Exploiting platforms and technologies from space to sensors, India is planning a multi-layer aerospace surveillance network which may manifest between 2030-35. What is the potential of these systems and what outcomes can be anticipated and when, here is a review.

For the Indian Armed Forces whose primary role is deterrence, war avoidance and territorial sovereignty – UAVs, missiles and air defence systems will be supplementary and complementary to tanks, artillery guns and infantry carriers. This will also give the commanders strategic as well as operational options, while ensuring tangible achievement of success rather than the narrative.

The doctrine should be complemented by a comprehensive implementation plan that includes timelines and the necessary institutional responsibilities says Chinmayee R Srinath in a review.

With over 11,000 kms of coastline and over 1300 islands, India’s onshore and offshore security assumes importance thus developing amphibious capabilities is an essential for the Indian Armed Forces, the Doctrine for which is reviewed by Shravani N

“Amateurs talk strategy; professionals talk logistics” is a classic military aphorism capturing a hard truth: strategy is meaningless without the material backbone that makes it executable. Professionals focus on logistics because wars, campaigns, and even political operations are ultimately decided by sustainment — fuel, ammunition, transport, maintenance, medical support, and the ability to keep forces supplied over time and distance. Strategy is aspirational; logistics is

While portending a nuclear crisis in the Pacific may be too early, preparing for the same by creating confidence building and crisis management institutions and mechanism would be in order.

With the post-World War II international order fading away and hostilities on the rise, the prospects for conflict prevention look dim. But the picture is not wholly dark. It is possible to identify tools that, if used properly, can reduce bloodshed.

Artificial intelligence is expected to have a profound influence on international peace and security marks SIPRI as the frontier discipline is making wars more lethal as demonstrated during the US/Israel Iran War and invades our daily life

China is not visibly racing toward a near-term amphibious assault, but it does not need to. It is building the tools for coercion without operating on hard power, instead resorting to political pressure, economic leverage over transboundary assets, incremental construction on contested lands while holding a rapidly modernising Marine Corps in reserve, capable of seizing contested features quickly should the calculation ever favour says William Lalrinzuala

Reading the lessons from recent conflicts, an obvious conclusion is war as a means for achieving political objectives has limited relevance in today’s wider global security architecture. Be it Ukraine or Iran, the aggressor state has failed to achieve the stated political objectives principally that of regime change and subjugation. On the other hand, Iran and Ukraine seemed to have emerged stronger from the wars exploiting national resoluteness and asymmetry in military dom