Publications:
Ali Ahmed, PhD
Summary of writings (since July
2008)
- Book (forthcoming) – 1
- Edited book (co-editor) –
1
- Book chapters – 11
- Articles in refereed
journals – 13 (Strategic Analysis – 6)
- Articles in military
journals – 25
- Articles in other journals
– 26 (Mainstream – 7)
- IDSA publications – 20
(Monographs – 2, Briefs - 6)
- Book reviews - 26
- Columns – idsa.in -
39; Kashmir Times - 17; The
Financial World - 9; Salute - 22; foreignpolicyjournal.org - 28; ipcs.org- 38 ; claws.in - 26
- Other newspapers/publications– Tehelka - 5; Dawn – 2; Other - ; Light readings - 13
Publications
prior to Jul 2008 - 95
Blog
http://www.ali-writings.blogspot.in
Monograph
- Reconciling Doctrines:
Prerequisite for Peace in
- India’s
Limited War Doctrine: The Structural Factor, IDSA Monograph Series No. 10, 2012
Edited Book
·
Ali Ahmed, J Panda and Prashant Singh (eds.), Towards
a New Asian Order, New Delhi
Book
Forthcoming
·
The Doctrine Puzzle: India ’s
Limited War Doctrine, Routledge India
Book Chapter
- ‘Countering
Insurgency in
- ‘Applicability
of Sub-Conventional Operations Doctrine to Counter Insurgency in
- ‘India
2030: With History as guide’ in Lele, A. and N. Goswami (eds.), Asia 2030: The Unfolding Future,
- ‘
- ‘Indian
Strategic Culture: The Pakistan Dimension’ in Kanti Bajpai and Harsh Pant
(eds.) forthcoming Routledge publication
- ‘
- ‘AFSPA in light of
Humanitarian Law’ in Vivek Chadha, Armed
Forces Special Powers Act: The Debate
, IDSA Monograph Series No. 7, 2012. - ‘UN
Peacekeeping Operations: Leveraging
- ‘Nuclear
Doctrine and Conflict’ in Krishnappa and Princy George (eds.) Grand Strategy for
India 2020 and Beyond, Pentagon Security
International, 2012.
- ‘The military and the
Line of Control’ in Varun Sahni (ed.) (forthcoming)
- ‘
Articles in refereed journals
Strategic Analysis
- Political level considerations and nuclear
retaliation, Strategic Analysis, 36
(4), 2012
- Political Factor in
Nuclear Retaliation, Strategic
Analysis, 34 (1), Jan 2010.
- India's
Response Options to Pakistani Nuclear First Use, Strategic Analysis, April
2010, Volume: 4 Issue: 2.
- The
Interface of Strategic and War Fighting Doctrines in the India–Pakistan
Context, Strategic
Analysis, 33 (5), September 2009.
- Towards a proactive
military strategy: Cold Start and Stop, Strategic Analysis, 35 (3), May 2011.
Others
- Cold Start: The lifecycle of a doctrine, Comparative
Strategy, 31:5, 453-468
- ‘Internal Security Crises in Punjab, Kashmir and
- Understanding Indo-Pak Relations, Journal of International Studies,
- Internal security crisis: The virtue of equanimity, Journal
of Peace Studies, 18 (1,2), Jan-Jun 2011.
- Strategic Culture and Indian Self-assurance, Journal of Peace Studies, Vol. 17,
Issue 2&3, April-September, 2010.
- Strategic Culture and Indian Self Assurance, Journal
of Peace Studies, 17 (2,3), Apr-Sep 2010.
- L’Inde
Strategique (Translated into French) (India Strategic), La renaissance de l’inde, AGIR,
Paris.
Articles
Mainstream
- The Army: Missing Muslim
- Prospects for UN Peacekeeping in
- India-Pakistan: Unlocking the Status Quo, Mainstream,
L:9, 18 February, 2012.
- India-Pakistan: Advocating Accommodation, Mainstream, L: 16, April 2012.
Defence publications
- Offensive in the mountains: Mountain Strike Corps, SPs
Land Forces, 8/6, Dec 11-Jan 12.
- Understanding
- Rethinking
- The Nuclear Factor in
- Reconciling doctrinal
dichotomy, Aakrosh, 13 (49), Oct
2010.
