2nd Edition
The Routledge Handbook of Indian Defence Policy Themes, Structures and Doctrines
- Introduction
- The Indian Army: 1700s-1947
- Indian Civil-Military Relations: An Overview
- Indian Society and the Soldier: Will the Twain Ever Meet?
- India and the Changing Nature of War: Gradual Incrementalism?
- Military as an instrument of India’s foreign policy: An Expanding Footprint
- India’s Erratic Defence Diplomacy: In Need of a Booster Dose
- India’s Counter Terror Diplomacy: Strategy and Outcome
- The Indian Army: Evolution in the Age of Nuclear Weapons and Terrorism
- Evolution of the Indian Navy: Towards a ‘Maritime Awakening’?
- Indian Air Force: Persuasive in Peace, Effective in War
- Evolution of Jointness in Indian Defence Forces: Stuck Between the Services
- Indian Army’s flagship doctrines: Need for Strategic Guidance
- The Indian Navy’s Doctrinal Evolution: Between Deterrence and Denial
- Doctrinal Evolution in the Indian Air Force: Towards a Strategic Future
- Changing Contours of Indian Defence Expenditure: Past as Prologue?
- Defence Procurement in India: Challenges Abound
- Islamist Terrorism in India: A Hybrid Threat
- Bullet Holes in Village Walls: India's Naxalite Challenge
- Insurgencies in India's Northeast: Rise, Fall and the Rise?
- The Evolution in India’s National Security Apparatus: Persisting Structural Deficiencies
- The Indian Intelligence System: Meeting the Challenges of a New World
- The Indian Police: Need for Reinvention
- Para Military Forces and Central Armed Police Forces of India: Punching Below Their Capabilities
- Professional Military Education in India: Towards a New Architecture
- Nuclear Weapons in India’s Defence Policy: Achieving Conventional-Nuclear Synergy Verghese Koithara
- Space Security and Missile Defence: Towards Greater Pragmatism
- India’s Cyber Defence Capabilities: Their Role in Net-Centric Warfare
Harsh V. Pant
Section 1: Soldier, State and Society in India
Daniel Marston
Ayesha Ray
Kaushik Roy
Section 2: Military and Foreign Policy
Yogesh Joshi and Harsh V. Pant
Sushant K. Singh
Nitin A. Gokhale
Vinay Kaura
Section 3: The Services
Sunil Dasgupta
Arun Prakash
Vinod Patney
Vinod Anand
Section 4: Doctrines
Ali Ahmed
Manjeet S. Pardesi
Arjun Subramaniam
Section 5: Defence Versus Development
Laxman Kumar Behera
Amit Cowshish
Section 6: Internal Security
Stephen Tankel
Ajai Sahni
Bibhu Prasad Routray
Section 7: Institutional Infrastructure
Frank O’ Donnell and Harsh V. Pant
Vikram Sood
R.N. Ravi
Narender Kumar
Kapil Patil
Section 8: Nuclear Weapons and Space
Rajeswari P. Rajagopalan
Kartik Bommakanti
Index
Biography
Harsh V. Pant is Professor of International Relations in the Defence Studies Department and the India Institute at King’s College London, UK. He is Director of Research and Head of Strategic Studies Programme at Observer Research Foundation in New Delhi, India. He is also an adjunct fellow with the Wadhwani Chair in US–India Policy Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, DC. His current research is focused on Asian security issues. His most recent books include China Ascendant: Its Rise and Implications (2019), India’s Evolving National Security Agenda: Modi and Beyond (2019), Indian Foreign Policy: The Modi Era (2019), New Directions in India’s Foreign Policy: Theory and Praxis (2018) and India’s Nuclear Policy (2018). Pant writes regularly for various media outlets, including The Japan Times, The Wall Street Journal, The National (UAE) and The Telegraph.
