- Book s– 3
- Edited
book (co-editor) – 1
- IDSA Monographs – 2,
Unpublished monograph (USI) - 1
- Book
chapters – 12
- Articles
in refereed journals – 16 (Strategic Analysis – 6)
- Articles
in military journals – 25
- Articles
in other journals – 32 (EPW – 1)
- IDSA
publications – 23 (Issue Briefs – 6, Journal of Defence Studies - 16)
- Book
reviews - 36
- Web
- idsa.in - 39 ; foreignpolicyjournal.org - 32; ipcs.org- 41 ; claws.in - 30; Other - 41
- Newspapers- 35
- Publications while in
military service (prior to Jul 2008) - 95
PUBLICATIONS:
ALI AHMED
Books
|
1.
India’s
Doctrine Puzzle: Limiting War in South Asia, New Delhi: Routledge, 2014.
2.
On War in
South Asia
(CinnamonTeal, 2015)
3.
On Peace in
South Asia
(CinnamonTeal, 2015)
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Edited volumes
|
1.
Ali Ahmed, J Panda and Prashant Singh (eds.), Towards a New Asian Order, New Delhi:
Shipra Publications, 2012
|
Monographs
|
1.
Reconciling
Doctrines: Prerequisite for Peace in South Asia, IDSA
Monograph Series No. 3, 2010
2.
India’s
Limited War Doctrine: The Structural Factor, IDSA Monograph Series No. 10,
2012
|
Chapters in edited volumes
|
1. ‘India on the
doctrinal front’, in S.N. Kile and P. Schell (eds.) Emerging Military
Technologies and the Implications for Strategic Stability in the Twenty-first
Century, SIPRI (forthcoming
2015)
2.
‘Indian army doctrines’ in Harsh Pant (ed.),
Doctrine Handbook (forthcoming
2015)
3.
‘Countering Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir:
Debates in Indian Army’ in Maroof Raza (ed.), Confronting Terrorism, New Delhi: Penguin Books, 2009
4.
‘Applicability of Sub-Conventional Operations
Doctrine to Counter Insurgency in Assam’, in Bhattacharya, R. and S. Pulipaka
(eds.), Perilous Journey : Debates on
Security and Development in Assam, New Delhi: Manohar, 2011
5.
‘India 2030: With History as guide’ in Lele, A.
and N. Goswami (eds.), Asia 2030:The
Unfolding Future, New Delhi: Lancer 2011
6.
‘India’s Nuclear Doctrine: The Military
Dimension’, in Jayant Baranwal (ed.), SP’s Military Yearbook2010-11, New
Delhi: SP Guide Publications, 2011
7.
‘Indian Strategic Culture: The Pakistan Dimension’
in Indian Strategic Culture: The Pakistan dimension in Krishnappa, Bajpai et
al. (eds.), India’s Grand Strategy: History, Theory, Cases, Taylor and
Francis, 2014.
8.
‘The Nuclear Domain: In Irreverence’, in Mohammed
Badrul Alam, Perspectives On Nuclear Strategy Of India, And Pakistan, Kalpaz
Publications, Delhi, India, 2013.
9.
‘AFSPA in light of
Humanitarian Law’ in Vivek Chadha, Armed
Forces Special Powers Act: The Debate, IDSA Monograph Series No. 7, 2012.
10.
‘UN Peacekeeping Operations: Leveraging India’s
Forte’ in IDSA Task Force, Net
Security Provider: India’s Out-of-Area Contingency Operations, 2012
11. ‘Nuclear
Doctrine and Conflict’ in Krishnappa and Princy George (eds.), India’s Grand Strategy 2020 and
Beyond,IDSA, Pentagon Security International, 2012.
12.
‘India’s Nuclear
Options: The military dimension’ in SP’s Military Yearbook, 2011-12, pp.
39-42.
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Articles in refereed journals
|
1.
No
first use nuclear policy: An existential crisis ahead, EPW, 49 (20), 1 May 14
Strategic Analysis
2.
Political level considerations and nuclear
retaliation, Strategic Analysis,
36 (4), 2012
3.
Political Factor in
Nuclear Retaliation, Strategic Analysis,
34 (1), Jan 2010.
4.
India's Response Options to Pakistani Nuclear
First Use, Strategic Analysis, April
2010, Volume: 4 Issue: 2.
5.
The
Interface of Strategic and War Fighting Doctrines in the India–Pakistan
Context, Strategic Analysis,
33 (5), September 2009.
6.
Towards a proactive military strategy: Cold Start
and Stop, Strategic Analysis, 35
(3), May 2011.
7.
Pakistan’s Nuclear Use and Implications for India,
Strategic Analysis, 34 (4), July
2010.
8. Others
9.
The Indian Army: Borders
and other such lines, Journal of Peace Studies, Vol 20, Issue 3&4,
July-December 2013
10. Cold Start:
The lifecycle of a doctrine, Comparative Strategy, 31:5, 453-468
11. ‘Internal
Security Crises in Punjab, Kashmir and Jaffna: The power of moderation’, South
Asian Survey, 17 : 2 (2010): 283–294
12. Understanding
Indo-Pak Relations, Journal of
International Studies, Bangladesh (BILIA), Vol 1-2, Dec 2010.
13. Internal
security crisis: The virtue of equanimity, Journal of Peace Studies,
18 (1,2), Jan-Jun 2011.
