Perspectives

• Promotion System in the Army: Dealing with Peacetime Atrophy
  — G.D. Bakshi
• Managing Supersession in the Armed Forces: An HRM Approach
  — Suryakant Bal
• Cold Start and ‘The Sehjra Option’
  — Ali Ahmed

Focus

• Salient Issues Affecting Defence Manpower in India
  — Gurmeet Kanwal
• Human Resources in Security Sector: An Integrated Model for the 21st Century
  — Rahul K Bhonsle
• Social Networking: Boon or Bane for the Armed Forces
  — Suyash Sharma
• Declining Naxalism from Central Bihar
  — Satish Kumar
• India and Japan: Exploring Strategic Potentials
  — Rajaram Panda
• India-China Defence Cooperation and Military Engagement
  — Rup Narayan Das

Commentary

• Revoking AFSPA Blown Out of Proportion
  — K.C. Dixit
• The New Great Instability: Afghanistan after the American Exit
  — D. Suba Chandran

Book Reviews

• Erik Seedhouse, The New Space Race: China vs. the United States
  — Rukmani Gupta
• Brendan Taylor, American Sanctions in the Asia Pacific
  — Sanjeev Kumar Shrivastav