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This issue features an analysis of how China uses sharp power to promote national interests; Kautilya’s Arthashastra, strategic culture and grand strategic preferences; and India’s potential for defence diplomacy with Southeast Asia. Also included is a commentary on the emerging India-Indonesia comprehensive strategic partnership and five book reviews.
Contents
Focus
From Smart Power to Sharp Power: How China Promotes her National Interests
-- Mandip Singh
Kautilya’s Arthashastra: Indian Strategic Culture and Grand Strategic Preferences
-- Kajari Kamal
India’s Defence Diplomacy with Southeast Asia: An Impetus to Act East
-- Vignesh Ram
Commentary
Emerging India-Indonesia Comprehensive Strategic Partnership
-- Udai Bhanu Singh
Book Reviews
Mission Overseas: Daring Operations by the Indian Military, by Sushant Singh
-- Ghanshyam Katoch
Army and Nation: The Military and Indian Democracy since Independence, by Steven I. Wilkinson
-- Kartik Bommakanti
Indian Aircraft Industry: Possible Innovations for Success in the Twenty-First Century, by Vivek Kapur
-- Kishore Kumar Khera
The Great Game in Afghanistan: Rajiv Gandhi, General Zia, and the Unending War, by Kallol Bhattacherjee
-- N. Bahri
The Battlefields of Imphal: The Second World War and North East India, by Hemant Singh Katoch
-- Y.M. Bammi