14. Strategic Culture and Indian Self-assurance, Journal of Peace Studies, Vol. 17, Issue 2&3,
April-September, 2010.
15. Strategic
Culture and Indian Self Assurance, Journal of Peace Studies, 17 (2,3),
Apr-Sep 2010.
16.
L’Inde
Strategique (Translated into French) (India Strategic), La renaissance de l’inde, AGIR, Paris
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IDSA
publications
|
Journal of Defence
Studies
1.The 1965 Indo-Pak War: Through
Today’s Lens, Journal of Defence
Studies, 9:3, July 2015
2.Reconciling the AFSPA with the
legal spheres, Journal of Defence
Studies, 5 (2), Apr 2011.
3.India-Pakistan relations:
Military diplomacy vs Strategic Engagement, Journal of Defence Studies, 5 (1), Jan 2010.
4.TNW in Nuclear First Use: The
Legal Counter, Journal of Defence Studies, 5 (4), Oct 2011.
5.Military
Response to a Future 26/11 – A Dissuasive Analysis, JDS, 3 (4), 2009.
6.Reconciling AFSPA with legal
spheres, Journal of Defence Studies,
5 (2), April 2011.
7.India-Pakistan relations:
Military diplomacy vs Strategic Engagement, Journal of Defence Studies, 5 (1), Jan 2010.
8.TNW in Nuclear First Use: The
Legal Counter, Journal of Defence Studies, 5 (4), Oct 2011.
9.Military
Response to a Future 26/11 – A Dissuasive Analysis, JDS, 3 (4), 2009.
10.
Reconciling AFSPA with legal spheres, Journal of Defence Studies, 5 (2),
April 2011.
11. India’s
Response Options to Pakistani Nuclear First Use, Journal of Defence Studies, 4 (2), April 2010.
12. TNW in Nuclear
First Use: The Legal Factor, JDS, 5
(4), 2011.
13. India’s
conflict strategy: The legal angle, JDS,
4 (3), July 2010.
14. Furthering No
First Use in the India-Pakistan Context, JDS,
3 (3), July 2009
15. India’s
Conflict Strategy: The Legal Angle, Journal of Defence Studies, July
2010 Volume: 4 Issue: 3.
16. Cold Start and
the Sehjra Option, JDS, 4 (4), Oct
2010
Policy/Issue
Briefs
17. Revision of
DSCO: Human Rights to the fore, Policy
Brief, IDSA, March 2011.
18. Reviewing
India’s Nuclear Doctrine, Policy
Brief, IDSA, April
24, 2009.
19. Elevate Human
Rights as the Core Organising Principle in Counter Insurgency, IDSAIssue
Brief, November 2011.
20. A
Consideration of Sino-Indian Conflict, IDSA Issue Brief, October 2011.
21. 2011 and
Beyond: Visualising AfPak, IDSA Issue
Brief, November 2009
22. 2011 and
beyond: Visualising Af-Pak, Issue Brief, IDSA, December 23, 2009.
23. India’s
Response to CBW Attack, Journal of
Chemical and Biological Weapons, Oct-Dec 2008
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Articles
|
1.
Conventional Backdrop to the Nuclear Foreground,
CLAWS Scholar Warrior, Spring 2015
2.
India's forthcoming nuclear doctrine review, Aakrosh, July 2014
3.
Cold Start lite
is not enough, Agni, Vol XV, No. VI, Oct-Dec 13,
4.
Rethinking India’s
nuclear doctrine, Agni, Jan-Mar 2010, Vol XII, No. II, pp. 25-32.
5.
Offensive in the mountains: Mountain Strike Corps,
SPs Land Forces, 8/6, Dec 11-Jan 12.
6.
Limited Nuclear Operations, SP’s Land Forces,
July 2014
7.
India’s forthcoming nuclear doctrine review, Aakrosh,
July 14 (forthcoming).
8.
Understanding India’s Military, Sardar, 1
(6), 2010 (Kazakhstan military magazine).
9.
Rethinking India’s Nuclear Doctrine – Agni, XII (II), Jan-Mar 2010.
10.
The Nuclear Factor in India’s Post 26/11 Military
Options, Agni, XII:1, Jan-Mar 2009,
pp. 50-65..
11.
Reconciling doctrinal dichotomy, Aakrosh, 13 (49), Oct 2010.
12.
Counter insurgency in the liberal perspective, Aakrosh, 13 (47), April 2010.
13.
Indian Nuclear Command and Control, Aakrosh, 14 (50), Jan 2010 (Also on
IDR website, Parts 1 and 2, 12-13 Jul 2011).
14.
Limited War Thinking in India, Aakrosh, January 2010, 13 (46), p.
82-97.
15.
Rethinking the Pakistan Strategy, Geopolitics, May 2011.
16.
Tackling Terror Holistically, Conference Brochure,
Security Watch India, 2009.
17.
India’s Nuclear Doctrine, Indian Defence Review, Oct-Dec 2009-12-30.
18.
Reflection on Conflict Duration, Indian Defence Review, 24.3, Jul-Sep
2009.
19.
Managing ‘Transformation’, South Asia Defence and Strategic Review, Sep-Oct 2009.
20.
Uncertain Course: India-Pak strategic doctrines
and balance of power, Strategic Affairs,
Aug 2009-12-30.
21.
