Strategic Perspectives Foundation @SpfAdmin

An Online Think Tank. A better understanding of strategy allows us to make informed policy. Bipartisan Consensus For Strategic Affairs. spf.center Bengaluru, India Joined February 2019

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Maj Gen (Dr) Mandip Singh @Kutch2Kibithu

19 hours ago

We are told that we are now at the brink of setting up Integrated Theatre Commands. Finally. My quarrel is with the way they are being projected in the media. Western Theatre Command - Pakistan Northern Theatre Command - China Southern Theatre Command - Maritime borders IMHO, this confines the role & depreciates the responsibility of these TCs. Theatre Commands are just NOT for borders alone. They are responsible to look at threats & interests BEYOND our immediate borders. They are an instrument of power projection. A Theatre Commander has the wherewithal to implement the strategic aspirations of the nation. As a rising power, our interests are way beyond are immediate neighbours. I strongly feel our Theatre Commanders must be known as: Commander West & Central Asia Theatre ( CO-WACA) Commander North & East Asia Theatre ( CO-NEA) Commander Indo-Pacific Theatre (CO-INPAC) In short, our TCs must cover an arc of 360 degrees around a circle of 5000 kms from Delhi. Only then will strategic thinking, strategic capabilities & strategic power projection be a reality. @adgpi @NorthernComd_IA @suryacommand @easterncomd @IAF_MCC @SpokespersonMoD @indiannavy @IN_WNC @HQ_IDS_India @OfficialCLAWSIN

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Strategic Perspectives Foundation @SpfAdmin

a month ago

open.substack.com/pub/pavithranr…? Pavithran Rajan “Most visitors cry by the end.” Naib Subedar Manpreet Singh delivered the warning without sentiment, as though he were commenting on the weather. We were standing at the Nyukmadung War Memorial in Arunachal Pradesh..

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Strategic Perspectives Foundation @SpfAdmin

3 days ago

@arunp2810 @robert_lyman @spectator Might have been by design rather than oversight. Do read ‘The Awakening of India’ by Ramsay Macdonald future PM of GB. Also Wavell’s lectures. Empires & their preservation are never moral enterprises. Precisely why history needs to be seen from multiple perspectives.

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The Rocket Media @TheRocketMediaX

5 days ago

India was here: The story of SuperComputing! In 1987, the United States denied India a Cray X-MP supercomputer, citing export controls and fears of nuclear misuse. The following year, Rajiv Gandhi asked Dr. Vijay Bhatkar if India could build its own. "I have not seen a supercomputer," Bhatkar replied. "I have only seen a picture of the Cray. But yes, we can." Gandhi gave C-DAC a mandate, three years, and a budget smaller than the cost of the machine being denied. In 1991, Bhatkar delivered PARAM 8000: built for less than what America had been willing to charge, and purchased by fourteen countries, including Germany, the United Kingdom, and Russia. At the 1990 Zurich Supercomputing Show, the prototype benchmarked second among all systems evaluated. Gandhi did not live to see it. He was assassinated in May 1991. American media covered it using the headlines: "Denied supercomputer, Angry India does it." That should have been the beginning. India's post-1991 software boom pulled talent and capital toward IT services, where India could sell code at scale. Hardware was slower and harder. C-DAC's funding became inconsistent, and no private sector took the relay. And then came the defining irony: when India unveiled its next landmark supercomputer in 2015, SahasraT, it was a Cray XC40, manufactured by the very American company that had refused to sell India the technology thirty years earlier. The state bought what it had once been forced to build. By 2023, China had 162 supercomputers in the global TOP500. The US had 127. India had three. As of 2026, China's LineShine has claimed the global top position. India has zero systems near the upper tier, its AI training runs on rented foreign cloud, and it imports nearly all the high-end chips its researchers require. PARAM was not the end of a story. It was the proof of concept for one. The National Supercomputing Mission was announced in 2015. India is still catching up. The machine was called PARAM: supreme. The next 25 years that followed were neither.

