Contents

Editorial

Focus

• Militaries in Cyberspace: Approaches, Expectations and Outcomes

  – Cherian Samuel

• Starlink’s Role in Ukraine: Portent of a Space War?

  – Kaushik Ray and William Selvamurthy

• India’s Civilisational Ties with the World: An Underexplored Theme in India’s Soft Power Discourse

  – Arpita Mitra

• Concordia Discors: Deployment of Central Armed Forces in the Federal Units of India

  – N. Manoharan and Niharika Singh Rana

Commentaries

• Celebrating the Journey of the Indian Armed Forces and the Way Forward

  – Sujan R. Chinoy

• Geo-economic Implications of the Conflict in Ukraine

  – Rajan Katoch

• China’s Bagamoyo Port Project: Geo-economic and Geo-political Imperatives for India

  – Sibapada Rath

• Terror Attack Prediction Based on Time Series Forecasting of Twitter Data

  – Ranjit Mishra

• Kautilya’s Arthashastra and Chanakya Niti

  – Pradeep Kumar Gautam

• Slender is the Corridor

  – V.S. Ranade

Book Reviews

• Wars and War-Tactics in Ancient India by Uma Prasad Thapliyal

  – Narender Yadav

• 2034: A Novel of the Next World War by Elliot Ackerman and James Stavridis

  – Alok Deb

Acknowledgement of Referees for Vol. 16, Nos 1–4, 2022

Guidelines for Contributors