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xxi Acknowledgments The modernization of India’s defense and military establishment is very much a work in progress. The dramatic changes in India over the last five years prolonged the writing of this book. We warmly thank our research assistants, interns, and others who stuck with this project and made their own important contributions. First and foremost , Dhruva Jaishankar, now of the German Marshall Fund and Georgetown University, who contributed much to our understanding of India’s approach to strategic affairs. We were ably assisted by four interns from the University of Chicago, Tara Chandra, Jacob Friedman, Ryan Kaminski, and Rohan Sandhu. While not formally associated with this project, Anit Mukherjee (now of Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies ) and Tanvi Madan (of the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas) offered their valuable insights, and in Mukherjee’s case, shared his work on post-Kargil military reforms. We are indebted to many serving Indian military officers and civilian officials, who provided their understanding of India’s defense modernization processes, and to others with deep understanding of the problem and processes, notably Dipankar Banerjee, P. R. Chari, Shekhar Gupta, Gurmeet Kanwal, Verghese Koithara, Raja Menon, C. Raja Mohan, Arun Sahgal, Arun Singh, Jaswant Singh, and Narendra Sisodia. Ned Bagley, Jack Gill, Woolf Gross, Tim Hoyt, and Rajesh Kadian made up an informal sounding board in the early stages of this project. We are grateful to the anonymous readers and to Michael O’Hanlon for helping us turn a manuscript about everything into a book about something. While xxii / acknowledgments we received unstinting help from many individuals and organizations, the responsibility for all errors of fact and argument is ours alone. Writing this book was partly supported by the MacArthur Foundation. We are grateful to our children and to our wives, Roberta and Elana, for their support, patience, and humor. ...

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