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Hardcover. Condizione: New. Contents: 1. China's nuclear power programme: status, prospects and challenges/Manpreet Sethi. 2. Zero justifiable gains: lessons from cold war TNW discourse/Sitakanta Mishra. 3. Growth of extremism in Pakistan/Shalini Chawla. 4. Indo-Russian relations in contemporary times: a realistic assessment/Chandra Rekha. 5. India-China relations: a defining partnership for the Asian century/Sana Hashmi. 6. Existential complexities in Iran's nuclear deal/Debalina Ghoshal. 7. Internet governance: taming the virtual juggernaut/MK Sharma. 8. South Asian cyber security environment: an analytical perspective/E Dilipraj. 9. Environmental degradation and associated security challenges in South Asia/Nishant Gupta. 10. Network-centric operations: the human dimension/Mondar Bandopadhyay. The revival of major world power rivalry is a striking feature of the current international affairs. In the year gone by, Europe, supported by the US, vied with Russia for influence in Ukrainea race that led to the annexation of Crimea by Russia and a pro-Russian insurgency in that region. In Asia, while the US is gradually drawing down in Afghanistan, it is also seeking to counter the growing influence of China. The sole Super Power is garnering support from China's neighbours, India included, to balance the resurgent Dragon. Meanwhile, the rapid growth of ISIS has disturbed the world peace. The progress made in the negotiations on Iran's nuclear programme is likely to affect calculations and equations all over the world. No region is impervious to the happenings in another part of the world. Competition (read rivalries) and geopolitical shifts pose myriad challenges to the peace-loving nations of the worldquite often, they are faced with the difficulty of evading armed conflicts. It requires conscious and sustained effort to do so. In order to work towards such goals, it is necessary to look at geopolitical, security and military-related issues objectively. The Centre for Air Power Studies has been publishing the Asian Defence Review to fulfill this need. This volume, a resource base for both the professional and the general readers, is the eighth in the series under this title. It aims to add to the pool of information and knowledge in the current strategic discourse dealing with military strategy, defence, politics and trends in military capabilities that impact Asia. In particular, it covers some of the important issues related to Air Power, Tactical Nuclear Weapons, Cyber Security, Network-Centric Warfare, Environmental Degradation, Iran, Pakistan and China.

Hardcover. Condizione: New. 1st Edition. Contents: 1. China-Pakistan Relations: Understanding the Strategic Alliance/Shalini Chawla. 2. China's One Belt One Road Initiative: A Major Unilateral Push/Temjenmeren Ao. 3. Silhouette of Cruise Missile Proliferation in Asia-Pacific/Sitakanta Mishra. 4. Cyber India: From Dawn to the Time Ahead/E. Dilipraj. 5. Burgeoning and Evolving Bitcoin Ecosystem: Challenges and Concerns for National Interest/Ashish Gupta. 6. China's Foray in Development of New Age UAVs: Global and Regional Implications/RK Narang. 7. The Decline of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria and the Birth of the Islamic State of Pakistan/Aersh Danish. 8. Why Suicide Terrorism? Assessing the Aspects Involved in the Tactic/Radhika Halder. 9. Russia and China as Regional Players in Central Asian Playground/Chandra Rekha. 10. Iran's Nuclear Programme: From Proliferation Crisis to Non-Proliferation Promise/Hina Pandey. 11. Central Asia in India's Energy Strategy/Poonam Mann. The security challenges to a nation have entered an era of unremitting unpredictability and complexity and are being further exacerbated by violent transnational extremism, globalisation, proliferation of technology and by rogue powers. Against this backdrop of a dynamic, ever-evolving and changing global geopolitical landscape we must eschew traditional beliefs and bring in the concept of convergence to centre stage. Convergence of effects in time and space, confluence of the kinetic and non-kinetic, physical and psychological capabilities and use of all tenets of warfare-offensive and defensive operations, espionage, ethics and legalities, propaganda and intelligence-are central to responses against threats from myriad threat vectors and actors. Today, the strategy articulation process has moved beyond a parochial obsession with conventional war. The doctrinal bulwark for security agencies takes into account inextricably intertwined and intricately overlapped war domains, rather than compartmentalising them. This