Military Technology, Arms Control, Asian, National & International Security 

Language: EnglishPages: 242About The BookIndia’s growing affluence has led experts to predict a major rearmament effort. The second-most populous nation in the world is beginning to wield the economic power expected of such a behemoth. Its border with Pakistan is a tinderbox, the subcontinent remains vulnerable to religious extremism, and a military rivalry between India and China could erupt in the future. India has long had the motivation for modernizing its military—it now has the resources as well. What should we expect to see in the future, and what will be the likely ramifications? In Arming without Aiming, Stephen P. Cohen and Sunil Dasgupta answer those crucial questions.India’s armed forces want new weapons worth more than $100 billion. But most of these weapons must come from foreign suppliers due to the failure of India’s indigenous research and development.Weapons suppliers from the nations are queuing up in New Delhi. A long relationship between India and Russian manufacturers goes back to the Cold War.More recently, India and Israel have developed strong military trade ties. Now, a new military relationship with the United states has generated the greatest hope for military transformation on India.Against this backdrop of new affluence and newfound access to foreign military technology, Cohen and Dasgupta investigate India’s military modernization to find haphazard military change that lacks political direction, suffers from balkanization of military organization and doctrine, suffers from balkanization of military organization and doctrine, remains limited by narrow prospective planning, and is driven by the pursuit of technology free from military-strategic objectives. The authors argue - from Amzon