This issue features insightful articles on the lessons from the UK’s defence privatisation experience for India, the importance of ethics vis-à-vis the armed forces, the latest Chinese DF-41 missile and its impact on the country’s nuclear deterrence, and a new conceptual framework for peacekeeping. Also included are four book reviews.
The Long-term Effects of UK Defence Privatisation: Lessons for India?
-- Jonathan S. Swift
Understanding Ethical Behaviour towards Better Institutional Functioning in the Armed Forces
-- Ankush Banerjee
China’s DF-41 Ballistic Missile Deployment and the Impact on its Nuclear Deterrence
-- M.S. Prathibha
A Conceptual Framework for Assessing Traditional Peace Operations
-- A.K. Bardalai
Why We Fight, by Mike Martin
-- Kishore Kumar Khera
The McMahon Line: A Century of Discord, by J.J. Singh
-- Vivek Chadha
Guardians of God: Inside the Religious Mind of Pakistani Taliban, by Mona Kanwal Sheikh
-- Smruti S. Pattanaik
Gilgit-Baltistan and its Saga of Unending Human Rights Violations, by Alok Bansal
-- Zainab Akhtar