India and the World : Selected Articles from IDSA Journals, Vol. I. Strategic Thought : The Formative Years

Contents: The birth of IDSA and the early years/K. Subrahmanyam. I. Defence policy and military affairs: 1. Nehru\'s concept of Indian defence/K. Subrahmanyam. 2. Governmental machinery for the evolution of national defence policy and the higher direction of war/P.V.R. Rao. 3. Decision making in defence/K. Subrahmanyam. 4. Operational research in top defence management/Kartar Singh and N.K. Jaiswal. 5. Systems analysis and defence production/J.G. Krishnayya. 6. High altitude mountain warfare/G.G. Bewoor. 7. Role of private enterprise in defence production/S.D. Verma. 8. Indivisible air power/Jasjit Singh. 9. Policy for aircraft development/S. Krishnaswami. 10. The Indian military and social change/Stephen P. Cohen. 11. Should India go nuclear?/Krishan Kant. II. Foreign affairs: 1. Some thoughts on Indian non-alignment/Max Jean Zins. 2. Guidelines for an Oil Policy/S.N. Ghosh. 3. Bangladesh War/K. Subrahmanyam. 4. Why Bangladesh?/Mohbubul Haq. 5. The Indo-Soviet Treaty and China/S.K. Ghosh. 6. Indo-US relations/Dinesh Singh. 7. India in the emerging world order/P.R. Chari. III. Nation building: 1. Modernisation processes in the hills of North-East India/B.K. Roy Burman. 2. Kashmir/K. Subrahmanyam.  

"The re-publication of these articles carried in the Strategic Analysis and the IDSA Journal in the 1965-85  phase, is an attempt to bring to the readers the early but still noteworthy writings of the scholars associated with the country\'s premier strategic studies institute. Many of these are seminal contributions to the development of India\'s strategic thought. The volumes in this series commemorate the 40 anniversary of the founding of the institute. The articles are significant for their historical and intrinsic value, and will be useful for the larger international relations and security studies community, as well as the policy-maker." (jacket)