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Employment of space technologies for advancing the nation's social, scientific and economic interests is gaining increasing importance in the 21st century. At the same time space security, which includes the security of space assets and the ability to use space for civilian and security purposes is also attracting increasing attention. During the last few decades the number of states investing in satellite technologies has grown. Today satellite technology is ...
Pentagon Press presents its sixth edition of the South Asia Defence and Strategic Year Book. South Asia comprises eight independent countries - Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. These countries have contiguous borders with almost similar history, race, religion, language, culture and colonial legacies which make them unique from other regions of the world. What makes this region important in the global context today? ...
On 2 May 2011 Pakistani General Ashfaq Kayani, the Chief of Army Staff, stood exposed before the world as either incompetent or complicit in harbouring a mass murderer. US Navy seals had undertaken a major covert operation on Pakistan soil, killing Osama bin Laden under the noses of the Pakistan Army. Incredibly, bin Laden's compound was on the doorstep of the prestigious Pakistan Military Academy, yet the first the Pakistanis knew of it was when the Americans ...
Any air force in the world, which desires to be self sufficient in aircraft maintenance, has to have its own repair/ overhaul agencies for servicing the fleet of aircraft, aero-engines, rotables and other associated equipment; a task which requires careful advance planning and investment.In this book, an attempt has been made to pen down the genesis of assessing spares requirement for 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th line servicing of airframes and aero-engines with ...
Terrorism is a major contemporary security problem and will, in all likelihood, remain so for the foreseeable future. The South Asian states are particularly afflicted with this scourge, the reasons for which are manifold. These include disputed borders, disputed areas, and ambiguous as well as inherited administration in parts of the states. The brutal nature of the genesis of Pakistan and Bangladesh has made regional relations conflicting and a part of their ...
Pentagon's South Asia Defence and Strategic Year Book is now in its fourth year of publication. It contains well-documented and comprehensive analyses of defence, economic and geostrategic issues that impact regional security in South Asia. These wide ranging perspectives give deep insights into the various factors which are juxtaposed together to have a far reaching impact on the world as a whole, and South Asia in particular.Being a region rife with ...
This volume includes a collection of papers contributed by eminent scholars and analysts from the South Asian region on how they visualise South Asia a decade hence. This was primarily motivated b the desire to think collectively about our regional future in terms of issues that challenges the region and the individuals states; how the external powers' presence in this region affects it; and the role of regional institutional mechanisms in fostering ...
This book portrays how China's state transformation is taking place or moving without much notice through trial and error, which seems awfully cautious, balanced and systematic. Specifically, it addresses the discourse of State transformation in China, contextualizing its progress and timely transformation in the military, civil-military, political and socio-economics terms. Scholars have tried to examine this discourse time and again. But again they have ...
Any one who has studied the over 30-year-old Sri Lankan conflict with detachment will perhaps agree that no other phrase can define the Prabhakaran Conundrum better than 'Lost Victory'. He had almost succeeded in his goal of getting a Tamil Eelam with most of his conditions agreed to by the Sri Lankan Government, with the tacit approval of the International Community. On the brink of success, however, he made cardinal, irreversible blunders, linked with ...
At first sight it seems that there is little in common between the security dynamics of Northeast Asia and South Asia. They are geographically situated in different parts of Eurasia. Their threat perceptions are different, being informed by their unique historical experience. These geo-strategic particularities have molded their security postures.Both these regions are distinguished by the presence of adersarial dyads-North Korea-South Korea and Pakistan-India. ...
There is a visible change in the outlook towards security all over the world-probably because of the increasing complexity of global problems and their repercussions for millions of people all over the world. Insecurity is not just all pervasive but is reiterating its alarming overtones more forcefully than during the cold war era. There are now threats very different from a military attack on a nation`s territory.The concept of National Security hence needs to ...
