The Systems Approach: Redefining Indian Strategy
India’s dreams outpace its deeds. It yearns to rival China, steady the Indo-Pacific, and guide the Global South.
Strategy and Policy
Starlink: Threat or Opportunity for Indian National Security?
Starlink’s entry could undermine India’s control over internet services, create dependencies, and enhance U.S. military capabilities in the Indian hinterland. With Starlink and StarShield’s potential for military use, India must focus on maintaining sovereignty over its ICT networks and develop its own satellite constellations.
The Strategic Perspective On Data Protection
The Data Protection Bill has been withdrawn, with a statement that a ‘comprehensive legal framework is being worked upon’. This is an admission that the legislative effort was piecemeal and was fundamentally flawed. Introspection on the ‘why’ is called for! That there is a long pending legal void on protection of a fundamental right does not … Read moreThe Strategic Perspective On Data Protection
L’Affaire Gen Soleimani
The matter of General Soleimani, when examined jus ad bellum is a unilateral action that violates the rules-based international order that India supports. That said, it won’t be the first time in history that a nation has assassinated an official of another country, nor is it likely to be the last. But as far as the laws that regulate … Read moreL’Affaire Gen Soleimani
We Need A Digital Panchatantra
The Panchatantra is a series of ancient inter-woven Indian fables, many of which deploy metaphors of animals with human virtues and vices. According to its own narrative, it illustrates, for the benefit of three ignorant princes, the central Hindu principles of nīti or ‘the wise conduct of life‘. The Panchatantra is considered a treatise on political science and human … Read moreWe Need A Digital Panchatantra
Huawei 5G And The Trusted Vendor
The world of cybersecurity and the national security pundits are in turmoil and the reasons for this is one two-letter word called 5G and a company called Huawei. In a delicious turn of events that should rewrite the scriptures of cybersecurity standards and narrative, the Western world is trapped in the dogma they created and … Read moreHuawei 5G And The Trusted Vendor
Disruptive Impact of Technology on Warfare
“The most decisive act of judgement which the Statesmen and General exercises is rightly to understand the War in which he engages.”
— Carl von Clausewitz