Vipul V. Tamhane

The writer is an expert on geopolitics, national security, and counter-terrorism; and he regularly contributes his subject thought-leadership and academic commentary with several publications in newspapers, journals, and periodicals. He works with investigative agencies, regulatory bodies, financial institutions and enterprises, providing strategic and regulatory advisory. The views expressed are personal and do not necessarily carry the views of Raksha Anirveda

The Numbers and the Narrative

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Every few months, a fresh set of figures arrives confirming that India's defence sector is expanding rapidly. The latest, drawn from a Kotak Institutional Equities report, projects that defence capital expenditure will grow by...

The Nantou Lesson: India Must Build a Society That Remains Intact

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Taiwan’s Urban Resilience Exercises run from April through August, revealing a doctrine in which the battlefield is society itself. Early in July, in the mountainous county of Nantou, more than 370 Taiwanese officials rehearsed...

India’s UNSC Bid: A Real Contest, Not a Coronation

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On July 13, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will formally launch India's campaign in New York for a non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council for the 2028-29 term. It is, on paper, a...

The Neck and the Noose

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There is a certain type of strategic danger that emerges quietly—not through the mobilisation of armies or the issuance of diplomatic ultimatums, but through the gradual accumulation of engineering contracts, party-to-party memoranda and river-management...

Operation Sheruwali and the Long War in the Forests of Rajouri

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As of July 1, 2026 Operation Sheruwali entered its 40th day, with security forces continuing an extensive search operation in the forested areas of Dorimal in the Gambir Mughlan area of the Manjakote sector...

Talks Without Terms: India’s Asymmetric Bargain with Pakistan

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more than a year after the guns fell silent following Operation Sindoor, India and Pakistan are apparently talking again. London, Muscat, Bangkok, Doha, and now reportedly Colombo, a quiet circuit of Track 1.5 and...

Beyond Zero Tolerance

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When NSA Ajit Doval invoked "zero tolerance" for terrorism at the 16th BRICS National Security Advisers' Meeting in New Delhi, the phrase landed with the cadence of doctrine rather than diplomacy. India has been...

The Himalayan Reset

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there is an old aphorism within India's intelligence establishment: Nepal is not merely a neighbour; it is a corridor. A corridor for commerce, for culture, for labour and, when state capacity frays, for threats....

A Strategic Turning Point

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Numbers, in matters of nuclear strategy, rarely tell the full story. Yet the figure buried inside the SIPRI Yearbook 2026 demands attention: twelve. For the first time in its history as a nuclear-armed state,...

The Algorithm and the Abyss: Why AI Makes War Faster but Not Wiser

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There is a pattern in the history of weapons that democratic societies consistently fail to notice until it is too late. Every major military technology arrives bearing the same promise: that this time, war...
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