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Jasjit Singh, a great strategic thinker and communicator has died. His book on air warfare that I have is one of the best explanations of how aircraft are used in war. Sleep Well Jasjit Singh sir
Ace pilot who sold Pokhran-II to foreign audience | idrw.org
Ace pilot who sold Pokhran-II to foreign audience | idrw.org
More than as one who headed institutes for 24 years and rationalised Pokhran-II nuclear explosions to a foreign audience, Air Commodore (Retd.) Jasjit Singh, who passed away on Sunday at 79, will be known for mentoring the intellectual expansion of the Institute of Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA) in a post-Cold War setting and setting up the Centre for Air Power Studies (CAPS) much before the land and maritime counterparts began devoting exclusive scholarly attention to their respective domains.
Jasjit Singh was also a prolific writer, hitting an especially purple patch on either side of the Kargil conflict and Pokhran-II when he co-authored at least 10 books. But it was Nuclear India that raised the most dust. On the government side, analysts and diplomats hailed his counters to moderate the West's queasiness with the concept of recessed deterrence. At think tanks all over the world, Jasjit Singh spoke of recessed deterrence under which nuclear weapons are not mated with delivery vehicles but his critics said this was another word for George Perkovich's 'Non-weaponised Deterrence.'
After the concept outlived its political usefulness, he asked the Americans not to waste time "telling us to get rid of nuclear weapons." Scientist-activist Prabir Purkayastha felt all this amounted to media management and didn't reduce opacity on the nuclear question. His IDSA colleague, Uday Bhaskar, thought out of the 25 books he compiled or penned, Jasjit Singh loved most the autobiography on the first and only Marshal of the Indian Air Force, Arjan Singh.
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