CLAWS Journal: Vol. 13 No. 1 (2020): Summer 2020
About this ebook
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 of transformations in the world in terms of conceptual understandings of various phenomenons, precedence of non-traditional securities over conventional ones, challenges and threats to strategic assets emanating from advancement in technology, empowerment of social media as the fifth state, etc. are at the forefront. All of these changing dynamics are noteworthy especially from a land warfare perspective.
This Issue contains 10 articles and 3 book reviews pertaining to wide areas that require attention of political analysts and researchers as well as practitioners. While the topics covered are wide in variety; there is diversity in authorship as well. The Journal presents a perfect mix of authors from different fields such as: Former Army Commanders, veterans’ practitioners, and academics. Such a blending will provide a holistic view of the issues highlighted in respective articles. The Journal is composite, contemporary and committed to provide researched papers on diverse subjects.
About the author
Lt. Gen. A.K. Singh, PVSM, AVSM, SM, VSM (Retd) is a Distinguished Fellow at CLAWS, former GOC-in-C Southern Command and former Lt. Governor, A&N Islands and Puducherry.
R. Chandrashekhar is a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Joint Warfare Studies and erstwhile member of the Armed Forces Headquarters Civil Service.
Lt Gen (Dr.) V.K. Ahluwalia, PVSM, AVSM**, YSM, VSM (Retd) is Director, Centre for Land Warfare Studies (CLAWS), New Delhi, India.
Prof. P. R. Kumaraswamy teaches the contemporary Middle East at Jawaharlal Nehru University and is an academic member of the Research Council of Centre for Land Warfare Studies (CLAWS)
Brigadier Ajay Sud is a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Land Warfare Studies (CLAWS), New Delhi, India.
Brigadier Bimal Monga is an artillery officer who is posted at the Army Headquarters.
Major General P. K. Chakravorty, VSM (Retd) is a Senior Fellow (Veteran) at the Centre for Land Warfare Studies (CLAWS), New Delhi, India.
Col. Neeraj Trivedi is Senior Fellow at the Centre for Land Warfare Studies (CLAWS), New Delhi, India.
Col. Gaurav Gupta is a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Land Warfare Studies (CLAWS), New Delhi, India.
Dr. Amrita Jash is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Land Warfare Studies, New Delhi, India.
Dr. Manjari Singh is an Associate Fellow at the Centre for Land Warfare Studies (CLAWS), New Delhi and also serves as the Managing Editor of CLAWS Journal, Summer Issue 2020.
Dr. Jyoti M. Pathania is a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Land Warfare Studies (CLAWS), New Delhi, India.
Col. Narjit Singh (Retd.) was commissioned into 2 Lancers and served in the 8 Mountain division Headquarters in 2005.
Centre for Land Warfare Studies (CLAWS) is an independent think-tank dealing with national security and conceptual aspects of land warfare, including conventional and sub-conventional conflict and terrorism.
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