Professor Sanu Kainikara is an ex-fighter pilot of the Indian Air Force and currently a practising Military Strategist residing in Canberra, Australia. He holds a Master of Science degree in Defence and Strategic Studies from the University of Madras, and his PhD in International Politics was awarded by the University of Adelaide in Australia. He is an adjunct Professor at the University of New South Wales and the inaugural Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Regional Security in Canberra. Dr Kainikara is also a political analyst and a long-term student of Indian history. His political analysis and commentaries, as well as papers on national security and strategy are regularly published in reputed international journals and magazines. He is in the process of researching and writing the history of India in a series of books titled From Indus to Independence: A Trek through Indian History, of which the first three volumes have already been published. Sanu is the author of 13 other books on national security and strategy, military forces and air power. This book 'The Cassandra Effect' will be his 14th title. He has presented numerous papers, on invitation, in International Conferences around the world.