This issue addresses distortions in the discourse on armed forces’ modernization, terrorism finance, and Indian Ocean maritime security cooperation. There are two commemorative articles on the Battle of Imphal (1944) and the Gallipoli campaign (1915) with accompanying vintage photos, and a review essay on Indian contribution to World War I.

Editorial

Perspective

• Distortions in the Discourse on Modernization of Armed Forces
  — Amit Cowshish
• Indians, Anzacs and Gallipoli, 1915
  — Peter Stanley

Focus

• Indian Ocean Maritime Security Cooperation Needs Coherent
  Indian Leadership
  — Lee Cordner
• Terrorism Finance: Sources and Trends in India— Vivek Chadha
• The Battle of Imphal: March–July 1944
  — Hemant Singh Katoch

Review Essay

• India’s Services in the War, by M.B.L. Bhargava

  India’s Contribution to the Great War, Calcutta: Government of India, 1923

  India and World War I, edited by DeWitt C. Ellinwood and S.D. Pradhan

  ‘First World War: Purchasing Indian Loyalties: Imperial Policy of Recruitment and “Reward”’, by Aravind Ganachari

  
  — Arvind Gupta

Book Reviews

• Countering Terrorism: Psychological Strategies, edited
  by Updesh Kumar and Manas K. Mandal
  — Y.M. Bammi
• Internal Armed Conflict in India: Forging a Joint Civil–Military Approach, by Rostum K. Nanavatty
  — Vijai Singh Rana
• Wars by Pakistan, by Vikram Munshi
  — Stuti Banerjee
• Afghan Endgames: Strategy and Policy Choices for America’s Longest War, edited by Hy Rothstein and John Arquilla
  — Sanjeev Kumar Srivastav