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122326
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124682
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2013.
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That the chairman of the National Security Advisory Board (NSAB), Shyam Saran, has seen fit to provide reassurance about India's nuclear deterrent through the media (Indian Express 3 October 2013) is a long-overdue but very comforting gesture. While he rightly assails the sceptics who label India's nuclear deterrent as a measure of prestige rather than a security imperative, he spares the national-security establishment whose egregious silence over the past 15 years has allowed such doubts to take root and prosper.
It is true that a reduction of conventional forces, as many seem to expect, may not be an automatic consequence of the induction of nuclear weapons. However, it is also a fact that a nation's political and military postures as well as manner of conducting international relations must undergo substantive change on acquiring the status of a nuclear-weapon state (NWS). Not only has this not happened in India's case, but the structure of its conventional forces as well as their command & control systems and the pattern of its huge defence spending remain ad-hoc and haphazard; as if we are trapped in a debilitating time-warp.
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114136
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New Delhi, Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, 2012.
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78p.Pbk
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IDSA Monograph Series No. 6 July 2012
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9789382169055
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| Accession# | Call# | Current Location | Status | Policy | Location |
| 056728 | 355.60954/JAY 056728 | Main | On Shelf | General | |
| 056729 | 355.60954/JAY 056729 | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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074454
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106754
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133671
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2014.
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The civil-military equation has been assigned great significance in the national security matrix, and experts consider that nations that fail to evolve a stable paradigm of civil-military relations squander their resources and run grave security risks. In India, this issue has failed to receive the importance it deserves because of the general indifference of the politicians to national security affairs on one hand, and the vested interest of the bureaucracy in maintaining the status quo on the other. It is believed that civil-military relations constitute a zero-sum game in which "civilian control" is retained by reducing the power of the military vis-Ã -vis the civilians. An irrational but subliminal fear of the military has led the Indian politicians to skew the civil-military equation in favour of the bureaucracy and, in a paradigm unique to India, to place the military under their control. Pointing to the military's sense of grievance and the vitiated atmosphere that prevails in the Ministry of Defence, the author reflects on the price being paid by the nation for endemic "civil-military dissonance" in terms of major national-security shortcomings, as well as the damage being inflicted on the institution of our armed forces.
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065903
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054915
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075000
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078118
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074042
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110607
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126146
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2013.
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May you live in interesting times!' Considered a benediction by some and a curse by others, this ancient Chinese phrase is probably meant to evoke an equal mix of insecurity and excitement in the recipient. FORCE magazine, born three years after the turn of the century, is fortunate in bearing witness to 'interesting times'; an eventful decade whose defence and security highlights it has endeavoured to record and interpret for its growing readership.
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110280
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118320
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2013.
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The precipitate decline in moral and ethical values, as well as the steep fall in standards of private and public conduct, in recent years, has been accompanied by a concurrent erosion of values amongst India's military personnel. Consequently, the armed forces, which were once considered exemplars of ethical conduct, discipline and decency, are rapidly slipping in the estimation of their countrymen. The author points out that this moral decline could lead to a loss of cohesion and combat-effectiveness in the armed forces with deleterious implications, not just for national security but also for India's social fabric, of which the 3-4 million soldiers and veterans form an integral constituent. Redemption of the military's honour and restoration to its earlier iconic status is, therefore, considered a national imperative. The author has highlighted specific ethical challenges that could confront officers during their careers and offers practical advice to the armed forces' leadership to tackle these challenges.
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