Towards Indian Seapower Delivered Jointly

“GEOGRAPHY IS NOT JOINT, but warfare has become ever more noticeably so over the course of the past century…”

Colin Gray in “Always Strategic: Jointly Essential Landpower”

We often perceive seapower as an equation between navies, but it encompasses much more than the Navy alone – it includes seaborne trade, shipbuilding industry, ports capability, merchant fleet, coastal security, and so on. The author has focused on joint warfighting in the future from the sea too and highlights that besides the Navy, the Army, Air Force, Cyber and space capabilities will have to work synergistically across the oceans to ensure the security of the nation’s core interests.

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Rear Admiral Sudarshan Y Shrikhande, AVSM, (Retd) was commissioned in Jul 1980. During his illustrious service, he commanded IN ships Nishank, Kora and Khukri and served at sea for several years. He is a postgraduate (with distinction) of the Soviet Naval War College (1988), DSSC Wellington (Scudder Medal), Naval War College and of the US NWC with highest distinction (2003) winning the Levy, Bateman and Forrestal Prizes. He is a strategic analyst of repute and post retirement is involved in teaching strategy formulation, operational art, force structuring, RMA, China, the Indo- Pacific, the Peloponnesian War, leadership and ethics in several military as well as civilian institutions. He writes regularly for a few Indian and foreign organizations. He is associated with the National Maritime, Vivekananda International and Observer Research Foundations as well as FINS. He has participated in Track 1.5 dialogue with China and the US and in a US State Department Indo-Pacific Dialogue and Simulations Conference in Sydney as well as at other national and international conferences. He is also studying for a Ph.D in seabased nuclear deterrence.