Analysts Have Heralded The Qualitative Improvement In Military Technology, Operational Concepts, And Weapons That Transforms The Nature And Character Of Warfare As A Revolution In Military Affairs (Rma). However, Discussions Focusing On Military Technology Too Often Ignore The Role Of Military Organization In Improving Combat Capability. They Downplay The Difficulties Of Coordinating Many People And Offices Having Specialized Roles, And The Challenges Of Calculation, Attention, And Memory That Face Individuals Making Decisions With Inadequate Or Ambiguous Information Under Short Deadlines Or In Stressful Situations. Mark Mandeles Argues That The Key To Future Combat Effectiveness Is Not In Acquiring New Technologies But Rather In The Defence Department S Institutional And Organizational Structure And Its Effect Upon Incentives To Invent, To Innovate, And To Conduct Operations Effectively. Doing So Requires The Military Establishment To Resist Substituting Short-Term Technological Gains For Effective Long-Term Innovation.(Published In Collaboration With Potomac Books, Inc., Usa)

India is battling for its very soul. The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) is the most powerful organization in India today; complete with a private army of its own, unquestionably obeying its leader who functions on fascist lines on the Fuehrer principle. Two of its pracharaks (active preachers) have gone on to become prime ministers of India. In 1951 it set up a political front, the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, which merged into the Janata Party in 1977 only to walk out of it in 1980. In issue was its superior loyalty to its parent and mentor, the RSS; not the Janata Party. Within months of its defection, the Jana Sangh reemerged; not with the name under which it had functioned for nearly three decades, but as the Bharatiya Janata Party, deceptively to claim a respectable lineage. The RSS is at war with India's past. It belittles three of the greatest builders of the Indian State - Ashoka, the Buddhist; Akbar, the Muslim; and Nehru, a civilized Enlightened Hindu. It would wipe out centuries of achievement for which the world has acclaimed India and replace that with its own narrow, divisive ideology. This book is a magisterial study of the RSS, from its formation in 1925 to the present day. With scrupulous and voluminous evidence, one of India's leading constitutional experts and political analysts, A.G. Noorani, builds a watertight case to show how the RSS is much more than a threat to communal amity. It poses a wider challenge. It is a threat to democratic governance and, even worse, a menace to India. It threatens the very soul of India. And yet, despite its reach and seemingly overwhelming political influence, the author shows that the RSS can be defeated. The soul of India can be rescued.

Founded in 1925, banned three times by the governments of independent India but with a widespread network of thousands of local branches and millions of volunteers, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh's (RSS) presence and influence is formidable. However, it has long been acknowledged that the best way to know the RSS is to join it. Perhaps, this is why there is very little literature on how it functions. As a senior member who has managed various responsibilities in the RSS over the years, Ratan Sharda reveals the supposedly secret world of this volunteer organisation. He presents a comprehensive view of the Sangh's philosophy, its workings and its humungous reach through various organisations inspired by it across India in a simple and easy-flowing manner, sprinkled with interesting anecdotes. With an insider's knowledge of the philosophy, organisational structure and working of this huge cadre-based organisation, RSS 360o is a compelling read, attempting to lift the alleged veil of secrecy that shrouds the organisation.

The gradual and steady rise of the 90-year-old Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh has fueled many myths. ‘Know About RSS’ unravels the functioning of the organisation by providing an insight into the hitherto unexplained aspects of the RSS – the daily Shakha; Saffron Flag; Prayer; Training Camps; Full-Time Workers etc. This book provides authentic information about the organisational structure of the RSS which is simple yet unique and baffling for all those who do not know about the RSS. Know About RSS by Arun Anand: Gain insights into the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) with this book. Arun Anand likely provides readers with an informative overview of the RSS, its history, ideology, and activities. It offers an opportunity to understand one of India's prominent socio-cultural organizations. Key Aspects of the Book "Know About RSS": RSS Overview: Learn about the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, its foundation, principles, and role in society. Informative Resource: Access valuable information about the RSS's ideology, activities, and influence in India. Arun Anand likely offers a comprehensive guide to understanding the RSS in "Know About RSS." This book provides a resource for readers interested in the organization's history and impact.

Shaffer delivers an exciting, eyewitness account of fighting terrorism in Afghanistan using the military's most cutting-edge espionage tactics. Just before St. Martin's Press release of the book, The Department of Defense and the Defense Intelligence Agency, demanded the author and the publisher produce the book for review. They, and "other interested U.S. intelligence agencies" met with the author to review changes and redactions that they required be made, before the book could be published, in order to "not damage our national security, harm our troops, or harm U.S. military intelligence efforts or assets." Thus, there are sections with redactions in the final book.

This book focusses on how RSS performed, thought, prevented and held on to its own amid heavy odds and hostility in three major theatres of conflict in the modern Indian history, specifically, post-independence.

The Canadian first lady of Iceland pens a book about why this tiny nation is leading the charge in gender equality, in the vein of The Moment of Lift. Iceland is the best place on earth to be a woman—but why? For the past twelve years, the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report has ranked Iceland number one on its list of countries closing the gap in equality between men and women. What is it about Iceland that enables its society to make such meaningful progress in this ongoing battle, from electing the world’s first female president to passing legislation specifically designed to help even the playing field at work and at home? The answer is found in the country’s sprakkar, an ancient Icelandic word meaning extraordinary or outstanding women. Eliza Reid—Canadian born and raised, and now first lady of Iceland—examines her adopted homeland’s attitude toward women: the deep-seated cultural sense of fairness, the influence of current and historical role models, and, crucially, the areas where Iceland still has room for improvement. Throughout, she interviews dozens of sprakkar to tell their inspirational stories, and expertly weaves in her own experiences as an immigrant from small-town Canada. The result is an illuminating discussion of what it means to move through the world as a woman and how the rules of society play more of a role in who we view as equal than we may understand. What makes many women’s experiences there so positive? And what can we learn about fairness to benefit our society? Like influential and progressive first ladies Eleanor Roosevelt, Hillary Rodham Clinton, and Michelle Obama, Reid uses her platform to bring the best of her nation to the world. Secrets of the Sprakkar is a powerful and atmospheric portrait of a tiny country that could lead the way forward for us all.