Asian Defence Review 2006

Contents

Foreword

Jasjit Singh

vii

1.

The Lebanon War 2006: Some Tentative Interpretations 

Jasjit Singh

1

2.

Trends in Defence Spending

Jasjit Singh

30

3.

Geopolitics of Energy Security

Shebonti Ray Dadwal

107

4.

China's Military Modernisation and the Russian Connection

T. D. Joseph

130

5.

Pakistan's Economy : Trends and Prospects

Shalini Chawla

162

6.

Technological Requirements of Network-Centric Warfare

S. Kulkarni

190

7.

The Fissile Material Fuss: India, Indo-US Relations and the FMCT

Manpreet Sethi

224

8.

India's Defence Procurement Policy

V. N. Srinivas

251