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India-U.S. Strategic Convergence in the Indo-Pacific Region
By Jyotirmoy Banerjee As early as 2010 Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke of the need for U.S. naval cooperation with the Indian Navy, given the importance of the Indo-Pacific basin for wor...
China’s Rise and Indian Ocean Ambitions
By Aswani Dravid Though the Indian Ocean was considered exotic for centuries, it was transformed into a mere colonial sea by the 18th century. The European powers divided the South Asian continen...
The Great Game in the Indian Ocean: Strategic Partnership Opportunities for the U.S.
By Chad Pillai There is a growing strategic competition underway in the Indian Ocean and Arabian Sea between India and China focused on acquiring commercial ports and military facilities. It is a...
Strategic Convergence and Prospects for Indo-Israeli-U.S. Maritime Cooperation
By Harry Halem Introduction This past January, Benjamin Netanyahu undertook a high-profile visit to India, becoming the second Israeli Prime Minister to travel to the country. Accompanied by a 13...
India and the South China Sea
This article originally was originally featured by the Centre on Asia and Globalisation and is republished with permission. Read it in its original form here. By Byron Chong The ongoing disputes ...
Chinese Maritime Strategy for the Indian Ocean
China’s Defense & Foreign Policy Week By David Scott Chinese maritime strategy for the Indian Ocean reflects a couple of simple inter-related planks; espousal of a “two ocean” navy and esp...
The ‘Indo-Pacific’ Concept: Retrospect and Prospect
The following article originally featured at the National Maritime Foundation and is republished with permission. Read it in its original form here. By Gurpreet S. Khura...
India and Japan — A Yen for a Closer Maritime Engagement
The following article originally appeared in South Asia Defence and Strategic Review and is republished with permission. By Vice Admiral Pradeep Chauhan, AVSM & Bar, VSM, IN (Retd) Japan is very...
The Quest for India’s Supercarrier
This article originally featured on CSIS cogitAsia and is republished with permission. Read it in its original form here. By Tuneer Mukherjee The recent decommissioning of the aircraft carrier...
Indian Maritime Airpower Pt. 1
This article originally featured on South Asia Defence and Strategic Review and is republished with permission. By Vice Admiral Pradeep Chauhan, AVSM & Bar, VSM, IN (Retd) The once fierce IN-I...
India’s Bid for Global Power in a Multipolar System During Development
Note: Original title of essay: “Rising in the Storm: India’s Bid for Global Power in a Multi-Polar System During Development.” NAFAC Week By Corey Bolyard India is the most populous democra...
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India’s Submarine Arm — Returning to Even-Trim
This article originally featured in Geopolitics and is republished with permission. By Vice Admiral Pradeep Chauhan, AVSM & Bar, VSM, IN (Retd) The Indian Navy’s Submarine Arm will celebrat...
Indo-Sri Lanka Fishery Conflict: An Impediment to Development and Human Security
This article originally featured at the Pathfinder Foundation and is republished with permission. Read it in its original form here. By Bernard Goonetilleke, Chairman & Admiral Dr. Jayanath C...
Russia’s Maneuvering of Conflicts for Enhancing Military Exports
The Red Queen’s Navy Written by Vidya Sagar Reddy, The Red Queen’s Navy will discuss the influence of emerging naval platforms and technologies in the geostrategic contours of the Indo-Pacifi...
The US-India Logistics Agreement and its Implications for Asia’s Strategic Balance
The following article was originally featured by the Pacific Forum-CSIS’s PacNet series and is republished with permission. Read it in its original form here. By Abhijit...
Indo-U.S. Logistics Agreement LEMOA: An Assessment
The following article originally featured at the National Maritime Foundation and is republished with the author’s permission. Read it in its original form here. By Gurpreet S. Khurana On 29 Au...
Reinforcing China’s Malacca Dilemma
The Red Queen’s Navy Written by Vidya Sagar Reddy, The Red Queen’s Navy will discuss the influence of emerging naval platforms and technologies in the geostrategic contours of the Indo-Pacifi...
Members’ Roundup: July 2016 Part Two
By Sam Cohen Welcome to Part Two of the July 2016 members’ roundup. Throughout the second part of July, CIMSEC members examined several international maritime security issues including joint R...
Challenging China’s Sub-Conventional Dominance
The Red Queen’s Navy Written by Vidya Sagar Reddy, The Red Queen’s Navy will discuss the influence of emerging naval platforms and technologies in the geostrategic contours of the Indo-Pacifi...
The Concept of ‘Reach’ in Grasping China’s Active Defense Strategy: Part II
This publication was originally featured on Bharat Shakti and is republished with permission. It may be read in its original form here. By Vice Admiral Pradeep Chauhan AVSM & Bar, VSM, IN (Ret.) ...
