Journal of Defence Studies

Journal of Defence Studies, Vol. 9, No. 2, April-June 2015

The issue covers varied themes: leadership attributes for counterinsurgency operations, strategic importance of the Bay of Bengal, the 1971 USS Enterprise incident, benchmarks for naval ship building, China’s biological warfare programme, and India’s Special Forces. It also features an assessment of the Parliamentary Defence Standing Committee (16th Lok Sabha).

Editorial

Perspective 

Standing Committee on Defence (16th Lok Sabha): Striking Old Notes on Debut 

-- Amit Cowshish 

Focus 

Fit for Command: Leadership Attributes for PSO–COIN Operations 

-- Ivo Moerman and Paolo Tripodi 

Revisiting the 1971 ‘USS Enterprise Incident’: Rhetoric, Reality and Pointers for the Contemporary Era 

-- Raghavendra Mishra 

The Rise of the Bengal Tigers: The Growing Strategic Importance of the Bay of Bengal

-- David Brewster 

Benchmarking of Shipyards and Processes for Cost Effective Naval Shipbuilding 

-- Ajay K. Chhabra 

China’s Biological Warfare Programme: An Integrative Study with Special Reference to Biological Weapons Capabilities 

-- Dany Shoham 

India’s Special Forces: An Appraisal 

-- Amit Kumar 

Book Reviews 

India’s Doctrine Puzzle: Limiting War in South Asia, by Ali Ahmed

-- Vivek Chadha 

Policing Insurgencies: Cops as Counterinsurgents, edited by C. Christine Fair and Sumit Ganguly

-- Akash S. Goud 

Drone Warfare, by John Kaag and Sarah Kreps

-- S.K. Dey 

Can War be Eliminated?, by Christopher Coker

-- Vikas Jain