Defence Reimagined

India is changing. Its economy has crossed four trillion dollars. Its military is modernising. Its defence industry, once synonymous with import dependence, is beginning to produce systems the world is watching. And yet the decisions that will shape this transformation are debated in classified briefing rooms and understood by a narrow circle of specialists, while the citizens who will live with the consequences remain almost entirely unaware. Thirty-three essays. Eight domains. One sustained argument: from the civilisational foundations of India`s strategic thought, through the contest for the Indian Ocean, the revolution in air and space, the invisible wars of cyber and cognitive power, and the defence industrial transformation underway, to the grand strategy that must hold it all together.