IN THIS VOLUME: Profiling Future Wars - Indian Context - Lt Gen JS Bajwa (Editor) The Indian Air Force In A Two-Front WAR - Air Marshal Anil Chopra Air Power For Special Operations: The Need For ‘Jointness’? - Gp Capt AK Sachdev LCA Tejas: Time to Go Indigenous? - Gp Capt Ravinder Singh Chhatwal Unmanned Fighters And Beyond - Air Marshal Anil Chopra Kim Jong-Un Springs A Surprise - Air Marshal Dhiraj Kukreja Drone Swarm Attacks - What India Must Prepare For - Lt Gen Prakash Katoch Hackers On The Rampage: Are We Ready? - Gp Capt TP Srivastava Attack By Infiltration And Annihilation Of 32 Baluch - Lt Gen JBS Yadava War With Pakistan Is Inevitable - Dr Amarjit Singh Challenges of Setting up Defence Corridor for Make in India - Dr JP Dash & Devinder Kumar Aerospace and Defence News - Priya Tyagi Self Reliance In Defence Production: A Mirage - Air Marshal Dhiraj Kukreja North East: Asia’s Conundrum - Lt Gen PG Kamath Military Diplomacy: A Vital Tool For Furthering National Interests - Lt Gen Kamal Davar Dragon’s Flight: China’s Advances In Aerospace Technology - Gp Capt Joseph Noronha Indo-Israel Defence Cooperation: The Road Ahead - Prof (Dr) SN Misra Indo-French Relations: Will The Partnership Take A Step Further? - Claude Arpi Indo-French Naval Diplomacy - Danvir Singh Sri Lanka On The Verge Of Another Ethnic Strife - Rakesh Kr Sinha Crisis In The Maldives: India’s Options - Cmde Arun Kumar Power Brokers of Kashmir Crush Nationalist Voice - Brig Anil Gupta

In today's volunteer military many recruits enlist for the educational benefits, yet a significant number of veterans struggle in the classroom, and many drop out. The difficulties faced by student veterans have been attributed to various factors: poor academic preparation, PTSD and other postwar ailments, and allegedly antimilitary sentiments on college campuses. In Grateful Nation Ellen Moore challenges these narratives by tracing the experiences of Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans at two California college campuses. Drawing on interviews with dozens of veterans, classroom observations, and assessments of the work of veteran support organizations, Moore finds that veterans' academic struggles result from their military training and combat experience, which complicate their ability to function in civilian schools. While there is little evidence of antimilitary bias on college campuses, Moore demonstrates the ways in which college programs that conflate support for veterans with support for the institutional military lead to suppression of campus debate about the wars, discourage antiwar activism, and encourage a growing militarization.

English translation of the military manual that guided the German Army in World War II This book was carried into battle by officers and NCOs and had been classified by the U.S. Army until the year 2000 Topics include command, attack, defense, tanks, chemical warfare, logistics, and more Truppenführung ("unit command") served as the basic manual for the German Army from 1934 until the end of World War II and laid the doctrinal groundwork for blitzkrieg and the early victories of Hitler's armies. Reading it is as close to getting inside the minds behind the Third Reich's war machine as you are likely to get.

This anthology discusses the converging operational issues of air base defense and counterinsurgency. It explores the diverse challenges associated with defending air assets and joint personnel in a counterinsurgency environment. The authors are primarily Air Force officers from security forces, intelligence, and the office of special investigations, but works are included from a US Air Force pilot and a Canadian air force officer. The authors examine lessons from Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, and other conflicts as they relate to securing air bases and sustaining air operations in a high-threat counterinsurgency environment. The essays review the capabilities, doctrine, tactics, and training needed in base defense operations and recommend ways in which to build a strong, synchronized ground defense partnership with joint and combined forces. The authors offer recommendations on the development of combat leaders with the depth of knowledge, tactical and operational skill sets, and counterinsurgency mind set necessary to be effective in the modern asymmetric battlefield.

Muth examines the different paths the United States Army and the German Armed Forces traveled to select, educate, and promote their officers in the crucial time before World War II. He demonstrates that the military education system in Germany represented an organized effort where each school provided the stepping stone for the next. But in the US, there existed no communication about teaching contents among the various schools.