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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

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

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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

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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

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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...
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