Members’ Roundup: May 2016 Part Two
By Sam Cohen Welcome to part two of the May 2016 members’ roundup. Over the past two weeks CIMSEC members have examined several international maritime security issues, including the future role...
India’s Submarine Situation: Evolving Capabilities and Opportunities
The Future of Undersea Competition Topic Week By Vidya Sagar Reddy and Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan Two events set the stage for India-China strategic competition going underwater – one is the...
The Criticality of the IONS Maritime Security Construct
By Vice Admiral Pradeep Chauhan AVSM & Bar, VSM, IN (Ret.) Conceptual Underpinning The concept of Constructive Engagement is foremost amongst the various strategies that India has adopted in the ...
Diplomatic Dimension of Maritime Challenges for India in the 21st Century
Kumar, Yogendra. Diplomatic Dimension of Maritime Challenges for India in the 21st Century. New Delhi: Pentagon Press, 2015, pp. 258, 995 Rs. By G. Parthasarathy While the present discourse in In...
The Concept of ‘Reach’ in Grasping China’s Active Defense Strategy: Part I
This publication originally featured on Bharat Shakti and is republished with permission. It may be read in its original form here. The article will be presented in two parts. In this part, the a...
India’s Role in the Asia-Pacific Topic Week Wraps Up on CIMSEC
By Dmitry Filipoff We received a strong and quality response to our Call for Articles requesting publications on India’s Role in the Asia-Pacific. Our authors were diverse in background and exp...
India as a Net Security-Provider in the Indian Ocean and Beyond
India’s Role in the Asia-Pacific Topic Week By Vice Admiral Pradeep Chauhan (ret) With the Indian economy continuing to register arguably the highest rate of growth amongst the major economies ...
Understanding Sino-Indian Relations – A Theoretical Perspective
India’s Role in the Asia-Pacific Topic Week By Byron Chong Sino-Indian relations have become increasingly complex in the last few years. Though bilateral trade and cooperation has been growing,...
Modi’s Asia-Pacific Push
India’s Role in the Asia-Pacific Topic Week By Vivek Mishra The Modi government’s strongly maritime oriented foreign policy launched in 2014 has proven somewhat rewarding, particularly in he...
India in the Asia-Pacific: Roles as a ‘Balancer’ and Net Security Provider
India’s Role in the Asia-Pacific Topic Week By Ajaya Kumar Das Since becoming the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi has swiftly reached out to India’s smaller neighbors and, more boldly,...
Strategic Maritime Balancing in Sino-Indian Foreign Policy
India’s Role in the Asia-Pacific Topic Week By Ryan Kuhns The notion that China and India have fought only one war with each other in their civilizations’ long histories has sometimes been us...
Sino-India Strategic Rivalry: Misperception or Reality
India’s Role in the Asia-Pacific Topic Week By Ching Chang Defining Strategic Rivalry As we examine the issue of the Sino-India strategic rivalry, we should start from the fundamental definitio...
India-China Competition Across the Indo-Pacific
India’s Role in the Asia-Pacific Topic Week By David Scott India and the People’s Republic of China are encountering each other across the Indo-Pacific, the predominantly maritime region spa...
How The Indian Ocean Remains Central to India’s Emerging Aspirations
India’s Role in the Asia-Pacific Topic Week By Vidya Sagar Reddy The visit of United States (US) Secretary of Defence Ashton Carter to India has provided grounds for once again debating the fac...
India as the Pivotal Power of the 21st Century Security Order
India’s Role in the Asia-Pacific Topic Week By MAJ Chad M. Pillai “As the United States and China become great power rivals, the direction in which India tilts could determine the course of g...
India’s Role in the Asia-Pacific Topic Week Kicks off on CIMSEC
By Dmitry Filipoff This week CIMSEC is running a topic week on India’s Role in the Asia-Pacific. Authors responded to our Call for Articles with publications featuring in-depth analysis on In...
Ships and Shipbuilding in India through a Sino-Indian Prism
This article originally featured on Bharat Shakti. It may be read in its original form here. By Vice Admiral Pradeep Chauhan, AVSM & Bar, VSM, IN (Ret.) The year 2022 arrived as a harried harbi...
Call for Articles: India’s Role in the Asia-Pacific Topic Week
By Dmitry Filipoff Week Dates: Apr. 25 – May 2. 2016 Articles Due: Apr. 24 2016 Article Length: 800-1800 Words (with flexibility) Submit to: Nextwar@cimsec.org Much has been made of great p...
First China-India Maritime Dialogue: Beyond ‘Icebreaking’
This article originally featured at the National Maritime Foundation. It may be read in its original form here. By Gurpreet S. Khurana On 4th February 2016, India and China held their first-ever ...
