IN THIS VOLUME: The Prime Minister at Shangri La: Reading between the Lines for a National Security Strategy - Lt Gen JS Bajwa (Editor) INDIAN DEFENCE REVIEW COMMENT : Awakening to National Defence: Hope at Last? - Lt Gen Gautam Banerjee ------------------------------------------- Combat Potential of the IAF for a Two-Front War - Gp Capt AK Sachdev Future of Air Dominance - Air Marshal Anil Chopra Maritime Crime and Terrorism - V Adm Muralidharan Countering Stealth Aircraft Technology: The Race to See through “Invisibility” - Gp Capt Joseph Noronha Future Military Helicopters - Design & Development - Lt Gen BS Pawar Future Aerial Weapons - Air Marshal Anil Chopra Towards a more Vigorous Make-in-India in Defence Manufacturing - Prof (Dr) SN Misra & Sanjaya Ku Ghadai India and the New Great Game in Central Asia - Martand Jha Can the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation bring India and Pakistan Closer? - Col (Dr) PK Vasudeva India-Indonesia Ties: Chinese Elephant in the Room - Jabin T Jacob Terror: Lessons from Paris and Beyond - Brig Pradeep Sharma Leadership and Management in the Indian Army - Lt Gen Mohinder Puri Jammu & Kashmir: The Way Forward - Brig Anil Gupta Emperor Lalitaditya: One among India’s Greatest Soldier-Statesmen - Col Tej K Tikoo Aerospace and Defence News - Priya Tyagi War as a Multi-Dimensional Whole: A Framework for India in a Repolarizing World - Navneet Bhushan India’s Defence Budget and Military Modernisation - Air Marshal M Matheswaran In Search of a Rifle: Ministry of Defence Goes Globe Trolling - Col Danvir Singh Head Hunters in Kargil-Naga Regiment - Sumit Walia

Indian Defence Review (IDR) is India's best-known defense journal. Over the year the journal has attained the "most quoted" status by defense and security analysts worldwide. The journal offers an incisive analysis of defense and politico-security affairs focused on Asia. In addition to defense and security analyses, each issue includes regular feature sections on aerospace trends, naval affairs, and army force developments, including the latest arms transfers and news. Indian Defence Review, a quarterly journal, is read by almost all leading policy makers at senior bureaucratic, political and military levels. Time and again, the incisive analyses in the Indian Defence Review have helped form opinions and shape strategic responses on the sub-continent.As well as this new volume, Casemate is pleased to be able to offer back issues of this important publication.

Due to the lockdown applied by the Government to contain the spread of COVID-19, the second quarter issue of Indian Defence Review [Apr-Jun 2020, (Vol 35.2)] was not published. It is amalgamated with issue of Indian Defence Review [Jul-Sep 2020, (Vol 35.3)] IN THIS VOLUME: • Did a Global Pandemic Generate a Global Pandemonium? — Lt Gen (Dr) JS Bajwa • Effectiveness of India’s Strategic Culture — Gp Capt PK Mulay • The IAF in a Two-Front War — Air Marshal Anil Chopra • Maritime Dimensions of India’s Foreign Policy — Vice Adm MP Muralidharan • Airspace Control: Challenges and Way Ahead — Gp Capt AK Sachdev • Evolving Trends in Aerial Combat — Air Marshal Anil Chopra • Indian Model of Theatre Commands: The Road Ahead! — Maj Gen SB Asthana • Is the Indian Soldier Overloaded?: Right Sizing the Armed Forces — Navneet Bhushan • Pakistan’s Mystery Submarine — Lt Gen Prakash Katoch • An Indian in Space: Isro’s Human Spaceflight Programme — Gp Capt Joseph Noronha • Indian Defence Private Sector: Some Initial Successes yet Miles to Go — Lt Gen VK Saxena • The Coronavirus Pandemic and The New Global World — Lt Gen Jasbir Lidder • The Myth of China — Dr Rajasimman Sundaram • Line of Actual Control: Fast Forward to Summer of 2021 — Lt Gen (Dr) JS Bajwa • Touted as a peace deal, the Taliban celebrates U.S. withdrawal as a victory — Terry Bishop • Afghanistan: An Arena of Indo-Pak Conflict — Col RN Ghosh Dastidar • What will happen if India recognizes Tibet? — Dr Amarjit Singh • The Critical Factors that Contribute to a Country’s Military Strength — Jay Bhattacharjee • Aerospace and Defence News — Priya Tyagi • Indian Quest for Air Supremacy: The Rafale — Danvir Singh • Shifting Claim Lines of Nepal: Kalapani to Lampiyadhura a Historical Perspective — Brig BS Chauhan • Free Tibet — Lt Gen Prakash Katoch • The Last Gallop — Lt Gen SR Ghosh • Book Reviews