Dealing with Two Fronts Needs Matching Capabilities,
India Strategic (with V. Anand),
Jan 2010
22.
The Grammar of War, Defence and Strategic Review, October 2012.
23.
Pakistan in India’s strategic perspective, Indian Journal of Social Enquiry, 1
(4), Dec 2009.
24.
Conflict Resolution in Afghanistan: India as Catalyst,
IPCS Special
Report, December 2011.
25.
AfPak: A Strategic Opportunity for South Asia?, IPCS Special Report, Dec 2009
26.
The Army: Missing Muslim India, Mainstream, Vol L No 27, June 23, 2012
27.
Prospects for UN Peacekeeping in
Afghanistan, Mainstream, Vol L, No 38, September 8, 2012,
28.
India-Pakistan: Unlocking the Status Quo, Mainstream,
L:9, 18 February, 2012.
29.
Kashmir: Whither Strategy?, Mainstream,
Annual 2011, Dec 23-29, 11.
30.
India-Pakistan: Advocating Accommodation, Mainstream, L: 16, April 2012.
31.
Kashmir: The Problem with the Solution, Mainstream, March 4-10, 2011.
32.
Kashmir: Whither Strategy, Mainstream, L:1, December 2011
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Book Reviews
|
1.
The Book Review Volume XXXIX Number 2 February 2015 Global
Jihad And America: The Hundred-Year War Beyond Iraq And Afghanistan By
Taj Hashmi
2.
The Book Review, Volume XXXIX
Number 4 April 2015Toppling Gaddafi: Libya And The Limits Of
Liberal Intervention
By Christopher S. Chivvis
3.
The Book Review, Volume XXXIX
Number 6 June 2015, Civil Wars In South Asia: State,
Sovereignty, Development, Edited by Nandini Sundar and Aparna
Sundar
4.
The Book Review Volume XXXIX Number 5 May 2015 Nuclear South
Asia: Keywords And Concepts By Rajesh Rajagopalan and
Atul Mishra
5.
The Book Review / February-March
2013 of Asian Rivalries: Conflict, Escalation, And Limitations On
Two-Level Games Edited by Sumit Ganguly and William R. Thompson,
Foundation Books, New Delhi, 2011
6.
The Book Review,
February-March 2013 of Internal Conflicts Military Perspectives, By
V.R. Raghavan (ed.) Vij Books, New Delhi, 2012
7.
The Book Review Volume XXXVIII
Number 7 July 2014 When Counterinsurgency Wins: Sri Lanka’s
Defeat Of The Tamil Tigers
By Ahmed S. Hashim
8.
The Book Review Vol xxxvii No 10
October 2013 of Afghan Endgames: Strategy And Policy Choices For
America’s Longest War Edited by Hy Rothstein and John Arquilla,
Cambridge University Press, New Delhi, 2013,
9.
The Book Review, Vol xxxvii No 10
October 2013 of Eating Grass: The Making Of The Pakistani Bomb By
Feroz Hassan Khan, Foundation Books, Delhi, 2013
10. When More Is Less: The
International Project In Afghanistan, By Astri
Sukhre, Hurst & Co, London, 2011, in The
Book Review, XXXVI (5), May 2012
11. 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
12. Vortex Of Conflict: US
Policy Toward Afghanistan, Pakistan And Iraq, By
D. Caldwell, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2011 (First South Asian
Edition 2012), in The Book Review,
XXXVI (9), Sept 2012
13. Arshin Adib-Moghaddam, A metahistory of the clash of
civilisations: Us and them beyond Orientalism, Hurst, 2011 in Strategic
Analysis, 35 (2), 2012, pp.
337-38.
14. Nuclear Proliferation in
South Asia: Crisis Behaviour and the Bomb by
Sumit Ganguly and S. Paul Kapur, in Strategic Analysis, Volume: 34 Issue: 4, July 2010
15. MJ Akbar, Tinderbox:
The past and future of Pakistan, New Delhi: Harper Collins, 2011 in Strategic
Analysis, 36 (1), pp. 169-170,
January 2012.
16. Stephen Cohen
and Dasgupta, Arming without aiming,
in JDS, Vol. 6, No. 1, 2012.
17. Armed Conflicts In South Asia 2011: The Promise
And Threat Of Transformation, Edited by D. Suba Chandran and P.R.
Chari, Routledge, New Delhi, 2012 in The Book Review, October 2012,
18. Talmiz Ahmad, Children of Abraham at War: Clash of Messianic
Militarisms, in Strategic Analysis, September 2011, 35:5, 849-851
19.
K. Sheoran, Human Rights and Armed Forces in
LIC, in Strategic Analysis, 35
(3) May 2011.
20.
Sumit Ganguly and David Fidler, India and
Counter insurgency, in Pratividrohi,
2010, in
21.
Priyanjali Malik, India’s Nuclear Debate:
Exceptionalism and the Bomb, in Indian
Foreign Affairs Journal, Apr-Jun 2010
22.
Bharat Karnad, India’s
Nuclear Policy, in Third Frame, Journal
of Academy of Third World Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia
23.
Shuja Nawaz, Crossed
Swords: Pakistan, Its Army and Wars Within, in India Quarterly, July-Sep
2008
24.
Gurmeet Kanwal, Indian Army: Vision 2020, in Journal
of Defence Studies, IDSA, 2 (2), Winter 2008
25.
