Books
Whether one reads for pleasure or education, one consequence is certain. Over a period of time, the reader’s mind becomes trained to navigate ideas. With time, it becomes capable of not only processing complex concepts, but, with luck, even expressing some of those concepts. Reading induces a sense of mental fearlessness. The exposure to language facilitates structuring and expression of ideas. In short, reading is not a habit or a hobby. It is a tool for living.
While FORCE has always dedicated a few pages to books in most issues, September onwards, we start a dedicated books section. Running into a few pages, it will carry interviews with military authors, book extracts and reviews. Most importantly, it will carry a recommended reading list of ‘Must Read’ books from senior officers/ authors and even FORCE readers. Hence, we invite our readers to send us lists of their favourite books which they would like to share with others. Tell us why you recommend those books. So read, and write.
Book Extract | Artillery Thunder November 2025
Book Extract | A Sixth of Humanity November 2025
WINGS OF VALOUR: TRUE STORIES OF INDIAN AIR FORCE’S DARING OPERATIONS October 2025
Farhatullah Babar | An extract October 2025
OLD LHASA: A BIOGRAPHY M.A. Aldrich October 2025
Duty, courage, adventure, responsibilities and life in uniform. An extract B.D. Mishra September 2025
Why Vajpayee’s jugglery worked in Kashmir but failed during Agra Summit. An extract Abhishek Choudhary September 2025
How Sheikh Abdullah accepted the evisceration of Kashmir’s autonomy. An extract September 2025
An Extract | Peril of The Pacific August 2025
An Extract | Kargil’s First War Hero August 2025
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How combining experience with out of the box ideas yield favourable results. An extract July 2025
China can contribute to the world in terms of peace and development. An extract June 2025
How caste and religious equations aligned in favour of INDIA in UP. An extract June 2025
Kashmir May 2025 May 2025
Reclaiming Bharat May 2025
Little Lhasa May 2025
Deterrence from Depth April 2025
Bravest of the Brave April 2025
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Raisina Chronicles April 2025
How politics, domestic imperatives and self-image coalesced to become Modi’s foreign policy. An extract March 2025
Rahul Bhatia, author of The Identity Project: The Unmaking of a Democracy March 2025
King Size Life March 2025
Unified Theatre Command February 2025
Lessons of a Lifetime February 2025
War December 2024 December 2024
Kashmir Under 370 December 2024
The Money Trap December 2024
India’s ties with France go beyond weapon-platforms sale November 2024
How JeM is using Muslim insecurities to radicalize them November 2024
Something lost, Something gained Hillary Rodham Clinton October 2024
An Extract: India’s Forgotten Country October 2024
Nuclear War October 2024
BUT I AM ONE OF YOU Edited by Samrat Choudhury and Preeti Gill September 2024
An Extract: Israel-Palestine War September 2024
An Extract: India’s Near East September 2024
An Extract | How long can the moon be caged? August 2024
An Extract | The Crossroads August 2024
An Extract | Shikwa-E-Hind August 2024
Prakash Singh, author of Unforgettable Chapters: Memoirs of a Top Cop July 2024
An Extract | Imperial games in Tibet July 2024
An Extract | Crafting A New Indian Art of War For Future Challenges July 2024
Book Chat | Nimbu Saab July 2024
GUNS UNDER MY CHINAR: KASHMIR’S COVERT WARS A.M. Watali June 2024
Book Chat | Ambassador K.V. Rajan and Atul K Thakur June 2024
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An Extract | Kathmandu Chronicle June 2024
The abiding challenge of building a secular, inclusive nation. An extract May 2024
How the government chose to selectively read Gautam Navlakha’s work to punish him. An extract May 2024
Lala Lajpat Rai’s perspective on India and Indian nationhood continued to evolve till the end. An extract May 2024
![Books | Their [IPS] Diverse Backgrounds Can Contribute to Strategic Planning, Effective Decision Making and the Implementation of Best Practices Within CAPFs](/media/thumbnails/Om-Prakash-Singh.jpg)
