CLAWS Journal: Vol. 13 No. 1 (2020): Summer 2020

While planning for the CLAWS Journal Summer Issue 2020 was in progress, the world was, and is continuing to fight a different battle altogether—‘a faceless enemy’ in the form of the COVID-19 pandemic. This Issue also occurs at the time when a series of transformations in the world in terms of conceptual understandings of various phenomenons, precedence of non-traditional securities over conventional ones, challenges and threats to strategic assets emanating from advancement in technology, empowerment of social media as the fifth state, etc. are at the forefront. All of these changing dynamics are noteworthy especially from a land warfare perspective.

This Issue contains 10 articles and 3 book reviews pertaining to wide areas that require attention of political analysts and researchers as well as practitioners. While the topics covered are wide in variety; there is diversity in authorship as well. The Journal presents a perfect mix of authors from different fields such as: Former Army Commanders, veterans’ practitioners, and academics. Such a blending will provide a holistic view of the issues highlighted in respective articles. The Journal is composite, contemporary and committed to provide researched papers on diverse subjects.