Counting the Forces

The Indian Defence Yearbook 2011 is a comprehensive compilation of news,events and trends that have affected or involved the Indian defence forces in the past year. The book,edited by Major-General R.K. Arora,details the direction of Indias security cooperation with friendly nations as well as key defence procurements and indigenous research projects. It covers internal,regional and international security exhaustively from Chinese armed forces presence in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir to Indias concerns in Afghanistan to improvements in India-Bangladesh relations. An interesting chapter is the one on the force structure of the Indian,Chinese and Pakistani armed forces. This has in-depth information about the profile of arms and equipment with all three nations along with the active numbers that will be useful for researchers.