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Success From Being Mad
Armed Forces Veterans crack entrepreneur success code! Success From Being Mad is about ten Karma Yogi Mad Veterans of the Indian armed forces who have roaringly explored the uncharted terrain on the entrepreneur street. Is there a method in their madness, the strategy they adopted, availability of a support structure, a common formula for success achieved… Or is it just that Mad Vet sixth sense of a lifetime which they earlier trusted their life with and are now willing to bet on commercially? The book explores all of this and more. You have to be crazy living atop a pile of kerosene-filled jerry cans, placed above ammunition stacks, at heights over 20,000 feet…You have to be mad driving a 40-ton tracked monster, in the dead of a pitch-dark night, with all headlights off… You have to be mad to bet your life savings in undertaking entrepreneur ventures, you have no expertise in or knowledge of, at middle age, and come out roaring with success.
Elephant on the High Himalayas
The 21st century is witnessing a monumental ‘clash of civilisations’ on the high Himalayas between Bharat (the new India) and China, two of the oldest continuous civilisations the world has known, together representing over one third of all humanity. The outcome of this clash shall not only determine the future of a third civilisation, which is Tibetan, but shall also set the geostrategic discourse for the world at large, truly making it the ‘Asian Century’. This book is one of the most interesting and incisive treatises on the Bharat-China rivalry and how its outcome shall decide the fate of nations in the 21st century. It looks at the past to search for the root causes of the ongoing geopolitical conflict, explores the current standoff and advances distinctive options for Bharat. But the most interesting and significant aspect of the book is exploring the geostrategic portends in Asia for the 2020-2025 CE period. Will they prove to be equally farsighted and thought through as the author’s earlier predictive analysis? The answer lies in the near future.
RESURRECTING THE IPKF LEGACY
A comprehensive treatise on international military interventions. A hand-to-hand fight by a young officer against the LTTE and another unit’s bloody pitched battle while encircled by LTTE cadres, facing certain annihilation. An officer and a jawan have a premonition of their impending death. The unit's unflinching support mitigates a widow’s trauma of losing her husband in the face of a callous state government. A brigade commander, a staff officer, and a unit commanding officer share lessons during the command and management of troops in war under ambiguous circumstances. The aviator’s daredevil role of rescue and support in the face of enemy fire. A naval officer’s poignant race, w...
Valiant Deeds, Undying Memories
The 32-month tryst of the Indian Peace Keeping Force with LTTE in Sri Lanka, between July 1987 and March 1990, was the first out-of-country overseas assignment since independence for the Indian Armed Forces under the national banner. For the soldier who laid down his life and limb, all wars are the same. The ‘IPKF syndrome’ has been casting its long melancholy shadow over decision-makers ever since the withdrawal of this force in 1990. The book recounts real-life accounts of veterans who fought a grim battle, largely forgotten by the mainstream and a thankless establishment. What was the politico-military aim of the government, and was the Indo-SL Accord watertight in its scope? Was time...
June 2020 – Road to Galwan – From Where It Began
Soldiers when committed, can’t compromise. They do not let the task go until it’s been done which depicts their absolute loyalty towards the nation and the people. That was the spirit of the Colonel and his men who shattered the Chinese hegemonic ambition and desire to dictate dominance at fourteen thousand feet above sea level on 15 June 2020. The soldiers were engaged in a primitive fight on the world’s most treacherous battle ground where oxygen is sparse and lungs gasp for breath. History resonates itself; 58 years ago China played a similar game. The 1962 defeat was not easy for the young and proud nation. But this time, India is wary of the Chinese belligerence. The root of the clash can be found in the past. From there, the path is set to shape the future. How we communicated, what was said, did they fail to comprehend or did two fists close too early? All that is required is to go back into pages of history. Road to Galwan takes you through the gripping journey of putting the border dispute between India and China in the correct perspective. It recounts the events of the past and weaves through the current situation for a holistic viewpoint.
Getting MAD: Nuclear Mutual Assured Destruction, Its Origins and Practice
Nearly 40 years after the concept of finite deterrence was popularized by the Johnson administration, nuclear Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD) thinking appears to be in decline. The United States has rejected the notion that threatening population centers with nuclear attacks is a legitimate way to assure deterrence. Most recently, it withdrew from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, an agreement based on MAD. American opposition to MAD also is reflected in the Bush administration's desire to develop smaller, more accurate nuclear weapons that would reduce the number of innocent civilians killed in a nuclear strike. Still, MAD is influential in a number of ways. First, other countries, like C...
India's Ad Hoc Arsenal
Chris Smith explores the evolution of Indian defence policy since 1947. He looks carefully at the domestic dynamics of Indian defence policy. This includes an in-depth analysis of the period 1947-62, which is often ignored by Indian defence analysts, and the performance of the defence industrial base. He concludes that India's defence policy is designed more as one aspect of the quest for great power status than as an attempt to aquire security at an affordable price.
Cascades of Violence
As in the cascading of water, violence and nonviolence can cascade down from commanding heights of power (as in waterfalls), up from powerless peripheries, and can undulate to spread horizontally (flowing from one space to another). As with containing water, conflict cannot be contained without asking crucial questions about which variables might cause it to cascade from the top-down, bottom up and from the middle-out. The book shows how violence cascades from state to state. Empirical research has shown that nations with a neighbor at war are more likely to have a civil war themselves (Sambanis 2001). More importantly in the analysis of this book, war cascades from hot spot to hot spot with...
The United Nations, Peace and Security
Preventing humanitarian atrocities is becoming as important for the United Nations as dealing with inter-state war. In this book, Ramesh Thakur examines the transformation in UN operations, analysing its changing role and structure. He asks why, when and how force may be used and argues that the growing gulf between legality and legitimacy is evidence of an eroded sense of international community. He considers the tension between the US, with its capacity to use force and project power, and the UN, as the centre of the international law enforcement system. He asserts the central importance of the rule of law and of a rules-based order focused on the UN as the foundation of a civilised system of international relations. This book will be of interest to students of the UN and international organisations in politics, law and international relations departments, as well as policymakers in the UN and other NGOs.
