SP\'s Military Yearbook: Since 1965 : 2008 - 2009 (Thirty Eighth Year of Issue)

Contents: Some of our readers\' comments. Editorial. Map: Major Indian Armed Forces\' Headquarters. Weapons, Equipment and Vehicles. I. Concepts and Perspectives: 1. Challenges for Indian Army/Vijay Oberoi. 2. Challenges for Indian Navy/Arun Prakash. 3. Challenges for Indian Air Force/Vinod Patney. 4. Global strategic milieu/Ranjit Gupta. 5. China\'s rise: Impact on India/Gurmeet Kanwal. 6. Military viewpoint on Pakistan/V.P. Malik. 7. Homeland security/Amit Kumar Singh. 8. India\'s maritime perils/Arun Prakash. 9. War-games, modelling, simulation/Vinod Anand. 10. Obama\'s policies on Asia/K. Subrahmanyam. 11. Media and National Security/K. Subrahmanyam. 12. Spotlight on managing disaster/V.P. Malik. II. Technology: 1. New age precision targeting/A.K. Trikha. 2. The future of warfare/Vinod Anand and Subodh Kumar. 3. Technological prowess/A.R. Radhakrishnan. 4. More firepower for tanks/Ikbal Singh. 5. Future weapons. III. Business: 1. DPP 2008: Redefining the rules/Mrinal Suman. 2. Defence offset policy revisited/Mrinal Suman. 3. What\'s new in DPP 2008/Anand Mehra. 4. Headquarters IDS/V.K. Verma. 5. India\'s Defence budgets/V.K. Chopra. 6. Modernising India\'s Army/Gurmeet Kanwal. 7. Modernising India\'s Navy/Rajeev Sawhney. 8. Modernising India\'s Air Force/V.K. Bhatia. 9. Global contracts. IV. Indian Defence: 1. India\'s homeland security. 2. Integrated defence staff/Vinod Anand. 3. India\'s defence budget/V.K. Kapoor. 4. The Indian Army. 5. The Indian Navy. 6. The Indian Air Force. 7. The Indian coast guard. 8. Who\'s who in Indian defence. 9. Defence industry. 10. Defence R and D. V. Asian Who\'s Who: 1. Afghanistan. 2. Algeria. 3. Australia. 4. Bahrain. 5. Bangladesh. 6. Cambodia. 7. China. 8. Egypt. 9. Indonesia. 10. Iran. 11. Iraq. 12. Israel. 13. Japan. 14. Jordan. 15. Kazakhstan. 16. Kuwait. 17. Kyrgyzstan. 18. Laos. 19. Lebanon. 20. Libya. 21. Malaysia. 22. Myanmar. 23. Nepal. 24. North Korea. 25. Oman. 26. Pakistan. 27. Philippines. 28. Qatar. 29. Saudi Arabia. 30. Singapore. 31. South Korea. 32. Sri Lanka. 33. Syria. 34. Taiwan. 35. Tajikistan. 36. Turkmenistan. 37. Unites Arab Emirates. 38. Uzbekistan. 39. Vietnam. 40. Yemen. VI. Regional Balance: 1. GDP and Military Expenditure. 2. Central and South Asia: i. Kazakhstan. ii. Kyrgyzstan. iii. Tajikistan. iv. Turkmenistan. v. Uzbekistan. vi. Afghanistan. vii. Bangladesh. viii. Bhutan. ix. India. x. Nepal. xi. Pakistan. xii. Sri Lanka. 3. East Asia, Pacific Rim and Australia: i. Australia. ii. Cambodia. iii. China. iv. Indonesia. v. Japan. vi. North Korea. vii. South Korea. viii. Laos. ix. Malaysia. x. Myanmar. xi. Philippines. xii. Singapore. xiii. Taiwan. xiv. Thailand. xv. Vietnam. 4. West Asia and North Africa: i. Algeria. ii. Egypt. iii. Libya. iv. Bahrain. v. Iran. vi. Iraq. vii. Israel. viii. Jordan. ix. Kuwait. x. Lebanon. xi. Oman. xii. Qatar. xiii. Saudi Arabia. xiv. Syria. xv. United Arab Emirates. xvi. Republic of Yemen. 5. Asia-Pacific: Military Balance/Sanjay Kumar. 6. Equipment and hardware specifications: i. Army equipment. ii. Naval equipment. iii. Air equipment. Diagrams/Graphs. Abbreviations + Index. Advertisers\' index.