Indian Naval Despatch | August 2026
Volume 6. No. 3
Maritime Power in an Era of Strategic Competition and Technological Transformation Let me start by t...
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NAVAL LESSONS OF THE 2026 AMERICAN ISRAELI CONFLICT WITH IRAN IN WEST ASIA
Editor's Note: This article was originally published in the July 2026 issue of Medals and Ribbons magazine and is reproduced in the Indian Naval Despatch (INDES) with the permission of the publisher. ...
IS BIG STILL BEAUTIFUL? THE RELEVANCE OF THE LARGE CAPITAL SHIP
“The warship is therefore doomed to certain destruction at the hands of Bombardment Aviation.” — Brig Ge...
INDIAN NAVY’S OFFICER INDUCTION: BEYOND THE ENGINEERING-CENTRIC RECRUITMENT POOL
Abstract: The article analyses the engineering-centric officer recruitment model of the Indian Navy as being i...Previous Editions
Indian Naval Despatch | June 2026
Volume 6. No. 2
My Final Editorial and a Hauling Down Report: May Your Pens Keep Our Sword Sharp As I pen my final (and somewhat longer!) editorial, having been editor-in-chief into the sixth year of the Indian Naval Despatch, lots of thoughts do form in one’s mind. It is a...
Indian Naval Despatch | December 2025
Volume 6. No. 1
Cold Poles, Operation Sindoor, Seabed Warfare & Blending Theory with Practice As we transit from 2025 to 2026, one can say that it has been a monumental year for India. Operation Sindoor, the retaliatory attack on terrorist camps and military facilities suppor...
Indian Naval Despatch | September 2025
Volume 5. No. 3
The Strands that Strengthen the Rope of Maritime Power: Warfare, Lawfare, Diplomacy Naval and Economic Communication Lines The challenges—and opportunities, of course—of warfare at and from the sea have always been many. These span intense combat with peer...
Indian Naval Despatch | March 2025
Volume 5. No. 2
Robustness in Action, Re?ections of History, and Thinking About Warfare that Lies Ahead The Indian Navy for long has undertaken its duty of protection of maritime trade seriously. On different occasions, whether it was the MV Alondra Rainbow/ Mega Rama hijacki...
Indian Naval Despatch | September 2024
Volume 5. No. 1
“For Want of Frigates!”: Domain Awareness, a relatively recent term, has long been a need in naval warfare and continues to be even more so The author of this Volume’s lead essay is once again Commander Rajiv Lochan. In the Winter 2021 issue of the Despa...
Indian Naval Despatch | April 2024
Volume 4 No. 3
“If You Don’t Like Change, You’re Going to Like Irrelevance Even Less” The cover photograph deserves some elaboration for our readers, especially those beyond the Indian Navy and spread globally. The Naval War College has a splendid and strikingly desi...
Indian Naval Despatch | October 2023
Volume 4 No. 2
Know Your Adversaries; Exploit Capabilities while Understanding Limitations. The rains in Goa and along the West Coast are just about receding as this Monsoon edition reaches your hands or shows up on your screens. The Spring issue’s editorial tagline was Be...
Indian Naval Despatch | June 2023
Volume 4 No. 1
Beware of Jargon, Be Aware of Fundamentals It is with pleasure that I return to the very happy task of editing the Indian Naval Despatch (INDES). Yet, I must begin on a sombre note and pay a tribute to Rear Admiral James Goldrick, AO, CSC, RAN (Retd.), who sli...
Indian Naval Despatch | January 2023
Volume 3 No. 3 Winter
It gives us great pleasure to bring to you Winter 2022, the sixth edition of the INDES. Our readers may recall that journey of the Indian Naval Despatch began on 04 December 2020, with launch of the Inaugural edition on Navy Day that year. As the Chief of the ...
Indian Naval Despatch | September 2022
Volume 3 No. 2 Monsoon
Furthering Connections between Ethics and Warfare; Leadership and ‘Officership’ In the midst of the Monsoons in Goa, it has once again been a pleasure for us to bring a new issue to you. Recall that the Spring editorial had a tagline, Well Underway: Powere...
Indian Naval Despatch | April 2022
Volume 3 No. 1 Spring
Well Underway: Powered by Ethical Oars; Propelled by Thought Readers may recall a mention in the Summer 2021 editorial of the hope that the Indian Naval Despatch (INDES) would continue to carry articles that analyse history, seapower or the works of theorists ...
Indian Naval Despatch | October 2021
Volume 2 No. 2 Winter
From keel to mast-head: professional problems require professional approaches to derive solutions The Winter Volume of the Indian Naval Despatch is in your hands now. The Winter 2021 edition is indeed special as it is the first edition being published under th...
Indian Naval Despatch | May 2021
Volume 2 No. 1 Summer
On many a distant shore and in many a professional wardroom? This is the first editorial that I am writing in the second issue of the Indian Naval Despatch (INDES). The inaugural issue was published in Winter 2020. The Indian Navy asked me to helm the journal ...
Indian Naval Despatch | December 2020
Volume 1 No. 1 Winter
The Naval War College, as the Indian Navy’s apex institute of higher Professional Military Education, has been given the responsibility for conceptualising, collating and coordinating publication of the inaugural edition of the Indian Naval Despatch. It amal...
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