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Hardcover. Zustand: As New. Over the past decade, the VIF has charted an academically independent path of research and analyses. The Foundation has thus been disseminating a vast stream of analyses of key developments and decision dilemmas concerning the nation to its wide circle of associates and readers. Non-partisan and balanced strategic objectivity, and conformity with India`s exalted native civilisational values being its fundamental competencies, it has earned a reputation for the highest level of credibility among national and international opinion as well as decision makers which include governments, strategists and academia. To commemorate the Tenth Anniversary of the Foundation, a selection of 15 articles of contemporary national concerns, along with analyses and prognoses, are presented in this volume after due revision and updating. Authored by the fraternity of VIF stalwarts, with a sprinkling of potential researchers, the topics chosen are diverse, and as the reader would find, the analyses are as concurrent today as when the papers were written in the past few years. The lead authors, of course, are among the top strategic thinkers of contemporary times Shri S. Gurumurthy, Shri Satish Chandra, General N. C. Vij and Dr. Arvind Gupta, to mention just a few. As the reader will appreciate, each article goes a step ahead to look beyond the usual, mundane discourses.…

Hardcover. Zustand: New. Conceptualising the foundations of national defence and organising a conformingly robust military structure is a humungous task of extremely complexities. Even nations who possess pristine strategic vision and deep rooted military culture find it practically impossible to home on to the right equation between their political goals, military power and optimal resource allocation. The reason lies in the fact that no matter what mock drills one puts up, outcome of military campaigns often remain uncertain and unpredictable, and independent of the forces fielded to secure victory. There can be no right formulae, no right examples and no practice round to hone one's concepts and practices before the final, bloody and destructive showdown. Irreversibility of war further makes it a nightmare for military planners to guarantee success. At the best they can apply their professional insight to anticipate adverse situations, notionally replicate these and then harness tactical acumen to find possibly the most effective courses of actions to deal with the circumstances. It is here that the salience of various issues discussed in this book come into contention. The book does not offer formulae for the achievement of military success. Rather it offers an insight into the ingredients and processes that enable military planners to conceive the best possible force composition to win wars.…

Soft cover. Zustand: New. 1st Edition. In misplaced consideration of local 'sentiments', the Indian polity has depended on a class of local political as well as religious 'middlemen' to nurture the hoary State-Union relationship, thus failing to establish direct relationship with the citizens in the Kashmir Valley. Meanwhile, over the years, most of these 'leaders' and their cronies have found more and more profit in promoting corruption, maladministration and treason. In contiguous Pakistan and Pakistan ruled areas, self-styled fighters for 'Muslim cause' have mandated themselves to 'liberate' Kashmir from 'Hindu' rule, and garner political power and wealth in the process. Flow of 'Islamist' funds and unemployed terrorists have allowed the radical cousins on either side of the Line of Control to join hands. Thus over the past three decades, the entire Valley was subverted by distracting the Kashmiris with anti-national, anti-Hindu proclamations. Militant attacks, choreographed stone pelting, women screaming etc. have thus turned into an industry. Mere thousand radical 'Islamists-for-profit' in just six districts the Kashmir Valley have usurped the face of 69 lakh satisfied citizens of 22 districts, and are demanding to speak for the entire 1.25 crore citizenry of all religions and sects of the State! All this while, the Indian Union had been watching stoically, and allowing treason to grow under the misplaced excuse of civil propriety and liberty. Time has however come to discard appeasement of the intransigent and to engage in soft, hard and ideological measures to bring back the euphoria that the Kashmiris felt on joining the Indian Union, the monograph avers. (jacket).…

