Author: Air Marshal Dhiraj Kukreja PVSM, AVSM, VSM, ADC (Retd)
Strategy is the creative element in the exercise of power. It is the search for the most favourable relationship between available military means and desired political ends. Strategy, then, is the key domain of civil-military interaction. It is the area where theoretical notions of civilian supremacy and military subordination can be tested most closely in practice; but it is not surprising that most discussions of civil-military relations in India amusingly bypass the environment of strategy.

The Director General of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) Mr Pranay Sahay IPS in an exclusive interview to Defence and Security Alert expounds his views and shares with our readers his vision for the premier Paramilitary Force.

Author: Vice Admiral Venkat Bharathan (Retd)
The first warning that all was not well in the present “Management of Military arrangement”, was during the ill-fated 1962 Sino-India conflict. Despite the lasting trauma of that battle, The Indian establishment continues in the same ilk. We also did not learn the positives of the 71 ops where the Military, MoD and the PMO worked planned and worked together!!

Author: Maj Gen P K Chakravorty VSM (Retd)
The current era of Network Centric Operations demand our forces are organised to tackle threats in cyberspace and aerospace dimensions. Special Forces have proved their efficacy in the new generation of warfare. There is a need to raise the Aerospace, Cyberspace and Special Forces Commands at the earliest.