Inside the Enemy’s Computer: Identifying Cyber-Attackers, by Clement Guitton

Attribution of cyberattacks is an impending issue in enabling a credible deterrent against both state and non-state actors. It applies equally to cases of a criminal nature as well as...

• Munish Sharma |
• January-March 2018 |
• Journal of Defence Studies

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South Asian Geopolitics: Has Pakistan Lost its Plot?

Fighting to the End: The Pakistan Army’s Way of War, by C. Christine Fair, New York: Oxford University Press, 2014, pp. 343, £27.99 Defeat is an Orphan: How Pakistan Lost...

• Abhay Kumar Singh |
• October 2017 |
• Journal of Defence Studies

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

The article argues that India and the United States are poised to strengthen their bilateral strategic convergences, not only in the Indian Ocean but also in Pacific-Asia that lies eastwards...

• Gurpreet S Khurana |
• October 2017 |
• Journal of Defence Studies

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

The book, A Rock between Hard Places, is the result of research carried out by K.B. Harpviken and S. Tadjbakhsh, independently and jointly, with encouragement from the Ministry of Foreign...

• Y.M. Bammi |
• October 2017 |
• Journal of Defence Studies

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

The core argument this article makes is that India’s maritime worldview and role conceptions have not only been evolving since the 1950s, but they have also been closely interlinked with...

• Zorawar Daulet Singh |
• October 2017 |
• Journal of Defence Studies

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

War from the Ground Up is not easy reading. The author’s erudition, bolstered by a wealth of detail and historical context, makes this one of the more serious studies on...

• Alok Deb |
• October 2017 |
• Journal of Defence Studies

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

The United States (US) defence acquisition apparatus, arguably the biggest in the world, has undergone several reforms in the past 100 years. The reforms, which have focused on both structural...

• Laxman Kumar Behera |
• October 2017 |
• Journal of Defence Studies

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

The Thirty-first Report of the Standing Committee on Defence (SCoD)1 was submitted to Parliament on 9 March 2017. The report examined the capital outlay for the defence services for the...

• Amit Cowshish |
• October 2017 |
• Journal of Defence Studies

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

The introduction to Alexander Klimburg’s book, The Darkening Web: The War for Cyberspace, begins by referencing the Indian parable of the Blind Men of Hindoostan and the elephant to bring...

• Cherian Samuel |
• October 2017 |
• Journal of Defence Studies

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The New Arthashastra: A Security Strategy for India, edited by Gurmeet Kanwal

The clamour for a national security strategy has become part of a constant refrain that accompanies every debate on India’s strategic culture or national security outlook. This repeated call for...

• Vivek Chadha |
• July 2017 |
• Journal of Defence Studies

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Assessing Maritime Power in the Asia-Pacific, edited by Greg Kennedy and Harsh V. Pant

Since taking over in 2009, the Obama Administration considered Asia to be significant for power cooperation and for establishing an international order based on accepted rules and norms. This started...

• Sarabjeet Singh Parmar |
• July 2017 |
• Journal of Defence Studies

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Air Support for Internal Security Operations: What India can Learn from Trinidad and Tobago

Air power has long been recognised as a useful asset in internal security operations, running the full gamut from militarised counter-insurgency (CI) and counter-terrorist (CT) operations to the mundane task...

• Sanjay Badri-Maharaj |
• July 2017 |
• Journal of Defence Studies

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International Military Exercises: An Indian Perspective

International military exercises are an extension of military training for partner countries and a significant military diplomacy tool. Since 2012, the Indian armed forces have engaged 23 countries in 93...

• Kishore Kumar Khera |
• July 2017 |
• Journal of Defence Studies

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India’s Wars: A Military History, 1947–1971, by Arjun Subramaniam

In this first of two volumes, Air Vice Marshal Arjun Subramaniam offers excellent and concise histories of India’s wars and military operations, starting with the rescue and partial liberation of...

• S. Kalyanaraman |
• July 2017 |
• Journal of Defence Studies

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Transfer of Defence Technology: Exploring the Avenues for India

India has been the recipient of transfers of defence technology predominantly through the licensed manufacture mode which, while being cheap and easy to implement, has some major limitations. This article...

• Kevin A. Desouza |
• July 2017 |
• Journal of Defence Studies

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Public–Private Partnership for MRO in Defence: Application to Aerospace and Land Systems

This article examines the various aspects of employing public–private partnership (PPP) for carrying out maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) activities for aerospace and land forces in India. PPP in MRO...

• Chandrika Kaushik |
• July 2017 |
• Journal of Defence Studies

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War Crimes, Atrocity and Justice, by Michael J. Shapiro

Human history has been witness to many war crimes and atrocities. But it is only in the twentieth century that one sees institutionalised, global attempts to fix responsibility for such...

• Uma Purushothaman |
• July 2017 |
• Journal of Defence Studies

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Aspects of Leadership: Ethics, Law and Spirituality by Carroll Connelley and Paolo Tripodi

Leadership and ethics have inseparable connect and have been an integral part of the discourse on leadership in general and military leadership in particular. This consistent focus on the subject...

• Vivek Chadha |
• July 2017 |
• Journal of Defence Studies

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Japan’s Foreign and Security Policy Under the ‘Abe Doctrine’: New Dynamism or New Dead End?, by Christopher W. Hughes

Given the fluidity in East Asian geopolitics and China’s arrival as a key variable in the international system, Japan has been forced to respond to the asymmetrical power politics. As...

• Titli Basu |
• April 2017 |
• Journal of Defence Studies

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International Law on the Use of Force against Terrorists since 9/11: The Contrasting Cases of Israel and India

The international law on the use of force against terrorists has experienced a radical revision since the rise of transnational jihad of Al-Qaeda. It has sufficiently expanded to accommodate actions...

• Yashasvi Chandra |
• April 2017 |
• Journal of Defence Studies

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