From Defense to Dominance

About This Book
From Defense to Dominance is not a battlefield chronicle or a sentimental war
memoir. It is a strategic, institutional, and intellectual biography of India’s
armed forces—especially the Indian Army—tracing their journey from postindependence
uncertainty to emerging global credibility.
Written in a logical, policy-oriented, and systems-thinking framework, this
book examines how India’s military evolved under constraints of poverty,
politics, technology denial, and geopolitical pressure—and how it is now
transitioning toward deterrence leadership, indigenous capability, and
strategic confidence.
The narrative moves from struggle to structure, from reaction to readiness,
from dependence to dominance.