The Author: P.K. GAUTAM

P.K. Gautam is a former officer of the Indian Army. He held the Defence Research and Development Organization, D. S. Kothari chair at the United Service Institution of India from 2001 to 2002 on environmental security. His research was published as Environmental Security: Internal and External Dimensions and Response (2003). In August 2005 he joined the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses as a Research Fellow. Till 2008 he worked on the military and the environment. His present interests are climate change, water security, Himalayan ecology, Buddhism, Tibet, military matters like composition of the army and trends in warfare. Some of his other books are National Security: A Primer (2004), Operation Bangladesh (2007), Composition and Regimental System of the Indian Army: Continuity and Change (2008) and Time History in and Around Devlali (2009). He has also contributed chapters in IDSA Working Group Report Security Implications of Climate Change for India (2009).

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