IN THIS VOLUME • IDR Comment — Afghanistan: A House Divided — Maj Gen Yashwant Deva • Operational Scenario Alpha: The Run up to Conflict — IDR Editorial Team • Internal Violence and the Military — Lt Gen SC Sardeshpande • Indian Air Power for the mid 1990s:Conceptual Issues — Air Marshal CV Gole • Terrorism in India: Formulating a Hostage Policy — Arjun Katoch • Ex-Servicemen - Betrayal by ‘Consensus’ — Rear Adm Satyindra Singh • Women in Uniform: Observations on some Future Problems of the Indian Armed Forces — Dr HK Srivastava • Preserving the Army’s Ethos — Lt Gen SK Sinha • Command and Leadership: Two Cardinal Principles of Soldiering — Brig Desmond E Hayde • Command Breakdown: A Case Study — Shankar Bhaduri • The Regime of Warships: Contemporary Naval Missions and Activities and Emerging Law of the Sea Part 1 — Lt BM Dimri • Armour Fire Power: Incapacitate - Do not Destroy — Maj Anil Sabharwal • Secondary Protection: Explosion Control for Future Tanks — Maj Anil Sabharwal • Motive Power for Battle Tanks: A Technology Forecast — Lt Col AG Thomas • The Operating of Software Controlled Weapon Systems — Gp Capt MK Rana VIEWPOINT • Indian Military intelligence: A Case for Change Reviews and Critiques • Counter Attack: The West’s Battle against the Terrorists Reviewed by Maj Gen Afsir Karim (Retd) • Fiza’ya: Psyche of the Pakistan Air Force Reviewed by Shankar Bhaduri

IN THIS VOLUME: IDR Comment • Terrorism: Punjab • Insurgency Movements: Manipur • Tripura • Secessionist Movement: Gorkhaland • Non-Secessionist Movements: • Jharkhand • Uttarkhand • Defence Deals: The Bofors controversy • The HDW submarine deal • Sri Lanka • Pakistan • China • Siachen Interview with General K. Sundarji. Chief of the Army Staff The Air Land Battle doctrine: Implication and application – Air Cmde Jasjit Singh The changing rhythm of war: Evolution of army aviation – Lt Gen E A Vas Airborne forces: In search of a strategic concept – Brig Vivek Sapatnekar Land warfare in the sub-continent: The Indian quest for doctrine – Maj G D Bakshi Strike Corps offensive operation: Imperatives for success – Maj Gurmeet Kanwal The state of armour • An appraisal – IDR Research Team • MBT-90 – Col Ashok Puri • India’s MBT ‘Arjun’ – IDR Research Team • Progress on MBT ‘Arjun’ – IDR Research Team Insurgency in China – IDR Research Team Management of intelligence at the national level – Lt Gen P N Kathpalia Career management of military officers – Lt Gen M L Chibber “The safety, honour and welfare of the men you command...” – IDR Research Team Defence perspectives for India: Socio-economic factors and internal stability – Cmde Raja Menon The subcontinent's nuclear ledgers are getting critical and complicated: An appreciation – Cmde Ranjit Rai Jewish terrorists and Arab exodus: Politico-military lessons for India – IDR Research Team

American Military History provides the United States Army-in particular, its young officers, NCOs, and cadets-with a comprehensive but brief account of its past. The Center of Military History first published this work in 1956 as a textbook for senior ROTC courses. Since then it has gone through a number of updates and revisions, but the primary intent has remained the same. Support for military history education has always been a principal mission of the Center, and this new edition of an invaluable history furthers that purpose. The history of an active organization tends to expand rapidly as the organization grows larger and more complex. The period since the Vietnam War, at which point the most recent edition ended, has been a significant one for the Army, a busy period of expanding roles and missions and of fundamental organizational changes. In particular, the explosion of missions and deployments since 11 September 2001 has necessitated the creation of additional, open-ended chapters in the story of the U.S. Army in action. This first volume covers the Army's history from its birth in 1775 to the eve of World War I. By 1917, the United States was already a world power. The Army had sent large expeditionary forces beyond the American hemisphere, and at the beginning of the new century Secretary of War Elihu Root had proposed changes and reforms that within a generation would shape the Army of the future. But world war-global war-was still to come. The second volume of this new edition will take up that story and extend it into the twenty-first century and the early years of the war on terrorism and includes an analysis of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq up to January 2009.