Tag: India’s Defense Policy

This workshop advanced discussions on Maritime Domain Awareness in the Indo-Pacific, focusing on national approaches, regional gaps, information-sharing, interoperability, and commercial earth-observation capabilities. Bringing together policy experts, maritime practitioners, and technology providers, it explored practical opportunities for data-sharing, capacity building, technological collaboration, and stronger regional coordination.

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.

India and Japan have signed a new maritime security arrangement aimed at deepening naval cooperation across the Indo-Pacific. The pact expands work on logistics, port access, mine countermeasures, ship repair […]

India-China boundary talks suggest movement, but hard questions remain over strategic costs and concessions

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.

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.