Contents

Editorial

Focus

Sino-Russian Cooperation and Competition in Central Asia
– Dhiraj Ramanand

Belarus: Russia’s Cat’s Paw
– AV Chandrasekaran

Recalling Air Power in the Indian Context
– Swaim Prakash Singh

Commentaries

Combat Stress in Conflicts: Home and Abroad
– Atanu K. Pattanaik

About the Genomic Origin and Direct Source of the Pandemic Virus
– Dany Shoham

Return of the Old Giant to Indo-Pacific
– Gauri Narain Mathur

Review Essay

Review of John Arquilla, Bitskrieg: The New Challenge of Cyberwarfare, Polity, 2021; Nicole Perlroth, This is How They Tell Me The World Ends: The Cyber Weapons Arms Race, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021; and Ben Buchanan, The Hacker and the State: Cyber Attacks and the New Normal of Geopolitics, Harvard University Press, 2020
– Cherian Samuel

Guidelines for Contributors