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 "'Strategic autonomy' amid the Hormuz crisis")
 "Harsh V Pant")
Harsh V Pant
'Strategic autonomy' amid the Hormuz crisis
India must recognise that maritime capability alone cannot resolve its energy vulnerability
 "India's stature in South Asia")
 "Kanti Bajpai")
Kanti Bajpai
India's stature in South Asia
India is holding its own for now, but the pressures on its regional stature are substantial
 "The shrinking space for diplomacy")
 "Shyam Saran")
Shyam Saran
The shrinking space for diplomacy
Diplomacy is outward-oriented; its target is a foreign state, not one's domestic audience
 "Advanced air power is no longer a luxury")
 "Anil Khosla")
Anil Khosla
Advanced air power is no longer a luxury
India's air power today sits at the centre of a far more complex security environment than at any point in the past two decades
 "The US during the Cold War and after")
 "Sumit Ganguly")
Sumit Ganguly
The US during the Cold War and after
As several international relations scholars had predicted at the Cold War's end, the US is now faced with a genuine peer competitor, the PRC
 "India's reactive defence spending")
 "A K Bhattacharya")
A K Bhattacharya
India's reactive defence spending
Wars and border tensions have pushed up budgets since Independence but the expenditure tends to fall back once a situation eases
 "The search for defence atmarnirbharta")
 "T N Ninan")
T N Ninan
The search for defence atmarnirbharta
The import dependence is because too many plans, goals and targets have come unstuck
 "In pursuit of self-reliance")
 "Laxman Kumar Behera")
Laxman Kumar Behera
In pursuit of self-reliance
Even though the Indian policymakers have periodically articulated lofty goals of self-reliance, they have not institutionalised a robust methodology to measure it
 "Vision 2047: India's military modernisation")
 "S L Narasimhan")
S L Narasimhan
Vision 2047: India's military modernisation
India's armed forces should be capable of facing conventional, hybrid, proxy wars leading to gray zone, cyber and cognitive war in an integrated multidomain and multispectrum force
 "How India has navigated the CPC")
 "Ashok K Kantha")
Ashok K Kantha
How India has navigated the CPC
For India, the practical upshot is to treat the relations with China as a long civilisational contest over scale and standing that will persist, while recognising that the tempo and forward assertiven
 "The strategic salience of India-Japan ties")
Shyam Saran
The strategic salience of India-Japan ties
The transformation in India-Japan relations is most visible in their defence and security ties
 "The Quad's crucible")
 "C Uday Bhaskar")
C Uday Bhaskar
The Quad's crucible
The US has acted in a unilateral manner in the Hormuz and its transgression of humanitarian law and convention is at variance with the principles underpinning the Quad
 "China's Taiwan options")
Kanti Bajpai
China's Taiwan options
With reunification ambitions intensifying, the Taiwan Strait remains Asia's most volatile flashpoint
 "Trump fallout on India-US defence ties")
Shyam Saran
Trump fallout on India-US defence ties
A partnership forged in opportunity now confronts the realities of great-power politics
 "Energy crisis and India's diplomatic limits")
 "Ajai Malhotra")
Ajai Malhotra
Energy crisis and India's diplomatic limits
If the country's energy vulnerability is structural, so must be the response to it
 "Arming the Strait of Hormuz")
C Uday Bhaskar
Arming the Strait of Hormuz
The impasse continues, with the Hormuz being closed by Iran, thereby aggravating an already disrupted global energy market and the US maintaining the naval blockade that seeks to choke Iran's economy
 "The Nato's dilemma deepens")
 "Jan Luykx")
Jan Luykx
The Nato's dilemma deepens
By shifting the Nato into a transactional alliance, Europe must build its own sovereign deterrence
 "Crises are reshaping the strategic space")
Harsh V Pant
Crises are reshaping the strategic space
Modern conflicts rely on rapid adaptation and low-cost capabilities rather than high manoeuvre alone, as demonstrated in the Russia-Ukraine war, tensions involving Iran, and China's strategic posture
 "US-China ties: Shifting equilibriums")
Ashok K Kantha
US-China ties: Shifting equilibriums
The Trump administration has repositioned China as an economic competitor to be managed through deal-making rather than a systemic adversary to be countered through alliances
 "Aerial combat search and rescue: Mapping operations behind enemy lines")
Anil Khosla
Aerial combat search and rescue: Mapping operations behind enemy lines
India has repeatedly demonstrated the operational requirement for CSAR capability while repeatedly discovering the institutional gap between that requirement and available resources