CONTENTS: SECTION I: FLIGHT SAFETY AND LEADERSHIP: In the Hot Seat-The Opening Shot, Focus with Energy and Commitment Execute with Passion and Precision Key Result Areas, Let Your Juniors Grow Getting along with the Boss, Pace Yourself, Tackling a Dilemm- Op Preparedness or Flight Safety, Conflict Management, Air Force Wives’ Prayer, Feedback and Performance Counselling, Random Musings, A Flight Safety Guide for Flight Commanders, What are We Afraid Of?, Management by Wandering around a Powerful Tool of Flight Safety, Murphy Strikes again Encounters of the Sukhoi-30 Kind, Where are You, Buddy? Mentoring and Flight Safety, Stay within the Envelope and Stay Alive, Talk to Someone—It Helps, Fresh from the Oven Some Leadership Lessons I Validated at Air Force Station Hindan, Ethics and Values in the Military Leadership, SECTION II: AIR POWER AND GEOPOLITICS: The Strategic Role of Air Power, Crystal Gazing into the Future the Iaf Fighter Fleet in 2025, Out-of-Country Contingency Operations, Jointmanship—Training and Mindset—The Keys to Synergy in the Combined Arms Concept, The Indian Air Force at 75: Managing Transformation, The IAF at 90: Long on Ideas, Short on Offensive Capability.