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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

A Future-Ready Army Built to Deter and Prevail

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Doctrine is a statement of intent that sets out how a force intends to fight and defines the capabilities it must develop. It tells a force what it must be able to do, enabling...

Zorawar Needs a Plan Before It Needs More Armour

Lt Gen Ashok Bhim Shivane -
The case for a light tank was revived in 2017, during my tenure as Director General Mechanised Forces, and the 2020 standoff in eastern Ladakh made it urgent. The requirement was a 25-tonne-class, air-portable...

Just Money is Not Modernisation

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On October 9, speaking at the annual session of the Society of Indian Defence Manufacturers, Defence Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh said the Ministry of Defence will seek a 35 per cent rise in the...

Drone Procurement Must Face Electronic Warfare Reality

Lt Gen Ashok Bhim Shivane -
Adrone that performs well in a demonstration but loses navigation or its control link under enemy jamming is not a dependable combat capability. Along the Line of Actual Control (LAC), where altitude, terrain and...

Starlink Has Not Been Banned; India is Making it Earn the Right to Switch On

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Starlink has held a satellite communications licence since 2025, along with an IN-SPACe authorisation. It still lacks spectrum and final security clearance, and those two factors determine whether a single terminal can legally connect...

The Next Battlespace Will Be Won by the AI Spine, Not the AI Weapon

Lt Gen Ashok Bhim Shivane -
At the NDTV Defence Summit on September 27, Defence Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh spoke of building an ‘AI spine’ for the armed forces rather than buying isolated applications. It sounds like a minor phrase,...

Rethinking the Next Battlefield: India Must Build the Ecosystem, Not Just the Robot

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The battlefield front line, once a fixed geographic feature, is blurring. For two centuries, it meant a place: a trench, a ridge, or a river line where armies met. Recent operations in Ukraine show...

Trump-Xi: Managed Rivalry, Unmanaged Consequences for India

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The Trump-Xi summit in Washington has ended, but its strategic consequences are only beginning. Over three days, President Donald Trump and President Xi Jinping extended their trade truce by two months, opened a channel...

Reinventing the Spear: India’s Deep Structural Shift to Drone Warfare

Lt Gen Ashok Bhim Shivane -
This August, the Indian Army raised its first Baaz Battalion on the western front. A unit built around drones says more about where the Army is heading than any single purchase order could. Buying...

The Shaksgam Gambit

Lt Gen Ashok Bhim Shivane -
On September 17, 2026, Pakistan and China held the inaugural meeting of a Joint Boundary Commission in Islamabad. The event drew little ceremony, but carries real weight. It came within weeks of Prime Minister...

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

Lt Gen Ashok Bhim Shivane -
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...
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