Lt Gen Rajeev Chaudhry

Lt Gen Rajeev Chaudhry (Retd) writes on contemporary national and international issues, strategic implications of infrastructure development towards national power, geo-moral dimension of international relations, and leadership nuances in a changing social construct. The views expressed are of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Raksha Anirveda

Beyond the Ballot: Trump’s Midterm Setback and the Changing Global Order

Lt Gen Rajeev Chaudhry - November 6, 2026

The Ballot Strikes Back: Washington has woken to a political earthquake. Two years after Donald Trump returned promising to reshape America, voters have handed Democrats control of both chambers of Congress. Their gains in...

Europe’s Strategic Blind Spot

Lt Gen Rajeev Chaudhry - November 3, 2026

Europe possesses immense collective wealth, advanced technology, educated populations, and institutions that helped shape the modern international order. Yet its economic weight has not translated into equivalent strategic coherence. National interests diverge, defence industries...

France at the Crossroads: Can a Civilisation Survive the Century?

Lt Gen Rajeev Chaudhry - October 25, 2026

France gave the modern world a language of liberty, equality and fraternity. Its revolution challenged inherited privilege, its republic placed citizenship above ancestry, and its secular institutions sought to create a common public space...

Air Force 2040: Sky to Space

Lt Gen Rajeev Chaudhry - October 24, 2026

The eighth of October is more than an anniversary. It is an opportunity to ask whether the Indian Air Force that served India so effectively through the twentieth century is being prepared for the...

The World Without a Referee

Lt Gen Rajeev Chaudhry - October 16, 2026

The Whistle that No Longer Stops the Game: The most dangerous moment in any contest is not when the rules are broken, but when those responsible for enforcing them can no longer make the...

China’s Five Fingers: The Himalayan Hand in Motion

Lt Gen Rajeev Chaudhry - October 4, 2026

The Hand on the Himalayas: The Himalayas can be read as a mountain wall, a civilisational frontier or a military theatre. This region can also be imagined as a strategic hand: Tibet as the...

Civil-Military Fusion: From Intent to Impact

Lt Gen Rajeev Chaudhry - September 29, 2026

Civil-military fusion has become an increasingly important phrase in India's strategic vocabulary. It recognises a fundamental reality of modern warfare: the technologies that determine military advantage are no longer developed exclusively inside defence laboratories....

Greenland Gone…. Sovereignty Unchanged, Strategy Transformed

Lt Gen Rajeev Chaudhry - September 27, 2026

The earlier drama concerned acquisition; the new reality concerns access. This distinction matters more than the political theatre suggested. Ownership carries administrative, legal and political burdens. Strategic access can deliver many of ownership’s benefits...

The Empire Comes Home: Is Britain’s Political Karma Returning?

Lt Gen Rajeev Chaudhry - September 16, 2026

Britain once drew the map of the world; today the world is watching Britain redraw its own map. On September 14, 2026, in Cardiff, the leaders of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland came together...

Free(bees) Bite America

Lt Gen Rajeev Chaudhry - September 12, 2026

A $5,000 cheque sounds irresistible when it is somebody else who is promising to write it. At the Republican midterm convention in Dallas, President Donald Trump promised a $5,000 “dividend” to every adult American if...

Building the Power to Choose: India’s Move Towards Strategic Optionality

Lt Gen Rajeev Chaudhry - September 3, 2026

The greatest advantage a nation can possess in an uncertain world is not an alliance. It is choice. The world India entered at independence was a world of blocs. The world India entered after...

The Next Empire?

Lt Gen Rajeev Chaudhry - August 29, 2026

On August 24, 2026, Washington launched Operation Economic Outcast, an aggressive campaign to sever Iran from its remaining economic lifelines. The United States is once again demonstrating something extraordinary: its ability to turn financial architecture...

Beyond Black Gold

Lt Gen Rajeev Chaudhry - August 26, 2026

The Strait of Hormuz has once again reminded the world of an uncomfortable truth: geography can suddenly become strategy. A disruption thousands of kilometres away from India can ripple through crude prices, freight costs,...

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