Military Affairs
Centre for Military Affairs comprises of a mix of serving officers of the Indian Armed Forces and civilian experts. The Centre adopts an inter-disciplinary approach to various issues that impinge upon India's national security in general and the armed forces in particular. Its research focus is on issues that impact upon national security and capacity-building of the Indian armed forces. Specific areas of focus include, emerging contemporary challenges in warfare, jointness, defence co-operation, maritime security, and military training needs. In addition, the cluster also addresses China- and Pakistan-related issues with bearing on their interface with Indian security. The centre closely interacts with military establishments in India and abroad and contributes to the policy making by conducting research in areas of military significance.
Current focus areas are:
- Out Of Area Contingency Operations
- Defence Diplomacy
- Defence Budget
- Defence Acquisition and Quality Assurance
- Transformation of the Indian armed forces
- Defence Co-operation initiatives by the Armed Forces
- Uses of Military Power in the Indian-Pakistan Context
- PLA Modernization and Implications for India
- Civil-Military Relations
- Counterinsurgency Operations
- Higher Defence management
- Joint Logistics
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Energy Strategy for the Indian Navy: Need, Scope and a Roadmap
May 2013
‘Energy’ is a key enabler of military combat power and it should be considered a strategic resource for the Indian Navy (IN). Theaterised Joint Logistics: A Caliberated Initiation The most successful and efficient methodology being adopted by modern militaries is a logistics system based on theatre or theaterised logistics. In our case, there has hardly been any serious attempt to modify the logistics system which we inherited from the British. The monograph presents short term approach and a medium approach to bring in desired changes in our military logistics system after evaluating the need of the hour. Analytical Quality Ranking of Equipment under Procurement: An Improvement of Contemporary Practice
March 20, 2013
Parameters, dimensions and operational requirements specified by the user must be evaluated exclusively by the user trial team, while DGQA must concentrate only on the testing of quality encompassing the product design, the material used and the manufacturing process in addition to the environmental testing of the product under simulated conditions. Understanding Diverse Global Thoughts on Air Power
March 2013
Air power has gone through a lot over the last two decades—from being a decisive tool of war fighting during Operation Desert Storm and operations over Kosovo, to a more sobering period in the first d India’s Defence Budget 2013-14: A Bumpy Road Ahead
March 4, 2013
A GDP growth of less than seven per cent combined with the fiscal consolidation path that the Finance Minister has articulated in his budget speech means a lot of pressure on the defence ministry whose plan for current and future expenditure up to 2017 is based on past GDP growth rate of 8 to 9 per cent. The Defence Budget 2013-14: Reasonable in the Existing Circumstances but Need for Re-orientation and Reform
March 4, 2013
There is a need for an overhaul of the defence planning and budgeting systems to make them outcome oriented, which will lead to the development and maintenance of requisite capability through the defence forces as an entity over a specified long-term horizon. India’s Defence Budget: Trends Beyond the Numbers
March 4, 2013
In the larger scheme of things, fiscal prudence is a good trait and the reduction in deficits desirable, yet an overtly ambitious approach of reducing deficits into a number game may lead to developments that may hurt us not only in the security arena but in economic growth as well. Economic moorings of the defence budget
February 27, 2013
While the anguish over the state of modernization of the armed forces, the slow march towards achieving the capability for simultaneous action on two-fronts and rather feeble power projection on a global scale are understandable, what is not understandable is the expectation that the outlays for achieving these objectives would increase exponentially, irrespective of the state of the economy. Military Deployment in Afghanistan is not in India’s National Interests
February 22, 2013
India, as a responsible regional power, should steer Afghanistan towards political stability, security through an inclusive government, economic growth, reconstruction and regional integration, which is what that country needs the most. Managing India’s Missile Aspirations
February 10, 2013
The Agni-VI and Prahaar both signify unnecessary missile projects, which have been developed in the interests of DRDO technical and bureaucratic ambitions rather than the stated interests of India’s nuclear doctrine.  |
