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🚨🚨 Our 2025 Impact Report is out.🚨🚨 In a year of profound geopolitical disruption, CSDR advanced rigorous, policy-relevant research to support informed decision-making in India and among like-minded partners. Gratitude to all our partners, stakeholders, and experts in India and around the world, for engaging with us. 🔗tinyurl.com/385s77bs @HappymonJacob @LtGenHooda @rakeshnms @Harpoonleader @MohanCRaja @rivagdas @ashokkkantha @Ajaybis @Harpoonleader @shivsahai @jabinjacobt @Kim_HDarragh @DebakD @dperi84 @BashirAliAbbas @AmenNaithani @HelyD25 @ankit @Tishya_Khillare @SidharthRaimed1 @Ankit__T @shashank_zip @Gaurav_SNI @d_makkat @ZWattal @TorunikaR @auro508 @akanksha_b10

In my column for Hindustan Times, I argue that RSS general secretary Dattatreya Hosabale's statement on maintaining a "window for dialogue" with Pakistan is sound. However, the civilisational packaging that India & Pakistan have been “one nation” will not work in diplomacy.

In the first report on this subject, @LtGenHooda & Lt Col Pavithran Rajan deconstructed the Socio-Technical-Cognitive Battlespace (STCB) of modern warfare. 🔗tinyurl.com/24vz6m6n The authors explored the complexities inherent in modern operations, in which perceived success and strategic victory are increasingly decoupled from purely kinetic achievements.

🚨🚨NEW REPORT🚨🚨 India has adopted Multi-Domain Operations (MDO) as a doctrine. In our latest report, @LtGenHooda & Lt Col Pavithran Rajan argue that MDO only works if you own the networks, data, and infrastructure it runs on. India mostly does not. The answer is not to drop MDO but to make control of that substrate a national priority, built before a crisis rather than during one. Read now🔗tinyurl.com/5xn5wpw9 @HappymonJacob @MohanCRaja @rakeshnms @dperi84 @Harpoonleader @Kim_HDarragh @shivsahai @cnss_msruas

🚨Upcoming Event!!! Join @CSDR_India at our upcoming expert discussion on “India, Spain and the EU: the New Geopolitics” organized in collaboration with @funalternativas and @EmbEspIndia (@SpainMFA) 🗓️27 May 2026 🕘09:00- 11:45 IST 🔗Register here: tinyurl.com/5cncu2yp 💡Join us for a timely discussion on the future of 🇮🇳–🇪🇸 relations, exploring strategic cooperation, defense collaboration, and cutting-edge technologies in a changing world order @HappymonJacob @rakeshnms @SanjayVermalFS @Vpalacio22 @amaiasc4 @ICNuevaDelhi

🚨🚨NEW REPORT🚨🚨 India has locked in over $300 billion in data center investment commitments in just six months, nearly $100 billion of it from US tech giants. Our new report, by @Ankit__T, asks what is India actually getting in return? Read Now: "Why India Must Negotiate Harder in the Data Center Boom" 🔗tinyurl.com/4wtyw7st @HappymonJacob @LtGenHooda @rakeshnms @MohanCRaja

Opinion | The Great Gulf Divorce: The UAE Is Breaking From The Arab Order - But For What, Really? - By Bashir Ali Abbas ndtv.com/opinion/the-gr…

C Raja Mohan writes: Great-power competition demands a first-principles foreign policy @MohanCRaja writes indianexpress.com/article/opinio…

🌍🤝 Join leading diplomats, scholars, and policy experts for an expert discussion on “India, Spain and the EU: The New Geopolitics.” 📅: Wednesday, 27 May 2026 🕘: 9:00 AM – 11:45 AM 📍: Instituto Cervantes, New Delhi 📩 RSVP: akanksha@csdronline.com

Will ‘strategic stability’ lead to the end of the #USA’s containment of #China? Is the #TradeWar between the USA and China going to continue? How has the war on #Iran altered the relative global standing of the USA and China? Could the USA reduce or stop weapons sales to #Taiwan and abandon it to a Chinese takeover? What is the fate of #Quad and the #IndoPacific if the USA is disinterested in counterbalancing China? How can #India and other regional powers in #Asia manage the China challenge amidst an unpredictable and unreliable USA? For answers, watch Episode 173 of my TV show on #Doordarshan, featuring a discussion with Dr. Happymon Jacob, Editor of ‘India’s World’ magazine and founder of the Council for Strategic and Defense Research (CSDR). 🔗 youtu.be/_5ynPkrGG-Q?si…

My conversation with @Smita_Sharma on Trump’s visit to China and his talks with Xi. @ChanakyaUni @ics_delhi @CSDR_India @vifindia

"India just doesn’t want to go into the real reasons behind wars. It’s our blind spot." argues @SidharthRaimed1 for the @ThePrintIndia 🔗theprint.in/opinion/india-… "A peculiar feature of the Indian security state is the frequency with which failures to anticipate enemy action are explained away as 'intelligence gaps or failures'." @HappymonJacob @LtGenHooda @Harpoonleader @rakeshnms

🚨Read our latest BLINDSPOTS by @rahuljaybhay1 👉"The RELOS Revelation: India’s Dual Engagement with Russia and Ukraine." tinyurl.com/njmxu9bb 👉"Tokyo’s Defense Export Liberalization and the India-Japan Strategic Convergence." tinyurl.com/3m5r6wc6 @HappymonJacob @LtGenHooda @Harpoonleader @MohanCRaja

In my column for Hindustan Times, I write that: - A US-China friendship is bad for India. - Their fighting too is bad for the country. - What is good for India is a managed rivalry between the US and China. - So a certain degree of competition between the two is a public good for Indian foreign policy.

My views on maritime reckoning and future imperatives a year after Op Sindoor. @CSDR_India @AIinstitute @USIofIndia @IndoPacificSC @AIC_aseanindia timesnownews.com/opinion/india/…

How can #Canada and #India strengthen their defence partnership through Professional Military Education (PME) and joint exercises? How can the 2026 political reset into durable #defence co-operation? @CSDR_India @VinaNadjibulla asiapacific.ca/publication/cs…

Read the full issue tinyurl.com/3wpm55m6 VANTAGE is @CSDR_India's periodic publication examining active conflicts in real time through authoritative Indian perspectives. #Hormuz #IndianNavy #MaritimeSecurity #WestAsia #UNCLOS #IndoPacific

"It is ironic that India is the only country to have an ocean named after it, yet it does not lead an indigenous regional security mechanism in the IOR despite having demonstrated capabilities and the resources to do so." "Aatmanirbhartha ought not to be limited to becoming self-reliant in defense production; there's also a need to become Aatmanirbhar in strategic maritime discourse." — Capt. Anurag Bisen (Retd), Senior Fellow, @vifindia

🚨🚨New Publication🚨🚨 Our latest VANTAGE is now out!! "War in West Asia: The Hormuz Test" Link - tinyurl.com/3wpm55m6 We asked Indian Naval experts: 👉 The actions of both Iran, the coastal state, and the US, the self-appointed guarantor of freedom of navigation, are simultaneously blockading the Strait of Hormuz, the world's most crucial Strait for energy shipping. How does this affect the transit passage regime as a norm of customary international law, and what posture must India adopt before post-war negotiations rewrite the rules? 👉What lessons must India's Navy draw from the catastrophic failure of every assumption that underpinned chokepoint security, and is India's current naval doctrine and force posture adequate for this new reality? @HappymonJacob @GenHooda @Harpoonleader @Kim_HDarragh @MohanCRaja @theUdayB @nmfindia @abhijit227 @gurpreetbulbul @anuragbisen