After nine years of the current phase of war and conflict in Afghanistan that began in the wake of 9/11 terrorist attacks there seems to be no solution in sight. This book's first section examines Pakistan's role in Afghanistan and postulates that there has been no fundamental change in Pakistan's role in respect to Afghanistan since last six decades. The second section looks at the dominant drivers of the current situation and gazes in the future to arrive at ...
Defence Planning has been neglected for long in India. This has led to ad-hocism in decision-making and adversely affected the modernization plans of the Services. This Volume brings out in detail the inadequacies in our planning process: the lack of a cohesive national security strategy/Defence policy and inadequate coordination of Defence planning and economic development. Long term perspective planning is still a sum total of respective Service plans. Also, in ...