- Counter insurgency in the
liberal perspective, Aakrosh, 13
(47), April 2010.
- Indian Nuclear Command
and Control, Aakrosh, 14 (50),
Jan 2010 (Also on IDR website, Parts 1 and 2, 12-13 Jul 2011).
- Limited War Thinking in
- Rethinking the
- Tackling
Terror Holistically, Conference Brochure, Security Watch
- Reflection
on Conflict Duration, Indian Defence
Review, 24.3, Jul-Sep 2009.
- Managing
‘Transformation’,
- Uncertain
Course: India-Pak strategic doctrines and balance of power, Strategic Affairs, Aug 2009-12-30.
- Dealing with Two Fronts Needs Matching
Capabilities,
- The Grammar of War, Defence and Strategic Review, October 2012.
Others
- Conflict Resolution in
Report, December 2011. - AfPak: A Strategic Opportunity for
Articles in military journals
Infantry Journal
- Limited War: A mental
framework, Infantry, June 2012
- One Star: The
Organisational Responsibility, Infantry
Journal, June 2013.
- Understanding
Internal Security, The Infantry (
- The Infantry: ‘At’ Peace
while ‘in’ peace?, Infantry,
2009 (?)
- Perspectives
on Defence Challenges faced by
- Battalion Command: A
Template, 2009 (?), pp. 10-13.
- Strategic
- Understanding
India-Pakistan relations, War
College Journal, 2011 (?)
- An
Analysis of Grand Strategy in Operation Barbarossa,
- Next
Steps in
Center for Land
Warfare Studies
- Mizo Hills: Revisiting
the Early Phase, Scholar Warrior,
CLAWS, Autumn 2011.
- The Invisible dimension
of modernization, CLAWS Journal,
Winter 2010.
- A
Perspective on Land Warfare Strategy, CLAWS
Journal, Winter 2009.
USI
Journal
Jungle
Warfare and Counter
Insurgency School
- Jihad
in Strategic Theory, Pratividrohi,
Autumn 2009.
- Learning from the Mizo
Hills Experience, Pratividrohi,
2010.
- Command
Endeavour: The Regimental Way, Maratha
Regiment Magazine, 2008.
- Counter insurgency in a
conventional war scenario, Pratividrohi,
Journal of Counter Insurgency and
- The Counter Insurgency
Oeuvre, Pratividrohi,
Others
- The Limited War concept
and
- Regimenatal Command, Maratha 2008, Regiment Journal
IDSA publications
Journal
of Defence Studies
- Reconciling the AFSPA
with the legal spheres, Journal of
Defence Studies, 5 (2), Apr 2011.
- India-Pakistan relations:
Military diplomacy vs Strategic Engagement, Journal of Defence Studies, 5 (1), Jan 2010.
- TNW in Nuclear First Use: The Legal Counter, Journal
of Defence Studies, 5 (4), Oct 2011.
- Military Response to a
Future 26/11 – A Dissuasive Analysis, JDS,
3 (4), 2009.
- Reconciling AFSPA with
legal spheres, Journal of Defence
Studies, 5 (2), April 2011.
- TNW in Nuclear First Use:
The Legal Factor, JDS, 5 (4),
2011.
- Furthering No First Use
in the India-Pakistan Context, JDS,
3 (3), July 2009
- India’s
Conflict Strategy: The Legal Angle, Journal of Defence
Studies, July 2010 Volume: 4 Issue: 3.
- Cold Start and the Sehjra
Option, JDS, 4 (4), Oct 2010
Policy/Issue
Briefs
- Revision
of DSCO: Human Rights to the fore,
Policy Brief, IDSA, March 2011.
- Reviewing
India’s Nuclear Doctrine, Policy
Brief, IDSA, April 24, 2009.
- Elevate Human Rights as the Core Organising
Principle in Counter Insurgency, IDSA Issue Brief, November
2011.
- A Consideration of Sino-Indian Conflict, IDSA
Issue Brief, October 2011.
- 2011 and Beyond:
Visualising AfPak, IDSA Issue Brief,
November 2009
- 2011 and
beyond: Visualising Af-Pak, Issue Brief, IDSA, December 23, 2009.
