India's military modernization : strategic technologies and weapons systems

India's military modernization : strategic technologies and weapons systems / Rajesh Basrur and Bharath Gopalaswamy.

This volume is the second part of a two-part project on Indian military modernization which examines India's evolving capabilities in areas relating to advanced technologies in cruise missiles, nuclear weapons, anti-satellite weapons, missile defence, and information-based warfare. How have Ind...

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Other Authors: Basrur, Rajesh M. (Editor), Bharath Gopalaswamy (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Oxford international relations in South Asia series.
Subjects:
Armed Forces
Military policy
Military & Naval Science.
Law, Politics & Government.
Armies.
India > Armed Forces.
India > Military policy.
India
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Rajesh Basrur and Bharath Gopalaswamy
  • 1. 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 Effective 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.

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