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Synopsis This book is an earnest attempt to provide a review of India’s current security situation. India, as a relatively young, highly pluralist and heterogeneous country, but claiming to be an old civilisation, boasts of a recorded history that is shrouded in mystery, and an information technology influenced by rapid-fire Americanisation in the name of modernisation. It has been involved in a bold experiment of transition from feudal, monarchial, communal, colonial, capitalist orders to freedom, democracy, secularism and open market economy. Past security reviews were mostly military oriented. But, this book presents new dimensions based on broadened theoretical template, and provides a setting of both major strategic challenges and operational conflicts tormenting India from within. It is designed to serve as a useful tool to those involved in security management in crisis ridden situations. A panoramic view of weapons used to wage wars, roles and structures of armies, doctrines of waging wars and shifts in forms of warfare, besides India’s nuclear dilemmas and options have been covered. In the ultimate, the security review clearly reveals short-comings of the current national order, prescribed 51 years ago. A New National Order is an imperative within the framework of emerging contours of a ‘Global Village’ and New World Order.