CONTENTS:-
I. Indian defence:
1. Indian defence Who's who.
2. Indian military chiefs.
3. Indian Army:
i. Interview with General Deepak Kapoor, Chief of the Army Staff.
ii. Indian Army-Changing nature of conflict/Deepak Kapoor.
iii. Indian Army: Forever reliable/S. Pattabhiraman.
iv. Specifications of Indian Army Weapon Systems.
4. Indian Navy:
i. Interview with Admiral Nirmal Verma, Chief of the Naval Staff.
ii. Indian Navy: Missions for tomorrow/Nirmal Verma.
iii. Indian Navy by 2022/Ranjit B. Rai.
iv. Specifications of Indian Naval ships and aircrafts.
5. Indian Air Force:
i. Interviews with Air Chief Marshal P.V. Naik, Chief of the Air Staff.
ii. IAF: Future aerospace power/P.V. Naik.
3. The Indian Air Force in transition/Fali Homi Major.
4. India's MMRCA Deal: muddled rationale, costly adventure/Vipin Narang.
5. Specifications of Indian Air Force Combat Aircraft.
6. Indian coast guard.
7. Modernisation of Indian Armed Forces: the future ahead/Chandra Shekhar.
8. Indian defence industry and directory of ordnance establishments.
9. India's Defence Budget 2009-2010.
10. Indian Defence R and D.
11. Defence laboratories and establishments.
12. Integrated defence staff/Vinod Anand.
II. Business:
1. Defence acquisition/A.K. Antony.
2. Defence Procurement Policy/Vinod Anand.
3. Indian defence procurement organisation.
4. India's aeronautics industry: opportunities and challenges/S.R. Deshpande.
5. Major world defence contracts/P. Chacko Joseph.
III. Asymmetric warfare:
1. Nuclear terrorism: an overview/S. Padmanabhan.
2. Asymmetric warfare/P.C. Katoch.
3. The menace of terrorism/S.K. Sinha.
4. Effectiveness and limitations of army in combating terrorism/D.B. Shekatkar.
5. Financial terrorism/B.R. Lall.
IV. Defence and strategy:
1. India's security environment/Manmohan Singh.
2. Keep the armed forces apolitical/V.P. Malik.
3. Parliamentary overview of defence in India/Yogendra Narain.
4. Strategy for employment of special forces/P.C. Katoch.
5. India's Look East Policy and strategic alliances/B.S. Malik.
6. Strategic blunders of India/Niranjan Singh Malik.
7. Redefining national security/Kalyan K. Mitra.
8. National security and higher defence/V.K. Shrivastava.
9. Internal security challenges and military power/D.B. Shekatkar.
10. From Outpost to Springboard: the revival of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands/Vijay Shankar.
11. To integrate or not: the political-military dilemma//Suresh Bangara.
12. Impact of geopolitical developments on North Eastern region/Arun Sahgal.
13. Future warfare/Anjan Mukherjee.
14. Art and craft of breaking India/Abhijit Bhattacharyya.
15. South Asia 2020: Moving towards cooperation or conflict/Nirupama Rao.
16. National security and higher defence management in India/N.S. Sisodia.
17. Human resource management in the Indian army/Mukesh Sabharwal.
18. Politics, war and politics of war/Gautam Banerjee.
19. India's Energy security imperatives/Bhupendra Kumar Singh.
V. Technology: present and future:
1. Hypersonic weapons/S.B. Tyagi.
2. Artificial intelligence: exploring new frontiers/S.R.R. Aiyengar.
3. US Cyber command/P. Chacko Joseph.
4. Smart weapons/P. Chacko Joseph.
5. Unmanned aerial vehicles/R.C. Bajpai.
6. Technology and warfare/R.K. Tewari.
7. Ballistic missile defence: the Indian perspective/Raj Mehta.
VI. Regional balances:
1. South Asia.
2. Central Asia.
3. East Asia.
4. Middle East.
VII. Global armed forces:
1. China's military modernization/Narayan Menon.
2. Afghanistan: destined to remain an underdeveloped country/K.S. Rao.
3. Sino-Indian relations/K.K. Nanda.
4. China's Emerging cyber war doctrine/Gurmeet Kanwal.
5. China's cyber warfare threat/S.R.R. Aiyengar.
6. US Af-Pak Policy: implications/Jayant Varma.
7. Women in the Israeli Defence Forces/Raj Mehta.
8. Use of irregulars: bane of Pakistan/R.S.N. Singh.
VIII. Intelligence:
1. Intelligence gathering in today's world/Kamal Davar.
2. Pakistan's Intelligence: present and future/M.K. Dhar.
3. Intelligence and terrorism/N.C. Asthana.
4. Chinese intelligence: objectives and operations/D.S. Rajan.
IX. Legal:
1. New terror laws in India: gaps and inadequacies/Nilendra Kumar.
2. Civilianization of military law: armed forces tribunal in India/U.C. Jha.
X. Other useful information:
1. Who's who in Asia.
2. Indian Defence digest.
