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Lt Gen Gautam Banerjee, Editor, VIF
Lieutenant General (Retd) Gautam Banerjee, PVSM, AVSM, YSM, was former Chief of Staff, Central Command, former Commandant of the Officers' Training Academy, Chennai. He is now Senior Fellow & Editor at the Vivekananda International Foundation.

Lieutenant General (Retd) Gautam Banerjee, PVSM, AVSM, YSM, was former Chief of Staff, Central Command, former Commandant of the Officers' Training Academy, Chennai. He is now Senior Fellow & Editor at the Vivekananda International Foundation.

Contributions 
Kashmir: The Climb Ahead
November 14, 2019 Lt Gen Gautam Banerjee, Editor, VIF
“Don’t hit at all if it is honourably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft”, - Theodore Roosevelt A State of Complexities At the time of India’s independence, the State of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) was, by the ver...

Tags: Jammu & Kashmir, Governance and Political Studies, Article, Kashmir, Article 370, Mainstreaming challenges in Kashmir, Kashmir imperatives
सब का साथ, सब का विश्वास ने क्या ‘बांटो और शासन करो’ की सियासी चालों को खत्म कर दिया है?
August 09, 2019 Lt Gen Gautam Banerjee, Editor, VIF
“चुनाव आ रहा है। विश्व शांति की घोषणा की गई है और लोमड़ियों ने मुर्गियों को दीर्घायु करने में ग...

Tags: Governance and Political Studies, Hindi, Article, अल्पसंख्यकों का उत्थान, लोकतंत्र के नाम पर समाज को बांटना, बांटो और शासन करो की राजनीति
Has ‘Sab ka Saath ..’ Ended the Political Trick of ‘Divide and Rule’?
June 14, 2019 Lt Gen Gautam Banerjee, Editor, VIF
“An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry”, - T S Eliot Politics in ‘New India’ Interactions with the masses indicate a rediscovery o...

Tags: Governance and Political Studies, Article, Uplift of minorities, Dividing society in name of democracy, Citizen vs voter
US-India 2 Plus 2 Dialogue: Significance of Strategic Partnership
August 22, 2018 Lt Gen Gautam Banerjee, Editor, VIF
“Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, …confusion of counsel until emergency comes … are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history” – Anon Defence Industry and...

Tags: National Security and Strategic Studies, Defence, Article, 2 plus 2, Indo-US defence cooperation
The Maoist Rebellion, in Limp
March 06, 2018 Lt Gen Gautam Banerjee, Editor, VIF
“ … for then only you will be strong, when you cherish the laws, and when the revolutionary attempts of lawless men shall have ceased …” – Aeschines. Greek statesman The Object of Discussion Much confabulat...

Tags: Leftwing Extremism, National Security and Strategic Studies, Maoist rebellion, Integrated Action Plan, Counter-Naxal operations
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Monographs/Compendiums 
The Course of China’s Military Modernisation and Defence Reforms, 2018-2020
April 28, 2021 Lt Gen Gautam Banerjee, Editor, VIF
… according to her own admission, “China faces no threat”. It is therefore a matter to consider as to why China requires such a massive military establishment, a humungous power-bank which, even if intrinsic to its ‘barrel of gun’ ideology,...

Tags: National Security and Strategic Studies, Defence, Monograph, Modernisation indicators of PLA’s strategy, Tends of PLA’s modernisation, China’s military modernisation goals, PLA’s focus on capability build-up
VIF Papers 
Indian Military: Adapting to New Age Strategic Paradigm
April 19, 2021 Lt Gen Gautam Banerjee, Editor, VIF
… for some years before India’s military modernization bears fruition at the field level, the Indian military, having committed to its rigorous oath, has little option but to defend the nation by harnessing what resources that might be available ...

Tags: National Security and Strategic Studies, Defence, Military strategy in hostile neighbourhood, Perennial aggression against India, Pre-military modernisation strategy, Irregular Warfare
The Larger Cause of National Defence: The CDS and Defence Reforms
December 27, 2019 Lt Gen Gautam Banerjee, Editor, VIF
… there are many hurdles to cross in our endeavour to reform our system of national defence to meet the parameters of the nation’s military threats, technological and industrial capacities and fiscal affordability… The CDS … would be just one...

Tags: National Security and Strategic Studies, Defence, Defence reforms, CDS, Platform for CDS, Efficient & cost effective defence
Afghanistan Manoeuvres: Sense and Nonsense of Talking to Taliban
March 28, 2019 Lt Gen Gautam Banerjee, Editor, VIF
… every stake holder for Afghanistan’s democracy, stability and progress appreciates the severe consequences of the Taliban assuming power … also understand that even in a power sharing arrangement between the legitimate, democratic Government ...