Ayesha Jalal, Partisans
of Allah: Jihad in South Asia, in Third
Frame, 2009, pp. 159-162
26.
Bharat Karnad, India’s
Nuclear Policy in Defence Management, in Defence Management, Mar 2009, and Third Frame (?), pp. 204-06
27.
Wajahat Habibullah, My Kashmir: Conflict and Prospects of Enduring Peace, in Third Frame, 2010 (?), pp. 207-09.
28.
Rajesh Rajagopalan, Fighting Like a Guerilla: The Indian Army and Counter Insurgency, in Third
Frame, 1:3, Jul-Sep 2008.
29. Jaideep Saikia and Ekaterina Stepanova (eds.) Terrorism:
Patterns of Internationalisation, in Strategic Analysis, 33 (5), Sept 2009
30. Harsh Pant, Contemporary
Debates in Indian Foreign and Security Policy: India Negotiates Its Rise in
the International System, in Strategic Analysis, Sept 2009
31.
E Sridharan, The India-Pakistan Nuclear
Relationship: Theories of Deterrence and International Relations,
in IPCS, ipcs.org, 21 November
2008.
32.
Manpreet Sethi, Nuclear Strategy: India’s March Towards Credible Deterrence, in Indian Foreign Affairs Journal,
July-Sep 09
33.
Asseri, Anti
terrorism: Saudi Arabias Role
In The War On Terror, in Indian
Review of Books, XXXIV (2), February 2010.
34.
Praveen Swami,
India, Pakistan and the Secret Jihad: The Covert War in Kashmir, 1947–2004 (New
York: Routledge, 2007) in India
Quarterly 65, 3 (2009): 329–343.
35.
Carey Schofield, Inside the Pakistan Army, in Purple Beret, April 2012, p. 41.
36. Tackling
Terror Holistically, Conference Brochure, Security
Watch India, 2009
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Foreign Policy Journal
foreignpolicyjournal.com
|
1. Non-alignment 2.0 and India’s strategic direction, 28 May 2012
2.What
this Year’s Maneuver Season in India Tells Us, 13 May 2015
3.Modi and the Military, 25 October 2014
4.Dissonance in India’s Strategic Doctrine, 23
August 2014
5.India’s Nuclear Doctrine Review: Don’t Leave It
to the Hawks!, 11 July 2014
6.The Exit from ‘AfPak’: Don’t Blame Pakistan, June
2012
7.Kashmir: Preparing for a contingency, July 2012
8.South
Asia: Pakistan holds the key, April 2012
9.Behind
India’s Defence Budget, March 2012
10.
India and Pakistan: Missing NCBMs, February
2012
11.
India: For an introspective turn, Jan 2012
12.
India-Pakistan: Solving the ‘chicken or egg’
conundrum, Dec 2011
13. Evaluating
the China ‘threat’ thesis in India, Nov 2011
14. Using
military dangers gainfully, Oct 2011
15. India,
China and the US: The debate in India, Sept 2011
16. The
Muslim Question: An Understanding for Difficult Times, July 2011
17. South
Asia: Of war clouds and silver linings, June 2011
18. Saving
Pakistan, May 2011
19. India-Pak:
Justifiable pessimism, Apr 2011
20. India-Pakistan:
Nothing in the offing, Mar 2011
21. Coping
with Islamist Pakistan, Feb 2011
22. AfPak:
Talks as the way out, Dec 2010
23. Towards
the endgame in Afghanistan, Jul 2010
24. The
coming escalation in Obama’s war, Jun 2010
25. Reconciling
the AfPak conundrum, Apr 2010
26. Getting
Pakistan to bandwagon, Mar 2010
27. India-Pakistan
Dialogue: The Way Forward, February 2010
28. India’s
Inter strategic paradigm debate and Pakistan, Jan 2010
29. Prospects
of India-Pakistan Nuclear Confidence Building, Dec 2009
30. India-Pakistan
relations: Movement?, Nov 2009
31. Obama
and the Limitations of Conventional Strategy, Oct 2009
32. Af-Pak:
Opportunity for a Regional Initiative, Oct 2009
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Web
publications
(Other)
|
1. Doctrine in Civil-Military Relations,
indiandefencereview.com, 16 May 2015
2. This year’s maneuver season in India, Eurasia
Review, 12 May 2015
3. Balancing India’s Right, The Diplomat, 15 February
2015
4. India-Pakistan: Visualising the next round, Eurasia
Review, 11 Februray 2015
5. India and
China: Nationalism and Nuclear Risk, The Diplomat 18 December 2015
6. A More Aggressive India, The Diplomat, 10 November 2015
7. Demystifying India’s Volte-Face on Pakistan, The Diplomat, 10 September
2014
8. What Does India
Mean By ‘Two Front’ Problem?, The Eurasia Review, 26 August 2014
9. Limiting
Nuclear War in South Asia, SP's Landforces 4/2014
10. South Asia: Echoes From Across a Century, The Diplomat, 15 August 2015
11. At the
Conventional-Nuclear Interface, indiandefencereview.com, 9 August 2014
12. What Does
India Mean By ‘Massive’ Retaliation?, Eurasia Review, 8 August 2014
13. NRRC: For the nuclear doctrine review,
www.indiandefencejournal.com, 21 June 14
14. Diplomatic engagement in a post nuclear use
environment, www.indiandefencejournal.com, 27 May 14
15. Pakistani nuclear first use, usiofindia.org, 23 May
14
16. Severe indigestion from nuclear orthodoxy, The
Citizen, 30 April 14
17. India-Pakistan: Move From Cosmetic To Credible
Nuclear Confidence Building Measures, countercurrents.org, 26 Feb 14; also in
Kashmir Times, India-Pakistan: Nuclear Threat.
