The Routledge handbook of Indian defence policy: themes, structures and doctrines
In: Routledge handbooks
In: Routledge handbooks
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- List of contributors -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- SECTION 1 Soldier, state and society in India -- 2 The Indian Army: 1700s-1947 -- 3 Indian civil-military relations: an overview -- 4 Indian society and the soldier: will the twain ever meet? -- SECTION 2 Military and foreign policy -- 5 India and the changing nature of war: gradual incrementalism? -- 6 Military as an instrument of India's foreign policy: an expanding footprint -- 7 India's erratic defence diplomacy: in need of a booster dose -- 8 India's counterterror diplomacy: strategy and outcome -- SECTION 3 The services -- 9 The Indian Army: evolution in the age of nuclear weapons and terrorism -- 10 Evolution of the Indian Navy: towards a 'maritime awakening'? -- 11 Indian Air Force: persuasive in peace, effective in war -- 12 Evolution of jointness in Indian defence forces: stuck between the services -- SECTION 4 Doctrines -- 13 Indian Army's flagship doctrines: need for strategic guidance -- 14 The Indian Navy's doctrinal evolution: between deterrence and denial -- 15 Doctrinal evolution in the Indian Air Force: towards a strategic future -- SECTION 5 Defence versus development -- 16 Changing contours of Indian defence expenditure: past as prologue? -- 17 Defence procurement in India: challenges abound -- SECTION 6 Internal security -- 18 Islamist terrorism in India: a hybrid threat -- 19 Bullet holes in village walls: India's Naxalite challenge -- 20 Insurgencies in India's northeast: rise, fall and the rise? -- SECTION 7 Institutional infrastructure -- 21 The evolution in India's national security apparatus: persisting structural deficiencies -- 22 The Indian intelligence system: meeting the challenges of a new world -- 23 The Indian police: need for reinvention.