Vice Admiral Pradeep Chauhan (Retired) Articles 0
He retired as Commandant of the Indian Naval Academy at Ezhimala. An alumnus of the prestigious National Defence College. In his seagoing career, he has commanded Indian Navy’s frontline surface-combatants on four occasions and has been principal director in the Directorate of Naval Operations at Naval Headquarters, New Delhi. A valued speaker in various seminars, he also writes extensively on strategic issues of import for national defence. Currently he heads the National Maritime Foundation.
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Pervasive Intangible Challenges for the Indian Navy
Editor’s Note The author expresses the apprehension that while tangible challenges that the Indian Navy’s new Chief of Naval Staff faces are issues that often find great focus, intangibles o... Read more
The Concept of ‘Reach’ in Grasping China’s ‘Active-Defence’ Strategy – Part II
Editor-in-Chief’s Note In this concluding part of the article the author provides the sum and substance of Part I of the article concisely to the reader before he goes onto explore the Chine... Read more
The Concept of ‘Reach’ in Grasping China’s ‘Active-Defence’ Strategy: Part I
Editor-in-Chief’s Note The author initiates his discourse on Chinese strategy by recalling foremost the core imperatives that drive the Communist Party of China and its stated core national ... Read more
Ships and Shipbuilding in India through a Sino-Indian Prism
The year 2022 arrived as a harried harbinger of tidings of war and woe in the Indo-Pacific — a geo-strategic region central to the security calculus of both, regional and extra-regional play... Read more
Indian Naval Indigenisation Plan 2015-30: Not Quite There Yet
Conscious of its acute reliance on state-of-the-art technology, the Indian Navy has consistently maintained that indigenisation is a fundamental tenet of its planning and growth. Not only do... Read more