Perspectives

• Pakistan: Inter Services Intelligence Directorate (ISI) – An Analytical Overview

  — Rana Banerji

• Radicalization of the Pakistan Army

  — P K Upadhyay

• Understanding the Motivation of Pakistan’s Security and Defence Policies: Roots of Pakistan’s Emergence as the Epicentre of Terrorism

  — A K Verma

Focus

• The Pakistan Navy: A Transformation from ‘Fledgling Force’ to ‘Fighting Machine’

  — Abhijit Singh

• Fault Lines in Pakistan’s Armed Forces: Impact on the Stability of the State

  — Dhruv C Katoch

• Military-Intelligence-Militant Nexus in Pakistan: Fighting a War of Asymmetry against India

  — Sanjeeb Kumar Mohanty and Jinendra Nath Mahanty

• Whither Aid? Future of US Assistance to Pakistan

  — Priyanka Singh

• Pakistan: Crisis of Confidence & Credibility

  — Chintamani Mahapatra

Commentary

• Case Study of MV Suez and Anti Piracy Operations: Lessons for India and Pakistan

  — R S Vasan

• Operation Neptune Spear and Role of Technology

  — Ajey Lele

• TNW in Nuclear First Use: The Legal Counter

  — Ali Ahmed

• Pakistan’s Military-Militant Cabal

  — Rajeev Sharma

• Andaman and Nicobar Command: From an Experiment to an Inspiration

  — Pramod Sangwa

Book Review

• Richard Bonney, Tridivesh Singh Maini and Tahir Malik (Eds.), Warriors after War: Indian and Pakistani Retired Military Leaders Reflect on Relations between the Two Countries, Past, Present and Future

  — Sanjeev Kumar Shrivastav

• Ravi Kalia, ed., Pakistan: From the Rhetoric of Democracy to the Rise of Militancy

  — Saroj Bishoyi

• Bruce Riedel, Deadly Embrace: Pakistan, America and the Future of the Global Jihad

  — Saurabh Mishra