India’s Approach to Military AI: Strategy, Governance, and Challenges
This report assesses India’s military AI ecosystem, its institutional foundations, operational deployments, and persistent structural constraints, and benchmarks it against the rapid advances of its principal competitors.
A soldier must not be fighting the state
MoD must be more sensitive & review its policy on disability entitlement of ex-servicemen
Rare insights by a former Army Chief
Gen NC Vij’s book ‘Alone in the Ring’ sheds light on operational challenges and the importance of strategic clarity and adaptive leadership
Drones are changing war and India must catch up
The Indian military will have to evolve a comprehensive doctrine around drone warfare. Fundamental changes would have to be made in how the Army fights.
Armed forces must confront the past
No matter how politically inconvenient, military actions should be documented and scrutinised
Recasting India’s Air Defence Architecture: Countering the Drone and Swarm Threat
This report argues that India’s traditional air defence (AD) architecture—reliant on expensive, centralized missile systems—is becoming obsolete against the proliferating threat of low-cost, autonomous drone swarms. The May 2025 “Operation Sindoor” crisis exposed a critical “cost asymmetry”: expending million-dollar interceptors against disposable $2,000 FPV drones is economically unsustainable, allowing adversaries to easily exhaust India’s magazine depth.