Kartik Bommakanti

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.