Other
IDSA Website,
idsa.in
Strategic Comments
- Reopening
the debate on Limited War, 29 Feb 2012
- The Indian Army: What the stars foretell for 2012, Dec
2011
- Tit
for Tat: A Nuclear Retaliation Option, Oct 2011
- What
does
- Making
sense of Nasr, Apr 2011
- Ongoing
revision of Indian Army doctrine, Jan 2011
- The
Arab Tumult in its wider meaning, Feb 2011
- Army
Transformation: A radical one?, Jan 2011
- Political Dimensions of
Limited War, March 29, 2010.
- The
advantages of ‘Cold Start Minor’, December 13, 2010
- Obama’s
AfPak Review should emphasise on Peace Talks with the Taliban November 23, 2010
- The
Third Front: Military Ethics, November
4, 2010
- Clarifying
India’s Strategic Doctrine, October
25, 2010
- The
‘Cold Start and Stop’ strategy, September 28, 2010
- Military
Doctrines: Next steps, August
16, 2010
- Civil-Military
relations: Under scan, July 14,
2010
- An
additional dish for the India-Pakistan platter, July 5, 2010
- Darfur
and enhancing India’s peacekeeping profile, June 2010
- The
message from mock battles, May
7, 2010
- The
military intelligence function in future war, February 26, 2010.
- Nuclear
targeting caveats, April 21,
2010
- Ongoing
revision of army doctrine, 6 Jan 2010.
- Nuclear
implications of the two front formulation, 29 Jan 10
- The
Army’s Subculture in the Coming Decade, December 22, 2009
- The
Army’s decade in review, November 30, 2009
- India-Pakistan
Conflict Outcome Probability, October 27, 2009
- Re-visioning
the Nuclear Command Authority, September 9, 2009
- India’s
response to the next terror attack, August 26, 2009
- For an
Indo-Pak strategic dialogue forum, August 4, 2009
- The
central debate in India’s civil military relations, July 6, 2009
- Seizing
the moment: India and the ‘moderate Taliban’, June 8, 2009
- Exit
Points and the Updation of Cold Start Doctrine, April 22, 2009
- Initiatives
to transform the Army Officer Corps, March 5, 2009
- Foregrounding
‘Non-Combatant Immunity’, January 30, 2009
- The Post
26/11 Regional Strategic Predicament, December 3, 2008
- Need
for clarity in
- An
overview of the Russo-Georgian conflict, Sep 2008
Institute for Peace and
Conflict Studies (IPCS) Website, ipcs.org
1. India and Pakistan
2. India and Pakistan
3. Civil-Military Relations:
Questioning the VK Singh Thesis, June 2012
4. The
Missing Element in the Counter Naxal Strategy, May 2012
5. India-Pakistan:
Winds of Change, April 2012
6. NCBMs: Scaremongering but with
a purpose, Feb 2012
7. Cold Start: One step forward,
two steps back, Jan 2012
8. AFSPA: The renewed debate, Nov
2011
9. The direction of India
10. Saxena Task Force: Farewell to
the Chiefs, Sep 2011
11. Internal Security Reform: Yet
another Opportunity , July 2011
12. The Sense in
Networking with Kayani, Apr 2011
13. Implications
of Indian BMD developments, Mar 2011
14. Kashmir: A
Hot Summer Ahead?, Jan 2010
15. WikiWrecks:
The US Perspective on Cold Start, Dec 2010
17. AFSPA: A
Practical Approach, Sep 2010
18. J&K:
Implement the Working Group Recommendations, Aug 2010
19. General
Kayani: Implications of Extension, July 2010
20. Should India
give up its NFU Doctrine?, June 2010
21. India-Pakistan
Dialogue: Going Beyond Thimpu, May 2010
22. The New Chief and Transformation, Apr 2010
23. India and Pakistan
24. The Logic of the Sundarji
Doctrine, Dec 2009
25. The Obama
Decision Making Model, Dec 2009
26. The Illogic
of ‘Unacceptable Damage’, Oct 2009
27. The ‘Pause’
in India-Pakistan Dialogue, Oct 2009
28. India's
Thermonuclear Test: Bombed?, Aug 2009
29. Talks As
Strategy, Aug 2009
30. The illogic of ‘massive’
punitive retaliation, Jul 2009
31. Nuclear
Trajectory in South Asia, Jun 2009
32. Tackling