OP Singh, author of Crime, Grime and Gumption April 2024
An Extract | 2024 April 2024
Book Review | Shooting the Sun April 2024
An Extract | Bharat Jodo Yatra April 2024
An Extract | Conquering the Maharajas April 2024
Reading List | OP Singh April 2024
An Extract | ULFA March 2024
An Extract | UNEQUAL March 2024
Reading List | Rajeev Bhattacharyya March 2024
How India Pakistan relations lurch from crisis to crisis. An extract February 2024
An Extract | Being Muslim in Hindu India February 2024
An Extract | Hyperwar February 2024
An Extract | Fault Lines in the Faith February 2024
Reading List | Ajay Bisaria February 2024
An Extract | Another India January 2024
An Extract | City on Fire January 2024
An Extract | Bullets and Bylines December 2023
An Extract | Red Sky over Kabul December 2023
An Extract | Breakup November 2023
An Extract | The Indian Village November 2023
An Extract | Bullets and Bylines November 2023
Why the rise and fall of Anil Ambani’s RAL needs to be investigated October 2023
An Extract | Indian Air Force in its Centennial Decade August 2023
An Extract | Who Cares About Parliament August 2023
An Extract | The Peacemakers August 2023
An Extract | Nation Fast July 2023
An Extract | SWARM TROOPER July 2023
An Extract | VAJPAYEE: The Ascent of the Hindu Right July 2023
An Extract | Abhishek Choudhary July 2023
An Extract | The Next Major War June 2023
An Extract | End of an Illusion May 2023
An Extract | Police State May 2023
An Extract | Quick Reads April 2023
An Extract | Time Capsule April 2023
An Extract | Close to Peace April 2023
An Extract | Ajay Singh April 2023
An Extract | Behind the Scenes March 2023
Reading List | Anuradha Bhasin March 2023
An Extract | A Fear That Refuses To Go March 2023
An Extract | No Longer in the Shadow March 2023
An Extract | Unheard Voices February 2023
n Extract | The Tragedy of Kashmir February 2023
An Extract | Vinay Lal : Insurgency and the Artist January 2023
An Extract | Andrew Quilty: August in Kabul January 2023
The Last War January 2023
An extract | Always a Soldier December 2022
An extract | The Politics of History December 2022
Reading List | Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee December 2022
THE LAST WAR: HOW AI WILL SHAPE INDIA’S FINAL November 2022
THE HERO OF TIGER HILL: AUTOBIO-GRAPHY OF A PARAM VIR November 2022
The Need to Survive And Triumph Politically October 2022
WAR TRANSFORMED: THE FUTURE OF TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY October 2022
The Future of Twenty-First Century Great Power Competition and Conflict October 2022
THE GREAT DELUSION: LIBERAL DREAMS AND INTERNATIONAL REALITIES September 2022
The art and science of war needs a relook. An extract September 2022
In memory of unsung tribal warriors. An extract September 2022
Tuhin Sinha, author of The Great Tribal Warriors of Bharat September 2022
Reading List | Reading Marks a Leader September 2022
An Extract | Gp Capt. TH Anand Rao August 2022
An Extract | Louis A. Del Monte August 2022
Reading for Reflection August 2022
An Extract | Asian Hegemon July 2022
Reading List: | Lt Gen Raj Shukla (Retd) July 2022
An Extract | The World in a Flux June 2022
An Extract | Terror and Turmoil June 2022
Reading List: | Lessons in Self Reliance June 2022
Talmiz Ahmad, author of West Asia At War June 2022
An Extract | The Story up to March 1971 May 2022
Book Extract May 2022
An Extract | Pramod Kapoor, author of 1946 May 2022
An Extract | Gallantry & Glory May 2022
Each Book Has a Character of its Own May 2022
Book Chat | Sudeep Chakravarti April 2022
Humanity Above All April 2022
1946: THE LAST WAR OF INDEPENDENCE ROYAL INDIAN NAVY MUTINY April 2022
THE EASTERN GATE: WAR AND PEACE IN NAGALAND, MANIPUR AND INDIA’S FAR EAST April 2022
Air Vice Marshal Anil Golani (retd) April 2022
An Extract: A Profile in Courage February 2022
An Extract: The Great Escape February 2022
An Extract: A Man of Many Parts February 2022
An Extract: The Art of Victimhood February 2022
Book Chat: Christophe Jaffrelot February 2022
Book Chat: Maj. Gen. Vijay Singh January 2022
