UGC NET Defence & Strategic Studies case studies
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UGC NET Defence and Strategic Studies is the subject paper of India's National Eligibility Test, conducted by the National Testing Agency for the University Grants Commission. Clearing it, together with Paper I on teaching and research aptitude, establishes eligibility for Assistant Professor posts in Indian universities and colleges and for Junior Research Fellowship awards in the subject. The UGC NET Defence & Strategic Studies case studies are 5 cases and about 4,499 words.
1Command of the sea or control of communications? Adjudicating Mahan and Corbett in a chokepoint crisis
A maritime planning cell has three weeks to frame advice on a limited maritime confrontation. The adversary's battle fleet outnumbers the cell's navy 28 major surface combatants to 14, and 11 submarines to 6.
905 words, about 5 min2Bypass to Dhaka, 1971: boldness or a reverse 1962?
Eastern Command must defend to a sceptical operations directorate a plan that sends three divisions around, not through, a dozen fortified border towns, and drives on the provincial capital. The 1962 file lies open on the table: forward positions held in company and battalion packets with no depth, a corps commander obliged to seek Delhi's permission before pulling back, and brigades that abandoned equipment in the withdrawal.
884 words, about 4 min3Offset or offloading? Discharging a ₹3,600-crore offset obligation
A ministry is negotiating a ₹12,000 crore imported helicopter contract, the first above the ₹2,000 crore offset threshold. The 30 per cent offset obligation therefore equals ₹3,600 crore.
935 words, about 5 min4Signature without ratification: a threshold state weighs the CTBT
State V operates three power reactors and two research reactors, signed the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty in 1996, but has never ratified it. It hosts one seismic and one radionuclide station of the International Monitoring System and receives raw data from the global network.
883 words, about 4 min5Defence spending and conflict: diagnosing a thesis before the viva
A doctoral candidate regresses the annual number of armed-conflict fatalities on military expenditure as a share of GDP for five South Asian states over 25 years - 125 observations. Controls are GDP per capita and a regime-type index; a lagged dependent variable is included.
892 words, about 4 min