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Pathrika @pathrika

6 days ago

🇮🇳 PATHRIKA CONCLAVE 2026 📅 23 Aug 2026 | 🕙 10 AM–5 PM 📍 Hotel Dimora, Thiruvananthapuram Register: forms.gle/jcVBStViUQbUMU… #CyberSovereignty #AtmanirbharBharat #NationalSecurity #Media #AI @mohandastg @SpfAdmin @SandeepUnnithan @ranjit68

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Strategic Perspectives Foundation @SpfAdmin

2 weeks ago

Mahua, the banned Indian liquor, is back on the menu ft.com/content/f875be… via @FT @adgpi Need to lend a hand and stock these in the #CSD canteens. This will help the tribal societies to resurrect ancient craft. #AtmaNirbhar @SandeepUnnithan @ajitkdubey @danvir_chauhan

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Strategic Perspectives Foundation @SpfAdmin

2 weeks ago

@ShashiTharoor writes an evocative piece on constitutional guardrails. A palace of regulations built on borrowed ground has limited power & exists solely on the whims of the owner. Recognition of #data #colonialism & #digital #slavery as issues itself is half the battle won.

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Strategic Perspectives Foundation @SpfAdmin

3 weeks ago

@ColHunnyBakshi @LtGenHooda @NEquaker Stored in foreign clouds with local crony partnerships will not give us security or sovereignty. A decapitation strike where the soldiers on the frontline might not be the primary target is the norm for waking up 🇮🇳

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Strategic Perspectives Foundation @SpfAdmin

3 weeks ago

pib.gov.in/PressReleasePa… The decision for a sovereign #OS taken after 13 years of the initiative by @LtGenHooda Huge vindication for those who attempted #AtmaNirbhar before the word was coined. We lost the most valuable resource in the world time. @NEquaker @ColHunnyBakshi

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Col Hunny Bakshi @ColHunnyBakshi

3 weeks ago

@SpfAdmin @LtGenHooda @NEquaker This delay will still hurt us as a democracy Will data be now stored within our own sovereignty Let’s see

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Strategic Perspectives Foundation @SpfAdmin

3 weeks ago

@ColHunnyBakshi @LtGenHooda @NEquaker Unfortunately, no runners up in war sir.

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Col Hunny Bakshi @ColHunnyBakshi

3 weeks ago

@SpfAdmin @LtGenHooda @NEquaker Finally Hindustan mein Der hai andher nahin hai ☺️

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TG Mohandas @mohandastg

3 weeks ago

Please read this series..

Strategic Perspectives Foundation @SpfAdmin

3 weeks ago

tribuneindia.com/news/comment/m… The new grammar does not ask us to discard the old vocabulary. It asks us to recognise that the conditions under which that vocabulary operated have fundamentally changed. Brilliant follow up to tribuneindia.com/news/comment/m… @LtGenHooda

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Strategic Perspectives Foundation @SpfAdmin

3 weeks ago

csdronline.com/fighting-on-bo… Do explore this to understand the limitations of #MDO.

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Strategic Perspectives Foundation @SpfAdmin

3 weeks ago

csdronline.com/beyond-the-kin… To explore this further do read..

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Strategic Perspectives Foundation @SpfAdmin

3 weeks ago

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TG Mohandas @mohandastg

3 weeks ago

The games people play 😅

Strategic Perspectives Foundation @SpfAdmin

3 weeks ago

@SandeepUnnithan @PressCouncil_IN The headline nudges ppl to think that a grant has been done, not something India paid for.

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Strategic Perspectives Foundation @SpfAdmin

3 weeks ago

@SandeepUnnithan @PressCouncil_IN The headline nudges ppl to think that a grant has been done, not something India paid for.

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Strategic Perspectives Foundation @SpfAdmin

3 weeks ago

@SandeepUnnithan The headlines are by an Indian publication that pushes a supplicant narrative. This can be correctly worded, doesn’t need a law. Just a perspective. @PressCouncil_IN

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Sandeep @SandeepUnnithan

3 weeks ago

When you import off the shelf, be prepared for such demeaning headlines … the exporter who we’ve paid millions of $$$ has “cleared” a support package for the heptrs we’ve bought. (I imagine such clearances are conditional on good behaviour) telegraphindia.com/india/us-clear…?