India's Military Modernization

Strategic Technologies and Weapons Systems
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-0-19-945162-3
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 276 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 426 g

Development of defence strategies in India has been slow and uneven due to the absence of a clear direction from the highest levels of government and the non-inclusion of the military in strategic decision-making. Focusing on the relative strengths of the state and society in this area, this volume provides a comprehensive assessment of the current situation and points to policy-relevant adjustments and changes necessary to future-proof India's defence preparedness. It also maps both continuity and change in India's evolving strategic capabilities.

Belonging to the Oxford International Relations in South Asia series, this volume is the second part of a two-part project on Indian military modernization. While the first part focused mainly on India's conventional military modernization, the second part analyses the country's progress in advanced technologies: cruise missiles, nuclear weapons, anti-satellite weapons, missile defence, and information-based warfare.

South Asia has acquired a strategic role and importance in the rapidly evolving global and political scenario. The present series analyses foreign and security policies in the region.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Basrur, Rajesh

Gopalaswamy, Bharath

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- List of Tables and Figures

- List of Abbreviations

- Introduction

- Rajesh Basrur and Bharath Gopalaswamy

- Innovation in Strategic Technologies: India's Experience in a Conceptual and Historical Context

- Kartik Bommakanti

- 2. The Skewed Balance: Technologists' Dominance in India's Military Modernization

- Bibhu Prasad Routray

- 3. India's Nuclear Weaponization: Warheads, Delivery Systems, and Doctrinal Compatibility

- T.S. Gopi Rethinaraj

- 4. India's Operational Nuclear Policy: The Gap between Theory, Practice, and Credibility

- Gaurav Kampani

- 5. Changing Priorities for the Indian Military in Space

- Victoria Samson

- 6. India and Space Security

- Bharath Gopalaswamy

- 7. Indian Options for an Eff ective Ballistic Missile Defence System

- Probal Kumar Ghosh

- 8. Cruise Missiles in India: Key Operational and Technological Issues

- Kalyan M. Kemburi and Richard A. Bitzinger

- 9. Adaptation of Information Superiority in the Indian Armed Forces

- Jaganath Sankaran

- Index

- Notes on Editors and Contributors

Über Autor(innen)

Rajesh Basrur is Professor of International Relations and Coordinator of the South Asia Programme at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Bharath Gopalaswamy is Deputy Director of the South Asia Center, Atlantic Council, USA.