Kartik is a Senior Fellow with the Strategic Studies Programme. He is currently working on issues related to land warfare and armies, especially the India Army (IA). Most of his research focus is on the integration and use of military capabilities. Besides work on land warfare, Kartik also works on topics broadly related to conventional strategy, military capability development, strategic coercion and nuclear strategy especially in the Indo-Pacific. He has worked at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Singapore. He also worked at the Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (MP-IDSA).
Major Select Publications
Kartik Bommakanti, “Electronic and Cyber Warfare: A Comparative Analysis of the PLA and the Indian Army,” Occasional Paper No. 203, July 2019, Observer Research Foundation.
Kartik Bommakanti, “The Imperative for Technical Reservists in the Indian Army,” ORF Occasional Paper No. 466, March 2025, Observer Research Foundation.
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Commentaries
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Jan 30, 2026The US, Indo-Pacific And Indian Naval Power
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Dec 31, 2025How Warfare Changed In 2025
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Dec 09, 2025Trump 2.0 NSS: Misaligned on India?
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Nov 11, 2025US Nuclear Testing and India’s Options
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Sep 20, 2025Future-Ready Forces
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Jun 20, 2025End of A Nuclear Order
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May 10, 2025Are India-Pakistan Stuck In An 'Escalation Cycle' Now?
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Apr 23, 2025Trump card missing for peace
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Feb 28, 2025Trump 2.0 and the new matrix of U.S.-India defence ties
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Feb 06, 2025Looking beyond Budget to fund defence
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Feb 04, 2025Defence budget signals pursuit of gradual reforms
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Dec 30, 2024Cold hard reality of geopolitics: Enhancing military power is non-negotiable