As India assumes an increasingly salient role in world politics, questions of strategy have come to the fore in the study of Indian security. There is growing scholarly interest in Indian strategic thought and practice across a range of areas including conventional military power, nuclear weapons, maritime security, counterinsurgency, counterterrorism, and international regimes. This collection of articles expands the horizon of inquiry in some of these areas by situating Indian strategy in its historical context, by challenging conventional wisdom, and by opening new lines of research. In the following sections, we lay out the contours of what the contributors to this special issue collectively take to mean by strategy and then situate the issue in the literature on Indian strategy. We subsequently provide some over-arching observations on Indian strategy that emerge from the articles collected here and conclude by raising some questions regarding the intellectual and practical primacy of strategy in statecraft today.

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印度安全战略的思想与实践

随着印度在世界政治中扮演越来越重要的角色，战略问题在印度安全研究中显得尤为突出。学术界对印度在常规军事力量、核武器、海上安全、反叛乱、反恐和国际制度等一系列领域的战略思想和实践越来越感兴趣。这一系列文章通过将印度战略置于其历史背景、挑战传统智慧和开辟新的研究领域，扩大了其中一些领域的研究视野。在接下来的部分中，我们列出了这一特刊的撰稿人对战略的共同理解的轮廓，然后将该问题置于有关印度战略的文献中。