This book attempts to quantify and describe those attributes that most accurately portray India’s capability to exert its national will and seek to arrive at conclusions of where India currently figures in the global order. Presenting an overview and concept of the comprehensive national power (CNP), it makes efforts to access how various powers compared in this study could exert their national power to leverage the international environment to their ...
The Third Dimension: Air Power in Combating the Maoist Insurgency
The Maoist Insurgency has been born out of long periods of social discontent, economic hardships and state apathy towards the neglected masses. Anti-Maoist operations have to be based on a strong political will, aggressive anti-guerrilla tactics and economic and social development of affected areas to win back the confidence of the people. A common perception is that in these operations, the role of air power is normally overlooked. History differs and tells us ...