18. Nuclear doctrinal review of the China front,
usiofindia.org, 29 April 14.
19. Storm in India’s nuclear teacup,
indiandefencereview.com, 21 April 14.
20. India-Pakistan:
Distancing the spark from the nuclear tinderbox, indiandefencereview.com, 6
April 14.
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Center for Land Warfare Studies, claws.in
|
1.Visualising
Impact of Nuclear Operations at the Conventional Level, 16 Mar 2015
2.Opening
up the doctrinal space, 29 April 2015
3.Nuclear
doctrine review: Three deterrence models, claws.in, 3 May
4. The post
conflict factor in nuclear decision making, claws.in, 11 Oct 13.
5. Naval operations in an India-Pakistan
context, 20 June 2012
6. Pakistan’s military strategy: The best case
scenario, 12 Jun 2011
7. Arguing for NBC Training, 26 Aug 2011
8. Dimensions of the MacChrystal episode, 8
July 2010
9. India’s North East: Insurgency and Civil
Services Reform, 19 April 2010
10. Psychological opertions as key, Jan 2012
11. Mountain Strike Corps: The nuclear
dimension, Dec 2011
12. Implications of BrahMos deployment, Oct 2011
13. Demonstration Strikes in an India-Pakistan
Scenario, 16 Feb 2010
14. Arguing for NBC Training, Aug 2011
15. Hatf IX and possible Indian responses,
5 May 2011
16. The Sino-Pak ‘collusive’ threat,
31 March 2011
17. Deterrence Stability in a Context of
Strategic Instability, 11 Feb 2011
18. Counter insurgency learning from Kashmir,
20 Jan 2011
19. Conflict strategy for the decade ahead,
25 Dec 2010
20. Nuclear C2: The balance agenda,
28 November 2010
21. Appraising a Pakistani military response, 16
Oct 2010.
22. Sociological
Dimension of the ‘Transformation’ Initiative, June 2009
23. Nuclear
Use Consequences For Pakistan, Aug 2009
24. Some
Implications of the ‘Cold Start’ Doctrine, Sep 2009
25. Building
India’s Strategic Culture: A Roadmap, Oct 2009
26. Towards
A Limited War Doctrine, Nov 2009
27. Towards
a National Security Doctrine, 10 Nov 2011
28. Kargil:
Afterthoughts at the Operational Level, Dec 2009
29. Army
Deployment in Central India, Feb 2009
30. Strategy
Advocacy for Pakistan, 14 March 2010
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Newspaper
articles
|
1.
Wearing religion on
their uniform sleeves, Millennium Post, 4 October 2014
Kashmir Times
2.
Kashmir and the Bomb, 29 April 12.
3.
Kashmir: More of the same, 3 July 2012.
4.
Lessons from Bandipore, 10 August 2012.
5.
AFSPA: A question of justice, 13 Feb 12
6.
Kashmir: Declaring premature victory, 4 Feb 12
7.
Acknowledging the blindspot on Kashmir, 27 Jan
2012
8.
An agenda point for the foreign secretaries, 16
June 2011
9.
Kashmir: Its now or never, 9 Dec 2011
10.
The agenda this winter, 6 Oct 2011
11.
Solving Kashmir: Is it feasible?, 19 October 2011
12.
Fixing responsibility: CI decisions and
consequences, 30 Aug 2011
13.
Kashmir in the wider India-Pak scheme, 24 Aug 2011
14.
Kashmir back in the news, 10 July 2010
15.
No escaping political solution to Kashmir, 7 Aug
2010
16.
A ceasefire enabled reckoning possible, 9 Oct 2010
17.
Preliminaries towards a solution – 24 Feb 2011
18.
Domesticating the AFSPA – 28 Mar 2011
19.
A novel option for the coming summer – 13 Apr 2011
Tehelka
20.
India-Pakistan peace
process, Tehelka, June 2011
21.
Time not to let the guard down in Kashmir, Tehelka, 7 Nov 2011
22.
Deterrence has a shaky and brief shelf life, Tehelka,
3 Jan 12
23.
Smile but keep the powder dry, Tehelka, 10 April 2012
24.
A General’s unforgettable legacy, Tehelka, 31 May 2012
Financial World
25.
Why are Muslims missing from
Army?, Financial World, 16 June
2012
26.
LWE: There’s a problem with the ‘solution’, 3 May
2012
27.
Tribal communities in the
cross-hairs, Financial World, 9 July 2012
28.
To call out the army or not, Financial World - 2 Aug 12
29.
The sub-unit cries for army
attention, Financial World, 27 Aug
2012
30.
Do we need a Chief Warlord?
Opinion, The Financial World—Delhi,
10 Sep 12
31.
Kashmir, The Financial World, 13 Dec 2011
32.
A grand bargain for India and Pakistan, The Financial World, 20 June 2011
33.
Closed doors mean no dialogue, no peace, The
Financial World, 13 Dec 2011.
Dawn (Pakistan)
34.
Time for the Grand Bargain, Oct 2011 – Dawn
blog
35.
