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Beyond Hormuz: The Pipelines That Try to Replace the World’s Most Important Oil Chokepoint
What This Means for Indian Navy SLOC Protection
Rear Admiral Sudhir Pillai, IN (Retd)
RADM Sudhir Pillai has been the Indian Navy's Flag Officer Naval Aviation, the Chief of Staff at the HQ Andaman & Nicobar Command and the Chief Instructor (Navy) DSSC Wellington. He is an independent analyst on strategy, policy and governance.
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Part I - Using Theory to Read the Iran–Israel–US War
Training, education, and reading the war on Day 4 of the I
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The Gulf Crisis as a Strategic Audit of India’s Maritime Strategy:
Missiles, Mines and the Multi-Domain Test at Sea
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Part III - India’s Defence Budget in an Age of Strategic Compression
Strategic Autonomy Is Maritime — Not Continental
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Part II - India’s Defence Budget in an Age of Strategic Compression
The Continental Bias We Rarely Acknowledge
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PART I - India’s Defence Budget in an Age of Strategic Compression
Power, Rules, and Access
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Part 2 - From Everest Rhetoric to Design Authority: How India Uses Aerospace JVs
Part 2 of 2 – From Kamov Lessons to Design Authority
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Part 1 - From Everest Rhetoric to Design Authority: How India Uses Aerospace JVs
Part 1 of 2 – Helicopters, Assembly Lines, and the Old JV Reflex
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Part 3 - Rafale, AMCA & India’s Quest for Aerospace Sovereignty
Scaling Up Rafale: Bridge to AMCA — or Another Comfort Zone?
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Part 2 - Rafale, AMCA & India’s Quest for Aerospace Sovereignty
Scaling Up Rafale: Bridge to AMCA — or Another Comfort Zone?
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Part 1 - Rafale, AMCA & India’s Quest for Aerospace Sovereignty -
Scaling Up Rafale: Bridge to AMCA — or Another Comfort Zone?
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What India’s 2026–27 Defence Budget Really Tells Us: A Look Under the Hood
The 2026–27 defence budget lifts spending to a new high, but is the rise reflective of post-conflict correction rather than clear structural transformation and sustained multi-year acceleration?