This issue includes research articles on the Chinese maritime militia; India’s growing importance in Japan’s geo-strategic outlook; and observations on UN peace keeping with a focus on UNIFIL. It also features a perspective on Golden Bird, a counter-insurgency operation conducted by the Army in 1995, along with four book reviews.

Editorial

Perspective

• Perspective Operation Golden Bird: Revisiting Counter-Insurgency on the India-Myanmar Border

  Rumel Dahiya

Focus

• The Chinese Maritime Militia: A Perfect Swarm?

  Michael D. Armour

• India in Japan’s Geo-strategic Outlook

  Titli Basu

• UNIFIL: The Many Challenges of Successful Peacekeeping

  A.K. Bardalai

Book Reviews

• Die in Battle, Do not Despair: The Indians on Gallipoli 1915, by Peter Stanley

  Adil Chhina

• The US Pivot and Indian Foreign Policy: Asia’s Evolving Balance of Power, by Harsh V. Pant and Yogesh Joshi

  Niranjan Chandrashekhar Oak

• Revisiting Nuclear India: Strategic Culture and (In) Security Imaginary, by Runa Das

  S. Samuel C. Rajiv

• Networks of Rebellion: Explaining Insurgent Cohesion and Collapse by Paul Staniland

  Shyam Hari P.

Guidelines for Contributors