Lt Gen Ashok Bhim Shivane

The author, 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

Emerging Geopolitics of War And Peace in the 21st Century

  The 21st century marks an era of complex geopolitics with paradigm shifts in the traditional understanding of war and peace. Wars in the 20th Century were fought to ensure peace. Wars in the 21st...

Fostering Intellectual Overmatch: Preparing the Military for the Fourth Industrial Revolution

“Conscience without intelligence is blunt, intelligence without conscience is numb”  (Bhagavad Gita 18.73)   Intellectual capital is the bedrock upon which a modern military must be built. As the operational environments in higher defence decision-making become...

The Path to Military Success Lies in the Joint Approach to Warfighting

A Professional Soldier has an obligation to be well trained: Arjun (Mahabharata)   Future wars will be fought in an essentially joint operational environment in integrated land, air, maritime, space, cyber and cognitive domains, under disruptive...

Lessons in Leadership for All Times

"क्लैब्यंमास्मगमःपार्थनैतत्त्वय्युपपद्यते। क्षुद्रंहृदयदौर्बल्यंत्यक्त्वोत्तिष्ठपरंतप॥" (Bhagavad Gita 2.3) "O son of Kunti, that determination which is unbreakable, which is sustained with steadfastness through yoga practice, and thus controls the mind, life, and the acts of the senses, is in the...

The Phantom Rises From The Grave – Ukraine Seeks NATO Tanks As Ultimate Saviour

“It is not the Big Armies that Win Battles…… It is the Good Ones” -Field Marshal Maurice Comte de Saxe (1782)   Ukraine’s Panic call for Tanks Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy recently appealed to the West that...

Parakram Diwas 2023: A Tribute to Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose

January 23rd  is a day of remembrance, it’s a day of reflection,  it’s a day to introspect the proud history of India’s freedom struggle. On this day, Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose was - “not...

Making The Military Future-Ready

  War and Warfare are fast outpacing the warfighter and his legacy tools. Contemporary wars have witnessed a tectonic shift in the goals of war, the rules of war, the players and the instruments of...

Quad is No Panacea for the Himalayan Challenges

  Quad is a strategic security dialogue to overtly realise the need for a “free, open and inclusive Indo Pacific” based on shared values and common interests. However its primary convergence irrespective of its concealed...

Russia-Ukraine Conflict: The Great Betrayal

  The Russia-Ukraine War is nearing a month with unabated violence, churning an ocean full of narratives and counter narratives.  In this ongoing war, everyone seems to be drawing lessons from their myopic lens, narrative...
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