Is the Submarine Arm Losing its Punch?
2023 ,
The explosions that gutted INS Sindhurakshak during the early hours of 14 August 2013 caught the imagination of an entire nation that watched the brief footage of the catastrophic event...
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Assessing Modernization of the Indian Armed Forces through Budgetary Allocations
2023 ,
India’s quest for modernization of the armed forces is propelled by the persistent threat to its territorial integrity and the aspiration of becoming a great power. However, there is no...
Read MoreMaritime Security in the Indian Ocean: A Changing Kaleidoscope
2023 ,
The Indian Ocean Region (IOR), though considered an important maritime region, has not yet been accorded the due importance of a geo-strategic entity. One attributable reason is the ‘sandwiching’ of...
Read MoreChina’s ‘Three Warfares’ and India
2023 ,
For the past decade, China is known to have actively used ‘three warfares’ (3Ws) strategy—media, psychological and legal warfare—to weaken its adversaries in regions constituting what it perceives to be...
Read MoreThe Rational Believer: Choices and Decisions in Madrasas of Pakistan, by Masooda Bano
2023 ,
The Rational Believer is a result of three years of research and field trips in Pakistan by the author and examines the post-9/11 image of madrasas in Pakistan. The findings...
Read MoreHinduism and the Ethics of Warfare in South Asia: From Antiquity to the Present, by Kaushik Roy
2023 ,
In the academic field of modern history studies, historians dealing with South Asia largely neglect the historical evolution of military–strategic thought on the Indian subcontinent. It is also true that,...
Read MoreSamudra Manthan: Sino-Indian Rivalry in the Indo-Pacific, by C. Raja Mohan
2023 ,
Samudra Manthan is a book whose time has come. It brings to the table the other dimension of the Sino-Indian rivalry, which is often missed by the larger group of...
Read MoreThe Rise of the Indian Navy: Internal Vulnerabilities, External Challenges, edited by Harsh V. Pant
2023 ,
Since antiquity the Indian Ocean has been the centre of human progress, a great arena in which many civilizations have mingled, fought, and traded on important trade routes criss-crossing the...
Read MoreStrategic Perspectives on Growth Phases and Long-term Techno-economic Performance of India’s DRDO
2023 ,
The future of an organization is less determined by outside forces than by its history and the Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO) is no exception. This article analyses the...
Read MoreThe Cholas: Some Enduring Issues of Statecraft, Military Matters and International Relations
2023 ,
The article addresses the deficit in the indigenous, rich historical knowledge of south India. It does this by examining the military and political activities of the Cholas to understand the...
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