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In the book "Comprehensive National Power - A Model for India" an attempt has been made to quantify and describe those attributes that most accurately portray India's capability to exert its national will. An effort has been made to access how various powers compared in this study could exert their national power to leverage the international environment to their national advantage. This study has been carried out in the backdrop of the rise and fall of countries and empires, and an assessment of the inbuilt longevity to power. This well-researched book is a result of the project study allocated by Headquarters Army Training Command to the United Service Institution of India, New Delhi. This study is likely to be a foundational work for future studies on the subject. This would eventually lead to more awareness of the concept of Comprehensive National Power. As a result, a national consensus is likely to emerge on the steps India would need to take to further hone its Comprehensive National Power in order to realize the national aspirations.

The medicinal plants and herbs are used for many years. Medicinal plants have several secondary metabolites which are helpful for curing of diseases. Some of the herbs are used as growth production, higher FCR, intake, immuno-stimulant, liver tonic, anti-oxidants and for reducing cholesterol. Now-a-days, utilization of these medicinal plants is increasing in another field such as feed additives. If we talk about humans there are several herbal additives for improvement of human digestive system. Herbal additives are also beneficial for animal production example Leaves of Azadirachta indica are used for feeding and reducing the parasitic load of animals. Small amount of Herbs can improve growth, intake, meat, milk etc. So in this book, we are going to focus about goat digestive system and how can goat production improve by herbal additives?

India's seismic hazard is highly understated; over 60% of India is under the threat of moderate to severe seismic hazard. Some of the largest earthquakes of the world have occurred in India and the earthquake engineering developments in the country started rather early. The institutional development started in the late 1950's and earthquake engineering concepts have been applied to numerous major projects in high seismic regions in the country. Extensive damage during several moderate earthquakes in recent years indicate that despite such early gains, earthquake risk in the country has been increasing alarmingly. The research project aims to develop a generic decision theoretical framework for the consistent quantitative and rational management of earthquake risks in different situations. Different techniques have been told to design economical structures, basically for farmers and peoples who cannot afford high-tech structures. These techniques have been proved to be very effective in reducing economical losses and have got a bright future if used appropriately.

The book entitled "Modern synthetic strategy for anti-viral nucleosides" deals with the synthesis of four new series of nucleosides, their characterization and antiviral screening. Chemically, viruses are nucleoproteins containing either deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) or ribonucleic acid (RNA) surrounded by a protective protein sheath. Nucleoside analogues are used as anti-viral therapeutic agents. The development of antiviral drugs encountered lots of difficulties and the research in antiviral chemotherapy gained less attention. Although vaccination is a valuable tool to fight viral diseases and in some cases is available and successful, the difficulty associated with state-wide or world-wide vaccination programs makes antiviral chemotherapy a more practical approach in the fight to epidemic viral infections.The importance of these nucleoside analogues was later confirmed with the emergence of HIV as the main etiological agent of AIDS. Due to growing awareness about environmental pollution, library synthesis of target nucleosides by using green protocols is desired. With this objective new nucleosides have been synthesized using green protocol and screened for their antiviralactivity.

There is a wide spread perception amongst the intelligentsia that India lacks strategic culture. The deficiency if any perhaps lies in the reluctance to articulate India's perceptions on strategic issues, as also to formulate a long term strategic view. As the oldest think tank in Asia, United Services Institution of India (USI) decided to address the above issue and how it could contribute to evolution and dissemination of strategic thought on challenges facing the Nation. To this end the publication of a USI Strategic Yearbook 2016, which was the maiden attempt, which received wide appreciation for its quality and contents. This current issue of the Yearbook contains series of articles by eminent persons and experts on various aspects of national security; the aim being to provide a strategic perspective which will create awareness and also help the policymakers in giving a strategic direction for India to transform into a developed society and a secured nation. USI hope's that readers will find this publication useful and interesting.

This book covers issues on China, its strategic issues and its effect on India. With a total of nineteen articles this book covers issues like Economy of China, CPEC, China's Energy Diplomacy, Military Reforms, Military Strategy, One Belt One Road and Shanghai Cooperation organisation.

Cyber Warfare is gaining special significance in today's national security aspects. This book through various articles covers aspects on Cyber Security, Cyberspace, Cyber Surveillance, Cyber Warfare including Laws of War, Cyber Weapons as new weapons of mass destruction et. al.

India's First War of Independence in 1857 ended in a fiasco, primarily for want of effective leadership and perhaps equally important, for lack of a viable strategy. Even after Independence, India has been found wanting on many occasions in dealing with situations concerning our National Security. The world at large especially the intelligentsia believes that India lacks strategic culture. The deficiency, if any, perhaps lies in India's reluctance to express its perceptions on strategic issues as also to formulate a long term strategic view. This book contains series of articles by eminent persons and experts on various aspects of National Security, with the aim to provide an overall strategic perspective, which could contribute to evolution and dissemination of strategic thought on challenges facing the Nation.

There is a wide spread perception amongst the intelligentsia that India lacks strategic culture. In our view, the deficiency if any perhaps lies in our reluctance to articulate our perceptions on strategic issues, as also to formulate a long term strategic view. As the oldest think tank in Asia, we decided to address the above issue and how we could contribute to evolution and dissemination of strategic thought on challenges facing the Nation. To this end the publication of a USI Strategic Yearbook 2016, which was our maiden attempt, received wide appreciation for its quality and contents.This current issue of the Yearbook contains series of articles by eminent persons and experts on various aspects of national security; the aim being to provide a strategic perspective which will create awareness and also help the policymakers in giving a strategic direction for India to transform into a developed society and a secured nation. We hope that readers will find this publication useful and interesting. We would welcome suggestions for improvement of subsequent issues.