While the previous wars were about jointmanship between the services, the future war will be dictated by the civil-military integration. The core instrumentality of threat and use of force to achieve political outcomes have changed since the end of the Cold War. The creeping difference between war and conflict is changing the way the confrontations and crisis are being engineered and handled. Emerging threats are exploiting new technologies and finding new uses for the old one. Similarly, the practitioners of defence are finding new methods to engage in sub-threshold warfare using Non-Contact Warfare. Thus, a much wider array of agencies are now involved in the development and implementation of national security policy.  A whole-of-government effort might better define the instruments of power.

Most Indians are unaware that the territory depicted on maps as Bharat is not entirely under Bharat’s. This book attempts to fill in the knowledge gap about Bhartiya territories under foreign occupation. It specially focusses on the territories of union territories of Ladakh and Jammu and Kashmir that are under Pakistan and China’s Occupation. This book tries to analyse the circumstances under which these territories came under adverse possession and gives a brief description of their history, geography and other characteristics, primarily with an intention to enlighten citizens of Bharat about these forgotten regions.