
Lt General (Dr) Prakash Menon, AVSM, PVSM, VSM
Lt. Gen. (Retd) Prakash Menon is Adjunct Professor, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore. He is also is the Director of the Strategic Studies Programme, Takshashila Institution and Professor Emeritus at Trans Disciplinary University (TDU), Bangalore. He is a member of the Executive Council of the Manohar Parrikar Institute of Defence Studies and Analyses.
Lt Gen Menon joined the Indian Army in 1972. He has extensive operational experience in commanding counter-insurgency operations in Central, North and South Kashmir. He was the Major General Staff of the army’s Northern Command responsible for operations in J&K and the Commandant of the National Defence College, New Delhi. After his retirement in 2011, he continued in government as the Military Advisor and Secretary to Government of India and from 2015 to 2017 as Officer on Special Duty in the National Security Council Secretariat.
Lt Gen Menon has a two post-graduate degrees and a PhD from Madras University for his thesis “Limited War and Nuclear Deterrence in the Indo-Pak context”. He was appointed by the Union Cabinet as a member of an expert group for the creation of the Indian National Defence University. Post-retirement, he continues to teach and research, with a special focus on the role of force in statecraft. In 2014 he was a Visiting Fellow at Nanyang Technology University, Singapore.
Lt Gen Menon is the author of ‘Strategy Trap: India and Pakistan Under the Nuclear Shadow’, Wisdom Tree, Delhi, 2018 and Co-author of NonAlignment 2.0, Penguin, Delhi, 2013.
Articles
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- CDS was needed. But Modi govt also creating Department of Military Affairs is a big bonus
- Narendra Modi’s ‘free hand’ to armed forces is misleading and problematic
- Rajnath and No First Use: Tainting India’s Image as a Responsible Nuclear Power
- After Mission Shakti, declare a ‘No First Use’ policy in space as well
- Dealing with Adverse Impact of Covid 19 on India’s Military Planning
- Covid-19 and Geo-political Implications
- Covid-19 Operations: Role of the Armed Forces
- COVID-19 Is a Unique Test of National Decision Making the Modi Govt Can’t Afford to Fail
- States Must Be Given More Ownership of India’s COVID-19 Containment Strategy
- Kautilya Can Help to Resolve a Basic Policy Dilemma During COVID-19
- The CO is dead. Long live the CO
- Arms Import and the GSQR Problem
- Covid-19 and Inter-Services Cooperation
- Joint/Theatre Command
- China has definitely crossed India’s Lakshman rekha but it won’t lead to 1962 again
- Role of Political Guidance for Self-Reliance in Defence
- Time for Modi to take political stand on China. Military talks won’t deter the bully
- Reimaging the Mountain Strike Corps
- Modi govt’s silence on China gave ‘satellite warriors’ a free run. India will rue the damages
- India’s Geopolitical and Geo-Economic Crossroads
- Political will and military power
- India-China relations on thin ice: Stand tough, stand tall
- Evolving India’s Military Strategy
- India’s Australia Signal| Delhi’s horizontal escalation
- Reversing China’s Ascendancy
- Providing Political Guidance to India’s Strategic Rudder
- Ladakh row: A cautionary lesson for India for the 2020s
Research Papers
- India’s Nuclear Journey Post Kargil
- Human Capital for the Department of Military Affairs
- Indian Military Leadership for the 2020s
Conference Presentation