Insurgency In Assam, May 2009
33. The ‘Context’
of Islamism, Apr 2009
34. Questioning
‘Compellence’ as Answer to India’s Pakistan Dilemma, Mar 2009
35. Engaging a
Reluctant Pakistan, Jan 2009
36. Post 26/11
Strategy Recomendation For India, Dec 2008
37. The Pay
Commission Outcome as Opportunity, Oct 2008
38. Thinking
Beyond the Line of Control, Aug 2008
Center for Land
Warfare Studies (CLAWS) Website, claws.in
- Naval operations in an
India-Pakistan context, 20 June 2012
- Arguing for NBC Training,
26 Aug 2011
- Dimensions of the
MacChrystal episode, 8 July 2010
- Psychological opertions
as key, Jan 2012
- Mountain Strike Corps:
The nuclear dimension, Dec 2011
- Implications of BrahMos
deployment, Oct 2011
- Demonstration Strikes
in an India-Pakistan Scenario, 16 Feb 2010
- Arguing for NBC
Training, Aug 2011
- Hatf IX
and possible Indian responses, 5 May
2011
- The
Sino-Pak ‘collusive’ threat, 31 March
2011
- Deterrence
Stability in a Context of Strategic Instability,
11 Feb 2011
- Counter
insurgency learning from Kashmir, 20 Jan
2011
- Conflict
strategy for the decade ahead, 25 Dec
2010
- Nuclear
C2: The balance agenda, 28 November 2010
- Appraising
a Pakistani military response, 16 Oct 2010.
- Sociological
Dimension of the ‘Transformation’ Initiative, June 2009
- Nuclear Use Consequences For
- Some Implications of the ‘Cold Start’ Doctrine,
Sep 2009
- Building
- Towards A Limited War Doctrine, Nov 2009
- Towards a National Security Doctrine, 10 Nov
2011
- Kargil:
Afterthoughts at the Operational Level, Dec 2009
- Army
Deployment in
- Strategy Advocacy for
Foreign Policy Journal Website
(foreignpolicyjournal.com)
http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/author/ali-ahmed/
- Non-alignment 2.0 and
- The Exit from ‘AfPak’: Don’t Blame
- South
Asia:
- Behind
- India-Pakistan:
Solving the ‘chicken or egg’ conundrum, Dec 2011
- Evaluating
the
- Using
military dangers gainfully, Oct 2011
- The
Muslim Question: An Understanding for Difficult Times, July 2011
- Saving
- India-Pak:
Justifiable pessimism, Apr 2011
- India-Pakistan:
Nothing in the offing, Mar 2011
- Coping
with Islamist
- AfPak:
Talks as the way out, Dec 2010
- Towards
the endgame in
- The
coming escalation in Obama’s war, Jun 2010
- Reconciling
the AfPak conundrum, Apr 2010
- Getting
- India-Pakistan
Dialogue: The Way Forward, February 2010
- Prospects
of India-Pakistan Nuclear
- India-Pakistan
relations: Movement?, Nov 2009
- Obama
and the Limitations of Conventional Strategy, Oct 2009
- Af-Pak:
Book Reviews
1.
When
More Is Less: The International Project In Afghanistan, By Astri Sukhre, Hurst &
Co, London, 2011, in The Book Review,
XXXVI (5), May 2012
2.
The
New Protectorates: International Tutelage And The Making Of Liberal States, Edited by James Mayall ,
Ricardo Soares de Oliveira, C Hurst & Co,, London, 2011, in The Book Review, XXXVI (9), Sept 2012
3.
Vortex
Of Conflict: US Policy Toward Afghanistan ,
Pakistan And Iraq , By D. Caldwell ,
Cambridge University
Press, Cambridge
- Arshin Adib-Moghaddam,
A metahistory of the clash of civilisations: Us and them beyond
Orientalism,
- Nuclear Proliferation
in , in Strategic
Analysis, Volume: 34 Issue: 4, July 2010
- MJ
Akbar, Tinderbox: The past and
future of
- Stephen Cohen and
Dasgupta, Arming without aiming,
in JDS,
- Armed Conflicts In South Asia 2011: The Promise And
Threat Of Transformation, Edited by D. Suba Chandran and P.R. Chari, Routledge,
- Talmiz
Ahmad, Children of Abraham at War: Clash of Messianic Militarisms, in
Strategic Analysis, September 2011, 35:5, 849-851
- K. Sheoran, Human
Rights and Armed Forces in LIC, in Strategic
Analysis, 35 (3) May 2011.
