This issue features three enlightening research articles on how to leverage India’s maritime diplomacy, an examination of the Russo-Japanese War from the lens of limited wars, and a discussion of the status of lethal autonomous weapons systems under existing norms of International Humanitarian Law. It also includes two book reviews.

Contents

Focus

• Leveraging India’s Maritime Diplomacy

  – Roby Thomas

• Russo-Japanese War: An Examination of Limited War Strategy

  – Himadri Bose

• Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems under Existing Norms of International Humanitarian Law

  – Bashir Ali Abbas

Book Reviews

• Human Rights in the Indian Armed Forces: An Analysis of Article 33 by U.C. Jha and Sanghamitra Choudhury

  – Kishore Kumar Khera

• Assessment of Chinese Military Modernisation and its Implications for India by P.K. Chakraborty

  – Atul Pant

Guidelines for Contributors