February 21, 2026

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IADN SERVES AS A PLATFORM FOR SHARING RESEARCH FINDINGS AND OPINIONS OF IN-HOUSE AND GUEST SCHOLARS WORKING ON DEFENCE, SECURITY AND DIPLOMACY-RELATED ISSUES. THE ARTICLES UNDER THIS SECTION NOT NECESSARILY REFLECT THE VIEWS OF THE IADN. THE COPYRIGHT OF THE ARTICLES BELONGS TO THE IADN.

Comprehensive Maritime Domain Awareness (CMDA) In The Indian Ocean Region

Comprehensive Maritime Domain Awareness (CMDA) In The Indian Ocean Region

Shantanu K. Bansal Dec 11, 2022 17 min read

About ninety per cent of India’s trade by volume and eighty-five per cent of oil…

Defence Exports for Strategic Breakthrough: The Indian Way

Defence Exports for Strategic Breakthrough: The Indian Way

Purushendra Singh Dec 11, 2022 7 min read

Article by Mr. Purushendra Singh India has started to transform towards becoming a major defence…

Summary of IADN Strategic Focus November 2022 Issue

Summary of IADN Strategic Focus November 2022 Issue

Sridhar Chari Nov 14, 2022 13 min read

By Mr Sridhar Chari The November issue of the Strategic Focus covers the Defence Expo…

India-Africa: Realising South to SouthRelations in A Better Perspective

India-Africa: Realising South to SouthRelations in A Better Perspective

Purushendra Singh Nov 10, 2022 5 min read

Article by Mr. Purushendra Singh This year’s Defexpo was 12th in the edition of occurrence…

Understanding Xi Jinping’s China Dream

Understanding Xi Jinping’s China Dream

Shantanu K. Bansal Nov 8, 2022 20 min read

President of People’s Republic of China Xi Jinping headed the praesidium of the 20th National…

Satellite Internet Will Change The Battlefield Once And For All

Satellite Internet Will Change The Battlefield Once And For All

Shantanu K. Bansal Oct 8, 2022 14 min read

Military Applications of the First Computer, Satellite and Internet Technology and military are highly related….

From Men Intensive To A Technologically Developed Force: Recent Chinese Military Reforms

From Men Intensive To A Technologically Developed Force: Recent Chinese Military Reforms

Shantanu K. Bansal Sep 8, 2022 14 min read

The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has been rapidly improvising since the Gulf War period, ‘from…

INDIA@75: INDIAN START-UP DEVELOP AN UNMANNED GROUND VEHICLE ‘ASTRO’ IN JUST 2 MONTHS

INDIA@75: INDIAN START-UP DEVELOP AN UNMANNED GROUND VEHICLE ‘ASTRO’ IN JUST 2 MONTHS

Shantanu K. Bansal Aug 15, 2022 7 min read

UNVEILING EDGEFORCE ASTRO UGV On the occasion of this 15th August, Col. P Hani and…

Mig-21 Crashes: IAF-Politico-Bureaucratic Logjam

Mig-21 Crashes: IAF-Politico-Bureaucratic Logjam

Shantanu K. Bansal Aug 9, 2022 9 min read

The loss of Wing Commander M. Rana and Flight Lieutenant Adivitya Bal in the MIG-21…

India and IPEF: Its Time for India to Take Responsibility

India and IPEF: Its Time for India to Take Responsibility

Purushendra Singh Aug 9, 2022 5 min read

A proposal made by the U.S. President during the East Asia Summit in October 2021…