Bugbears in MoD Guidelines on Handling of Complaints The MoD guidelines on handling of complaints do not seem to be free from potentially crippling afflictions. Conceptual ambiguity can easily defeat the purpose of the guidelines. Amit Cowshish | October 26, 2015 | IDSA Comments
Malabar-2015 and Power Dynamics in the Asian Commons As India reorients its maritime posture to cater to the new realities of Asia, there is a realisation that regional maritime stability is increasingly susceptible to growing power imbalances. Abhijit Singh | October 23, 2015 | IDSA Comments
Coalition Warfare, edited by N.B. Poulsen, K.H. Galster and S. Nørby The book contains 10 articles from presentations made by Western scholars (including officers from the defence forces) at the Royal Danish Defence College, in 2011, and has been edited by... Y.M. Bammi | October 2015 | Journal of Defence Studies
The ‘Road’ to Success for the “Silk Road Initiative” is via Aerospace For China, the Belt and Road initiative is a long-term strategy designed for it to assume a bigger role in global affairs through the business route. Various aerial and space-based... Ajey Lele | October 21, 2015 | IDSA Comments
An Indian Maritime Strategy for an Era of Geopolitical Uncertainty The fractious nature of maritime relations in the Asia-Pacific region is a recognisable feature of international geopolitics today. Following China’s massive reclamation and ‘island-building’ project in the South China Sea... Abhijit Singh | October 2015 | Journal of Defence Studies
Publishing Official Military Histories We recommend that the histories of the 1965 and 1971 wars be revised, updated and reprinted as proper official versions with the correct title and logo. P. K. Gautam , Rana T.S. Chhina | October 16, 2015 | IDSA Comments
29th Plenary Meeting of the Missile Technology Control Regime and India’s Membership Expediting India’s membership process would be a win-win situation for both India and the MTCR. The prevailing uncertainty will end for India and the MTCR will get an effective and... Rajiv Nayan | October 16, 2015 | IDSA Comments
China Borders: Settlement and Conflicts—Selected Papers, by Neville Maxwell This book is a compilation of papers written by journalist Neville Maxwell over a career span of five decades. Those who look at China–India relations closely, notably the border dispute,... Mandip Singh | October 2015 | Journal of Defence Studies
‘Arriving in the Nick of Time’: The Indian Corps in France, 1914–15 Today, military historians as well as those dealing with colonial South Asian history tend to overlook the fact that during the First World War, the Indian Army was Britain’s strategic... Chandar S. Sundaram | October 2015 | Journal of Defence Studies
Indo-US Defence Cooperation: Harvesting Defence Technologies There are no laid down procedures for procurement of technology per se. Existing procedures relate to procurement of equipment, weapons systems, platforms and other tangible capabilities. Amit Cowshish | October 13, 2015 | IDSA Comments
