AIM 4

To brief about the book ‘ARMING WITHOUT

AIMING- INDIA’S MILITARY MODERNIZATION’
 SCOPE 4

Chapter

Chapter wise Argument

Strength and Weakness

Further Reading

Conclusion
ARMING WITHOUT AIMING 5

 Initial Publishers – Brookings

Institution
 Publishers – Penguin Books India
Pvt Ltd
 Year - 2010
 Pages - 213
 Chapter - 8
STEPHEN P COHEN 6

Former Professor of History and Political Science, and

presently Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois

Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy at Brookings Institution

Former member Policy Planning staff in US Dept. of State

(1985-87)

Preeminent expert on South Asian strategic affairs in US

Govt.
OTHER WRITING 7
SUNIL DASGUPTA 8

Non Resident Fellow in Foreign Policy

Studies at Brookings Institution

Senior Correspondent for India Today

CHAPTER 9

Restraint and Affluence

Struggling with Reform

Army Modernisation

Air and Naval Modernisation

Reluctant Nuclear Power

Police Modernisation

Fighting Change
America and Indian Re-
armament
 CHAPTER WISE ARGUMETS 10
Chapter-1
Restraint and Affluence
India’s policy of strategic restraint and the lack of political
direction for India’s military modernization
India’s weak military policy from 1947 to 1962

Abolition of the Post ‘Commander in Chief’ in 1955

Nehru and Blacket

War of 1962 and its Retribution

Crossing the Nuclear Threshold

 CHAPTER WISE ARGUMETS 11

Chapter-2
Struggling with Reform

Military Procurement and Acquisition

DRDO

Relation of Military with Civil Industry

Corruption

Higher Defence Policymaking

 CHAPTER WISE ARGUMETS 12

Chapter-3
Army Modernization

Recovery After 1962

Operation Bluestar

Second round of Modernization

Exercise Brasstacks - 1986

Kargil and Operation Parakram

Cold Start Doctrine

 CHAPTER WISE ARGUMETS 13

Chapter-4
Air And Naval Modernization

War impact of 1962 and 1965

Indian Navy and 1971

The ‘Enterprise Syndrome’

Air Development at mid 1980

The ‘HAL Tejas’

The Arihant
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Chapter-5
Reluctant Nuclear Power
First Nuclear Test 1974

Nuclear Weapon test in 1998

Arsenal Management and Decisionmaking

Chapter-6
Police Modernization
Short on Man Power

Problems of Police Force

Modernization
 CHAPTER WISE ARGUMETS 15

Chapter-7
Fighting Change

Rapid Economic Growth

Well Managed Armed Forces

Repetition
 CHAPTER WISE ARGUMETS 16

Chapter-8
American And Indian Rearmament

Kicklieghter Visit

Blackwell as Ambassador

American Reform-Hilary Visit(2009)

America And India’s Nuclear Arsenal

 STRENGTH AND WEAKNESS 17

Excellent Survey of The Key Issue

Civilian Control Analysis

Against DRDO

Repetition
FURTHER READING 18
 CONCLUSION 19

 Despite its drawbacks, Arming without Aiming is worth reading

as an interrogation of the central crises in India’s military
system.

 The authors correctly highlight that the directionless expansion

of India’s military structures, and the acquisition of expensive
weaponry, has not been accompanied by the political
leadership that is needed to reconcile competing interests and
allocate resources in a coherent manner.