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“We See Significant Long-term Operational Relationship Potential in India”

Consolidating its position in India with flagship S-100 Unmanned Aerial System and in-country MRO support set-up, Schiebel India is optimistic of expanding its footprint in India in a very substantive manner. Schiebel’s upcoming innovations...

From Catch-Up to Leapfrog: India’s Mission Mode Decade

Mission-mode programmes are government initiatives designed to achieve clearly defined, high-priority objectives within a specified timeframe. They are characterised by concentrated resource allocation, streamlined decision-making, and rigorous monitoring mechanisms. Originally conceived to advance long-term...

Countering Chinese Ingress

The evolving maritime security environment in the Indo-Pacific region by 2035 will be shaped decisively by the rising naval capabilities of China, especially through its Carrier Battle Groups (CBGs) and Anti-Access/Area Denial (A2/AD) strategies....

Revamping India’s Defence

The ongoing US-Israel-Iran conflict offers food for thought for all defence planners. Iran’s strong resistance against the most powerful military in the world speaks volumes for the efficacy of its asymmetric strategy of using...

Budget Analysis: Standing Committee on Defence Needs to Change Tack

Since its constitution in April 1993 to exercise legislative oversight of the Ministry of Defence (MoD), parliament’s Standing Committee on Defence (SCoD) has examined and reported on such diverse issues as stress management in...

Restoring Order in an Anarchic World

Both intellectuals and lay persons say that war is, without an iota of doubt, associated with violence. War, since times immemorial, has been fought for a multitude of reasons. Over the course of time,...

Policy to Practice: Positive Trajectory, Yet Far From a Transformative Impact

Around the same time as President Trump was sworn-in in January 2025, our company achieved a milestone that would have been unimaginable just seven years ago. Big Bang Boom Solutions became India’s first iDEX...

India’s Strategic Calibration in West Asia

Defence and security have emerged as a consequential and increasingly visible domain of India’s engagement with West Asia. Once confined largely to energy security, migrant mobility, and remittances, India’s relations with the region have...

Networking and Data Centricity in Indian Army

Modern warfare has progressively shifted from an attrition-based contest of platforms to a competition defined by information superiority, speed of decision-making, and system resilience. The Indian Army’s selection of “Year of Networking and Data...

Can 2026 Pave the Path for India’s Security Resilience?

AYear of Awakening: In 2025, India’s security establishment confronted a stark reality: the strategic environment is no longer cyclical. It is continuously contested. The old pattern of provocation followed by pause has broken down....

Calm Amidst Commotion

From India’s vantage point, the prevailing international order is deeply imbalanced and insufficiently representative of present-day power realities. While it is often described as a rules-based system, the formulation, interpretation, and enforcement of these...

Navigating Uncertainty: Building Resilience

As  this January-March 2026 issue goes to print, the experiences of 2025 are still fresh — and highly instructive. The past year was not simply a period of execution and delivery; it was a...

Invoking Sutras and Chakras

In recent times, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has emerged as an important component of India’s science and foreign policy initiatives. There is a growing and thoughtful emphasis on integrating AI into India’s bilateral arrangements with...
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