Tags: Neighbourhood Studies, Afghanistan, Situation in Afghanistan, Taliban
Consecration of China’s ‘New Period’ People’s Liberation Army
May 06, 2016 Lt Gen Gautam Banerjee, Editor, VIF
A Home Run of Military Modernisation At the dawn of Year 2016, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) officially promulgated the commencement of the final phase of restructuring of its apex setup for management of national defence as well a...

Tags: International Relations and Diplomacy, China, PLA, Republic of China, People’s Liberation Army
The Communist Party-Army Equation in China
July 08, 2014 Lt Gen Gautam Banerjee, Editor, VIF
Preamble In republican scheme of matters, warfare is the ultimate political recourse that is to be prosecuted to seek conditions for advantageous settlement of external disputes. Conversely, in communist theology, military force is but an i...

Tags: International Relations and Diplomacy, China, CPC, PLA, PRC, Communist Party China
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Book Published / Book Reviews 
Management of India's Military Prowess: Issues and Aspects
August 01, 2020 Lt Gen Gautam Banerjee, Editor, VIF
Conceptualising the foundations of national defence and organising a conformingly robust military structure is a humungous task of extremely complexities. Even nations who possess pristine strategic vision and deep rooted military culture find it pra...

Tags: National Security and Strategic Studies, Defence, Indian military, Book Published, Management of India's Military
A Decade of Discourse on Defence Matters
March 12, 2020 Lt Gen Gautam Banerjee, Editor, VIF
This book is a compilation of 30 pioneering papers on issues connected with India's national defence. These papers are a part of the vast repository of VIF publications over the past decade of its functioning as a strategic think tank with the purpos...

Tags: National Security and Strategic Studies, Defence, Indian military, national defence, Book Published, Defence Matters, India's strategic
Selected Essays from the Vivekananda International Foundation
January 16, 2020 Lt Gen Gautam Banerjee, Editor, VIF
Over the past decade, the VIF has charted an academically independent path of research and analyses. The Foundation has thus been disseminating a vast stream of analyses of key developments and decision dilemmas concerning the nation to its wide circ...

Tags: National Security and Strategic Studies, Governance and Political Studies, Book Published, Civilisational values, Key developments
China's Great Leap Forward II
April 05, 2019 Lt Gen Gautam Banerjee, Editor, VIF
Development of the China Pakistan Economic Corridor is a fulcrum of the One Belt One Road Initiative through which China seeks to realise the ‘Chinese Dream’ to be a global power and a regional hegemon. The Corridor connects China’s Western Xin...

Tags: International Relations and Diplomacy, China, POK, CPEC, Book Published, North-Western Kashmir, Pakistan Occupied Kashmir
The Kashmir Narrative
May 25, 2017 Lt Gen Gautam Banerjee, Editor, VIF
ISBN: 9788182748996 Publication Year: 2017 Binding: PB Pages: 100 Price: Rs. 295 Online Available at Pentagon Press ...

Tags: Jammu & Kashmir, National Security and Strategic Studies, Kashmir, POK, governance, Kashmir Valley, Book Published, Anti National, Paradox
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VIF Briefs 
Chief of Defence Staff: A Far-reaching Decision
September 03, 2019 Lt Gen Gautam Banerjee, Editor, VIF
… Institution of a body of military professionals to participate in defence policy-making at the apex level, duly empowered in highest level advisory as well as management roles, is a call of strategic wisdom. This call must be attended to with ala...

Tags: National Security and Strategic Studies, Defence, Indian military, Indian Defence, CDS, Chief of Defence Staff
Either Side of Historical Conclusions: Evidences and Interpretations
September 10, 2018 Lt Gen Gautam Banerjee, Editor, VIF
… historical narratives should be right, as far as possible accommodative of duly qualified civilisational memories, and so balanced and trust worthy … dignified or infamous, balanced historical narratives bring great advantages to the society, t...

Tags: Historical and Civilisational Studies, Military History, Civilisational History, Historical Narratives
Outreach 
Manekshaw Paper ' For Want of ‘India Narrative’: Scourge of Insurgencies in North-East India'
February 11, 2019 Lt Gen Gautam Banerjee, Editor, VIF
Published in CLAWS on Feb 2019....

Awakening to National Defence: Hope at Last?
October 10, 2018 Lt Gen Gautam Banerjee, Editor, VIF
Published in the Indian Defence Review Jul-Sep 18 Issue...

Chaired a panel discussion on: Security and Administration in the North East Frontier Agency, and delivered a talk at the Haryana Institute of Public Administartion-Gymkhana Club Ltd
September 26, 2018 Lt Gen Gautam Banerjee, Editor, VIF
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Now Doklam: Renounce of the Eternal ‘Wisdom of China’
August 21, 2018 Lt Gen Gautam Banerjee, Editor, VIF
Published in India Defence Review on 21 August 2018....

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