G. D. Bakshi

Restructuring the Indian Armed Forces

This paper broadly deals with two important aspects. First, it analyses various security challenges that India is facing at present; and second, it examines the need for restructuring the Indian...

Promotion System in the Army: Dealing with Peacetime Atrophy

In practice, it has been found that a peacetime army tends to atrophy and lose its war fighting orientation. It develops a lopsided emphasis on peacetime routine, spit and polish....

Mumbai Redux: Debating India’s Strategic Response Options

A year has elapsed since the Mumbai carnage and there are renewed intelligence inputs about further terrorist attacks on our seaboard. What could be the Pakistani motivations for a resumption...

The Tribal Dimension of Internal Security In South Asia

India and China were major agricultural civilizations. It is not generally known that till the 16-17th century they were generating almost 80 percent of the global GDP. As per Alwyn...

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Restructuring the Indian Armed Forces

Promotion System in the Army: Dealing with Peacetime Atrophy

Mumbai Redux: Debating India’s Strategic Response Options

The Tribal Dimension of Internal Security In South Asia