Afghanistan: Lets try
peacekeeping, 19 Nov 2011 – Dawn blog
|
Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies ipcs.org
|
1. Nuclear Use: Need for Thinking on
Political-Level Considerations, 5 August 2014
2. India
and Pakistan: Azm-e-Nau as a Response to the Cold Start, July 2013
3. An Indian nuclear doctrine review: A third model,
ipcs.org, 30 April 14
4. India, Nuclear Weapons and ‘Massive Retaliation’:
The Impossibility of Limitation?, ipcs.org, 8 Oct 13
5.India
and Pakistan: Moving Beyond CBMs, July 2012
6. Civil-Military Relations:
Questioning the VK Singh Thesis, June 2012
7. The
Missing Element in the Counter Naxal Strategy, May 2012
8. India-Pakistan:
Winds of Change, April 2012
9. NCBMs: Scaremongering but
with a purpose, Feb 2012
10. Cold Start: One step
forward, two steps back, Jan 2012
11. AFSPA: The renewed
debate, Nov 2011
12. The direction of India’s
deterrent, Sep 2011
13. Saxena Task Force:
Farewell to the Chiefs, Sep 2011
14. Internal Security Reform:
Yet another Opportunity, July 2011
15. The Sense in Networking
with Kayani, Apr 2011
16. Implications of Indian
BMD developments, Mar 2011
17. Kashmir: A Hot Summer
Ahead?, Jan 2010
18. WikiWrecks: The US
Perspective on Cold Start, Dec 2010
19. Capping the ‘Volcano’:
Indian Military Action against Pakistan?, Oct 2010
20. AFSPA: A Practical
Approach, Sep 2010
21. J&K: Implement the
Working Group Recommendations, Aug 2010
22. General Kayani: Implications
of Extension, July 2010
23. Should India give up its
NFU Doctrine?, June 2010
24. India-Pakistan Dialogue:
Going Beyond Thimpu, May 2010
25. The
New Chief and Transformation, Apr 2010
26. India and Pakistan:
Losing time, Feb 2009
27. The Logic of the Sundarji
Doctrine, Dec 2009
28. The Obama Decision Making
Model, Dec 2009
29. The Illogic of
‘Unacceptable Damage’, Oct 2009
30. The ‘Pause’ in
India-Pakistan Dialogue, Oct 2009
31. India's Thermonuclear
Test: Bombed?, Aug 2009
32. Talks As Strategy, Aug
2009
33. The illogic of ‘massive’
punitive retaliation, Jul 2009
34. Nuclear Trajectory in
South Asia, Jun 2009
35. Tackling Insurgency In Assam, May 2009
36. The ‘Context’ of Islamism, Apr 2009
37. Questioning ‘Compellence’ as Answer to
India’s Pakistan Dilemma, Mar 2009
38. Engaging a Reluctant Pakistan, Jan 2009
39. Post 26/11 Strategy Recomendation For India,
Dec 2008
40. The Pay Commission Outcome as Opportunity,
Oct 2008
41. Thinking Beyond the Line of Control, Aug
2008
|
IDSA Website, Strategic Comments
idsa.in
|
1.Reopening the debate on Limited War, 29 Feb 2012
2.The Indian Army: What the stars foretell for 2012, Dec 2011
3.Tit for Tat: A Nuclear Retaliation Option, Oct 2011
4.What does Pakistan hope to achieve with Nasr?, Aug 2011
5.Afghanistan: An idea anticipating peace, June 2011
6.Pakistan’s first use in perspective, May 2011
7.Making sense of Nasr, Apr 2011
8.Ongoing revision of Indian Army doctrine, Jan 2011
9.The Arab Tumult in its wider meaning, Feb 2011
10. Army Transformation: A radical one?, Jan 2011
11. Political Dimensions of Limited War, March 29, 2010.
12. The advantages of ‘Cold Start Minor’, December 13,
2010
13. Obama’s AfPak Review should emphasise on Peace Talks
with the Taliban November 23, 2010
14. The Third Front: Military Ethics, November 4, 2010
15. Clarifying India’s Strategic Doctrine, October 25,
2010
16. The ‘Cold Start and Stop’ strategy, September 28,
2010
17. Military Doctrines: Next steps, August 16, 2010
18. Civil-Military relations: Under scan, July 14, 2010
19. An additional dish for the India-Pakistan platter,
July 5, 2010
20. Darfur and enhancing India’s peacekeeping profile,
June 2010
21. The message from mock battles, May 7, 2010
22. The military intelligence function in future war, February
26, 2010.
23. Nuclear targeting caveats, April 21, 2010
24. Ongoing revision of army doctrine, 6 Jan 2010.
25. Nuclear implications of the two front formulation,
29 Jan 10
26. The Army’s Subculture in the Coming Decade, December
22, 2009
27. The Army’s decade in review, November 30, 2009
28. India-Pakistan Conflict Outcome Probability, October
27, 2009
29. Re-visioning the Nuclear Command Authority, September
9, 2009
30. India’s response to the next terror attack, August 26,
2009
31. For an Indo-Pak strategic dialogue forum, August 4,
2009
32. The central debate in India’s civil military relations,
July 6, 2009
33. Seizing the moment: India and the ‘moderate Taliban’,
June 8, 2009
34. Exit Points and the Updation of Cold Start Doctrine,
April 22, 2009
35. Initiatives to transform the Army Officer Corps, March
5, 2009
36. Foregrounding ‘Non-Combatant Immunity’, January 30,
2009
37. The Post 26/11 Regional Strategic Predicament, December
3, 2008
38. Need for clarity in India's nuclear doctrine, Oct
2008
39. An overview of the Russo-Georgian conflict, Sep 2008
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Articles in military journals (post premature retirement in 2008)
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1.The Limited
War concept and India’s conventional doctrines, Trishul (Staff College), XXII (2), Spring 2010
Infantry
Journal
2.Limited War: A
mental framework, Infantry, June
2012
3.One Star: The
Organisational Responsibility, Infantry
Journal, June 2013.
