Opinion

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...

Victory or defeat in a modern-era war is not a measure of losses. In the Russia-Ukraine war ongoing since February 2022, Ukraine has suffered extensive devastation, but it is still standing upright. And Russia...

 “The Silicon battlefields of future conflicts will be hallmarked by infinite tenacity, reverberate with lethality of defence technologies, evidenced with invincibility and resilience” Modern warfare is increasingly determined by the ability to sense, process, communicate,...

The nature of warfare is changing, as seen in ongoing conflicts. In the Indian context, despite both its adversaries being nuclear powers, there is ample scope for prolonged conflicts under a nuclear umbrella. It...

Security planners are trained to think in terms of convergence: the moment when separate pressures, each manageable alone, arrive at the same time and stretch the state's attention, resources and legitimacy. India is in...

“The Silicon battlefields of future conflicts will be hallmarked by infinite tenacity, reverberate with lethality of defence technologies, evidenced with invincibility and resilience” Semiconductors are the foundational building blocks of the modern technological world, and...

In more than two decades of steadily improving India-US relations, New Delhi is witnessing, for the first time, a situation in which strong anti-India sentiments are being actively encouraged in Washington. President Donald Trump...

India stands at the threshold of the most consequential restructuring of its armed forces since Independence. The proposed Integrated Theatre Commands (ITCs) seek to reorganise the Indian military from a predominantly service-centric system to...

Starlink has held a satellite communications licence since 2025, along with an IN-SPACe authorisation. It still lacks spectrum and final security clearance, and those two factors determine whether a single terminal can legally connect...

In the high-altitude border regions of India — places like the snow-bound stretches of Siachen and the contested heights around Galwan — surveillance is a constant, high-stakes challenge. Electronic warfare, GPS disruption, and radar...

The NDTV Defence Summit 2026, held under the theme “India’s New Defence Edge”, offered a revealing snapshot of how India’s defence establishment is thinking about tomorrow’s wars. More than a conventional defence conference, the...

At the NDTV Defence Summit on September 27, Defence Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh spoke of building an ‘AI spine’ for the armed forces rather than buying isolated applications. It sounds like a minor phrase,...

When the government announced a ₹1 lakh crore fund to back India's scientists, startups, and deep-tech entrepreneurs, it sounded like a turning point. The idea was simple and bold: if private investors won't take...