US-India Defence Technologies for Transfer: Cultural Change India-US defence ties are shifting away from a ‘buyer-seller’ path to one of co- development and co-production. In Washington this is viewed as a change from a ‘culture of presumptive... Vivek Kapur | October 15, 2013 | IDSA Comments
India and Central Asia: Need for a Pro-active Approach India has traditionally attached great importance to its relations with Central Asia. But, unfortunately, the relationship faces several constraints including the lack of direct access to Central Asia; the unstable... Arvind Gupta | October 14, 2013 | Policy Brief
India-Australia Maritime Cooperation: Raising the Pitch Both India and Australia are trying hard to shed their traditional reticence and engage in the maritime domain, with both sides agreeing to a drastic overhaul of the existing exchanges. Abhijit Singh | October 14, 2013 | IDSA Comments
China’s ‘Three Warfares’ and India For the past decade, China is known to have actively used ‘three warfares’ (3Ws) strategy—media, psychological and legal warfare—to weaken its adversaries in regions constituting what it perceives to be... Abhijit Singh | October 2013 | Journal of Defence Studies
The Rational Believer: Choices and Decisions in Madrasas of Pakistan, by Masooda Bano The Rational Believer is a result of three years of research and field trips in Pakistan by the author and examines the post-9/11 image of madrasas in Pakistan. The findings... Y.M. Bammi | October 2013 | Journal of Defence Studies
Hinduism and the Ethics of Warfare in South Asia: From Antiquity to the Present, by Kaushik Roy In the academic field of modern history studies, historians dealing with South Asia largely neglect the historical evolution of military–strategic thought on the Indian subcontinent. It is also true that,... Jean Langlois-Berthelot | October 2013 | Journal of Defence Studies
Samudra Manthan: Sino-Indian Rivalry in the Indo-Pacific, by C. Raja Mohan Samudra Manthan is a book whose time has come. It brings to the table the other dimension of the Sino-Indian rivalry, which is often missed by the larger group of... Mandip Singh | October 2013 | Journal of Defence Studies
The Rise of the Indian Navy: Internal Vulnerabilities, External Challenges, edited by Harsh V. Pant Since antiquity the Indian Ocean has been the centre of human progress, a great arena in which many civilizations have mingled, fought, and traded on important trade routes criss-crossing the... Rakesh Chopra | October 2013 | Journal of Defence Studies
Strategic Perspectives on Growth Phases and Long-term Techno-economic Performance of India’s DRDO The future of an organization is less determined by outside forces than by its history and the Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO) is no exception. This article analyses the... R. Gopalaswami , G. Satheesh Reddy | October 2013 | Journal of Defence Studies
The Cholas: Some Enduring Issues of Statecraft, Military Matters and International Relations The article addresses the deficit in the indigenous, rich historical knowledge of south India. It does this by examining the military and political activities of the Cholas to understand the... P. K. Gautam | October 2013 | Journal of Defence Studies
