Army ‘Transformation’: A ‘Radical’ One? A shift in strategic thinking over the past two decades has now led to India being poised between the strategic doctrines of offensive and defensive realism. Ali Ahmed | January 17, 2011 | IDSA Comments
Military Diplomacy This paper provides conceptual and practical aspects of military diplomacy. It examines India’s recent efforts in enhancing its military diplomacy vis-àvis Chinese military diplomacy conundrum in Asia, especially in South and Southeast Asia. It points out that India’s inability to evince trust and goodwill with its neighbours has led to most of them preferring to employ military diplomacy with China as an India-specific countervailing factor. It argues that India’s military diplomacy is yet to catch up with its rising power status. KA Muthanna | January 2011 | Journal of Defence Studies
Chemical Weapon Profile: Libya Recently, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s regime in Libya drew a lot of international attention following the violent crackdown on the protests there. As the situation deteriorated further, the possibility of Colonel… Continue reading Chemical Weapon Profile: Libya Pranamita Baruah | January-June 2011 | CBW Magazine
Jagannath P. Panda, China’s Path to Power: Party, Military and the Politics of State Transition, New Delhi: Pentagon Security International, 2010 It is not very often in India, that comes across a book about China that goes beyond the traditional subject of India-China relations. Jagannath P. Panda’s book China’s Path to Power: Party, Military and the Politics of State Transition does exactly that. Prashant Kumar Singh | January 2011 | Journal of Defence Studies
Inter-Korea Dialogue versus Japan-South Korea Military Engagement North Korea’s offer of a dialogue is unlikely to elicit a positive response from South Korea which instead is militarily drawing closer to Japan to enhance deterrence. Rajaram Panda | January 14, 2011 | IDSA Comments
NATO and Russia: Move towards Cooperation or Deployments After Lisbon, the next step for NATO and Russia should be addressing issues relating to deployments of arsenals and arms control. Joyce Sabina Lobo | January 13, 2011 | IDSA Comments
Naeem Salik, The Genesis of South Asian Nuclear Deterrence: Pakistan’s Perspective, New York: Oxford University Press, 2010 On any subject, there are always two stories to tell- or may be more. This book seems to do the same when it comes to the debate over the nuclearisation of the South Asian region. As the title of the book suggests, Brig. (Retd.) Naeem Salik seeks to revisit the history of South Asian nuclear weapons from Pakistan’s perspective. The author feels that the story told, so far, has been obtuse and has worked to the detriment of Pakistan’s interests. In order to create a balance in the literature, the author claims to provide ‘dispassionate and objective analysis’ Yogesh Joshi | January 2011 | Journal of Defence Studies
Enhancing Soldiers’ Capability for Counter-Insurgency Operations Demands from society and family are higher on soldiers and, thus contribute towards greater stress. Therefore, desired capacities have to be built in our recruitment system, training philosophy, training methodology, training infrastructure in training academies, regimental training centres, divisional training schools and other military colleges/ schools of instruction as also in our military thinking to produce motivated, efficient and stress-adapted officers and soldiers capable of meeting future warfare challenges efficiently K C Dixit | January 2011 | Journal of Defence Studies
India’s Defence Diplomacy in Southeast Asia With Southeast Asia, India has been enjoying the historical legacy of the strong influence of the Indic civilization and has been strengthening its linkages through strategic engagement, economic liberalization and Free Trade Agreement with the ASEAN countries. After 1992, India formulated its defence diplomacy in consonance with the ‘Look East’ policy to safeguard its eastern seaboard and secure its strategic interests in the Indian Ocean region. Pankaj K Jha | January 2011 | Journal of Defence Studies
India-Republic of Korea Military Diplomacy : Past and Future Projections As the first decade of the 21st century ended, India-Republic of Korea (ROK) relationship has assumed robustness in almost all dimensions – political, cultural and economic. As both countries enter the new year, a new dimension – security and strategic – that began in the preceding decade is likely to be seen in the expanding military cooperation, that began in the closing months of the preceding year. The foundation for such a relationship is already in place as both countries have identified a convergence of interests. Rajaram Panda | January 2011 | Journal of Defence Studies
