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Art of Generalship
History has thrilling accounts of brilliant Generals leading small armies to defeat huge forces of their opponents. Better the Generalship, greater the victories. The Indian Army too has produced many great Generals, who have defeated evil designs of adversaries. Yet they have produced none like Rommel, Manstein, Model, or even like some old Indian warriors like Maharana Pratap, Hari Singh Nalwa, or Zorawar Singh. India can and must produce Generals of that calibre; Generals who don’t just defend territory or restore status quo, but those who annihilate aggressors, to teach memorable lessons to adversaries who transgress, who initiate punitive actions for conventional and nuclear deterrence to be effective. To produce Generals of such calibre, the first step is to understand what is good a Generalship. Then study Generalship in previous conflicts to appreciate achievements and also learn lessons from opportunities missed. Only then the Armed Forces can institute measures to improve the quality of Generalship for the future. This book is written to facilitate such study, in that order.
Manthan
This book establishes the relevance of war as an instrument of state policy, and the necessity of armed forces to protect and promote national interests. It then traces India's warring traditions and the enviable professionalism of the Indian armed forces. Reflecting on their post-independence military ventures it analyses why, despite five wars, India's vexed territorial and border disputes have remained unresolved. Later chapters critically dilate on a range of weighty issues related to the armed forces such as their apolitical nature, India's strategic culture, state of the civil-military relations, absence of a defence policy, ad hoc defence planning et al, and how these have acted as set back forces for the Services. One of the chapters debates the pros and cons of a coup in India and yet another one exhorts the armed forces to introspect. The book closes with a set of assertions that would keep the armed forces ready and relevant to match the national aspirations of rising India.
CLAWS Journal
The articles in this issue mainly assess the issues and challenges that define the changing context of India’s national security and offer new insights on what needs to be done to safeguard India’s national interests- domestically, regionally, and globally.
India’s Soft Power
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Soft Power in International Relations: A Conceptual Framework -- 2. Evolution of Power in Indian Foreign Policy -- 3. Sources of India's Soft Power -- 4. Soft Power in Indian Foreign Policy -- 5. Effectiveness of Indian Soft Power Strategy -- 6. Augmenting India's Soft Power: Modi and Beyond -- References
CLAWS Journal
The CLAWS Journal Summer 2023 delves into military capability development's strategic, technological, financial, and diplomatic facets. The articles, written by well-known experts from various fields, cover many subjects that enlighten and encourage reflection in previously understudied areas. These include discussions on advancing air and space capabilities, changes in military organizations, the significance of intangible elements like military diplomacy and alliances, and strategic affairs at both local and global levels.
CLAWS Journal
This issue of CLAWS Journal has been composed with a variety of articles, opinion pieces, commentaries and book reviews to theoretically understand why the Indian Army Chief has initiated four major studies for the transformation of the Indian Army into a “more agile fighting force” to face current and emerging threats and challenges.
CLAWS Journal
The CLAWS Journal Winter 2022 is focussed on strategic, conceptual and technological aspects of development of military capabilities. We need to examine security makeover and a road map for securing rise of India as a developed nation in near future. With assertive China on our northern borders, there is a need to visualise the context and contours of India’s future wars. Nuclear deterrence remains relevant for India to maintain strategic stability especially against assertive China. At the same time Indian military should incorporate non-contact warfare as a strategy to fight multi-domain wars.
Afghanistan
"Afghan civil society is deeply upset with disunity and detachment of Taliban groups - those who are tied to regional states agendas. This detachment has also left negative impacts on their fighting capabilities and public support. Regional states, the United States, NATO, Russia, China, Iran and Pakistan are active stakeholders who want peace on their own terms, while Taliban are not an independent entity to decide the future of Afghanistan, or outline long-term peace proposals. This has created a deep problem in finding a solution to the peace problem in Afghanistan. This book is a collection of various articles written by eminent researchers on the aspects of finding a solution to the peace prospects in troubled Afghanistan."
CLAWS Journal
CLAWS Journal Winter 2020 is a “Special Issue” that holds significance in many ways. Contextually, it highlights the commemorative spirit of the 15 Years of Excellence of the Centre for Land Warfare Studies, and conceptually it puts forward an understanding of China in the current dynamic vis-à-vis India, from a wide range of perspectives, especially from India, United States, Bangladesh, and Australia.
CLAWS Journal
CLAWS Journal: Vol. 13 No. 1 (2020): Summer 2020 While planning for the CLAWS Journal Summer Issue 2020 was in progress, the world was, and is continuing to fight a different battle altogether—‘a faceless enemy’ in the form of the COVID-19 pandemic. This Issue also occurs at the time when a series of transformations in the world in terms of conceptual understandings of various phenomenons, precedence of non-traditional securities over conventional ones, challenges and threats to strategic assets emanating from advancement in technology, empowerment of social media as the fifth state, etc. are at the forefront. All of these changing dynamics are noteworthy especially from a land warfare...