4.Understanding
Internal Security, The Infantry
(India), Dec 2008.
5.The Infantry:
‘At’ Peace while ‘in’ peace?, Infantry,
2009 (?)
6.Perspectives
on Defence Challenges faced by India, Infantry (India), June 2011
7.Battalion
Command: A Template, 2009 (?), pp. 10-13.
8.Strategic
India: An Introduction, Infantry,
2012 (?), p. 13-19.
War College
Journal
9.Understanding
India-Pakistan relations, War College
Journal, 2011
10.
Afghanistan: A Strategic Assessment, War College Journal, Autumn 2008.
11.
An Analysis of Grand Strategy in Operation
Barbarossa, War College Journal,
Spring 2008.
12.
Next Steps in India’s China Strategy, War College Journal, 2011, pp. 61-63.
Center for
Land Warfare Studies
13.
Readings for Officers, Scholar Warrior, Center for Land Warfare Studies, Autumn 2010.
14.
Mizo Hills: Revisiting the Early Phase, Scholar Warrior, CLAWS, Autumn 2011.
15.
The Invisible dimension of modernization, CLAWS Journal, Winter 2010.
16.
A Perspective on Land Warfare Strategy, CLAWS Journal, Winter 2009.
USI Journal
17. India’s Strategic and Military Doctrines: A Post 1971 Snapshot, USI Journal, Vol. CXXXIX,
No. 578, October-December 2009.
18.
India’s Military Options
in a Future 26/11 Scenario, Journal of the
United Service Institution of India, Vol. CXXXIX, No. 575, January-March
2009.
19.
India’s Military Options in a Future 26/11
Scenario, USI Journal, Jan-Mar
2009.
Jungle Warfare
and Counter Insurgency School Journal
20.
Jihad in Strategic Theory, Pratividrohi, Autumn 2009.
21.
Learning from the Mizo Hills Experience, Pratividrohi, 2010.
22.
Command Endeavour: The Regimental Way, Maratha Regiment Magazine, 2008.
23.
Counter insurgency in a conventional war scenario,
Pratividrohi, Journal of Counter
Insurgency and Jungle Warfare School, 2010.
24.
The Counter Insurgency Oeuvre, Pratividrohi,
Others
25.
Regimental Command, Maratha 2008, Regiment Journal
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Miscellaneous and light reading
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1.The Army: Why
Muslims are Missing?, The Aligarh
Movement, May-June 2012.
2.Taking Nuclear
Warfighting Seriously, IDR, 12.1,
March 2012.
3.A Plan for
Bonn, Outlook blog, 5 Dec 2011
4.Muslim India:
Through the Security Prism, Milligazette,
Jan 2009
5.Making Cold
Start Doctrine work, 2010 – Tribune, 11 Oct 2010
6.In Defence of the Chief, the Two-Front war issue, 21 January 2010, 8ak.in
7.Defending India’s Strategic Culture, Purple Beret, 28 March 2012
8.Isreal matters, but only so much, Purple Beret
9.Inside the Pakistan Army, Purple Beret
10. Af-Pak endgame: Implications for Kashmir, International Business Times, 11 Aug
2011.
11.
Legal warfare: The neglected dimension, IDR, Jan 2012
12.
UN Peacekeeping: Thinking out of the box, Indian Defence Review, Feb 2012
13.
AfPak Endgame: Implications for Kashmir, International
Business Times, 11 August 2011
14.
‘Limitations of military response options to
26/11’, The Front Page, Dec 2008
15.
'Brown Sahibs' to blame for Chintalnar massacre of
CRPF jawans, 8ak.in (a media partner
of defpro.com), Apr 2010.
16.
‘India-Pakistan: Prospects of War’, 8ak.in, Aug
2010.
17.
‘Kashmir: Back in the news’, 8ak.in, countercurrents.org,
July 2010.
18.
‘Sukhna Scam: Additional Dimensions’, 8ak.in, Mar
2010.
19.
What to do about Pakistan?, Sahara Time, June 11, 2011
Salute
1.
Army’s role order, July 2011
2.
Soldiering: An Indian Experience by S.
Sardeshpande (Book Review) – May 2010
3.
Lessons from North Cachar, May 2010
4.
Rethink the Afghan Strategy – June 2010
5.
Indian Maritime Doctrine, IHQ of MoD (Navy) (Book
Review), June 2010
6.
Action for Hyderabad, July 2010
7.
Are we pedantic? July 2010
8.
The 1947-48 War had pioneered the shape of Indian
policies, Aug 2010
9.
Crisis response: Changing the contours, Sep 2010
10.
Making sense of jointness – Nov 2010
11.
Poor bloody Infanteer – Nov 2010
12.
