Expanding Role of PLAAF in China’s National Security Strategy China’s great power ambition and actions have been fuelled by its spectacular economic growth and military modernization. The need to sustain the economy and energy flow makes the East and South China seas vital to it. Its vulnerabilities also lie on its seaboard. To dominate the maritime spaces, it needs to own the contiguous airspace as well. The prescient Chinese leadership has transformed its Air Force into a strategic instrument of power, to protect its economic lifelines, geo-political interests and regional dominance. Diptendu Choudhury | November 2020 | Strategic Analysis
Bruno Maçães, Belt and Road: A Chinese World Order Bruno Maçães, Belt and Road: A Chinese World Order, New Delhi, Penguin Viking, 2019, 194 pp., Rs. 599 (Hardcover), ISBN 9780670092307 Shrabana Barua | November 2020 | Strategic Analysis
Brigadier (Dr) M. P. Singh (Retd), Political Leadership and Indian Armed Forces in Diplomacy and War Book review Brigadier (Dr) M. P. Singh (Retd), Political Leadership and Indian Armed Forces in Diplomacy and War, Greenfields Publishers, Dehradun, 2019, 351 pp., Rs.1,095.00 (hardcover), ISBN 9789381089392 Satyavrat Pagay | November 2020 | Strategic Analysis
Revisiting Beijing’s Revisionist Quest in the Indo-Pacific November 2020 Volume: 44 Issue: 6 Review Essay Jagannath P. Panda | November 2020 | Strategic Analysis
Indo-Pacific and the Role of India Within It November 2020 Volume: 44 Issue: 6 Review Essay Udai Bhanu Singh | November 2020 | Strategic Analysis
The Lost History of Liberalism: From Ancient Rome to the Twenty-First Century Atul Mishra | November 2020 | Strategic Analysis
The South Caucasus Imbroglio: Armenia–Azerbaijan Conflict Armenia and Azerbaijan have come to blows over disputed Nagorno-Karabakh after a quarter of a century. There are numerous geo-strategic interests at play in the conflict that will impact regional peace and security. Deepak Kumar | October 28, 2020 | IDSA Comments
Other Capital Procurement Procedure: A Chip off the Old Block The OCPP is a mix of revenue and capital procurement procedures, based on the Defence Procurement Manual 2006. It could have been an opportunity to lay down a more self-contained procedure. Amit Cowshish | October 23, 2020 | IDSA Comments
Brendan Taylor, American Sanctions in the Asia Pacific Brendan Taylor claims that his book is the first systematic analysis of American sanction policy in the Asia-Pacific during the presidencies of Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. The book is divided into six chapters which include introduction, conclusion as well as policy recommendations. Sanjeev Kumar Shrivastav | October 2010 | Journal of Defence Studies
The Costliest Pearl: China’s Struggle for India’s Ocean by Bertil Lintner The ‘string of pearls’ is a western narrative about China’s economic and/or military engagements with countries in the Indian Ocean littorals with a strategic outlook of encircling the Indian peninsula. Most of these engagements are established in locations overlooking the important trade Sea Lanes of Communication (SLOC) in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR). The ‘string of pearls’ theory, enunciating an expansionist view of China in the Indian Ocean, is what makes Bertil Lintner’s book a knowledgeable read for Indo-Pacific watchers. M. Doraibabu | October-December 2020 | Journal of Defence Studies
