V. R. Raghavan

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Lt. Gen. (Retd.) Vasantha R. Raghavan is a former Indian military general and now a security consultant. He retired as the director general of military operations in 1994, having served in the Indian Army for 37 years. After retiring from the army, he has written several books and is currently the director of the Delhi Policy Group and president of the Centre for Security Analysis in Chennai.[when?]

Military career

Raghavan was commissioned in the

AVSM honours[when?] by the Government of India
.

Publications

Raghavan has written four books since retiring from military service:

He has also edited several books:

  • Internal Conflicts in Myanmar
  • Nuclear Disarmament - India-EU Perspective
  • Internal Conflicts in Nepal- Transnational Consequences
  • The Naxal Threat: Causes, State Responses and Consequence
  • Conflict in Sri Lanka: Internal and External Consequences
  • Conflicts in the Northeast: Internal and External Effects (jointly edited with Sanjoy Hazarika)
  • Jammu and Kashmir - Impact on Polity, Society and Economy
  • Post Conflict Sri Lanka - Rebuilding of Society

He has also edited more than a dozen other books and written numerous articles on strategic issues relating to India's security.

Later activities and security advocacy

In his book on the

Weapons of Mass Destruction set up at the initiative of the Swedish Government and headed by Dr. Hans Blix. The Commission released a report, entitled "Weapons of Terror: Freeing the World of Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Arms in 2006", which proposed that nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons be outlawed and discussed the options for achieving this goal.[4]

He was also a member of the Indian Government's Review Committee of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act, which had been opposed in

North-East India.[when?] Although the government has not published the committee's 2005 report, it was reported that the panel recommended that the act be repealed. Raghavan has argued that security should be viewed in terms of human security in societal, environmental, economic, and political terms,[when?][where?
] instead of the narrow military perspective.

See also

Notes

  1. ^ "Book review: Lt-General V.R. Raghavan's 'Siachen: Conflict without end'".
  2. ^ V.R.Raghavan, Siachen: Conflict Without End, Viking, New Delhi, 2002
  3. ^ V.R.Raghavan, "Limited War and Nuclear Escalation in South Asia," The Nonproliferation Review, Fall-Winter 2001
  4. ^ Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission, final report, Weapons of Terror: Freeing the World of Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Arms, Stockholm, Sweden, 1 June 2006

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