Watch out for schism – Dec 2010
13.
India in Pakistan’s threat perception – Apr 2011
14.
Not just about them – May 2011
15.
What to do about Pakistan?, June 2011
16.
Battalion Command: A Template, Feb 2010
17.
An Infanteer’s Life, April 2009
18.
The ‘Sundarji Doctrine’ Revisited, Oct 2009
19.
The ‘New’ Vision for Indo-Pak Relations, Sep 2009
20.
A Fauji Forrest Gump, 2-16 May 2009
21.
Mentoring in the time of Shortages, July 2009
22.
Stop ‘OG’, Think ‘Purple’
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Publications while in army
service till 2008
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Articles
(2006-8)
1.
Short Wars: From Desirable to Feasible, USI Journal, Jan 2008
2.
In Tribute: A Recall of the Sundarji
Doctrine, USI Journal, Apr 08
3.
An Analysis of Grand Strategy in Operation
Barbarossa,
4.
A Brief on Research and Analysis, Educationist, 2008
5.
The Command Challenge, Maratha Regiment Journal, 08
Book Reviews
1.
Fitzgibbon, S., Not mentioned in dispatches: The History and Mythology of the Battle
of Goose Green; Cambridge, Lutterworth Press, 1995; War College Journal - Autumn 2006
2.
Raman, S., Nuclear Strategy: The Doctrine of Just War;
3.
Singh, Jaswant, A Call to Honour, New Delhi, Rupa & Co, 2006 – Defence Management, Apr 07
4.
Musharraf, P., In the Line of Fire;
5.
Bammi, Y., War Against Insurgency and Terrorism in Kashmir;
6.
Chandran, S., Limited War: Revisiting Kargil in the Indo Pak Conflict; Omdoa
Research Press, New Delhi, 2005 – War
College Journal 2007
7.
8.
Rajagopalan, R., Fighting Like a Guerilla: The Indian Army and Counterinsurgency,
Infantry
Journal
1.
Beget
the Devil’s Own Platoon, Infantry Journal, 1993.
2.
Tips
on the
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
3.
Self
Esteem: Room for improvement, War College Journal, 2005
4.
AOR:
The CT Ops Version,
5.
An
Analysis of Grand Strategy in Operation Barbarossa,
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,
2.
Anthony
Giddens, The
3.
Anthony
McGrew, Paul Lewis, Global Politics, Globalisation, and the Nation State,
4.
5.
Bruce
Lawrence, Shattering The Myth: Islam Beyond Violence,
6.
Craig
Baxter, ed. Government and Politics in South Asia,
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,
9.
Gwyn
Prins, Strategy, Force Planning and Diplomatic/Military Operations,
10.John Pimlott, Stephen Bayley, ed. The Gulf War
Assessed,
11.Kedourie, E., Nationalism, Fourth Edition,
12.
13.Maroof Raza, Low Intensity Conflict: The New
Dimension to India’s Military Commitment,
14.Marshall Hodgson, Rethinking World History:
Essays on Europe, Islam, and World History,
15. Maya
Chaddha, Ethnicity, Security, and Separatism in
16.Michel
Clark, Simon Seraty, ed. New
Thinking and Old Realities:
17.MK Kaw, Bureaucracy: IAS Unmasked,
18.Morton Halperin ed. Self Determination in the
New World Order,
19.Peter Paret, Understanding War: Essays on
Clausewitz and the History of Military Power,
20.Stephen Van Evera, Causes of War: Power and the
Roots of Conflict,
21.Torbjorn Knutsen, A History of International
Relations Theory,
22.Vivienne Jabri, Discourses on Violence,
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,
25.Synnott, H., The Causes and Consequences of South Asia’s
Nuclear Tests, Adelphi Paper 332,
26.Chari, PR., ed., Security and Governance in
South Asia,
27.FitzGibbon, S., Not Mentioned in Despatches:
The History and Myth of the
28.Haq, K., The South Asian Challenge,
Others
1.
Karnad,
B., Nuclear Weapons and Indian Security: The Realist Foundations of
Strategy, New Delhi, MacMillan, 2002 - Pinnacle, Mar 03
2.
Tellis,
A.,
3.
Perkovich,
G., India’s Nuclear Bomb,
4.
Stephen
Cohen, The Idea of
5.
Maududi,
SA, Towards Understanding Islam,
6.
Chadha,
V., Low Intensity Conflicts in
7.
Fitzgibbon,
S., Not mentioned in dispatches: The
History and Mythology of the
8.
Raman,
Sudha, Nuclear Strategy: The Doctrine
of Just War;
9.
Singh,
Jaswant, A Call to Honour, New
Delhi, Rupa & Co, 2006 – Defence
Management, Apr 07
10.Musharraf, P.,
In the Line of Fire;
11.
Bammi, Y., War Against
Insurgency and Terrorism in Kashmir;
12.
Chandran, S., Limited War:
Revisiting Kargil in the Indo Pak Conflict; Omdoa Research Press, New
Delhi, 2005 – War College Journal
2007
13.
14. Rajagopalan,
R., Fighting Like a Guerilla: The Indian Army and Counterinsurgency,
New Delhi, Routledge, 2007; The Third Frame, Autumn 08
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Combat/ War College Journal
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
1.
Need
for a military archives, 1995.
CDM
Journal (College of Defence Management)
1.
Directive
Control: An Advocacy, 2002
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