" status by defense and security analysts worldwide. The journal offers an incisive analysis of defense and politico-security affairs focused on Asia. In addition to defense and security analyses, each issue includes regular feature sections on aerospace trends, naval affairs, and army force developments, including the latest arms transfers and news. Indian Defence Review, a quarterly journal, is read by almost all leading policy makers at senior bureaucratic, political and military levels. Time and again, the incisive analyses in the Indian Defence Review have helped form opinions and shape strategic responses on the subcontinent.




China’s India War


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The Sino-Indian War of 1962 delivered a crushing defeat to India: not only did the country suffer a loss of lives and a heavy blow to its pride, the world began to see India as the provocateur of the war, with China ‘merely defending’ its territory. This perception that China was largely the innocent victim of Nehru’s hostile policies was put forth by journalist Neville Maxwell in his book India’s China War, which found readers in many opinion makers, including Henry Kissinger and Richard Nixon. For far too long, Maxwell’s narrative, which sees India as the aggressor and China as the victim, has held court. Nearly 50 years after Maxwell’s book, Bertil Lintner’s China’s India War puts the ‘border dispute’ into its rightful perspective. Lintner argues that China began planning the war as early as 1959 and proposes that it was merely a small move in the larger strategic game that China was playing to become a world player—one that it continues to play even today.




Maritime Heritage of India


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This photo-essay book is a modest attempt to link our maritime past, along with the entire progress, to the present, and in light of the same, to relate the future of the nation to a distinct maritime orientation with the Indian Navy as the lead national maritime agency. It traces about 7,500 years of India's maritime history and heritage. There are eight chapters, each dwelling on different aspects of maritime heritage namely, trade and commerce, evolution of cultures, influence of architecture, forts and lighthouses, naval battles and the evolution of the Indian navy. With images and artwork, this book will give the reader a vivid insight into our country's rich maritime past.




Security, Strategy and Military Change in the 21st Century


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This edited volume explores and analyses strategic thinking, military reform and adaptation in an era of Asian growth, European austerity and US rebalancing. A significant shift in policy, strategy and military affairs is underway in both Asia and Europe, with the former gaining increasing prominence in the domain of global security. At the same time, the world’s powers are now faced with an array of diverse challenges. The resurgence of great power politics in both Europe and Asia, along with the long term threats of terrorism, piracy and sustained geopolitical instability has placed great strain on militaries and security institutions operating with constrained budgets and wary public support. The volume covers a wide range of case studies, including the transformation of China’s military in the 21st century, the internal and external challenges facing India, Russia’s military modernization program and the USA’s reassessment of its strategic interests. In doing so, the book provides the reader with the opportunity to conceptualize how strategic thinking, military reform, operational adaptation and technological integration have interacted with the challenges outlined above. With contributions by leading scholars and practitioners from Europe and Asia, this book provides a valuable contribution to the understanding of strategic and operational thinking and adjustment across the world. This book will be of much interest to students of military and strategic studies, security studies, defence studies, Asian politics, Russian politics, US foreign policy and IR in general.




Indian Defence Review July-Dec 1989 (Vol 4.2)


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A State at War with Itself IDR Comment India as a Regional ‘Superpower’ Maritime Strategy for the Nineties – Adm R H Tahiliani National Security and Air Power – Air Marshal Vir Narain OP TOPAC: The Kashmir Imbroglio – IDR Research Team Grappling with the Dynamics of Nuclear Strategy: Policy Formulation for a Nuclear India – IDR Research Team Special Operations in National Strategy – Maj S S Randhawa Military and Operational Doctrine for the late Nineties – Brig J S Nagra Reorganizing Indian Amour – Ravi Rikhye People’s War under Modem Conditions: China’s Emerging Military Doctrine – Brig D Banerjee Nuclear China: The Equation with India – IDR Research Team Glacier Warfare: The Indian Army Experiences a New Dimension in High-altitude Warfare – IDR Research Team Armed Forces: A State’s Obligations to Ex-servicemen – Lt Gen E A Vas Petroleum Depletion Fall-out and Alternatives to Petroleum-based Propulsion – Col S G Vombatkere Generals for Peace and Disarmament – Maj Gen E D’Souza ‘Friends not Interests’ – Rear Adm Satyindra Singh US Attack on Libya: Operation El Dorado Canyon – Sqn Ldr N Browne Nepal: The Ongoing Impasse – IDR Research Team Exploding the Pakistan Bogy – Brig Mahindra Singh India’s Defence Budget – A Case for better Planning – Maj Gen KS Pendse Economy in Defence Finance through better Management – Maj Gen B D Kapur Small Arms Philosophy and the Individual Assault Weapon – AD 2000 – Lt Col Randhir Singh Future Battlefield Surveillance and Intelligence in a Corps Zone – Maj Gurmeet Kanwal Weapons and Equipment: An Overview – IDR Research Team