Korea Chair Bulletin: August-September 2026

The Korea Chair Bulletin provides research-driven insights into India-South Korea relations, covering policy shifts, strategic dialogues, and emerging trends. It also highlights key developments and news from the Korean Peninsula.
Australia-India Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) Cooperation: Doctrine, Capabilities, Constraints, and Strategic Futures

This report examines Australia–India anti-submarine warfare (ASW) cooperation within an increasingly contested Indo-Pacific undersea environment. It argues that meaningful, campaign-level cooperation is both achievable and strategically valuable without requiring alliance-style integration or the sharing of highly sensitive sensor architectures. Cooperation is best structured around aligned doctrine, greater intelligence sharing, and routine operational coordination that builds the enduring relationships between the two operational-level headquarters.
The Illusion of Technology Transfer: The Missing Ingredients of India’s Defense Industrialization

India has built foreign-designed weapons under license for six decades without acquiring design authority. This report explains why: procurement treats technology transfer as a contractual deliverable, but absorption cannot be contracted for. It sets out a ladder of technological depth and a five-stage chain, then scores four programs against them.
Abhimanthan

As part of the 4th Future Warfare Course, CSDR hosted a wargame designed by Dr. Sidharth Raimedhi and Lt. Gen. D. S. Hooda (Retd.) for HQ IDS. The exercise tested strategic decision-making, joint planning, coordination, and capability prioritization in a simulated future warfare environment, followed by a detailed debrief.
India must catch up in this China-US tech race

This contest is not about who unveils the cleverest AI model. It is about building the most effective ecosystem connecting universities, laboratories, entrepreneurs, finance, energy, factories, supply chains and markets
Handle AI detection with caution

It could become another chokepoint through which information is authenticated and trusted