Warfare
Changing the Course of War through Targeted Aerial Strikes: Afghanistan 2008–09
Targeted air strikes remain a cornerstone fighting technique in modern counter-insurgency and other military operations.
India’s Limited War Doctrine: The Structural Factor
The aim of the monograph is to examine the structural factor behind the development of India's Limited War Doctrine. In discussing India's conventional war doctrine in its interface with the nuclear doctrine, the policy-relevant finding of this monograph is that limitation needs to govern both the conventional and nuclear realms of military application. This would be in compliance with the requirements of the nuclear age.
Precision Weapons in Aerial Warfare
Precision in aerial warfare, which initially lay in the individual skills of combatants, has shifted to machines through the incorporation of advanced technology.
Asymmetric Warfare: A View from India
Coined a few years ago, ‘asymmetric warfare’ is an umbrella term that includes insurgent and terrorist campaigns that Western militaries were forced to contend with in the course of external intervent
The Perils of Strategic NCO and Tactical General
War is a too serious a business to be left to NCOs and Generals must be involved both at the strategic and tactical levels to ensure the moral and disciplined manifestation of a professional military.
Reopening the Debate on Limited War
The commentary makes the case for reopening the Limited War debate in order to inform explicit articulation of a Limited War doctrine.
State Actors and Germ Warfare: Historical Perspective
The old arguments against the effectiveness of biological warfare still apply. The effects of novel organisms would still be delayed, unpredictable, and difficult to control. In military terms, any advance is almost certainly not a matter of the routine use of bio-technology. Whatever the fact, this double edged weapon still acts like a deterrent against any kind of conventional attack. Empirical evidence suggests that the likelihood of such a war between technologically advanced states is remote as since 1945, the biological weapons have been used only in situations where the victims were unprotected and unable to retaliate.
Strategies to Tackle Fourth Generation Warfare (4GW): An Aerial Perspective
The changing nature of warfare, as the twentieth century drew to a close, saw the increased proliferation of conflict between non-state actors and the state.
Sustaining Motivation in Sub-Conventional Warfare
This paper is an attempt to understand the peculiarities of the operational environment in sub-conventional warfare scenario in Indian context. It recommends measures which need to be taken at various levels by concerned agencies to sustain and enhance the motivational level of troops.
