Establishing India’s Military Readiness Concerns and Strategy

Harinder Singh
Archive data: Person was Research Fellow at IDSA from April 2009 to January 2011 Joined IDSA April 2009 Expertise Counter-terrorism, Operational Readiness and Sustainability Issues Education MSc in Defence Studies… Continue reading Establishing India’s Military Readiness Concerns and Strategy read more
IDSA Monograph Series No. 5

Military readiness is perhaps one of the least studied and understood concepts in the field of strategic studies. In the absence of any significant literature in the public domain, defence policy makers and practitioners worldwide tend to define military readiness in several different ways. This often results in readiness assessments that are either too narrow or too broad. An analytical framework to assess levels of military readiness at the national level against well defined criteria therefore becomes a critical policy imperative.

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