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.

Contents

Focus

• 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

Book Review

• 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