Positioning Naval HA/DR in India’s Image Making
Naval HA/DR Topic Week By Vidya Sagar Reddy The frequency and intensity of natural disasters that beset the Indian Ocean region is rising, owing to both natural and man-made causes. The sectaria...
Members’ Roundup: March 2016 Part One
By Sam Cohen Welcome to part one of the March 2016 members’ roundup. Over the past month CIMSEC members have examined several international maritime security issues, including an increase in Ru...
Members’ Roundup: February Part Two
By Sam Cohen Welcome to part two of the February 2016 members’ roundup. Over the past month CIMSEC members have examined several international maritime security issues, including a rapid increa...
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South Sea Fleet: Emerging Lynchpin of China’s Naval Power Projection in the Indo-Pacific
This article was originally posted at the National Maritime Foundation. It is republished here with the author’s permission. Read the piece in its original form here. By Gurpreet S. Khurana I...
Communist China’s Approach to Force: 1962 Lessons for the Senkaku Islands?
By Alex Calvo Given the continued tensions in the East and South China Seas, and the constant speculation on whether Beijing may choose to escalate, it can be useful to have a look at how the PRC...
Upcoming Topic Weeks Announcement
CIMSEC Topic Weeks have always been an excellent way to engage our community of defense and foreign policy professionals and academics to highlight issues that deserve greater attention. CIMSEC�...
November Member Round-Up
Welcome to the November 2015 Member Round-Up. Over the past several weeks CIMSEC members have examined several international maritime security issues, including the modernization of U.S. Naval ca...
‘Net Security Provider’ Defined: An Analysis of India’s New Maritime Strategy-2015
This publication originally featured at the National Maritime Foundation, and was republished with permission. You may read it in its original form here. By Dr. Gurpreet S. Khurana During the...
The Other Deep-Water Battleground
This article originally featured on Reuters and was republished with the author’s permission. Read it in its original form here. By Peter Marino The Indian Ocean may be the only ocean named...
AUSINDEX-2015: Australia ‘Pivots’ to the Indian Ocean
This publication originally featured at the National Maritime Foundation, and was republished with permission. It can be found in its original form here. By Dr. Gurpreet S. Khurana In mid-Sep...
Aiding India’s Next-Generation Aircraft Carrier: A Review
By Peter Marino As global power shifts both to Asia and within Asia, strategic realignments between states are picking up pace. The US-India relationship is one such partnership that is receivin...
Call for Articles: Future of Naval Aviation Week, Sep 14-18
Week Dates: 14-18 Sept 15 Articles Due: 9 Sept 15 Article Length: 500-1500 Words Submit to: nextwar(at)cimsec(dot)org Back in January, CAPT Jerry Hendrix (USN, Ret) and CDR Bryan McGrath (USN, ...
Sea Control 88 – Modi and China
How is India’s Modi government reacting to China’s growing interest in its strategic backyard? This week Natalie Sambhi interviews Darshana Baruah, junior fellow at the Observer Research Foun...
China’s Yuan-class Submarine Visits Karachi: An Assessment
In May 2015, a Chinese Type 041 Yuan-class submarine (pennant number 335) entered the Indian Ocean and made a week-long port call at Karachi, Pakistan. This development caused alarm in India, at ...
Sea Control 84 – Indian Ocean
Why does the Indian Ocean matter? In this week’s podcast, Natalie Sambhi (ASPI) interviews CIMSEC’s Scott Cheney-Peters (CIMSEC) and Nilanthi Samaranayake (CNA) for an American perspective on...
China’s Military Strategy White Paper 2015: Far Seas Operations and the Indian Ocean Region
The Security Environment On 26 May 2015, China released its first ever White Paper focusing exclusively on military strategy. China’s economic rise propelled by an extensive growth strategy has...
INS Vikrant Makes Progress at Cochin Shipyard
Guest Post by Chris B. New satellite imagery shows that India’s first indigenous aircraft carrier has made significant progress since it was launched in August 2013, helping India inch towards...
China’s South China Sea Strategy: Simply Brilliant
This article can be found in its original form at ASPI here, and was republished with permission. In the past 12 months, China has provoked considerable attention with its reclamation activiti...
Members’ Roundup Part 18
Welcome back to another edition of the Roundup! After a brief hiatus we are back to share with you more of our members’ works. There are plenty of articles to share, ranging from maritime infra...
The Roles of Navies in the Yemeni Conflict
By Claude Berube, Stephanie Chenault, Louis M-v, Chris Rawley Although the Saudi-led Operation RESOLUTE STORM (alternately translated as DECISIVE STORM) began with air strikes into Yemen on March...
Charting a Closer Course: Obama’s Trip to India
When President Obama next week attends India’s Republic Day festivities, celebrating the 65th anniversary of the country’s constitution, he’ll be the first U.S. President invited as the gue...