articulation is in sync with views of many military analysts, who believe that multivariate and multimodal nature of future conflicts will be further accentuated because of myriad threats from unexpected quarters. The complexity, lethality, scope and frequency associated with this new 'threatscape' is being described as 'hybrid warfare.' In this, the present, potential and perceived vulnerabilities across the spectrum of conflict will most likely be targeted using combinational or hybrid threats. The amalgam of conventional and irregular capabilities at operational and tactical levels will make things more obscure, indistinguishable and complicated, contributing to the thickening of the "fog of war". Today, the construct of conflict is conceptualised from the perspective of an amorphous enemy, defused national boundaries and undefined battle space. Enumeration of threat vectors and actors, pre-emptive posturing and marking of battle lines-which are the cornerstones for formulation of military doctrine of a conventional military-are not easily quantifiable parameters anymore. The era of large-scale state-on-state warfare is passé and has given way to ambiguous, protracted, indecisive conflict in complex environments. The Centre for Air Power Studies (CAPS) has been publishing the Asian Defence Review to analyse and understand these challenges and offer insight into possible strategies to mitigate these. This volume, a resource base for both professional and general readers, is tenth in the series under this title.

Hardcover. Condizione: New. 1st Edition. Contents: 1. Indian Air Force: Persuasive in peace, effective in war/Vinod Patney. 2. India's security environment/Manmohan Bahadur. 3. No first use of nuclear weapons: sane logic, sound doctrine/Manpreet Sethi. 4. Security of Pakistan's nuclear assets/Sitakanta Mishra. 5. China's economic downward spiral: Impact on comprehensive national power/Temjenmeren Ao. 6. Becoming a sea power in East Asia: China's quest for regional hegemony/Swati Arun. 7. Possible detente among Russia-Pakistan-China: implications for India/Chandra Rekha. 8. Pakistani UAVs: A case of indigenising the arms industry/RK Narang. 9. Challenges to India's membership of multilateral export control regimes/Manisha Chaurasiya. 10. Offensive potentiality of cyber attacks: a multifaceted and multivariate analysis/AK Gupta. 11. Inevitable warfare technologies: pragmatic role of robotics, 3D printing and supercomputers in future wars/E Dilipraj. Last year, the war in Syria became a melee-the US, Russia, NATO, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Turkey, Lebanon and some others struggled to bring peace to the region. But each stakeholder hankered after a different end state-President Bashar al-Assad's continuance in power became a contentious issue. In due course of time Syria and the Islamic State in Syria (ISIS) jumped the order of priorities for the US forces in the area. In importance, they have left behind the drawdown in Afghanistan, which has been back-burnered provisionally. As it appears, garnering the support of the countries of the region like India, Japan, South Korea, the Philippines, etc. to counter the rise of China, will continue to be high on the US agenda. Likewise, lifting of sanctions against Iran, following its rapprochement with the West will influence the world in many ways. The fallout of the testing of the hydrogen bomb by North Korea, the South China Sea imbroglio and Indo-Pak relations in the wake of the Pathankot terror strike too will cast their shadows on the geo-politics of the region in 2016. Evading war and conflict in the prevailing environment is an effort; economic interests and geo-political compulsions make the choice of alignment difficult for peace-loving nations of the world. They are faced with the dilemma of evading armed conflicts. It requires a conscious and sustained effort to do so. In order to work towards such goals, it is necessary to look at the geo-political, security and military-related issues objectively. The Centre for Air Power Studies (CAPS) has been publishing the Asian Defence Review to fulfill this need. This volume, a resource base for both the professional and general readers, is the ninth in the series under this title. It aims to add to the pool of information and knowledge in the current strategic discourse dealing with military strategy, defence, politics and trends in military capabilities that impact Asia. In particular, it covers some of the important issues related to India's security environment, the Indian Air Force, cyber warfare, nuclear security, warfare technologies, export control regimes, Russia, China and Pakistan.