In hard times: (Record no. 67178)
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| fixed length control field | 02070nam a2200157 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9789354359767 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 343.00954 |
| Item number | INH |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | In hard times: |
| Remainder of title | security in a time of insecurity |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | New Delhi |
| Name of publisher | Bloomsbury |
| Year of publication | 2022 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | 255 p. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | Since the mid-1990s, Indian thinking on national security has been based on the assumption that the country would progress on a growth trajectory sufficient to modernise its defence capacities and thereby enable some form of parity with a rising China.<br/>The reality has been otherwise. China's spectacular growth – and accompanying military modernisation – has hugely outpaced that of India while the Indian military modernisation has moved fitfully. In the past several years, budgets have committed less than 2 per cent of GDP –the lowest levels since the war of 1962 – for the military. Even if spending were to rise to 3 per cent, little funding would be available for modernisation after allowing for rising pensions, salaries and other components of the budget.<br/>Put simply, the authors state, India needs a national security strategy for hard times. It would be a strategy grounded in reality – India's priority has to be the raising of vast numbers of its people out of abject poverty, even if the strategies of countries like China and the United States, economically more developed, can aim at being global powers.<br/>In Hard Times is an important collection that highlights the major challenges India confronts and the ways they can be tackled, especially in the light of the upheavals caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Its contributors include former military officers, including Admiral Arun Prakash and Lt Gen. D.S. Hooda, whose views have helped shape discussions on strategy, as well as commentators such as Dr Sanjaya Baru. Experience tells us that in war it's often the smarter side that wins, not the stronger one. These essays point us in that direction. |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Manoj Joshi, Ed. |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Praveen Swami, Ed. |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Nishtha Gautam, Ed. |
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| Koha item type | BK |
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| Damaged status | Collection code | Home library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Cost, normal purchase price | Full call number | Accession Number | Koha item type |
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| Stack | Kannur University Central Library | Stack | 10/07/2023 | 699.00 | 343.00954 INH | 59204 | BK |