Lt Gen A B Shivane

  A history is a place of reference, not residence. Yet many times history has contextual lessons for the present and future. The tragedy of the Ukrainian conflict is embedded in the historical past. In...

  Defence and Development are two sides of the same coin and a trajectory in the growth of a nation. Both these are capital heavy investments with competing demands and thus require a fine balance....

  The rapid transformation in society, culture, technology and globalisation has altered the geopolitics and geo-economics canvas that has impacted warfare. While the traditional linkages between conflict, victory and politics remain, the mechanisms driving these...

  India’s Perilous Security Canvas: In the present geopolitical melee, the tools of strategic coercion, border activation, and proxy war are finding new ways to achieve the desired end. Closer home, the collusive trio of a...

SALUTE YOU SIR WE LEAD A Day of Remembrance First November is a historic date in the nation’s post-independence history yet remains buried in the past. Today 73 years ago, one of the greatest battles were fought...

  C5ISR (Command, Control, Computers, Communications, Combat Systems, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance) capability is a weapon to achieve asymmetry in warfare. It enables superior situational awareness to shorten the OODA (Observe, Orient, Decide, Act) loop...

  Global Security Canvas and Future Threats The geopolitical fragility weakened by the pandemic and the fundamental transformation in the global landscape has cast security challenges around the Asian landmass and the oceanic tides of the...

  The Defence Budget FY 2021-22 has been a damper to national defence with the realities of its inadequacies far outweighing the politically stated positives. Indeed it is well understood that to revive the economy,...

    NATIONAL SECURITY CONSTRUCT AND ATMANIRBHAR BHARAT: India’s strategic security canvas, if not perilous, is fragile and susceptible to escalating threats to national security. Both on the western and northern front we face adversaries who...

The first anniversary of abrogation of Article 370 and 35A of the Indian Constitution presents an occasion to introspect its impact and fallouts. It marked possibly the boldest history course correction since Independence, a...

The Triangle of Volatility The India-China-Pakistan strategic triangle is one of the most volatile and dangerous structure symbolised by disparate ideology yet mutually influencing relationship, deeply rooted and intertwined in historical contradictions. This triangle accounts...

    Himalayan Voids and Scenario Painting The recent India China standoff on the high mountains has brought forth two serious capability voids. One, the C5ISR void resulting in the intelligence failure and two, lack of Light...