Hardcover. Zustand: New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New. 1st Edition. This book is a compilation of stories penned down by the author at intermittent intervals over forty turbulent years of his service in the Indian Army that began just prior to the Bangladesh War, 1971. The stories recount real-life events, though many times the narratives have either been spiced up or eased down in the interest of readability. The reader may note that it is just a soldier`s account; neither is it a philosopher`s thesis nor does it lays any claim to literary excellence. Indeed, it is just a witness`s narration of certain episodes that he found worth sharing. The book contains twenty one narratives in all, covering themes as diverse as mind boggling experiences, sad episodes, humour in field, adventure, satire and nostalgia. Photographs, where available, and sketches when necessary, are appended alongside some of the story-lines. As the reader may notice, these are products of a young amateur who attempted to compensate his limited skills with boundless enthusiasm. The stories, `First Blood: East Pakistan` and `The Battle for Jaffna`, are recounts of battle experiences; the first comes from a twenty year old platoon commander`s eyes and the second when he grew up to a middle-age company commander. The pieces, `Olive Green in Dev Bhoomi` and `On the Trail of the Dead: A Journey Through Karakoram` narrate the travails of long range patrolling in the most difficult environments of the Indo-Tibet Border, while the story `War of the Junkyard` recounts the triggering of a sensitive situation in the North-East Frontier by an over-active young officer, to be laughed off later. There are two satires: `Tales and Travails of Study at the NDC` and `The Final Solution`; the first one laughs at the snobbish culture at the National Defence College, New Delhi, a prestigious destination for military and civil service officers, while the latter points to the incredulity of political stance towards Maoist rebellion. In July 2006, the nation stood transfixed as the child `Prince` was dug out from the bottom of a 60 feet deep bore-well. `A Prince in a Bore-well` tells that story. `Back to the Bygone` and `Marhaura` are reconnections with the past after four decades spent in faraway lands that motivate reconciliation with the ways of life. Even if India history is replete with hoary military traditions, the independent nation`s elite seem to have lost their understanding of the military institution during their two centuries of servitude to foreign rule; thankfully, rural Bharat has maintained their tradition of celebrating its soldierly. The piece, `Understanding Civil-Military Relations` attempts to refresh the State in that understanding without which the nation would find itself in grief. Hopefully, the reading would give to the readers at least a fraction of the joy that it gave to the author while penning it.…

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Hardcover. Zustand: New. The 75th Year of Independence is a milestone in India's march towards a sovereign dispensation characterised by freedom, peace, and prosperity. In that endeavour, the preservation of territorial sanctity, economic sovereignty and political relevance in a competitive intra- and inter-regional dispensation are major challenges. India's geographic situation between two compulsively revisionist, aggressive and militarist neighbours adds to the rigours of such challenges. Wisdom states that as a rising India proceeds to secure her aspirations of peace and prosperity, it would be mandatory to sustain the journey with the possession of robust and military prowess. The purpose of this Vivekananda International Foundation publication is to visualise, candidly, for readers, a futuristic construct of India's military prowess that is sustainable within the nation's affordable defence economics. …

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Hardcover. Zustand: New. About the Book During the preceding decade, the application of regular as well as irregular military power to secure the ends of political goals has expanded beyond its classical moulds. Thus, we find that the contemporary military operations are less constrained by the hoary rules of warfare targeting of the civilians and deliberate destruction of infrastructure are some examples. On the other hand, leaping advancements in military technologies have enabled the militaries to do what had been unthinkable so far. Destined to be a globally reckonable power while fixated at the crosshairs of two powerful and compulsively belligerent neighbours, India has to take due cognisance of the lessons that emerge from that situation. In this book, eminent professionals have analysed the implications of the recent trends of warfare and the possible manners of gearing up to deal with these. About the Author Lt Gen Gautam Banerjee, PVSM, AVSM, YSM (Retd.) is a former Chief of Staff, the Central Army Command and Commandant Officers Training Academy, Chennai. Author of over a dozen books and nearly a hundred papers on military matters, the General is a senior fellow-editor at the Vivekenanda International Foundation, New Delhi.…

Hardcover. Zustand: New. Vimarsh: Dialogues and Voices on National Concerns, is a compilation of selected analytical papers on 15 of some of the most complex issues with which the nation has to grapple with on its way to progress. The analyses have been articulated by eminent subject experts who explain their insights through the VIMASH Series of awareness that are organised regularly at the Vivekananda International Foundation, New Delhi (VIF). A topical exposition of this nature brings out the finer nuances of national level challenges which need to be addressed with due alacrity and perseverance in order that Bharatvarsha may harness her full potentials as a developing nation of global significance. For ease of readership, the 15 issues have been analysed under chapter wise groupings of Civilisational, Governance, Science and Technology, National Security and Diplomacy and External Relations. The book is anticipated to be both interesting and educative for the readers.…

