The 2018 National Defence Strategy (NDS) unveiled by the Pentagon can be encapsulated in three words ‘compete, deter and win’. Keyquestions that arise are: What does it mean and how it gets manifested? NDS as the capstone document has been guiding…
India’s geographical breadth and reach, have ensured an extensive and extended neighborhood which has provided the policymakers with a complex range of difficulties that are almost a microcosm of the challenges confronting the global community as a…
The present CLAWS Journal has been composed with a variety of articles, opinion pieces, commentaries, and book reviews to theoretically understand why the Indian Army Chief has initiated four major studies for the transformation of the Indian Army…
While planning for the CLAWS Journal Summer Issue 2020 was in progress, the world was, and is continuing to fight a different battle altogether—‘a faceless enemy' in the form of the COVID-19 pandemic. This Issue also occurs at the time when a series…
With 2021 marking the commencement of the third decade of the 21st century, the world has been in a state of flux defined by the rapidly changing security environment. With the envelope of geopolitical and geostrategic challenges continuously…
This is the eleventh year of the CLAWS Journal as published by the Centre for Land Warfare Studies (CLAWS). It also marks the change of editorship to me from Dr. Monica Chansoria, who had steered it for ten full years for which CLAWS as an…
The term hybrid warfare, at a normative and intellectual level, appears to be too abstract and the latest thinking seriously considers referring to irregular methods to counter a conventionally superior force. A hybrid adversary is a complex,…
CLAWS Journal Winter 2020is a“Special Issue”that holds significance in many ways. Contextually, it highlights the commemorative spirit of the 15 Years of Excellence of the Centre for Land Warfare Studies, and conceptually it puts forward an…
Oil as a strategic commodity made its mark from the day it was discovered in 1859. We have now become a “Hydrocarbon Society” as Daniel Yergin claims in his book The Prize.1 Climate change, with 97 percent scientific consensus has, however, jolted…
