Most of the recent conflicts have taken place within states. The larger tragedies in these conflicts are that civilians are main victims and that has forced the international community to intervene. This has resulted in additional demand of UN Peacekeeping forces with varying demands based on the kind of conflict. The book giving examples from the Indian experience brings out how peacekeepers become peace builders.

The book delves into the exciting world of the UN with an aim to try and perceive the future of this World Body in the tumultuous times of the 21st Century. With an analytical eye towards the future, the book researches the question, 'Whether the UN, in times to come, will get further marginalized and doomed to irrelevance or will it eventually be scaled up to a status of indispensability.' The thrust of the book is to bring out very useful inputs on how the UN, which reflected the main political concerns, threats, perceptions and the distribution of power of the World War II victors in 1945, must now re-position and re-align itself in the current framework of threats, challenges, aspirations, power plays, economics and the security perceptions of the new world pegging order of the 21st Century.

The book is a compilation of the various kinds of UAVs and BMD systems now available in the world. It also brings out their history and journey of development leading to the present day availability and future systems in development.