Lt Gen Ashok Bhim Shivane

The writer, a PVSM, AVSM, VSM has had an illustrious career spanning nearly four decades. A distinguished Armoured Corps officer, he has served in various prestigious staff and command appointments including Commander Independent Armoured Brigade, ADG PP, GOC Armoured Division and GOC Strike 1. The officer retired as DG Mechanised Forces in December 2017 during which he was the architect to initiate process for reintroduction of Light Tank and Chairman on the study on C5ISR for Indian Army. Subsequently he was Consultant MoD/OFB from 2018 to 2020. He is also a reputed defence analyst, a motivational speaker and prolific writer on matters of military, defence technology and national security. The views expressed are personal and do not necessarily carry the views of Raksha Anirveda

The Weaponisation of Technology and Critical Minerals: A New Grammer of Power

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For most of the modern era, power was measured in tanks, warheads and carrier groups. That measure is changing. A rare-earth magnet, a piece of denied software code, or a single lithography machine can...

New Delhi’s Moment: India Has the Leverage to Take BRICS to a New Horizon

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When the leaders of an eleven-nation grouping representing nearly half of humanity and close to forty per cent of global output walk into Bharat Mandapam on September 12 and 13, they will arrive in...

The Javelin Gamble: Why India Keeps Buying What It Should be Building

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On August 28, 2026, India signed a Letter of Offer and Acceptance with Washington for the FGM-148 Javelin, the American fire-and-forget anti-tank missile that has become almost as famous for its battlefield record in...

Letting Go to Reach Further: What ISRO’s Retreat from Rocket Manufacturing Really Means

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There is a particular kind of institutional courage in an organisation choosing to stop doing the thing that made it famous. That is effectively what is unfolding at the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)...

The Chessboard Before the Fire

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Astrategic trap may be taking shape on India's western frontier, and it is being assembled not through declarations but through cargo manifests. Over roughly sixty hours, Pakistani skies reportedly saw a dense sequence of...

Democracy Handed Over in Ink: Pakistan Formalises Military Supremacy

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Pakistan's Parliament has just done what its army could never achieve with a tank on the street. It has legislated a coup and called it reform. On August 21, 2026, the National Assembly passed...

Stamina, Not Just Firepower: Rethinking India’s War Reserves

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Every army trains for the first battle. Very few plan seriously for the fortieth day. That gap, between the opening salvo and the long grind that follows, is where wars are won or lost....

India Arrives: The Decade Power Stopped Being Borrowed

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There is a particular kind of confidence that comes only from being tested. India in 2026 carries that confidence. For decades, the world described India in the future tense: an emerging market, a rising...

The Mecca Pact – Brothers in Mecca, Rivals Everywhere Else

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On August 7, 2026, inside the Al-Safa Palace overlooking Islam's holiest city, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif signed the Mecca Joint Defence Agreement, a pact...

Beijing’s Taiwan Clock: Ticking Faster Than Its Economy

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on July 1, 2026, Xi Jinping stood before the Great Hall of the People and vowed to defeat Taiwan independence separatist forces while pressing the People's Liberation Army towards full modernisation ahead of its...

Kargil 1999: The War That Rewrote India’s Strategic Mind

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In May 1999, Indian shepherds noticed movement on the icy heights above Kargil. Within days, the Indian Army realised they were not ordinary infiltrators. Pakistani regulars from the Northern Light Infantry had occupied ridgelines...

The Second Chokepoint: Iran’s Quiet Bid to Encircle Global Trade

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On July 15, 2026, The Telegraph reported that Houthi rebels are laying the groundwork to close the Bab el-Mandeb Strait on Iran's behalf, coordinating with Somalia's al-Shabab to control both banks of the waterway...

Patience Runs Out: The US-Iran Ceasefire Collapses into Strikes

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Three weeks after Washington and Tehran signed a memorandum of understanding meant to convert a fragile ceasefire into something durable, the process has not merely stalled; it has broken down into open fighting. On Wednesday,...
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