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IN THIS VOLUME: Doklam: India at an Inflection Point in its Quest for Regional/Global Power Status - Lt Gen JS Bajwa (Editor) Directed Energy Weapons: Game Changer Or A Damp Squib? - Gp Capt Joseph Noronha Advances in Technology: Battlefield Helicopters - Gp Capt AK Sachdev Space: The Force Multiplier For Air Power - Air Marshal Anil Chopra MiG-35, F-16, Gripen or Better Choice? - Sumit Walia Look Long, Look Deep: China’s Airborne Warning and Control Systems - Gp Capt Ravinder Singh Chhatwal Our Armed Forces: Do We Take Them Seriously? - Sanjiv Khanna China’s ‘Contentious’ Path To War? - Anant Mishra Balancing Politics and Power: Prognosis of China’s Military Build-up - Lt Gen Gautam Banerjee Embrace the Future of Kashmir - Lt Gen Subrata Saha Resurgence of Ulfa (I) in Assam: Implications for Internal Security - Indrajit Sharma & Dr N Mohandas Singh Naval Combat Systems: Evolution and Future Perspectives - Cmde Arun Kumar Aerospace and Defence News - Priya Tyagi Deepening India-Israel Ties: Changing Landscape of the Indian Defence Sector - Ketan Salhotra Indo-Israel Relations: Make with India - Tamir Eshel Strategic Partnership with Private Players: An Overview - Danvir Singh Pax Britannica Whittled Down to an Island Kingdom: (Intrigues that Built an Empire: Intrigued by Wheels of History) - Lt Gen PG Kamath North Korea - A Delinquent State? - Air Marshal Dhiraj Kukreja The Offset Policy - A Decade in Retrospect - Dr SN Misra Pakistan for Balochistan, not Balochis - RSN Singh Army’s Battlefield Support System: Fielding Initially Planned by 2017 could take Another Decade - Lt Gen Prakash Katoch China has done India a Favor - Dr Amarjit Singh Shekatkar Committee Report: Genuine ‘Reforms’ or Cosmetic ‘Re-grouping’? - Gp Capt TP Srivastava Who made North Korea a nuclear power? Dr A.Q. Khan? - Sumit Walia

IN THIS VOLUME: Are Nuclear Weapons Losing their Sheen of Strategic Deterrence? - Lt Gen JS Bajwa (Editor) INDIAN DEFENCE REVIEW COMMENT : Protecting Critical National Assets: Integrated Security Solutions - Maj Gen AK Mehra ------------------------------------------- Unpredictable Security Environment: Need for An Integrated Military Approach - Brig Narender Kumar Remembering a Hero in Bicentenary Year! - Col Anil Athale The Strategic Bomber of Tomorrow: Stealth Spells Success - Gp Capt Joseph Noronha The F-35 Programme: Lessons for the Aviation Industry - Air Marshal Anil Chopra Taking the Bull by the Horns: A Case for Pro Active Defense to Counter Potential Chinese Aggression - Brig Deepak Sinha How Worrisome is PLAAF Presence in Tibet? - Gp Capt AK Sachdev The PLA Army: Vision 2025 - Maj Gen Sheru Thapliyal India’s Quest for Replacement of the Ageing: MiG 21 Fleet of the IAF - Danvir Singh Revamping the Combat Fleet of the IAF - Gp Capt AK Sachdev Creating an Indian Weapons Industry: The Total Matrix Approach - Prof Prodyut Kumar Das Artificial Intelligence in Aviation - Air Marshal Anil Chopra What Was Wikileaks All About?: A Classic Case of Cyber Security - Martand Jha China’s Interest in the South China Sea - Jayadeva Ranade The Dream Corridor - Claude Arpi Make in India - Indian Style - Air Marshal Dhiraj Kukreja Aerospace and Defence News - Priya Tyagi Skilling Gaps In Defence Sector: For ‘Make in India’ - Dr JP Dash and BB Sharma 10 Para (SF) - Mustaffa of Desert Warfare - Sumit Walia Dealing With Maoist Insurgency: Focused Approach Required - Lt Gen Prakash Katoch Anglo-Maratha Struggle for Empire: The Importance of Maritime Power - Col Anil Athale If India does not survive, then who would? - RSN Singh

IN THIS VOLUME: • Today’s Era is not of War - Lt Gen (Dr) JS Bajwa • Rethinking the Politics of Airpower - Gp Capt PK Mulay • How should India Exploit Space for Military Advantage? - Gp Capt AK Sachdev • Operational Capability of LCA Tejas Variants - Air Marshal Anil Chopra • Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems: Existential Threat to Humanity? Brig Arvind Dhananjayan • Kabaddi, Kaluchak and OP Prakram: Did India Dither? Lt Gen JBS Yadava • Significance of Joint Maritime Exercises - Vice Admiral MP Muralidharan • Role of the IAF: In Possible Conflagration in Ladakh - Air Marshal Anil Chopra • Air Superiority or Air Denial: The Truth about the Air War in Ukraine - Gp Capt PK Mulay • India-US Military Exercises and China’s Woes - Dr Rajasimman Sundaram • Countering China’s Global Secret Police Stations - Dheeraj Paramesha Chaya • Turkey’s Rise in the Security Sphere - Danvir Singh • Ukraine War: Russia’s Winter Strategy or Admission of Defeat - Col Utkarsh Singh Rathore • Escalating the level of crisis and widening geo-political Divides hitting vulnerable afghan people hard - Neelapu Shanti • Cost of National Defence Index (CNDI) - Navneet Bhushan • Quantum Technology: Gartner’s Hype Cycle and its Implications for National Security Policy - Dr Sharad S Chauhan • Aerospace And Defence News - Priya Tyagi • Tighter China-Saudi Embrace - Lt Gen Prakash Katoch • Book Review