- Sumit Ganguly and David
Fidler,
- Priyanjali
Malik, India’s Nuclear Debate: Exceptionalism and the Bomb, in Indian Foreign Affairs Journal,
Apr-Jun 2010
- Bharat
Karnad, India’s Nuclear Policy, in
Third Frame, Journal of Academy
of Third World Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia
- Shuja
Nawaz, Crossed Swords:
- Gurmeet
Kanwal, Indian Army: Vision 2020,
in Journal of Defence Studies,
IDSA, 2 (2), Winter 2008
- Ayesha
Jalal, Partisans of Allah: Jihad in
- Bharat
Karnad, India’s Nuclear Policy in
Defence Management, in Defence
Management, Mar 2009, and Third
Frame (?), pp. 204-06
- Wajahat
Habibullah, My
- Rajesh
Rajagopalan, Fighting Like a Guerilla: The
Indian Army and Counter Insurgency, in Third
Frame, 1:3, Jul-Sep 2008.
- Jaideep Saikia and Ekaterina Stepanova
(eds.) Terrorism:
Patterns of Internationalisation, in Strategic Analysis, 33 (5), Sept 2009
- Harsh Pant, Contemporary
Debates in Indian Foreign and Security Policy: India Negotiates Its Rise
in the International System, in Strategic Analysis, Sept
2009
- Manpreet
Sethi, Nuclear Strategy: India’s
March Towards Credible Deterrence, in Indian Foreign Affairs Journal, July-Sep 09
- Asseri,
Anti terrorism:
- Praveen
- Carey
Schofield, Inside the
Newspapers/Periodicals
- Lessons from Bandipore,
10 August 2012.
- AFSPA: A question of
justice, 13 Feb 12
- Acknowledging the
blindspot on
- An agenda point for the
foreign secretaries, 16 June 2011
- The agenda this winter, 6
Oct 2011
- Solving
- Fixing responsibility: CI
decisions and consequences, 30 Aug 2011
- No escaping political
solution to
- A ceasefire enabled
reckoning possible, 9 Oct 2010
- Preliminaries towards a
solution – 24 Feb 2011
- Domesticating the AFSPA –
28 Mar 2011
- A novel option for the
coming summer – 13 Apr 2011
Tehelka
- India-Pakistan
peace process, Tehelka, June 2011
- Time
not to let the guard down in
- Deterrence has a shaky and brief
shelf life, Tehelka, 3 Jan 12
- Smile but keep the powder dry, Tehelka, 10 April 2012
- A General’s unforgettable legacy, Tehelka, 31 May 2012
Financial
World
- Why are
Muslims missing from Army?, Financial
World, 16 June 2012
- LWE: There’s a problem
with the ‘solution’, 3 May 2012
- Tribal
communities in the cross-hairs, Financial
World, 9 July 2012
- To call out the army or
not, Financial World - 2 Aug 12
- The
sub-unit cries for army attention, Financial
World, 27 Aug 2012
- Do we
need a Chief Warlord? Opinion, The
Financial World—
- A grand
bargain for
- Closed doors
mean no dialogue, no peace, The Financial World, 13 Dec 2011.
Dawn (Pakistan
- Time for the Grand
Bargain, Oct 2011 – Dawn blog
Miscellaneous
- The Army: Why Muslims are Missing?, The Aligarh Movement, May-June
2012.
- Taking Nuclear Warfighting
Seriously, IDR, 12.1, March
2012.
- A Plan for
- Muslim
- Making Cold Start
Doctrine work, 2010 – Tribune, 11 Oct 2010
- In Defence of the Chief, the Two-Front war issue, 21 January 2010,
8ak.in
- Defending
- Isreal matters, but only so
much, Purple Beret
- Inside the
- Af-Pak endgame:
Implications for
- Legal
warfare: The neglected dimension, IDR,
Jan 2012
- UN Peacekeeping: Thinking out of the
box, Indian Defence Review, Feb
2012
- AfPak Endgame: Implications for
- ‘Limitations of military response
options to 26/11’, The Front Page,
Dec 2008
- 'Brown
Sahibs' to blame for Chintalnar massacre of CRPF jawans, 8ak.in (a
media partner of defpro.com), Apr 2010.
