Arming without Aiming: Indias Military Modernization

This volume from Cohen and Dasgupta challenges prevailing traditional views on why India has failed to sufficiently develop her military power and concurrent strategy.

As a condition that has dominated contemporary Indian politics for the last 60 plus years, this tradition is symptomatic of an enduring belief in political not military solutions, as well as a brand of government that privileges civilian influence over all others. It also highlights a key contradiction within India — a search for a suitably armed and modern military including nuclear weapons , but an absence of clear strategic aims underpinning how such a process should be undertaken.

It is this lack of political direction and certainty that results in a situation whereby India has been effectively Arming without Aiming. Such challenges relate to many of the dilemmas within the Indian system — from drawn out procurement practices, weak central planning and the incidence of corruption, to how to integrate a solid strategic vision in a state that lacks a commander-in-chief and often only nascent military doctrines.

Through verdant detail, these problems and many others are presented in a comprehensive and compelling fashion.

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How, for example, can India have a fully realizable nuclear triad that can quickly respond to threats if its three armed forces are not coherently linked to each other? In turn, can a civilian controlled military really effectively gauge and with sufficient speed imminent threats from Pakistan or China?

In their elucidation of such issues, the authors pinpoint the problems confronted by a large developing state grappling with how to adequately represent itself on the world stage. Skip to main content.

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