Handbook of Indian defence policy themes, structures and doctrines
India has the world's fourth largest military and one of the biggest defence budgets. It asserts its political and military profile in South Asia and the Indian Ocean region. The nation has been in the midst of an ambitious plan to modernize its largely Soviet-era arms since the late 1990s and...
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Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
2016
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a 1. Introduction -- 2. The Indian Army: 1700s-1947 -- 3. Indian Civil-Military Relations: An Overview -- 4. Indian Society and the Soldier: Will the Twain Ever Meet? -- 5. India and the Changing Nature of War: Gradual Incrementalism? -- 6. Military as an instrument of India's foreign policy: An Expanding Footprint -- 7. India's Erratic Defence Diplomacy: In Need of a Booster Dose -- 8. The Indian Army: Evolution in the Age of Nuclear Weapons and Terrorism -- 9. Evolution of the Indian Navy: Towards a `Maritime Awakening'? -- 10. Indian Air Force: Persuasive in Peace, Effective in War -- 11. Evolution of Jointness in Indian Defence Forces: Stuck Between the Services -- 12. Indian Army's flagship doctrines: Need for Strategic Guidance -- 13. The Indian Navy's Doctrinal Evolution: Between Deterrence and Denial -- 14. Doctrinal Evolution in the Indian Air Force: Towards a Strategic Future -- 15. Changing Contours of Indian Defence Expenditure: Past as Prologue? -- 16. Defence Procurement in India: Challenges Abound -- 17. Islamist Terrorism in India: A Hybrid Threat -- 18. Bullet Holes in Village Walls: India's Naxalite Challenge -- 19. Insurgencies in India's Northeast: Rise, Fall and the Rise? -- 20. The Evolution in India's National Security Apparatus: Persisting Structural Deficiencies -- 21. The Indian Intelligence System: Meeting the Challenges of a New World -- 22. The Indian Police: Need for Reinvention -- 23. Para Military Forces and Central Armed Police Forces of India: Punching Below Their Capabilities -- 24. Nuclear Weapons in India's Defence Policy: Achieving Conventional-Nuclear Synergy -- 25. Space Security and Missile Defence: Towards Greater Pragmatism | |
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