Hardcover. Zustand: New. 1st Edition. China's economic progress and military assertiveness have assumed the centre stage of strategic discussions in India, as indeed it has elsewhere in Asia and United States. Tibet and Eastern Turkistan have turned into Han-dominated Xizang and Xinjiang Autonomous Regions respectively and the China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) has emerged as an overwhelmingly powerful modern military force-well, almost-that is ever-ready to flex muscles. This book is an attempt to study the PLA and its posture in Tibet. Even though intimate knowledge of the PLA is hard to acquire, the author has managed to build up fair amounts of details over long years of regular study and monitoring of its activities. Application of such accumulated knowledge to professional peer group discussion, understanding and appreciation and treating the inferences with personal experience of almost the entire border belt, it has become possible to peep behind the 'red curtain'. If astutely, innovatively and audaciously harnessed, the terrain could play a major role in stalling the PLA juggernaut, if it chooses to come at India; and, even if not in its best shape, the Indian military forces would not let 1962 be repeated. Indeed, with some statesman-like alacrity within the political leadership, the PLA may even be stalemated for a reckonable period of time, if not made to recoil. This extremely well-researched book written with the advantage of practitioner's experience is an invaluable tool to defence and strategic affairs professionals worldwide in better understanding the hidden workings, strengths and weaknesses of the PLA.…

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Hardcover. Zustand: New. 1st Edition. The People's Republic of China (PRC) is India's powerful neighbor since the first year of 1950's. Before that, without prejudice to the issue of its status of sovereignty or Chinese suzerainty, Tibet had de facto fulfilled the role. That fact of past unfamiliarity with Chinese way of politico-diplomatic expressions, aided by China's unilaterally adopted adversarial posture towards India, makes it imperative for India's strategic community to study China's moves very carefully, and draw conclusions for the purpose of managing the strained relationship. This book is a compilation of such observations, analyses and inferences. Study of PRC's various initiatives which have direct or indirect bearing on India and the methods adopted to implement those is a tough call. This is so because in dealing with inter-state relations, the Chinese leadership arrogate the right of defining the issues according to their partisan perceptions and exclusive stratagem. To that extent, papers contained in this book narrate the factual and honest impressions which China's policies and actions, as these relate to India's concerns, depict. The purpose of this book would be served if these impressions are taken note of in PRC's future bilateral discourse in true spirit of mutuality. (jacket).…

Hardcover. Zustand: New. As she charts her destiny in lifting her masses from poverty and backwardness, India is also obliged to ward off incessant military aggression from her two near, and most inimical neighbours. Resultantly, she is compelled to spend as much as Rupees three hundred thousand crores annually from her overburdened national income to maintain the world's third largest defence forces. In normal course of state wisdom therefore, one would expect that such a humungous investment would be managed in the most efficient manner to get the maximum purchase out of every paisa. But alas, that is not the case. What else could explain the contradiction that even with so much manpower, hardware and funding committed upon her military power, none of her adversaries are deterred from perpetrating acts of gross military escalation while indulging in brazen acts of sabotaging the Indian nationhood - freely and with immunity. It is also hard to explain as to why must India's massive defence forces have to be left short of their due war wherewithal, burdened with obsolete weaponry and hardware, and saddled with overgrown and over-frigid organisations for higher (mis)management. The answer is straightforward: the Indian military institution is inefficiently managed. The long festering flaw is observed, understood and enthusiastically banished now and then, but corrections are never actually attempted. Solutions are known, more or less, but are held down, diverted and scotched by systemic prejudices, paranoia and partisan machinations, as if by design. The causes of such afflictions too are no secret: political apathy, bureaucratic subterfuge and to some extent, myopic military leadership.This book is devoted to arguments for empowerment of the apex military management system, identification of the hurdles, redress of systemic concerns valid or conjured, and goes on to offer certain options to modernise the system of Indian defence management into an operationally efficient political instrument that would promote the cause of India's sovereignty in a cost-effective manner. (jacket).…

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Zustand: New. Past unfamiliarity with the Chinese way of politico-diplomatic expressions, aided by China s unilaterally adopted adversarial posture towards India, makes it imperative for India s strategic community to study China s moves very carefully, and draw conclusi.