INDIA@2050: Reforming India For Post Covid-19 World Order (31/08/2023)
China Entering The Age of Space Wars (23/06/2023)
Finding Earth-Like Planets And The Possibility Of Life Beyond Earth (18/05/2023)
Addressing India’s Space-Based Surveillance And Reconnaissance Needs (13/03/2023)
Realising India’s Aerospace Power and Beyond (12/02/2023)
Precision Warfare: Preparing India For Future Battles (12/01/2023)
Comprehensive Maritime Domain Awareness (CMDA) In The Indian Ocean Region (11/12/2022)
Understanding Xi Jinping’s China Dream (10/11/2022)
Satellite Internet Will Change The Battlefield Once And For All (08/10/2022)
From Men Intensive To A Technologically Developed Force: Recent Chinese Military Reforms (08/09/2022)
India@75: Indian Start-up Develop An Unmanned Ground Vehicle ‘ASTRO’ In Just 2 months (15/08/2022)
Mig-21 Crashes: IAF-Politico-Bureaucratic Logjam (08/08/2022)
Cybersecurity Skills A National Imperative (07/06/2022)
The Unconventional Military Tactics We Learned From The Ukrainian War 2022 (24/05/2022)
The 13th Para SF Battalion Raised (03/05/2022)
Pakistan’s New National Security Policy: A Decent Document but Away From The Ground Realities (21/01/2022)
MIG-21 Crashes Says a Lot About India’s Long-term Capability Development Planning (29/12/2021)
5 Major Defence Reforms In Front of The New CDS And Way Forward (19/12/2021)
How China is Using “Grey Zone War” Tactics Against Taiwan (11/11/2021)
China Wants to Outpace U.S. By 2049 Says U.S. Department of Defence (04/11/2021)
Let Afghanistan Disintegrate Itself (18/08/2021)
More Power to CDS (30/06/2021)
Integration: What More Needs To Be Done? (28/06/2021)
Meet Arjun Menon: A 17 Year Young Who Patented An Underwater Drone (18/06/2021)
Making India Ready to Face Apocalyptic Situations (31/05/2021)
Will India Require More Missile Tracking Ship like the INS Dhruv? (09/05/2021)
India will Need to Carry Out Big Structural Reforms to Endure in a Post-covid World (17/04/2021)
The Exceptional Utility of Special Forces Beyond the LAC (29/03/21)
Inspired from IFC-IOR the Air Force Realise the Need for an Integrated Aerospace Surveillance Grid (13/03/2021)
How Effective are the Tactical Nuclear Weapons of Pakistan? (25/02/2021)
India-China Border Disengagement: India Lacks the ‘Art of Warfare’ (13/02/2021)
Difference Between Conventional Warfare, Sub-Conventional Warfare and Hybrid Warfare (11/01/2021)
Embrace a War Against Bureaucracy, The Hidden Enemy of The Nation (30/12/2020)
Tracing Some Real Examples of Bio-Warfare: From The Arthashastra to Present World (22/12/2020)
Next Generation Military Logistics (04/12/2020)
Introducing Human Jet Suits Into The Special Forces (22/11/2020)
How Azeri Military Innovated its Drone Tactics to Win the Nagorno-Karabakh War? (16/11/2020)
India is Close to Achieving Data Relay Technology for Space Applications (13/11/2020)
BECA: A Need Indeed for Better Military Operations (08/11/2020)
With Biden Coming, Russia Receding and China Flexing: The Fall of International Order is Eminent (07/11/2020)
Upcoming Opportunities and Challenges for AD Systems Around the Word (01/11/2020)
Understanding How Modern AD Systems Work (31/10/2020)
Backgrounder: Understanding the 4 Foundational Agreements between India and US (27/10/2020)
Reform the CBI: Let the Caged Parrot Out! (23/10/2020)
The Threat from “Swarm of Drones” (22/10/2020)
Police Reforms: 4 Decades and Still Waiting (22/10/2020)
Why India had a Shoddy Infrastructure at LAC and What has Changed Now? (17/10/2020)
Why We Conduct ‘Night Trials’ of Strategic Missiles? (17/10/2020)
EXTERNAL PUBLICATIONS
“The Indian Ocean: Building Regional Framework” chapter published in the book Contemporary World Politics: Issues and Challenges 2023 by Amravati Publications, Mumbai, ISBN 978-93-91305-04-8 (To be made public)
“India’s Air Power: Revisiting Doctrine” paper published in Defence and Security Alert (DSA) Magazine, February 2022, Volume 13, Issue 5. (Available at: https://www.dsalert.org/DSA-Editions/2022/DSA_February_SHANTANU_K_BANSAL.pdf)
“Real Challenge in Front of CDS: Transforming IAF From Exponent of Air Power to Aerospace Power” article published on the portal of Defence and Security Alert (DSA) Magazine as part of special COVID-19 Issue, 16 July, 2021.
(Available at: https://www.dsalert.org/real-challenge-in-front-of-cds-transforming-iaf-from-exponent-of-air-power-to-aerospace-power/)
“Unrestricted Warfare 2.0: Is India Ready?” article published on the portal of Defence and Security Alert (DSA) Magazine as part of special COVID-19 Issue, April-May, 2021.
