THE RISE OF THE INDIAN NAVY
Corbett Centre for Maritime Policy Studies Series
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The Rise of the Indian Navy
Internal Vulnerabilities, External Challenges
Edited by
HARSH V. PANT
Kings College London, UK
First published 2012 by Ashgate Publishing
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
The rise of the Indian Navy : internal vulnerabilities, external challenges. -- (Corbett Centre for Maritime Policy Studies series)
1. India. Indian Navy--History. 2. India--History, Naval. 3. Sea-power--India. 4. India--Foreign relations.
I. Series II. Pant, Harsh V.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Pant, Harsh V.
The rise of the Indian Navy : internal vulnerabilities, external challenges / by Harsh V. Pant.
p. cm. -- (Corbett Centre for maritime policy studies series)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4094-3087-2 (hbk) 1. India. Indian Navy. 2. Sea-power--India. 3. Naval strategy. 4. National security--Indian Ocean Region. 5. Indian Ocean--Strategic aspects. 6. India--Military policy. I. Title.
VA643.P37 2012
359.00954--dc23
2012018725
ISBN 9781409430872 (hbk)
ISBN 9781315553399 (ebk)
Contents
Harsh V. Pant
Walter C. Ladwig III
C. Uday Bhaskar
Iskander Rehman
K. Raja Menon
Probal Ghosh
Harsh V. Pant
James R. Holmes
Nitin Pai
List of Figures and Tables
Figures
Tables
Notes on Contributors
Commodore C. Uday Bhaskar, currently Senior Fellow, National Maritime Foundation, (NMF) New Delhi retired from the Indian Navy in early 2007 after 37 years service. He was until recently Director, National Maritime Foundation (2009-2011) and earlier with the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA), New Delhi from 1989 where he served as a Senior Fellow, Deputy Director (1996-2004) and later headed the Institute till late 2005. Subsequently he was appointed Member-Secretary of the GOI Task Force on Global Strategic Developments a report submitted to the Prime Minister of India. He has edited books on nuclear, naval/maritime and international security-related issues; and has contributed over 60 research articles to journals in India and abroad. He is a guest lecturer at the Indian NDC and other military colleges.
Probal Ghosh is presently a Senior Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation (ORF). He is also the current Co-Chair and India Representative to the CSCAP International Study Group on Naval Enhancement in Asia Pacific Region. He was earlier the Co-Chair of the CSCAP Maritime Study Group (CSCAP Council for Security Cooperation in Asia Pacific Region). Prior to joining the ORF in February 2010, Probal had served in various other think tanks. He was a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Air Power Studies (CAPS): a Founder Member and the first Senior Research Fellow at the National Maritime Foundation (NMF) a think tank that he helped in establishing; held the prestigious Professor D.S. Kothari DRDO Chair (Kothari Fellow 2005) at the USI (United Services Institution); was a Research Fellow at the IDSA (Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses) for two fellowship tenures. He is the author of three edited books, monographs and a number of research articles on issues related to maritime security, asymmetric threats like piracy, maritime terrorism, Chinese maritime capability, and missile defence.
James R. Holmes is an Associate Professor of Strategy at the Naval War College, Senior Fellow at the University of Georgia School of Public and International Affairs, and senior political-military analyst at Energy Security Associates Inc. A former US Navy surface warfare officer, he was assigned as military professor at the Naval War Colleges College of Distance Education and as director of a steam engineering course at the Surface Warfare Officers School Command. On sea duty he served as an engineering and gunnery officer on board the battleship Wisconsin. He is a combat veteran of the First Gulf War. Jim is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Vanderbilt University and earned graduate degrees from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, Providence College and Salve Regina University. He was the recipient of the Naval War College Foundation Award in 1994, signifying the top graduate in his class.