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V. Krishnappa

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Archive data: Person was Research Fellow at IDSA from September 2004 to July 2013

Joined IDSA
September 2004
Expertise
Strategic thinking and practice, systems thinking, scenario planning, change management, International relations, defence policy
Education
MSc in Defence and Strategic Studies (2003), University of Madras
Current Project
Building competence for strategic thinking using scenario and systems thinking methodologies in large organisations
Background
Group Captain Krishnappa Venkatshamy is serving officer in the Indian Air Force (IAF) and is a Research Fellow at the IDSA since September 2004. Commissioned in 1990 at the Air Force Academy (AFA), he is a graduate of the Defence Services Staff College (DSSC),the College of Air Warfare (CAW) and the Air Force Administrative College(AFAC). Before joining IDSA, he served in various operational squadrons and training centres of the IAF. He was the Book Review Editor of the Strategic Analysis from 2005 to 2009 and serves as a Member of the Editorial Committee of the IDSA Journal of Defence Studies. He previously led the IDSA’s inter-disciplinary National Strategy Project (INSP); Directed Scenarios planning based multi-disciplinary project Strategic Trends 2050 (ST2050)’ (commissioned by Defence Research and Development Organisation as part of their major project to develop long term vision and strategy); He co-leads the Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies (IFS) projects on India’s strategic thought and practice and the project on Military change and adaptation; lead IDSA’s internal consultancy project on IDSA’s Intellectual and Institutional History (1965-2011). He managed the IDSA International Visiting Fellows and Internship Programme (2009 – 2013). He has read peace research at University of Oslo (2008). Krishnappa has participated in number of seminars, conferences, bilateral dialogues, consultancy projects and is often invited to deliver lectures in various institutions in India and abroad.
Select Publications
•Kanti Bajpai, Saira Basit and V. Krishnappa (ed.), India’s Grand Strategy: History, Theory, Cases , Routledge, (New Delhi) (Forthcoming, December 2013)
Krishnappa Venkatshamy and Princy George (ed.), Grand Strategy for India 2020 and Beyond, Pentagon Press International, New Delhi, 2012
Exploring India’s strategic futures 2050 (unpublished Report submitted to DRDO)
The Problem of Grand Strategy, Journal of Defence Studies, Volume 6, No. 3, IDSA, New Delhi.
Global Power Shifts and Strategic Transition in Asia (ed.), Academic Foundation, New Delhi, 2009
Nuclear Order in the Twenty-First Century (ed.), Academic Foundation, New Delhi 2009
Other publications
Research Fellow
Email:-krishnappache[at]gmail[dot]com
Phone:- +91 11 2671 7983

Publication

Saving Afghanistan

  • Publisher: Academic Foundation (2009)
    2009

This book is about the future of Afghanistan which seems to be rapidly slipping into chaos. It contains perspectives on counter-insurgency and nation-building in Afghanistan. More significantly, the experts sought to answer the crucial question: what can be done to stabilise Afghanistan? This volume is a collection of their insightful papers.

  • ISBN 13-978-81-7188-753-8,
  • Price: ?. 595 /- US $ 34.95/-

  • Published: 2009
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Proliferation and Emerging Nuclear Order in the twenty-first century

  • Publisher: Academic Foundation
    2009

This book provides some important perspectives on the emerging nuclear order. The contributors discuss most burning questions of the day: What are the challenges to the global nuclear regime? What are the consequences of a nuclear Iran for West Asian peace and stability? Will it give rise to a nuclear quest among the important West Asian states?

  • ISBN 13-978-81-7188-752-1,
  • Price: ?. 595 /-

  • Published: 2009
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Global Power Shifts and Strategic Transition in Asia

  • Publisher: Academic Foundation

The contemporary strategic context is increasingly defined by the rapid growth of major Asian economies and the rapidly increasing interest the major powers are evincing in the region. It has also resulted in a perceptible shift in power to the Asian continent.

  • ISBN 13-978-81-7188-751-4,
  • Price: ? 394

  • Published: 2009
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Grand Strategy for India 2020 and Beyond

  • Publisher: Pentagon Security International
    2012

This volume presents perspectives on cross-cutting issues of importance to India’s grand strategy in the second decade of the 21st century. The authors in this volume address the following important questions : What might India do to build a cohesive and peaceful domestic order in the coming decades? What should be India's China and Pakistan strategy? How could India foster a consensus on the global commons that serve India’s interests and values? What strategic framework will optimise India’s efforts to foster a stable and peaceful neighbourhood?

  • ISBN 978-81-8274-657-2,
  • Price: ?. 995/-
  • E-copy available

  • Published: 2012
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The Problem of Grand Strategy

This paper interrogates the concept of grand strategy. Its proponents argue that the absence of a publicly articulated and coherent grand strategy leads to incoherence in practice: armed forces acquire technologies without a strategy, government departments pursue their specific interests without reference to overarching national goals, and diplomats have a hard time explaining India’s behaviour to foreign interlocutors.

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Hopeless Search for Peace in the Aftermath of the Second Israel-Lebanon War

As the dust slowly settles down over the battlefields of South Lebanon and North Israel, the major actors in this tragic drama are now debating ways and means to salvage the long stalled Arab-Israel peace process from the wreckage of war and violence in the region. Israel's 34-day military campaign against Lebanon ended in mid-August with no clear victory to either party.

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Who Won the Second Israel-Lebanon War?

In the immediate aftermath of the Second Israel-Lebanon War, most observers have concluded that Israel lost its war against Hezbollah. Although at the end of 34 days of violent engagement there is no clear victor or loser, this article, on the contrary, argues that Israel succeeded in achieving the most important among its political and strategic objectives.

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