The current JDS issue features a detailed perspective piece on the report of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Defence; two insightful and scholarly articles on the maritime space and India’s role vis-à-vis it; and a third article on defence acquisitions. It also includes a review essay and three book reviews.
Standing Committee on Defence's Prescription for increasing Capital Budget May Not Work
-- Amit Cowshish
Foreign Policy and Sea Power: India's Maritime Role Flux
-- Zorawar Daulet Singh
High End in the Pacific: Envisioning the Upper Limits of India-US Naval Cooperation in Pacific-Asia
-- Gurpreet S. Khurana
Examining the US Defence Acquisition Apparatus: What can India Learn?
-- Laxman Kumar Behera
South Asian Geopolitics: Has Pakistan Lost its Plot?
-- Abhay K. Singh
War from the Ground Up: Twenty-first-century Combat as Politics, by Emile Simpson
-- Alok Deb
The Darkening Web: The War for Cyberspace, by Alexander Klimburg
-- Cherian Samuel
A Rock between Hard Places: Afghanistan as an Arena of Regional Insecurity, by Kristian Berg Harpviken and Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh
-- Y.M. Bammi