Comde Anil Jai Singh

In November 2021, during the Naval Commanders Conference, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh released the Indian Navy’s Unmanned Roadmap. It was a classified document, so very little was known of its contents. An unclassified version,...

  The PLA Navy’s submarine presence in the Indian Ocean, ever since it deployed one of its submarines there ostensibly for anti-piracy patrols, has been a matter of concern for India. This concern has been...

  The year 2022 has been a significant year for the Indian Navy. The highlight of the year was the commissioning of the country’s first indigenously built aircraft carrier INS Vikrant, which showcased India’s technological...

“To me the Blue Chakra or wheel in India’s national flag represents the potential of the Blue Revolution or Ocean Economy. That is how central the ocean economy is to us” Prime Minister Narendra Modi,...

The Indian Navy is faced with a strange dilemma. While it needs to augment its force levels to meet the emerging threats to India’s maritime security over the next decade, it is actually being...

  The announcement of AUKUS, the recently established Anglo-Saxon trilateral between Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States of America in September 2021 took the world by surprise and generated a great deal of...

  Year 2021 marks an important milestone in India’s journey towards fulfilling its ‘tryst with destiny’ which began at the stroke of midnight on the night of 14/15 August 1947 when India awoke while the...

    It is often said that force level requirements projected by the armed forces reflect a mindset of preparing for the last war rather than the next. However, such an assumption has rarely been borne...

  Sustainable development has become the key to the survival of the planet as the effects of global environmental degradation are becoming increasingly visible. The unchecked depredation of nature has also spread to the oceans...

The defining theme of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s keynote speech at the Shangrila Dialogue in June 2018 at Singapore was the importance of connectivity in a globalised world, the need for a free and...

  When the NDA government came to power in May 2014, national security and more specifically , maritime security figured high on the agenda. Within a month of taking over, in his first trip outside...