- ‘India-Pakistan: Prospects of War’,
8ak.in, Aug 2010.
- ‘
- ‘Sukhna
Scam: Additional Dimensions’, 8ak.in, Mar 2010.
- What to do about
Salute
- Army’s role order, July
2011
- Soldiering: An Indian
Experience by S. Sardeshpande (Book Review) – May 2010
- Lessons from
- Rethink the Afghan
Strategy – June 2010
- Indian Maritime Doctrine,
IHQ of MoD (Navy) (Book Review), June 2010
- Action for
- Are we pedantic? July
2010
- The 1947-48 War had
pioneered the shape of Indian policies, Aug 2010
- Crisis response: Changing
the contours, Sep 2010
- Making sense of jointness
– Nov 2010
- Poor bloody Infanteer –
Nov 2010
- Watch out for schism –
Dec 2010
- Not just about them – May
2011
- What to do about
- Battalion
Command: A Template, Feb 2010
- An
Infanteer’s Life, April 2009
- The
‘Sundarji Doctrine’ Revisited, Oct 2009
- The
‘New’ Vision for Indo-Pak Relations, Sep 2009
- A
Fauji Forrest Gump, 2-16 May 2009
- Mentoring
in the time of Shortages, July 2009
- Stop
‘OG’, Think ‘Purple’
Light
Reading
Book Chapter
·
‘Through
the Rear View Mirror’ and ‘When Things Go Wrong’ in Raksha Bharadia et al
(eds.), Chicken Soup for the Indian Armed
Forces Soul, New Delhi: Westland, 2009
Mayur Infomail (Locality
newspaper)
- Neighbour
- All in a morning’s walk
- Neighbour’s
Envy
- The
Message in the Lights
- By
the Traffic Light
- A
Day in a Muyuran’s Life
- Mayur
Vihar and
- The
Toughest Jobs are Right Here
- Heroes
All
- Honouring
the Kargil Legacy
PUBLISHED WORK: PRIOR TO JULY 2008
ARTICLES
Infantry Journal
1.
Beget
the Devil’s Own Platoon, Infantry Journal, 1993.
2.
Tips
on the Reading
3.
Cohesion:
Bibliographical Note, Infantry Journal, 1995.
4.
Civil-Military
Relations: A Theoretical Perspective, Infantry Journal, 1997.
5.
Company
Command: A Template, Infantry Journal, 2000.
6.
Whither
Infantry?, Infantry Journal, 2001
7.
Drill
Deadens, Infantry Journal, 2002
Combat/War College Journal
1.
On
the Indian Use of Force: The Critiques Reexamined, Combat Journal, Mar
2000.
2.
SAARC
– The Strategic Debate in India
3.
Self
Esteem: Room for improvement, War College Journal, 2005
4.
AOR:
The CT Ops Version, War College
5.
An
Analysis of Grand Strategy in Operation Barbarossa, War College
Pratividrohi (Anti Terrorism Journal of
the Counter Insurgency and Jungle
Warfare School
1.
Pseudo
Gang Operations, Pratividrohi, 1997
2.
Rethinking
Human Rights, Pratividrohi, 2000.
3.
On
Military Leadership in Counter Insurgency Operations, Pratividrohi,
1998.
4.
The
Army, Media and LIC, Pratividrohi,
2002
5.
J&K:
The Perspectives Contrasted, Pratividrohi,
2001
6.
Peace
Enforcement: The direction of the future, Pratividrohi,
2003
7.
Offensive
air power in J&K; Pratividrohi,
Sep 05
8.
Peacekeeping
and Peaceenforcement, Pratividrohi,
2002
Intelligence Journal (Journal of Military Intelligence School
1.
Society
and Military Intelligence: A Sociological Perspective, Intelligence Journal,
1996-97.
2.
The
Pathology of Info War, Intelligence Journal, 2004
USI Journal (United Services Institution of India )
1.
The
Fauji Memsahib, USI Journal, 1999.
2.
The
Doctrinal Challenge, USI Journal, Jan 2000.
