Managing Indian Defense Policy: The Missing Grand Strategy Connection

TY - JOUR

T1 - Managing Indian Defense Policy

T2 - The Missing Grand Strategy Connection

AU - O'Donnell, Frank

AU - Pant, Harsh V.

PY - 2015

Y1 - 2015

N2 - India continues to build its material capabilities but there is rising concern about its ability to direct these toward the service of a grand strategy. India's history highlights that a crucial requirement for developing a grand strategy is an integrative, coordinative state. However, historical and current Indian defense reform efforts implicitly admit this absence of an integrative defense policymaking structure. Recognizing the grand strategy lessons from India's own history will assist defense reform initiatives.

AB - India continues to build its material capabilities but there is rising concern about its ability to direct these toward the service of a grand strategy. India's history highlights that a crucial requirement for developing a grand strategy is an integrative, coordinative state. However, historical and current Indian defense reform efforts implicitly admit this absence of an integrative defense policymaking structure. Recognizing the grand strategy lessons from India's own history will assist defense reform initiatives.

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84926614275&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1016/j.orbis.2015.02.003

DO - 10.1016/j.orbis.2015.02.003

M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:84926614275

SN - 0030-4387

VL - 59

SP - 199

EP - 214

JO - ORBIS

JF - ORBIS

IS - 2

ER -