War In the Deterrent Age
South Brunswick: A. S. Barnes and Company, 1968. First American Edition [stated], Presumed First printing. Hardcover. 224 pages. Foreword by Field Marshal C. J. Auchinleck. List of books consulted. Index. DJ has wear, tears, soiling and chips and is price clipped and taped to the boards. Some pencil marks noted. Bookplate of Walter Darnell Jacobs inside the front cover!!! There are twelve chapters: Warfare: An Analysis of Functions; The Cycle of Processes; The Evolution of Strategy; Strategic Background to the Second World War; The History of Tactics; The Principles of War; Guerilla Warfare; Nuclear Strategy: The Earlier Years; The Strategy of Deterrence; Nuclear Strategy: The Chinese Involvement; Nuclear Tactics; and War in the Deterrent Age. Walter Darnell Jacobs was an American Political scientist and educator. He earned a Doctor of Philosophy in Public Law, Columbia University in 1961. He served in WWII and retired as a Colonel. He was a Research Specialist, 1959-1961; and faculty at U. Maryland., College Park, 1961-1981. Derived from an obituary found on line: General D. K. "Monty" Palit was a prolific writer and original thinker, he has had a profound influence on the strategic thinking and polices of India. Palit was no armchair thinker, and his exploits in the first Jammu Kashmir War of 1947-48 are proof of that. In command of the famed 3-battalion 9 Gorkha Rifles, he fought in the Poonch sector. Under his inspiring leadership, the battalion attacked and captured the 10,000-foot-high Mohammad ni Gali, that overlooks the strategic Haji Pir pass. As battalion commander, he personally led the attack and was severely wounded in the operations and evacuated from the battlefield. For this act of conspicuous bravery, Palit was awarded the Vir Chakra. The second most important episode in his military career was his command of the 7 Brigade in the crucial Tawang sector on the China border in 1960-61. Subsequent to this he was the director general military operations during the 1962 India-China war. But even more than Palit's contribution to strategy and policy-making, he was a soldier-scholar at heart. It is this area of his that has made a lasting contribution to national defense. But his most valuable contributions were Essentials of Military Knowledge and War in the Age of Nuclear Deterrence. It must be remembered that this latter book was written in the 1960s, and at that time the Indian army, even at the highest level, had little interest in nuclear war doctrines. Even as late as 1979-80, only lip service was paid to nuclear war. Palit was a visionary who saw its relevance and tried his best to educate Indians on this very crucial issue. General Palit had a keen mind to spot the revolutionary changes that were taking place in the relationship between military tactics and technology. By the mid 20th century, technology had gained its own independent momentum and began to dictate tactics and even strategy. He saw this very clearly in the 1973 Yom Kippur war in the Middle East. His books were widely read not only in India but were compulsory reading in the training institutes of advanced countries like the UK and the US. Condition: Good / Good.
Keywords: Warfare, Deterrence, Strategy, Tactics, Nuclear Weapons, Guerilla Warfare, Military Science, Guerrilla War, NATO, Limited War, Nuclear Strategy, Military Balance, Tactical Nuclear, Nuclear Doctrine
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