Tag: India’s Defense Policy

Where many in Delhi’s foreign policy community see an irreconcilable contradiction between the pursuit of strategic autonomy and partnership with the West, China demonstrated the art of transcending it — […]

This report examines whether India can sustain drone warfare, not merely whether it can acquire drones. Moving beyond the platform-centric terms that have shaped India’s debate, it reframes drone capability as a question of endurance: the capacity to absorb losses, replenish inventories, adapt under fire, and keep producing through a prolonged conflict.

Building on the previous two Australia–India UDA workshops, the Third Workshop in Australia will focus on undersea search and rescue, deep-sea awareness, and industry challenges in operationalising emerging technologies. The programme will also feature a table-top exercise under the project’s first Expert Exchange, supported by DFAT under SATPI.

This report is a follow-up to an earlier study, “Beyond the Kinetic,” by the same authors, which introduced the Socio-Technical-Cognitive Battlespace as a way of understanding modern conflict.

A future crisis with Pakistan must be treated as part of a wider collusive challenge

A peculiar feature of the Indian security state is the frequency with which failures to anticipate enemy action are explained away as ‘intelligence gaps or failures’.