The issue covers varied themes: leadership attributes for counterinsurgency operations, strategic importance of the Bay of Bengal, the 1971 USS Enterprise incident, benchmarks for naval ship building, China’s biological warfare programme, and India’s Special Forces. It also features an assessment of the Parliamentary Defence Standing Committee (16th Lok Sabha).

Editorial

Perspective

• Standing Committee on Defence (16th Lok Sabha): Striking Old Notes on Debut
  -- Amit Cowshish

Focus

• Fit for Command: Leadership Attributes for PSO–COIN Operations
  -- Ivo Moerman and Paolo Tripodi
• Revisiting the 1971 ‘USS Enterprise Incident’: Rhetoric, Reality and Pointers for the Contemporary Era
  -- Raghavendra Mishra
• The Rise of the Bengal Tigers: The Growing Strategic Importance of the Bay of Bengal
  -- David Brewster
• Benchmarking of Shipyards and Processes for Cost Effective Naval Shipbuilding
  -- Ajay K. Chhabra
• China’s Biological Warfare Programme: An Integrative Study with Special Reference to Biological Weapons Capabilities
  -- Dany Shoham
• India’s Special Forces: An Appraisal
  -- Amit Kumar

Book Reviews

• India’s Doctrine Puzzle: Limiting War in South Asia, by Ali Ahmed
  -- Vivek Chadha
• Policing Insurgencies: Cops as Counterinsurgents, edited by C. Christine Fair and Sumit Ganguly
  -- Akash S. Goud
• Drone Warfare, by John Kaag and Sarah Kreps
  -- S.K. Dey
• Can War be Eliminated?, by Christopher Coker
  -- Vikas Jain