(Available at: https://www.dsalert.org/unrestricted-warfare-2-0-is-india-ready/)
“How Big Data can Revolutionise Healthcare Services In India?” article published on the portal of Defence and Security Alert (DSA) Magazine as part of special COVID-19 Issue, May 5, 2021.
(Available at: https://www.dsalert.org/how-big-data-can-revolutionise-healthcare-services-in-india/)
“Strengthening India’s External Intelligence Infrastructure: An Assessment”, Research Paper published under Society for the Study of Peace and Conflict (SSPC), affiliated to Jawaharlal Nehru University (J.N.U.), New Delhi, August, 2016.
(Available at: https://www.sspconline.org/sites/default/files/india-externalintelligence_0.pdf)
“Comparative Study of Sun Tzu and Kautilya in Military Affairs”, paper published on the portal of Chennai Centre for China Studies (C3S), Paper No. 0071/2016.
(Available at: https://www.c3sindia.org/archives/comparative-study-of-sun-tzu-andkautilya-on-military-affairs-by-shantanu-k-bansal/)
“Comparative Analysis of the Leading Defence Product Manufacturing Nations” in support of the dissertation paper for the Defence Services Staff College (DSSC),
Wellington, Tamil Nadu.
(Available at: https://www.academia.edu/39722176/Comparative_Analysis_of_the_Leading_Defence_Product_Manufacturing_Nations)
“Army Aviation Corps: on the Wings of Transformation”, article published in the Indian Defence Review (IDR) magazine, Special Edition, volume 30, issue 1, 2015.
(Available at: http://www.indiandefencereview.com/news/army-aviation-corps-on-thewings-of-transformation/)
“Modern Air Warfare”, article published in the Defence and Security Alert (DSA) Magazine, Theme: Artificial Intelligence and Robotics in Defence and Security, volume 5, issue 9, 2014.
(Available at: https://www.academia.edu/45617093/Modern_Air_Warfare)
“Growing Powers with Questionable Future”, paper published in Aavartan Journal, Monsoon Issue, 2013. The journal is affiliated to the Deen Dayal Upadhyay (D.D.U.) University, Gorakhpur.
Indian Military Highlights, 2013, (Available at: https://www.academia.edu/45617262/Indian_Military_Highlights_2013)
Mentions
“Army Aviation Corps: on the Wings of Transformation”, article published in the Indian Defence Review (IDR) magazine, Special Edition, volume 30, issue 1, 2015. The work was mentioned on the Wikipedia page of Army Aviation Corps (India)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_Aviation_Corps_(India)
“Army Aviation Corps: on the Wings of Transformation”, article published in the Indian Defence Review (IDR) magazine, Special Edition, volume 30, issue 1, 2015. The work was mentioned in the book Indian Power Projection: Ambition, Arms and Influence by Shashank Joshi, published by Taylor and Francis Co.
“Army Aviation Corps: on the Wings of Transformation”, article published in the Indian Defence Review (IDR) magazine, Special Edition, volume 30, issue 1, 2015. The work was mentioned in CENJOWS Paper https://cenjows.in/upload_images/Synodos/pdf/The%20Indian%20Air%20Force%20And%20Theaterisation%20by%20Rear%20Adm%20Monty%20Khanna,%20AVSM,%20NM.pdf
“Comparative Study of Sun Tzu and Kautilya in Military Affairs”, article published on the portal of Chennai Centre for China Studies (C3S), Paper No. 0071/2016. It was re-published on the portal of Centre for Asia Studies (CAS), Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
“Comparative Study of Sun Tzu and Kautilya in Military Affairs”, article published on the portal of Chennai Centre for China Studies (C3S), Paper No. 0071/2016. The concept of research was extensively utilized in the paper titled as “An Analytical Comparative Perspective on Classical Contributors: Kautilya and SunTzu” by Dr. B. Amarender Reddy et al. in the Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (JETIR). http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1903H18.pdf
“Comparative Study of Sun Tzu and Kautilya in Military Affairs”, article published on the portal of Chennai Centre for China Studies (C3S), Paper No. 0071/2016. The concept of research was extensively utilized in the article published by Bayju’s Gradup website: https://byjusexamprep.com/military-analysis-sun-tzu-vs-kautilya-i
“Army Aviation Corps: on the Wings of Transformation”, article published in the Indian Defence Review (IDR) magazine, Special Edition, volume 30, issue 1, 2015. The work was mentioned in CENJOWS Magazine https://cenjows.in/upload_images/pdf/Synergy%20Aug%202018.pdf
“Strengthening India’s External Intelligence Infrastructure: An Assessment”, Research Paper published under Society for the Study of Peace and Conflict (SSPC), affiliated to Jawaharlal Nehru University (J.N.U.), New Delhi, August, 2016. Paper re-published by IDEAS/RePEc: Economics and Finance Research portal.
“Why India had a Shoddy Infrastructure at LAC and What has Changed Now?” article published on the portal of Indian Aerospace Defence News (IADN), the article was re-published by IGMP website.