Vasantha Rao RAGHAVAN, Lt.-Gen. (ret.), President, Centre for Security Analysis (CSA), India
Lt Gen (Ret.) VR Raghavan is President, Centre for Security Analysis, Chennai, India.
He is a member of India's
National Security Advisory Board. He is also a member of the Task Force set up
by the Government of India to Review Defence Preparedness. The General was an
elected member of the Council of United Services Institution of India and was
Council Member, International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), London. He was a
Commissioner of the Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission chaired by Dr. Hans
Blix and also advisor and research consultant to the International Commission
on Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament convened by the Governments of
Australia and Japan.
He was Visiting Fellow at Centre for International Security and Cooperation
(CISAC), Stanford
University and Henry L
Stimson Centre. He has authored books amongst which, the monograph, India's Need for Strategic Balance; essay on
Limited War and Nuclear Escalation in South Asia, the books Infantry in India, and
Siachen-Conflict without End are widely known. He has edited more than two
dozens of books.
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