'Defence and Security Alert' giving a new strategic perspective
Awareness of Defence and security of an average Indian must be increased. A magazine, reviewed here, is doing precisely that.
“THE DEFENCE and Security Alert” needs no introduction as a magazine covering matters military. Within a short period of making its debut, the monthly magazine has etched a place for itself in the hearts and minds of those who matter. The readers are indeed lucky to be benefited by writings of eminent university professors, experienced army officers and historians of both Indian and foreign origin. The publisher must have burnt the midnight oil looking for their addresses and convincing them why they should write for a defence magazine of six months standing and that too on Afghanistan where the military situation is fluid and the political situation is beyond comprehension. The Americans are in a quagmire and the Taliban are shooting at one another to go up a few notches in the estimation of the Ulema. President Obama has already put into practice his new policy of Surge and Quit by ordering deployment of 30,000 additional troops training the Afghan Army to take over and quitting for good. The bad situation is turned worse by Pakistan that is a part of the problem but poses as a trouble shooter. The Special Number of the Defence and Security Alert has done justice to those complex issues by bringing problems with solutions to the readers. Old and experienced Afghanistan hand like Dr Ved Pratap Vaidik and military analysts like Lt Gen R Sawhney and Brig Rahul Bhosle, not forgetting prof Kalim Bahadur deserve a special mention for their simple treatment of a complex subjects that they were asked to tackle. All said and done, any avid reader of defence subjects would like to become a permanent subscriber of this magazine rather than run to news stand every month for his or her copy. I wish the magazine a roaring success in months to come and suggest that more special numbers on China, Pakistan, Nepal and so on be brought out for the benefit of both the common readers and analysts.
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