Armed Conflict and Security
Armed conflict continues to remain one of the most significant drivers of geopolitical instability, regional insecurity, humanitarian crises, and strategic competition across the international system. Contemporary warfare is increasingly characterised by multi-domain operations, rapid escalation dynamics, proxy conflicts, grey-zone competition, and technologically enabled battlefield environments. Simultaneously, interstate tensions, border crises, military modernisation, and regional rivalries continue to shape global security architectures and strategic calculations.
The Armed Conflict and Security category serves as CNAWS’ dedicated research platform for analysing contemporary military conflicts, interstate confrontations, escalation dynamics, border disputes, strategic crises, and evolving security environments. The category examines conventional warfare, limited conflicts, proxy wars, strategic signalling, military operations, force posturing, escalation control, and regional instability across multiple theatres.
Particular emphasis is placed on conflict environments relevant to India’s strategic interests, including South Asia, the Indo-Pacific, and emerging theatres of geopolitical competition. Through operational analysis, strategic assessments, and long-term security research, CNAWS seeks to examine how modern armed conflicts are evolving in response to technological disruption, geopolitical rivalry, and changing doctrines of warfare and deterrence.
