What surrogates can provide are the means to disrupt the battlespace kinetically, the information space subversively, and the willpower of the adversary psychologically — all without a major combat operation.
Across the Indo-Pacific, countries big and small are building up their military capacity through domestic production and imports.
In a post-COVID world — with tasks increasing and budgets shrinking — the challenges at sea are daunting.
The ISRO and potentially some players from the private sector should be enlisted, unless it is already happening, to develop the requisite technology and help address the technical demands and necessities of the three forces.
It will be hard for the US to ignore New Delhi’s distinct position while making a determination under CAATSA.
Sourcing any piece of 5G equipment from China’s telecommunications giants is likely to be very risky from the standpoint of the Indian armed services.
The subregional approach has been providing Delhi the opportunity to experiment with new arrangements in building security cooperation with its neighbours.
The sale of the missile will be a major development in the context of an often-tense Southeast Asia with misgivings regarding Beijing’s motives and the real extent of its reach.
A spectacular dogfight scoreline is tantalising, but still leaves a lot unsaid about the future of AI and autonomous warfare.
Thinking or debating whether India needs to shed its blinkers of age-old diffidence and issue a direct time-bound ultimatum to the PLA to vacate positions that have upset the status quo can no longer be tantamount to blasphemy.
The force planners in South Block must identify and execute issues and actions that make the existing forces more robust and lethal.
Exercise of foreign criminal jurisdiction over state officials — as India attempted to do so — is successful in very few cases, and depends on the consent of the other state for it to proceed. Without such consent, attempts to exercise jurisdiction can worsen relations.
Peace and war are not the only options in any bilateral relationship. Numerous issues, more or less serious, emerge between two countries which demand understanding, maturity, good judgment and sagacity on the part of leaderships.
India needs to overhaul how it deals with China, and India’s military apparatus itself needs its own strategic rethink if it is to play a meaningful part in this re-orientation.
David Petraeus is a retired United States Army general. ...
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