The current JDS issue features a detailed perspective piece on the report of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Defence; two insightful and scholarly articles on the maritime space and India’s role vis-à-vis it; and a third article on defence acquisitions. It also includes a review essay and three book reviews.

Contents

Editorial

Perspective

• Standing Committee on Defence’s Prescription for increasing Capital Budget May Not Work

  — Amit Cowshish

Focus

• Foreign Policy and Sea Power: India’s Maritime Role Flux

  — Zorawar Daulet Singh

• High End in the Pacific: Envisioning the Upper Limits of India-US Naval Cooperation in Pacific-Asia

  — Gurpreet S. Khurana

• Examining the US Defence Acquisition Apparatus: What can India Learn?

  — Laxman Kumar Behera

Review Essay

• South Asian Geopolitics: Has Pakistan Lost its Plot?

  — Abhay K. Singh

Book Reviews

• War from the Ground Up: Twenty-first-century Combat as Politics, by Emile Simpson

  — Alok Deb

• The Darkening Web: The War for Cyberspace, by Alexander Klimburg

  — Cherian Samuel

• A Rock between Hard Places: Afghanistan as an Arena of Regional Insecurity, by Kristian Berg Harpviken and Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh

  — Y.M. Bammi

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