The current JDS issue features a detailed perspective piece on the report of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Defence; two insightful and scholarly articles on the maritime space and India’s role vis-à-vis it; and a third article on defence acquisitions. It also includes a review essay and three book reviews.

Contents

Editorial

Perspective

Standing Committee on Defence’s Prescription for increasing Capital Budget May Not Work
— Amit Cowshish

Focus

Foreign Policy and Sea Power: India’s Maritime Role Flux
— Zorawar Daulet Singh
High End in the Pacific: Envisioning the Upper Limits of India-US Naval Cooperation in Pacific-Asia
— Gurpreet S. Khurana
Examining the US Defence Acquisition Apparatus: What can India Learn?
— Laxman Kumar Behera

Review Essay

South Asian Geopolitics: Has Pakistan Lost its Plot?
— Abhay K. Singh

Book Reviews

War from the Ground Up: Twenty-first-century Combat as Politics, by Emile Simpson
— Alok Deb
The Darkening Web: The War for Cyberspace, by Alexander Klimburg
— Cherian Samuel
A Rock between Hard Places: Afghanistan as an Arena of Regional Insecurity, by Kristian Berg Harpviken and Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh
— Y.M. Bammi

Guidelines for Contributors