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Arun Prakash

Arun Prakash

Articles by Arun Prakash

The perils of polarisation for India’s defence forces

Military ethos and propriety have traditionally required that religious worship remains a private and personal activity, undertaken when off duty, and without involving service facilities or personnel. (HT Archive)

Updated on Oct 9, 2025 15:39 IST

India’s imperatives for a national security strategy

In the military sphere, an articulated national security strategy will serve to sharpen focus on evolution of doctrines, design of force-architecture, acquisition of hardware, and mobilisation of the public and private sectors in defence R&D and production. (PTI)

Updated on Jul 29, 2025 16:24 IST

India’s stakes in the coming Arctic Rush

An area of intense interest to seafaring and trade-dependent nations is access to two potential sea routes that run across the Arctic. (AFP)

Updated on Jun 9, 2025 14:38 IST

1971 to Operation Sindoor, a paradigm shift in warfare

Unprecedented in earlier conflicts, both India and Pakistan employed unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or drones which reduced the need for manned incursions, offering low-risk high-impact options for strikes and reconnaissance (AFP)

Updated on May 18, 2025 16:47 IST

India’s long pursuit of nuclear power

Notwithstanding the over-optimism of India’s ambitious nuclear target announcements, our scientists have overcome many constraints (Wikipedia)

Updated on Apr 15, 2025 15:02 IST

Case for investment in science and technology

As a proportion of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), India devotes only 0.64% to R&D, against China’s 2.41% (Photo by Aniruddha Chowdhury/Mint)

Updated on Mar 24, 2025 14:40 IST

Why defence industry needs an urgent rehaul

Kolkata: Army personnel along with a robotic mule perform during 'Military Tattoo' on the occasion of 'Vijay Diwas 2024', marking India's victory in the 1971 Bangladesh liberation war, at RCTC ground in Kolkata, Monday, Dec. 16, 2024. (PTI Photo/Swapan Mahapatra (PTI)

Updated on Jan 16, 2025 15:48 IST

A ‘talk-fight’ policy to guide Indo-Pak ties

Islamabad, Oct 16 (ANI): External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar being received by Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on his arrival at the venue of the 23rd Meeting of Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Council of Heads of Government meeting, in Islamabad on Wednesday. (ANI Photo) (ANI)

Updated on Oct 22, 2024 15:35 IST

Odisha assault case and civil-military relations

A source of concern for the military has been the progressive blurring of lines between them and the home ministry’s central armed police forces. (AP Photo/Channi Anand) (AP)

Updated on Sep 25, 2024 15:20 IST

Adding more firepower to India’s nuclear deterrence

DRDO conducted the first successful flight test of an indigenously developed Agni-5 missile with Multiple Independently Targetable Re-Entry Vehicle ( MIRV) technology, on Monday.

Updated on Apr 1, 2024 02:30 IST

Restive Indian Ocean calls for a new vision

Union defence minister Rajnath Singh, Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde along with officers on INS Imphal, during its commissioning ceremony into the Indian Navy at Mumbai naval base (Bhushan Koyande/ HT)

Updated on Feb 5, 2024 16:30 IST

A national monument, a cradle of leadership

NDA cadets marching past the dias during the parade. (HT Photos)

Updated on Jan 27, 2024 16:30 IST

Resetting India’s security aims in the new year

Indian Army soldiers stand guard near the Line of Control (LoC) after an infiltration attempt by four heavily-armed terrorists at Akhnoor, in Jammu district, Saturday. (PTI)

Updated on Dec 29, 2023 16:45 IST

Promise of Vizhinjam, a blue economy vision

Vizhinjam port

Updated on Oct 21, 2023 17:12 IST

Tackling the dragon on land and at sea

Today, it is China that is integrating Asia with Europe through its terrestrial network of high-speed railways, energy pipelines and fibre optic cables.

Updated on Oct 3, 2023 09:43 IST

Why the Arihant missile test was critical for India

Although INS Arihant undertook its first, notional, “deterrent patrol” in 2018, impressive visuals of the missile launch demonstrate Arihant’s fully-operational status as well as its crew’s proficiency.

Updated on Oct 18, 2022 14:04 IST

India must reassess its maritime strategy

This would be a good juncture for India to undertake a reappraisal of its maritime capabilities as well as its maritime strategy.

Updated on Aug 22, 2022 16:27 IST

Ex-air chief marshal SP Tyagi seems to have wandered into a minefield

Every time former Air Chief Marshal SP Tyagi’s name or photograph appears in the media or he is paraded as a detainee, every serviceman will feel diminished and demoralised

Updated on Dec 23, 2016 13:54 IST

Defence needs reforms, not just hike in funds

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Updated on Jul 6, 2009 18:41 IST

Bridge the troubled waters

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Updated on Dec 22, 2008 17:42 IST

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