The Law Enforcement and Policing Fellowship

As India navigates a complex strategic landscape, it needs a nucleus of exemplary scholars from the profession of arms to provide counsel on pressing questions of national security.

Programme Overview

The Takshashila Defence Fellowship (TDF) is designed to produce forward-looking, timely and relevant research on emerging policy issues related to India’s national security.

The programme is intended to create a network of serving officers of the Armed Forces of India who can offer timely and relevant analysis while maintaining the highest standards of academic excellence and integrity.

Arease of Research

The key areas of research are as follows:

  1. The utility and role of the varied instruments of power in the practice of statecraft in the 21st century.
  2. The nature of war and the character of warfare in the information age.
  3. The impact of advanced military technologies: These include but are not limited to the strategic and diplomatic effects of autonomous and remotely piloted vehicles, artificial intelligence, counter-space capabilities, quantum computing and communications, biological weapons, and nuclear propulsion, all from an Indian national interest perspective.
  4. Issues in the emerging strategic geographies of outer space, the undersea environment, and the polar regions: These will include understanding governance mechanisms for these geographies (treaties and multilateral organisations), analysis of Indian strategic interests, and proposals for increasing Indian capabilities to use these environments effectively.
  5. Leadership and human resources management in the military.
  6. India’s military modernisation including jointness, doctrine, strategy, operations, tactics, organisation and budget.
  7. Indigenous knowledge systems.
  8. Any other issues related to the improvement of military effectiveness.