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Air operations have never been about fighter aircraft and helicopters alone. The way air power is generated and employed is transforming significantly. Future air campaigns will depend on sensors, shooters, command systems, support elements...

The character of warfare is evolving faster than traditional military acquisition cycles can absorb. For decades, combat power centred on sophisticated platforms, aircraft, tanks, artillery, warships and missiles. This platform-centric model is increasingly giving...

When we started building drones, we thought the hardest problems would come from engineering. We have learned that geopolitics can shape those problems too, influencing what we can access, build, and change. For us,...

India hosted the 18th BRICS Summit in New Delhi from September 12 to 13, 2026, under its fourth Chairmanship that was guided by the theme “Building for Resilience, Innovation, Cooperation and Sustainability.” It reflected...

Modern naval warfare is undergoing a fundamental structural shift. As India’s economic growth, maritime trade and strategic imperatives grow increasingly dependent on secure Sea Lines of Communication across the Indian Ocean Region - spanning...

Every modern weapon system depends on something invisible. A drone needs a control link. A missile needs navigation. A radar needs clean frequencies to see. A commander needs his radios to work. All of...

For decades, India’s fighter modernisation story has been one of chasing timelines set in Moscow, Paris or Washington — buying, licence-building, occasionally co-developing, but rarely sitting at the table where next-generation air power is...

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...

Absolute self-reliance in defence production is a misconception. Except for China, which is now largely self-sufficient after successfully reverse-engineering many technologies it imported from Russia (earlier USSR) and other countries like Ukraine over the...

The character of air warfare is changing rapidly. What began with unmanned systems primarily supporting Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) missions has evolved into a new operational reality where drones are becoming an integral...

The anarchic nature of the world order entails intense competition among the great powers for dominance and hegemony. Studies by scholars such as Wallerstein (World-Systems Model), Kondratieff and Modelski (long cycles of economic and...

By the time a modern war reaches its second month, the opening salvos have long been fired, the pre-positioned inventories drawn down, and the outcome no longer turns on who struck first. It turns...

A tired sentry, after a night-long vigil, hears a faint buzzing sound. At first, he dismisses it as an insect. Seconds later, the sound grows louder. A small object appears over the tree line, flying...