Book Chat: Brig. R.R. Palsokar January 2022
An Extract: Price of the Modi Years December 2021
An Extract: Courage and Dignity December 2021
An Extract: State Persecution of Minorities and Underprivileged in India November 2021
An Extract: 1965: A Western Sunrise November 2021
Book Chat: Shiv Kunal Verma November 2021
Conrad C. Crane, author Cassandra in Oz: Counterinsurgency and Future War November 2021
An Extract: Tibet Brief 20 / 20 October 2021
An Extract: Cyberspace in Peace and War October 2021
Book Chat: Martin C. Libicki October 2021
An Extract: Spy Stories September 2021
An Extract: The Silent Coup September 2021
Book Chat: Josy Joseph September 2021
Faced with the hostile LTTE and Sri Lankan forces, the IPKF had no chance of success. An extract. Excerpted with permission September 2021
September 2021
An Extract: The War That Made Raw August 2021
An Extract: Flying Blind August 2021
Book Chat: A.S. Bhasin July 2021
An Extract: India Versus China July 2021
An Extract: Nehru Tibet and China July 2021
Extract: The Braided River June 2021
Book Chat: Samrat Choudhury June 2021
Extract: INDIA: The Last Super Power June 2021
Write Your Own History | The Sabre Killers June 2021
Extract: India And Asian Geopolitics May 2021
Born a Muslim May 2021
Extract: AI AT WAR May 2021
Book Chat: Kingshuk Nag April 2021
Reading List: Turning Adversity into Advantage April 2021
Book Chat: Military Musings April 2021
Extract: Midnight’s Borders March 2021
Book Chat: Suchitra Vijayan March 2021
Suchitra Vijayan, author of Midnight’s Borders: A People’s History of Modern India March 2021
Extract: Himalayan-Challenge February 2021
Book Chat: Meha Dixit February 2021
Book Chat: Ayo Gorkhali: A History of the Gurkhas January 2021
Reading List: Books Are Integral One’s Progress as an Officer January 2021
Col Ajay Singh, author of India’s Battlefields from Kurukshetra to Balakot January 2021
Hot Spot of Invention : Charles Stark Draper January 2021
Extract: National Security and Conventional Arms Race January 2021
Books | Arjun Subramaniam, author of Full Spectrum: India’s Wars, 1972-2020 December 2020
Books | Lessons from Sri Lanka December 2020
Books | No Shortcuts to Knowledge December 2020
A much-needed understanding of the vital role played by the BSF November 2020
Cassandra In 0z: Counterinsur-gency and Future War Conrad C. Crane November 2020
True Companions Lt Gen. Vinod Bhatia (retd) November 2020
View from the US November 2020
October 2020
If machines start to think for themselves, can they still remain subordinate to humans? An extract October 2020
October 2020
A lifetime of memories, experiences and learning. An extract September 2020
How RAW’s mandate often went beyond spying. An extract September 2020
Book Chat | Lt Gen. H.S. Panag PVSM, AVSM September 2020
September 2020
FRIENDS OF THE SOVIET UNION India’s Solidarity with USSR During the Second World War in 1941-1945 May 2020
How Siraj-ud-Daulah’s fate was sealed well before the battle was joined April 2020
How cyber and emerging technologies will change society and warfare April 2020
Extract: India’s Battlefields: From Kurukshetra to Balakot January 2020
In his book The Absent Dialogue, Anit Mukherjee chronicles the relationship between politicians, bureaucrats and the military. An extract December 2019
The Babri Masjid-Ram Mandir Dilemma: An Acid Test for India’s Constitution By Madhav Godbole Konark Publishers Pvt Ltd November 2019
An Extract | The Untold Story of Christian Michel and AgustaWestland September 2019
An Extract | Red Star Over the Pacific September 2019
An Extract | Strategic Advantage of Air Power August 2019
CHINA MARITIME GREY ZONE OPERATIONS Edited by Andrew S. Erickson and Ryan D. Marinson July 2019
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November 2018
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June 2018
Beyond the Victory India Campaign Articles and Debates March 2018
The Hollow Kingdom: ISIS and the Cult of Jihad March 2018
AUGUST VOICES: INDIA-PAKISTAN-BANGLADESH CONFEDERATION April 2017
Himalaya: Adventures, Meditations, Life March 2017
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