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The Architect of Jointness: General Anil Chauhan and the transformative legacy he leaves behind
CDS General Anil Chauhan. (File photo)— By Dhanashree ValunjkarOn May 14 in the wood-panelled hall of the Manekshaw Centre at Delhi Cantonment, General Anil Chauhan, the second chief of defence staff, delivered what may well be remembered as on...
India’s Submarine Dream: Too late to catch up, too important to give up
Illustration for representation. (© India Sentinels 2026–27)In July 1999, the prime minister-headed Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) approved one of the most ambitious naval modernization plans in the country’s post-Independence h...
Explained: CDS ‘advisor to who?’ and ‘first among equals’ debate
Lt Gen NS Raja Subramani will assume the post of India’s 3rd CDS on May 31, 2026. (File photo) New Delhi: When the post of chief of defence staff was created in late 2019, it was welcomed with fanfare and, almost immediately, misread. That...
Defence ministry confirms ‘mystery missile’ test as ‘advanced Agni with MIRV’
The Agni missile with MIRV that was tested, on May 8, 2026. (Photo: MoD) New Delhi: Shortly after sunset on Friday, residents across coastal Odisha and as far as Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh looked up to see a luminous, comet-like trail strea...
NavIC slips to three satellites, putting India’s ‘own GPS’ under strain
Illustration for representation. (© India Sentinels 2026–27)New Delhi: India’s indigenous satellite navigation system, NavIC, is in its deepest operational crisis since inception. It is now left with only three functional satell...
Reptiles for Border Guarding: A win-win case for all in the system
Illustration for representation. (© India Sentinels 2026–27)After 38 years of service in the Border Security Force – spending the better part of my adult life analysing terrain, studying demography, decoding crime patterns along some...
QRSAM to Project Kusha: BEL to roll out India’s sky shield from Chitrakoot
Lucknow: In a landmark development for India's indigenous defence manufacturing ambitions, state-owned Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) has been allocated 75 hectares of land at the Uttar Pradesh Defence Industrial Corridor’s (UPDIC) Chitra...
Are elections compromising our border and national security?
Illustration for representation. (© India Sentinels 2026–27)India’s elections are celebrated as the great festival of democracy – a spectacle unmatched in scale and spirit anywhere in the world. Yet, beneath the pageantry of ba...
Petrodollar’s last rites, yuan’s quiet coronation, and India’s self-inflicted wounds
Illustration for representation. (© India Sentinels 2026–27)In this piece, this author wouldn’t discuss how the Israel & US-Iran war is going, as he has already done so in his last two op-eds here with a very high degree of accur...
Stagnant Ranks, Broken Morale: The cost of CAPF’s skewed HR policies
CRPF commandos in an anti-Naxalite operations camp in Chhattisgarh. (Photo for representation)A slow-burning crisis is consuming India’s central armed police forces (CAPFs) from within. Not a crisis of courage – the jawans and officers of...Results
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