Pradeep Kumar Gautam
Scientist
Defense and Security
Foreign Service Institute
India
Biography
Colonel P.K. Gautam (Retd.) is a veteran of the 1971 Indo-Pakistan War in Bangladesh and of Operation Meghdoot (Siachen glacier). He holds an MSc in Defence Studies and has been an Instructor-in-Gunnery. He last served in the faculty of studies at the School of Artillery, Devlali. Post premature retirement in 2000, Col. Gautam has 17 years of research experience. He joined IDSA in August 2005 as a Research Fellow. He has an abiding interest in Non-Traditional Security (NTS) including environmental security, water and climate change, as well as military affairs, issues relating to Tibet, and Kautilya’s Arthasastra. He was convener of the IDSA working group Security Implications of Climate Change for India (2009) and a member of the IDSA Task Force Report Water Security for India (2010). He is the lead author of the IDSA Task Force Report Tibet and India’s Security(2012).
Research Interest
Non-Traditional Security (NTS) including environmental security, water and climate change, military affairs,
Publications
-
Military-Environment-Diplomacy Interface: Prospects and Challenges for India Research Fellow, IDSA, Col PK Gautam’s article titled ‘Military - Environment- Diplomacy Interface: Prospects for India’ was published by the Science Technology and Security Forum of Manipal Advanced Research Group (MARG), Manipal University.
-
Murree and Pooch Mountain Batteries in the 1918 Palestine Campaign Research Fellow, IDSA, Col PK Gautam’s article on Mountain Batteries in the 1918 Palestine Campaign titled, ‘Murree and Pooch Mountain Batteries in the 1918 Palestine Campaign’, was published in the October- December 2016 issues of the USI Journal, Vol. CXLVI, No. 606.
-
Kautilya’s Arthashastra and its Relevance to Contemporary Strategic Studies Research Fellow, IDSA, Col PK Gautam’s article on Kautilya’s Arthashastra, titled ‘Kautilya’s Arthashastra and its Relevance to Contemporary Strategic Studies’ was published in the April-June 2017 issue of the USI Journal.
