This issue features insightful articles on the lessons from the UK’s defence privatisation experience for India, the importance of ethics vis-à-vis the armed forces, the latest Chinese DF-41 missile and its impact on the country’s nuclear deterrence, and a new conceptual framework for peacekeeping. Also included are four book reviews.

Contents

Editorial

Focus

The Long-term Effects of UK Defence Privatisation: Lessons for India?
— Jonathan S. Swift

Understanding Ethical Behaviour towards Better Institutional Functioning in the Armed Forces
— Ankush Banerjee

China’s DF-41 Ballistic Missile Deployment and the Impact on its Nuclear Deterrence
— M.S. Prathibha

A Conceptual Framework for Assessing Traditional Peace Operations
— A.K. Bardalai

Book Review

Why We Fight, by Mike Martin
— Kishore Kumar Khera

The McMahon Line: A Century of Discord, by J.J. Singh
— Vivek Chadha

Guardians of God: Inside the Religious Mind of Pakistani Taliban, by Mona Kanwal Sheikh
— Smruti S. Pattanaik

Gilgit-Baltistan and its Saga of Unending Human Rights Violations, by Alok Bansal
— Zainab Akhtar