K. Subrahmanyam

The post-second World War period has seen rapid development of new strategic doctrines, consequent on major technological breakthroughs in weapons systems, transport and communication capabilities. These doctrines in turn have...

• K. Subrahmanyam |
• September-October 2025 |
• Strategic Analysis

This article is divided into three parts; an analysis of the war, its lessons and a chronology of events on a day-to-day basis, compiled from information available in public. The...

• K. Subrahmanyam |
• May-June 2024 |
• Strategic Analysis

The Pokhran test carried out by the Indian Atomic Energy Commission on 18 May 1974, by and large, evoked predictable reactions. Those countries that had come to accept the conventional...

• K. Subrahmanyam |
• March-April 2023 |
• Strategic Analysis

It is necessary to have a detached and realistic assessment of the military situation in Bangla Desh. During the last one week, our press reports were over-optimistic and these reports...

• K. Subrahmanyam |
• January 2022 |
• Strategic Analysis

• K. Subrahmanyam |
• July 2021 |
• Strategic Analysis

This is a personal recollection of the author on the evolution of the Indian nuclear policy and developments leading to the Shakti tests. Since it draws solely upon the author’s...

• K. Subrahmanyam |
• May 2018 |
• Strategic Analysis

Members of Parliament, press correspondents, interested University men and the attentive newspaper reading public in India, all agree that not enough information is available in easily assimilable form to enable...

• K. Subrahmanyam |
• September 2015 |
• Strategic Analysis

Neville Maxwell's book, India's China War (Jaico Publishing House, Bombay, 1970) has already been subjected to extensive comments by a number of senior journalists in this country. By and large,...

• K. Subrahmanyam |
• March 2013 |
• Strategic Analysis

There is general agreement among those concerned with international relations and strategy that for the next fifteen years Asia is more likely to be an area of tension and conflict...

• K. Subrahmanyam |
• September 2011 |
• Strategic Analysis

The former defence minister Shri Yeshwantrao Chavan led a delegation to the United States in May 1964 to discuss American support for the Indian Defence Five-Year Plan. The delegation included...

• K. Subrahmanyam |
• July 2011 |
• Strategic Analysis