Journal of Defence Studies
Volume: 20 | Number: 1 | January-March 2026
Editorial
Focus
Is Xi Jinping in Control for the Fourth Term? A Reality Check
K. Shanaz
Fighting for Red Hill or Maibam Lotpa Hill: A Decisive Episode of the Battle of Imphal, May 1944
Loitam Akashnanda Singh
Indian Drone Ecosystem: Need to Innovate to Dominate
Rajan Desai
India and the Strait of Hormuz: Strategic Vulnerabilities and Policy Responses in a Shifting Regional Order
Talha Latief Tantray
Emerging Threat Vectors: Drones and Autonomous Systems in the Indian Defence Spectrum
Parikshit Bishnoi
Rajan Bakshi
Commentaries
Building Adaptable, Future-Ready Air Forces: Operationalising IAF Doctrine for Multi-Domain Supremacy
Anil Golani
How Henry A. Kissinger’s Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy Moved Away from History and Back into an Unstable Nuclear Age
Tashi Dorje Gyamba
The Amazing Story of Akash and the Way Forward
Satya Narayan Misra
Security through Intelligence Sharing: The US–Philippines GSOMIA
Khyati Singh
Simran Walia
Book Reviews
Redlines Redrawn: Operation Sindoor and India’s New Normal, by Maj Gen Bipin Bakshi, Air Mshl Rajesh Kumar, Amb Anil Trigunayat and Brig Akhelesh Bhargava
R. Vignesh
The Art of War by Sun Tzu (Translator: Lionel Giles)
Manorama Kuntal
The Thousand Years War: Russia and the West, by Achala Moulik
Guru Saday Batabyal
Rwanda 1994: A Failure of Leadership and a Preventable Genocide, by Paolo Tripodi
D. Padma Kumar Pillay