3.
MONUC,
USI Journal, Jan 2004
4.
Short
Wars: Creating Tomorrow’s Reality, USI
Journal, Jan 2008
5.
In Tribute: Recalling The
‘Sundarji Doctrine’, USI Journal, Vol.
CXXXVIII, No. 571, January-March 2008.
Pinnacle (Journal of the Army Training Command)
1.
The
Strategic Community, Pinnacle, Mar 2003
2.
Reflection
on Military Ethos, Pinnacle, Mar 2003
3.
Revolution
in Military Affairs: The Sociological Perspective, Pinnacle, Sep 03
4.
Reader’s
Forum: Short Wars; Dec 07
5. Reader’s Forum: Transformation and the
Officer Corps; Spring 08 (under consideration)
Others
1.
Recruiting
Anecdotes, Maratha Journal, 1992
2.
A
Professional’s Trekking Experience, Maratha Journal,1990
3.
The
Trade Secret Unveiled, Infantry Day Supplement, The Statesman, Oct 27,
1999.
4.
CAMs
and CBMs, Mainstream, July 23, 1994.
5.
Style
of Command, CDM Journal, 2002
6.
Educating
Future Army Officers, Educationist (Journal of the Army Education Corps), 2002
7.
A
Brief on Research and Analysis, Educationist,
2008
8.
Command
Endeavour: A Regimental Way, Maratha
Journal, 2007
BOOK
REVIEWS
USI
Journal
1.
Alexis
Heraclitus, Self determination of minorities in International Politics, London
2.
Anthony
Giddens, The Third Way London
3.
Anthony
McGrew, Paul Lewis, Global Politics, Globalisation, and the Nation State,
Cambridge
4.
Avnar Cohen , Israel
and the Bomb, New York ,
Colombia
5.
Bruce
Lawrence, Shattering The Myth: Islam Beyond Violence, New
Jersey , Priceton
University
6.
Craig
Baxter, ed. Government and Politics in South Asia, Boulder
7.
Ethan
Kapstein, Michel Mastanduno, Unipolar Politics: Realism and State Strategies
After the Cold War, West Sussex, Colombia University Press, 1999.
8.
From
Surprise to Reckoning:
The Kargil Review Committee Report, New
Delhi
9.
Gwyn
Prins, Strategy, Force Planning and Diplomatic/Military Operations, London
10.
John
Pimlott, Stephen Bayley, ed. The Gulf War Assessed, London
11.
Kedourie,
E., Nationalism, Fourth Edition, Oxford
12.
Lawrence Freedman, Efraim Karsh, The
Gulf Conflict 1990-91: Diplomacy and War in the New World Order, London
13.
Maroof
Raza, Low Intensity Conflict: The New Dimension to India’s Military
Commitment, Meerut
14.
Marshall
Hodgson, Rethinking World History: Essays on Europe, Islam, and World
History, Cambridge , Cambridge University
15.
Maya Chaddha, Ethnicity, Security, and Separatism in
India , New York , Colombia
16.
Michel Clark, Simon Seraty, ed. New Thinking and Old
Realities: America , Europe
and Russia , Washington
17.
MK
Kaw, Bureaucracy: IAS Unmasked, Delhi
18.
Morton
Halperin ed. Self Determination in the New World Order, Washington DC
19.
Peter
Paret, Understanding War: Essays on Clausewitz and the History of Military
Power, New Jersey , Princeton ,
1992.
20.
Stephen
Van Evera, Causes of War: Power and the Roots of Conflict, New York , Cornell
University
21.
Torbjorn
Knutsen, A History of International Relations Theory, Manchester ,
Manchester University
22.
Vivienne
Jabri, Discourses on Violence, New York ,
Manchester University
23.
Sahadevan,
P., Conflict and Peace Making in South Asia, New Delhi, Lancers Books,
2001.
24.
Philpot,
D., Revolutions in Sovereignty: How Modern Ideas Shaped the World, Princeton , 2001
25.
Synnott,
H., The Causes and Consequences of
South Asia’s Nuclear Tests, Adelphi Paper 332, London
26.
Chari,
PR., ed., Security and Governance in South Asia, New Delhi
27.
FitzGibbon,
S., Not Mentioned in Despatches: The History and Myth of the Battle of Goose Green, Cambridge
28.
