Arming without aiming [electronic resource] : India's military modernization / Stephen P. Cohen and Sunil Dasgupta.

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Cohen, Stephen P, 1936-

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TextPublication details: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2010. 2013) 2015)Description: 1 online resource (1 electronic text (xxii, 223 p.) :) ill., digital fileISBN:

9780815724926
0815724926

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355.80954 22

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UA840 .C628 2010

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Restraint and affluence -- Struggling with reform -- Army modernization -- Air and naval modernization -- The reluctant nuclear power -- Police modernization -- Fighting change -- America and Indian rearmament.

Abstract: India, a leading importer of advance conventional weaponry, has not planned strategically for its military needs, although the haphazard approach, due to competing elements within the military and a restraint policy in place since the Nehru era, may be the right one in seeking accommodation with others in the region.

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India, a leading importer of advance conventional weaponry, has not planned strategically for its military needs, although the haphazard approach, due to competing elements within the military and a restraint policy in place since the Nehru era, may be the right one in seeking accommodation with others in the region.

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