Indian Defence Review Jan-June 1986 (Vol 1.1)

The Indian Defence Review is a fledging effort towards keeping the public Informed on defence and related issues. As a start we intend to publish the Review biannually, in January and July each year. We have been able to enlist the support of contributors of the highest prestige and qualifications as evident from the list of contents in this, the inaugural issue, we expect to maintain this high quality and further broaden the scope of coverage.

We would welcome articles on defence and related subjects from defence planners and scientists for subsequent issues of the Review.

Letters to the Editor with regard to the contents of the Review and the views expressed therein will be carried beginning with the July 1986 issue.

In this Volume

India’s Nuclear Options in the 1990s and its Effect on India’s Armed Forces — Lt Gen EA Vas

Higher Defence Organisation in India — Lt Gen SK Sinha

Introduction of National Service in India for Defence and Development — Lt Gen Dr ML Chibber

Towards Deterrence: Conventional Air Power in the 1990s — Air Cmde Jasjit Singh

The Rapid Deployment Force for India: A new concept in First Strike Strategy — Lt Gen Mathew Thomas

A Doctrine for Mechanised Warfare in the Indian Subcontinent — Lancer

The Poor Bloody Infantry — Footslogger

The Airborne Assault Operations at Tangail—Indo-Pak Conflict 1971 — Lt Gen Mathew Thomas

The War in Afghanistan: A view on current Soviet Weapons and Equipment — Observer

Decision making process in the Defence Services — Air Cmde RJM Upot

An Officer and a Gentleman: Changing Pattern of Military Leadership Values — Brig NB Grant

Artillery as a Combat Support Arm in the Battlefield milieu of the 1990s — Maj Gurmeet Kanwal

Insurgency and Counter Insurgency: The Anatomy of an Insurgent Movement and Countermeasures — Pegasus

Intelligence—Problems and Possible Solutions — Lt Gen PN Kathpalia

Rationalisation of Security Forces in India —Jaswant Singh