Haq,
K., The South Asian Challenge, Oxford
Others
1.
Karnad,
B., Nuclear Weapons and Indian Security: The Realist Foundations of Strategy,
New Delhi
2.
Tellis,
A., India ’s Emerging Nuclear
Posture: Between Recessed Deterrence and Ready Arsenal, New Delhi
3.
Perkovich,
G., India’s Nuclear Bomb, New
Delhi
4.
Stephen
Cohen, The Idea of Pakistan ;
New Delhi , OUP - War College
5.
Maududi,
SA, Towards Understanding Islam, New
Delhi
6.
Chadha,
V., Low Intensity Conflicts in India : An Analysis, New
Delhi , Sage, 2005 - The
Infantry (India
7.
Fitzgibbon,
S., Not mentioned in dispatches: The
History and Mythology of the Battle of Goose
Green; Cambridge , Lutterworth Press, 1995; War College
8.
Raman,
Sudha, Nuclear Strategy: The Doctrine of
Just War; New Delhi
9.
Singh,
Jaswant, A Call to Honour, New Delhi,
Rupa & Co, 2006 – Defence Management,
Apr 07
10.
Musharraf,
P., In the Line of Fire; New York , Simon and Shuster, 2006 – The Infantry (India
11. Bammi, Y., War Against Insurgency and Terrorism in Kashmir; Dehra Dun
12. Chandran, S., Limited War: Revisiting Kargil in the Indo Pak Conflict; Omdoa
Research Press, New Delhi, 2005 – War
College Journal 2007
13. Malik , SK , Quranic Concept
of War; New Delhi , Himalayan Books, 1986 – War College
14. Rajagopalan, R., Fighting Like a
Guerilla: The Indian Army and Counterinsurgency, New Delhi
LETTERS
TO THE EDITOR
Combat/ War College
1.
Understanding
Violence and Militancy, 1992.
2.
The
Need for Curricular Innovation, 1999.
3.
Information
War, 1999.
4.
Letter
to the Editor on Bharat Karnad article, Autumn 06
5.
Dangers
of Strategic Determinism, 2001
Infantry Journal
1.
Indo
Pak War: The Fourth Round in On
2.
Pardon,
but your Political Slip is Showing, 1999
3.
Comment
on Book Review of Salman Khursheed’s ‘Beyond Terrorism’, 2003
USI Journal
Need for a military archives, 1995.
CDM Journal (College of Defence
Directive Control: An Advocacy, 2002
Published work
over 2006-08
Articles
·
Short
Wars: From Desirable to Feasible, USI
Journal, Jan 2008
·
In
Tribute: A Recall of the Sundarji Doctrine, USI
Journal, Apr 08
·
An
Analysis of Grand Strategy in Operation Barbarossa, War College
·
A
Brief on Research and Analysis, Educationist,
2008
·
The
Command Challenge, Maratha Regiment
Journal, 08
Book Reviews
·
Fitzgibbon,
S., Not mentioned in dispatches: The
History and Mythology of the Battle of Goose
Green; Cambridge , Lutterworth Press, 1995; War College
·
Raman,
S., Nuclear Strategy: The Doctrine of
Just War; New Delhi
·
Singh,
Jaswant, A Call to Honour, New Delhi,
Rupa & Co, 2006 – Defence Management,
Apr 07
·
Musharraf,
P., In the Line of Fire; New York , Simon and Shuster, 2006 – The Infantry (India
·
Bammi,
Y., War Against Insurgency and Terrorism
in Kashmir; Dehra Dun
·
Chandran,
S., Limited War: Revisiting Kargil in the
Indo Pak Conflict; Omdoa Research Press, New Delhi, 2005 – War College Journal 2007
·
Malik , SK , Quranic Concept of War; New
Delhi , Himalayan Books, 1986 – War College
·
Rajagopalan,
R., Fighting Like a Guerilla: The Indian
Army and Counterinsurgency, New
Delhi
UNPUBLISHED WORK
·
MA
dissertation
at Dept of War Studies, King’s College London, London University
·
MPhil
dissertation
at Center of International
Studies , Cambridge
University
·
MA
dissertation in
Defence and Strategic Studies at Defence
Services Staff
College , University of Madras
